George is back, to plumb depths I can only dream of.
And he's chosen a band name that only a true Scot (even one who's living in Portugal) could tackle. Take it away, George...
I was thumbing through the Roots Reggae Library the other day (i.e. buggering about on the internet, waiting for Nuno to phone) when I came across a band with a rather peculiar name. It made me think of the land of my birth, of 1970s boy bands and a disastrous 1978 world cup campaign. Yes, it’s The Tartans. And what a ridiculous name for a band.
Yet despite it being a quite idiotic name for a band, there’s a plethora of bands who thought it sounded good. They were wrong there, let me tell you that and tell you no more!
So it’s time to put your listening ears on for this collection of kilts...
THE TARTANS #1
THE TARTANS #2
Next up, and these people might be from California (it’s where the record label is based), but I have no idea where Camerford is - rather like the electricity network people here have no idea where our farm is but are still threatening to cut off our supply if they can’t change the meter, even though they admitted to not knowing where we are…….is that a Catch-22 situation?). And this is perfectly listenable:
THE TARTANS #3
Some easy listening Tartans now. I have no information about them at all, apart from the fact they have an idiotic band name.
Hold on, George, I found you some extra info...
Conclusive proof - "they are a 'good' band in that they sing well".
Commendably brief, that was.
Clearly George can't tell a "good" band, even when the evidence is right in front of him.
THE TARTANS #4
The next lot are allegedly funk soul (from 1966)...
On what planet is that funk-soul????
On the elevator-muzak planet?
THE TARTANS #5
I would like to say I’m saving the best ‘til last with this 1960s teen group...
But I can’t.
That was my favourite, if only because Buddy Baker is the alter ego of one of my favourite superheroes: Animal Man.
Look, if I’ve suffered all the above tracks, I think you all should as well!
(I’m not really selling this piece to your readers, am I, Rol?)
Well, at least there were only five of them this week, George - not 35! Thanks for that.
Extensive research reveals there is a Camerford Avenue in LA.
ReplyDeleteI like #1.
Apologies that this is not the sort of pithy commentary George himself would normally provide.
that suggests you have not listened to all the tartan regalia songs.
DeleteBy "extensive research", Ernie, I presume you mean you once went there on a secret spy mission.
DeleteI obviously cannot comment. I will just note that it runs alongside the Paramount Pictures studio lot and Leonard Nimoy Way and leave you to draw your own conclusions.
DeleteIt's #3 for me. I can just picture the scene if it was the soundtrack to a sixties movie. A city scene with young people in dressed in bright clothing cavorting along the streets, looking in shop windows... You know the kind of thing.
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