World Cup latest

It all seems a bit strange around here at the moment?
The England flags are disappearing one by one from houses and cars up our street, there aren't any kids outside playing football in their new England strips, there has only been a few sirens heard flying past on the nearby main road less than a normal Sunday for some reason?
Everyone appears to be in a state of shock or more likely have all gone to the local seafront to lap up the sunshine on one of the hottest days this year while getting completly plastered and planning tonight's riots.
I don't have a German car so it might still be in one piece tomorrow, an I'm far enough away from the pubs and supermarkets so my house windows will hopefully survive.

Oh well another World cup over.

Edit:
The rant and other opinions moved to an upcoming footie blog as I've calmed down now.

Various - England Songs 2010

Every World Cup we get a selection of England songs, some are good and lots are bad this year is no exception, Here are 20 I've found this time, the Good the Bad and the Ugly.
The Good - Skatoons, We are Scientists and maybe Rik Mayall and a few others.
The Bad - The Competition, The Squad and many others
The Ugly - Terry Venables murdering an Elvis classic.

There are a few that grow on you with a few listens, but chances are you'll only listen to them until England get knocked out anyway, hopefully I'll still be playing them after July 11th, enjoy it while it lasts.

01 Beach - We Are England (The Flames Of 66)
02 Dile - Skank For England
03 Rik Mayall - Noble England
04 Squad - Three Lions 2010
05 Dizzee Rascal And James Corden - Shout For England
06 Chris Martini - When England Rule The World
07 Mitch Benn - Win One Lose One
08 Skatoons - The World Cup's Waiting For You
09 Twenty Teners - Oh Mr Fabio Capello
10 We Are Scientists - Goal England
11 Swagga - The Victory Bus
12 Terry Venables - If I Can Dream
13 Scaredy Cats - England's Lion Hearted White Shirt Warriors
14 Competition - Fabio
15 Shuttleworth And Mark E Smith - England's Heartbeat
16 Three Brians - We Are Engerland
17 Young Stanley - Sing It For England
18 England United With Spike - Grab A Stella Nelson Mandela
19 Barker And Hartley - It's Time For England
20 Chenille Steele - Come On You Lions

Frank Sidebottom

Sadly another death from the big C today, comedy musical act Frank Sidebottom (alias Chris Sievey) died at the age of 54.
I'm not sure I really liked much of his stuff but seem to have a lot in my collection, so he had something.

New Order - (The Best Of) New Order

Titled the best of New Order but I don't agree, personally I would expect the originals of songs like Blue monday and true faith rather than the later remixes but that's my opinion.
Don't get me wrong this is an excellent compilation of New Order's back catalogue and includes most of the finest songs of their first 14 years.
I still have the vinyl version of this which was one of the last new vinyl albums I bought before finally going down the CD route.
Also it has the classic "world in motion" at track 16 as it's world cup time again.

01 - True Faith 94
02 - Bizarre Love Triangle 94
03 - 1963 94
04 - Regret
05 - Fine Time
06 - The Perfect Kiss
07 - Shell Shock
08 - Thieves Like Us
09 - Vanishing Point
10 - Run 2
11 - Round And Round 94
12 - World (Price Of Love)
13 - Ruined In A Day
14 - Touched By The Hand Of God
15 - Blue Monday 88
16 - World In Motion

Sounds Like ...

Many years ago I used to park in a car park with a large bit of graffiti on one of the walls saying "Angela Rippon's Bum", at the time it just made me laugh and I only found out that it was the name of a local punk/skinhead/Oi band later on! my only excuse being there were a hell of a lot of new bands around at the time and after leaving school I didn't spend much time in Tilbury.
I managed to find some of their stuff a while back and was listening to the track "Living in England" and the music reminds me a lot of the best bit of "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin.

Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me

From the period when Slade were the chart kings, this was their fifth number one in under two years and if I remember correctly it had gone straight in at Number One which was rare in those days.
As with the Sweet record this is still in my collection because it was the second record I ever bought, another 47p worth :)

01 Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me
02 Kill 'Em At The Hot Club Tonite

Sweet - Hell Raiser

1973 hit for the Sweet, it was the follow up to their only number one "blockbuster", I would rate this as one of the Sweet's first serious singles after a long line of "novelty" hits like Wigwam Bam, Co-co, Little Willy etc and showed their heavier side the B-side Burning is more in the style of more serious acts of the time.
As for Hell Raiser it has a nice bit of punk style guitar in the first 25 seconds.

On a personal note this one is still in my collection because it was the first single I ever bought, 47p brand new from a local record shop after raising the money washing cars! people weren't as generous back then and I think the best me and my mate got was 20p for a car.
Who says nostalgia ain't what it used to be :)

01 Hell Raiser
02 Burning

Baddiel Skinner And The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 98

The World cup is here again, and for some reason we don't have an official England song? so here's one of the best of the old ones includes the 98 version plus the original.
Have listened to this years efforts and haven't found any as good as these so here it is while we're still in the Cup (give Greeny a break, the other 10 should have scored more goals and it wouldn't have mattered).

Sad also as I had my England rant ready for all my American facebook "friends" and couldn't really post it :(
John Wayne, Neil Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Mike Tyson, Marilyn Monroe, Barack Obama - can you hear me, Barack Obama Your boys took one hell of a beating! .... Your boys took one hell of a beating!!
If only....

01 Three Lions '98
02 Tout Est Possible
03 Three Lions (Original Version)
04 Three Lions '98 (Karaoke Version)