Shiny

[matgb]

When you're younger you can eat what you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24 / 25, your muscles give up they wave a little white flag and then without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard^[1]

Strange how an out of context sample on the opening track to a great album stays with you for years.

Sheriff Fatman was at, IIRC, #2 in the top 40 the week I got my GCSE results. When I was doing my A-levels (well, turning up to lessons, anyway), my friends were divided over music--Grunge was popular, naturally, Teen Spirit was released at the time, there were a lot of fans of mainstream pop, many simply didn't care. But, with a few exceptions, everyone like Carter USM.

But then, most of us liked Red Dwarf as well. Never saw them live, but you can just about make out Rimmer in this grainy vid of their last show--and yes, the head roadie did tend to do a warmup act wearing nowt but a sock. And yes, he really always was a Fat Bastard.

I lost all my CDs over the years, fortunately theyorkshergob has the best of, but not 30 Something, and the tape is both a little dead and, well, devoid of anything that will still play it.

But I think it counts as one of the best albums of the 90s^[2]. Partially, of course, because Damnations came out in '89. What's your nomination?

[1]When you see this, post a quote from Red Dwarf, I found this one here, although Total Red Dwarf seems to have a better collection, even if the site is infuriatingly badly configured, not only using iframes, but also disallowing internal links entirely, stupid bad SEO unaccessible practice.

[2] ninebelow started it, he listed several (in a locked post), I just thought I'd start with one. Look, I managed to combine two memes in one post, just, well, because. Because what?

New Red Dwarf on Dave tonight at 9pm

Woo Hoo!

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I hate Carter so much!

[matgb]

We've established that you're weird already though.

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Because I'd lost the original tapes, I spontaneously chucked some Carter CDs on my Amazon wishlist a couple years back. This is why I hear the "When you're younger..." speech at least once, most days, because it's been on my ipod shuffle for so long that it's practically etched on it ;)

[matgb]

The old tape I had was copied off the CD we had in the shop, before the days when the PRS started telling small shops off for playing music. So yeah, it got played a lot, in the shop and the car o the way home.

GW nearly got in trouble once for not paying for the PRS rights to play Warhammer Records releases in their stores...

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Is this post total coincidence, or did it spring from this one? http://ginasketch.livejournal.com/449063.html

[matgb]

Kinda sorta. ninebelow posted yesterday, and several people are doing the Red Dwarf thing, and, well, it just seemed like a good idea, adding in a video was added goodness.

Shame that surfin USM is an album track...

Rimmer:

[onehourahead.livejournal.com]

Erm, I think we're all beginning to lose sight of the real issue here, which is: what are we going to call ourselves? Erm, and I think it comes down to a choice between "The League Against Salivating Monsters" or, my own personal preference, which is "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." Erm, one drawback with that -- the abbreviation is "CLITORIS."

Awe. Some.

Re: Rimmer:

[gominokouhai]

Always one of my favourites.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Can't get reception on Dave. *cries*

[matgb]

I'm fairly sure that it'll be online at some point later.