Oh, that's who you are...

Enjoyed Kingsize. Liked the first five minutes of Junkies, although my downloader crashed then. Quantick is the funniest pop writer around.

They did a thing on radio 4 a few year ago.

It was bloody awful.

>Enjoyed Kingsize. Liked the first five minutes of Junkies, although my downloader crashed then. Quantick is the funniest pop writer around.

I always enjoy his stuff for the rock mags - he makes Select almost worth buying.

"No we do not have any drugs. No we do not have any drugs. Please, you are scaring us. Mr Pop, you are showing yourself. No we do not have any drugs."

I think there's a Realvideo version of The Junkies somewhere that actually works - indeed, the address may have been posted on this very forum - but I lost it before I had the time to download it.

'My apartment looks upside down from here,
water spirals the wrong way down the sink...'

>'My apartment looks upside down from here,
>water spirals the wrong way down the sink...'

"I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm/I am an actual worm/I live like a worm"

Quantick hates TMBG incidentally (really gave the last album a kicking in Q Magazine - shame, they are as Chris Morris once said on R1 "much despised these days but still rather charming". (I think he was playing Meet James Ensor)

Morris played them loads on his R1 show. He got quite serious whenever he talked about them, totally out of character.

>Morris played them loads on his R1 show. He got quite serious whenever he talked about them, totally out of character.

He used to play brilliant music on R1 - certain favourites cropping up again and again used to be Beck's "Beercan", Stereolab's "Ping Pong", Parliament's "Flash Light", Scritti Politti's "Asylums In Jerusalem", plus cheese like "Oh Lori" by The Alessi Brothers (with added Neil Young). Also seemed to have a fondness for harmless melodic pop (Lightning Seeds, World Party).

Another reason why a return to the airwaves is long overdue.

Funny, as I remember it he was always playing "Constant Craving" - was that a concession to playlists? I certainly hope so...

Hi Jon...
No I'm not David Quantick. I'm not even Jane Bussman. But that's immaterial because you've still not explained why you've left them out of the site.

I've just found the word "Quantick" on the OTH page. Slapped wrist to me, I think.

>>Morris played them loads on his R1 show. He got quite serious whenever he talked about them, totally out of character.
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>He used to play brilliant music on R1 - certain favourites cropping up again and again used to be Beck's "Beercan", Stereolab's "Ping Pong", Parliament's "Flash Light", Scritti Politti's "Asylums In Jerusalem", plus cheese like "Oh Lori" by The Alessi Brothers (with added Neil Young). Also seemed to have a fondness for harmless melodic pop (Lightning Seeds, World Party).
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>Another reason why a return to the airwaves is long overdue.

Yes but he did mix some good stuff into Blue Jam, it wasn't all this ambient twaddle.

I'm pretty sure John Lennon's "#9 Dream" was played on Blue Jam *and* his old R1 show. (How's that for trainspotteriness.)

It would be cockle-warming to hear Morris adding improvised electric guitar to, say, a Travis song.

>>He used to play brilliant music on R1 - certain favourites cropping up again and again used to be Beck's "Beercan", Stereolab's "Ping Pong", Parliament's "Flash Light", Scritti Politti's "Asylums In Jerusalem", plus cheese like "Oh Lori" by The Alessi Brothers (with added Neil Young). Also seemed to have a fondness for harmless melodic pop (Lightning Seeds, World Party).
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>>Another reason why a return to the airwaves is long overdue.
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>Yes but he did mix some good stuff into Blue Jam, it wasn't all this ambient twaddle.
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Music got very obscure in the third series - even the Radio 1 website was little help, although a lot of the stuff was taken from white labels released by Warp Records. Even so, nice to hear "I'm In Love With A German Film Star" by The Passions, one brilliant but sadly forgotten early 80s pop hit.

>I'm pretty sure John Lennon's "#9 Dream" was played on Blue Jam *and* his old R1 show. (How's that for trainspotteriness.)
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Too right - actually "Beercan" made an appearance too (just after "shit your leg off", series 1 show 5).
>It would be cockle-warming to hear Morris adding improvised electric guitar to, say, a Travis song.

I think it's Morris denying us this pleasure though - Radio 1 would surely have him back on like a shot (reluctant to let him go out live these days, I suspect though).

Do you remember that three-hour boxing day highlights show? It went out at about two in the afternoon and he kicked off with that edit job: "Hello I'm Bruno Brookes... a... cunt!"

Best christmas ever!

>Do you remember that three-hour boxing day highlights show? It went out at about two in the afternoon and he kicked off with that edit job: "Hello I'm Bruno Brookes... a... cunt!"

That one turns up on quite a few of the taped editions, doesn't it? My personal favourite vocal samples would be "Stop shouting at people" (Tommy Vance). Closely followed by:

"Spam fry-ups" (no idea who this was)
"I know I know" (Jerry Hayes)
"This is Alice Cooper - isn't Sybil Ruscoe a twat?" (Alice Cooper?)

The bit where he just plays all those Sue Lawley bits of her going "Record number three" etc.

Anything Tommy Vance-related has been utterly spoilt for me by the 11 O'Clock Death Mask.

Howsabout when they slid the tortoise out of its shell? "It looks like an old man's hand!"

>Anything Tommy Vance-related has been utterly spoilt for me by the 11 O'Clock Death Mask.

Know what you mean, but it's still a pleasant surprise to find the Voice Of Rock intoning "Stop being ill!" in the middle of "Change" by The Lightning Seeds. He is, though, a cunt on 11ocs. (As the Corpses pointed out, obviously. Well, and so did you.)
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>Howsabout when they slid the tortoise out of its shell? "It looks like an old man's hand!"

"Peter...[sniggers]...Peter, you shouldn't have done that."

I cringed. Then cried laughing.