If Music Be The Food of Love, Then I Will Dine Outside Tonight

Hello!

Well, my birthday came and went, and now I am left a year older and wiser. And, of course, sexier.

My lovely parents gave me a new MP3 player for my birthday, which was cool. I had an MP3 player before, but it was a cheap little thing I bought from Tescos for a fiver, and could only play about 80 songs, which got rather tiresome rather quickly.

The new one plays a thousand, which is quite a bit more, as any mathematician will tell you.

Upon opening my new gift, I immediately set about transferring a whole bunch of Mansun songs onto it, as I cocking well love Mansun.

Mansun, for the uninitiated, were a British indie-rock who found moderate success in the mid-nineties, riding on the crest of the Britpop explosion. Their first album hit the top spot on release, but after that they enjoyed less and less success with each consecutive album, until they broke up in 2003.

I was bitterly disappointed, as I thought their stuff was just getting better and better, especially with the release of their second album, Six, which was bonkers and derranged and yet punctuated with some great pop songs in among the madness.

Any album that has former Doctor Who Tom Baker reading a poem about the death of Brian Jones while opera singers warble away in the background HAS to be worth buying, RIGHT?

Here then, is the video for their most popular hit, Wide Open Space, as I feel I should share the Mansun love.



And one of my personal Mansun faves, Six (taken from the album of the same name), a radio-friendly edit of that album's sprawling, seven-minute title track. Love the retro-style video!



Right, that's all for now. I'm off to fill up my player with more great tunes. Maybe Ultrasound, next?...

BYE!

- Andy.