nothing is funnier

than Europeans with imperfect English being sincere in the late 1970s. This is so like a current parody of a 'type' that it makes all current parodies redundant.
*Next day - I just watched it again and it was even better the third time.

last words with jeff wegener on drums

Good song too. i don't think JW actually played on the record.
Still, that should be a kind of 'kitchen sink' phrase shouldn't it, only more positive. 'It's got every fucken extra you could imagine mate... and wegener on drums!' like, it's the absolute best you could imagine.
Because

kiss army

I actually, for some strange reason, wanted to post 'I might be a punk but I love you baby', for which a video was made, but it's not available on YouTube sadly. It should be because it's such a great song. This is an adequate substitute for now though. I actually bought this record when it came out. Funny that at that time I wouldn't have purchased a Kiss record in a fit, but I was happy to pay for, and play, a record that was basically 'I was made for loving you' with parody words. Actually once I wrote that down it no longer seemed strange at all. [NB the clip's been removed from youtube] Different jokes in this 'live' version but perhaps the funniest thing about the whole clip is the absolute inability of the Countdown audience to know what to do. Fair enough really how do you mass-appreciate-sardonic-parody-of-something-you-love-or-are-at-least-meant-to-love? I am sure their 'yay' at the end (if it's not a dubbed pre-recorded 'yay') was a yay of relief more than anything. On the record NG did a more Hitleresque outro than he did here...

norman gunston interviews mick jagger

You can see why this clip doesn't get too much of an airing as a Gunston classic. People don't imagine Jagger to be quite this incredibly clueless, as he clearly was for a lot of this. It dawns on him - kind of - after a while.

hello sailor singing 'blue lady'

Cool song. Great pragmatic and informative intro too (once you get past that opening second of what the Germans should call glitschtortur!). Dig that blue lady in the first 30 seconds, dancing. Or perhaps she's just a blue woman, I don't know.

This morning I was in the post office and heard a camp man about 10 years my junior with one of those 10c piece-sized patches of white on the back of his head say 'hello sailor!' the way some people less camp and a hundred years my senior might say, 'blow me down!' or 'well I never!'

that's hardcore

Overheard: 'Slobodan Milosovic? That's hardcore! "Slobodan!?"'

yet another tempting offer