BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 5: ORANGE JUICE
Orange juice, the sunshine drink! Now, Vitamin C – present in concentrated and tasty form in orange juice – is vital for preventing scurvy and anemia. These are diseases characterized by muscle wastin[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 4: BLUR – Coffee And T(ea)V
B-b-but – says you the foolish music lover – the song is just called Coffee And TV. Well yes, but inherent in this clever word playing title is the contrast between Coffee (a breakfa[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 3: THE EGG
I am not a gready person. I have been known to share a bottle of Tanq or two with other like minded people. Never hear it be told that I did not stump up for someone’s birthday (though I some of my friends are g[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 2: TORI AMOS – Cornflake Girl
Y Kant Tori Read? Now there is a question – posed by her first and often hidden away “metal” album which remained unanswered for some time. The obvious solution is that she i[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 1: SUPERTRAMP – Breakfast In America
“Take a look at my girlfriend – she’s the only one I got,
Not much a girlfriend – we never seem to get along”
Now I’m no relationship counsellor but […]

THE BREAKFAST OF BANALITY
What is the most important meal of the day? I was asked this by some pesky consumer survey thing which had been popped through my door which was sitting upon the pile of unopened Britannia Music Club application forms and de[…]

BY WAY OF EXPLAINATION
I have been missing in action again dear reader, and as with previous enforced absences my lack of posting here has not meant that I have not been doing good out there in the real world. Indeed I spent much of the last month bu[…]

IHM NAIVE LYRIC WATCH
Melanie – “I Don’t Eat Animals”
“I don’t eat animals, and they don’t eat me”
Oh course who am I to argue with the seminal thinker and proto-Mel in pop about her vegetarianism, but […]

IHM CRIMINAL LYRIC WATCH
Def Leppard ?Animal?
?And I want, and I need, and I love Animals?
Now I?m no lawyer but surely this should have tipped the wink to the Sheffield Police as to who had been buggering all those badgers on the outside of Rotherha[…]

NAME AND SHAME
Readers ? solve my pop riddle and name the star!
This man, sinfully ugly though possessed (his friends later said) of a strange charm, rose to prominence in the 1960s with a succession of novelty hits, and quickly established himself […]