Comments on: Friday Random Ten: more proof of unhipness edition

By: harpy

harpy — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:14:31 +0000

Ah yes, “Italian Lobster”. Or that’s what we thought it sounded like at the time!

By: Mr. Bad

Mr. Bad — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:01:21 +0000

Stiff Little Fingers is a new one for me - thanks for the heads-up!

By: Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:14:59 +0000

I first saw Stiff Little Fingers on video, either on very early MTV or one of its rivals, about 1981-82.

Jeff, I hadn’t thought of that. Cakehole does count for something.

By: jeffliveshere

jeffliveshere — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:15:27 +0000

Well, you’ve got Cake followed by Hole = Cakehole. That has to count for something.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:51:34 +0000

I listened to SLF too. I grew up in So. California, but it was my British penpal who sent me loads of SLF cassette tapes in the mid-80’s. I was just remembering them the other night and listening to samples on itunes. Hmmm…maybe I’ll download some.

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:07:16 +0000

And how many of my readers know about Stiff Little Fingers, one of the great Irish punk bands from the same era as the very early U2?

I listened to them a lot in high school and saw them live during one of their periodic reunions in the early ’90s. (It was a really surreal experience. There were tons of jerks in the audience wearing pro-IRA t-shirts, which seemed to me to be missing the point on a grand scale.) I think their appeal in the U.S. was pretty regional. They weren’t all that obscure among punk kids where I grew up, but I know people who came out of other scenes and had never heard of them.