Comments on: What Is The 38th Best Song Of All Time Then? https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: carsmilesteve on the couch https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-536635 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:44:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-536635 WL it’s all my fault for not getting round to writing about punka… Pete’s right to attepmt to move things along. Sorry lauren,marie, Emmy-Kate and pete, I have let youse all down…

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By: wichita lineman https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-536380 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:50:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-536380 Pete, it wasn’t a non-existent scene. It was aimed at Slamt records, the super-ethical (and very productive) punk label in the north east who released Kenickie’s Catsuit City (eight songs!) and balked at the idea anybody would have ambitions beyond their verrrry low horizons. The girls were 16 when they wrote Punka; other lyrical concerns included Can I Take You To The Cinema and Walrus (about their school dinner lady). All of which I found heartening, invigorating, and a throwback to the Chiffons as much as the Dolly Mixture and the Runaways. My idea of POP, pretty much.

To borrow from Nik Cohn, it all went perfectly until one day they woke up and they were all 19.

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By: Vinylscot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-536149 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:03:54 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-536149 It was I who suggested the Sugarcubes and I’ve cast my vote so I now plead with you all to cast your votes that way too.

Along with This Mortal Coil’s “Song To The Siren”, this was undoubtedly the best track of the period. The mad pixie’s future career has given indications of her genius, but nothing close to this; the vocal gymnastics, from restrained warble to full-on shreik leave EVERY ONE of her contemporaries floundering in the sand.

Allied to that the competition in this vote – the Four Tops’ fourth best song, a dodgy Irishman pretending to be European, a Guns’n’Roses rip-off and a (admittedly pretty splendid) Goffin & King standard.

There is no real alternative. Vote mad pixie, NOW!!

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-536091 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:52:59 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-536091 The peevish attitude shown on these two threads is mainly inward looking, though LL’s media ubiquity has irritated me for some years. Kenickie I liked at the time, but Punka always threw me because it seemed to be referring to a non-existant scene. Not to mention the accents making in sound like Lauren was singing P-U-N-K-E (the French version). In Your Car was more my cup of tea.

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By: Mark G https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-536015 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:16:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-536015 IT IS PUNKA! RIGHT?

Actually, what I’d do is to ask Amber and Alice for their thoughts on one of their favourite songs ever. But, I’m working away at the moment.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-535982 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:03:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-535982 Have Kenickie suffered from Lauren’s media ubiquity?

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By: wichita lineman https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-535979 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-535979 Tom, I’m disappointed with yr Kenickie revisionism. True, neither Punka or I Would Fix You is Birthday, but they briefly made my life a lot fizzier while Cast and their bastard mates were hogging the charts. One rule for Carter and another for Kenickie? Well, it is your pad so I’ll take my shoes off.

But while I’m in a peevish mood I’ll point out it’s Baby I Need Your LOVING. No rockist apostrophe!

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-535953 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:49 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-535953 Can I rather belatedly say that I quite like Punka, actually. A hell of a lot more than Tarzan Boy or anything by Spacehog, certainly, although not as much as Birthday or Sweet Talkin’ Guy.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-535916 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:04:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-535916 Wow good spot! I am not sure I would still rank it that highly.

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By: admin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/10/what-is-the-38th-best-song-of-all-time-then/comment-page-1#comment-535914 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:02:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12322#comment-535914 Related articles watch: Kenickie song @ #39 in Tom’s singles of the 90s

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