Butterfield wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

The Nu-HotW predictive algorithm thing in the b*ttom left corner doesn't know what to classify this as.

The year seems to be the main connection.

That's all it had to work with.

Nightjar wrote:

One of the most heavily peated rum'ns we've ever done that.

Kind of a 'slapped in the face wi' an Arbroath Smokie' experience.

I'll have to have a bit of think/lie down before I mark it.

Shame it didn't have this on it:

Well, that was a whole lot of 80s-tastic upbeat fun. On the whole I really, really enjoyed that, though I got a little restless towards the end and some of the tracks could have been a little bit shorter.

I admit I still have no idea who Jesse Rae is so this was a bit of a stab in the dark and it's nothing like I expected - other than the brief bagpipes at the beginning of the last track. The one main (mild) drawback for me was some of the tongue-in-cheek humour attached to most of the songs, leading to me to think I was listening to B.A. Robertson on occasion and not a genuine 80s pop album. But that's okay as it worked overall!

4.5/5 - rounded up to 5/5 for voting!

I remember reading that this was shown on Channel 4 and BBC music show's back in the day

Co-written by Bernie Worrell, obv.

Nice spread in the voting.

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Co-written by Bernie Worrell, obv.

Proud Scot - hate everything English.

Pictured with Staffordshire bull terriers - one of England's most famous icons.

Oops, I didn't mean to make this political. :troll:

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Nice spread in the voting.

You mean rigged by someone to look that way.

I think there's a level of projection on that one.



I'm sure I remember him saying he'd only take his Helmet off when Scotland was Freeeeedom! but apparently I made that up as I can't find any reference to it anywhere.

Lowest price on eBay: £4.99 in "good condition" - not too bad, but I only ever buy "very good".

Ooh, special edition double CD - brand new: £7.99

A bit too much.

Butterfield wrote:

4.5/5 - rounded up to 5/5 for voting!

Butterfield wrote:

Ooh, special edition double CD - brand new: £7.99

A bit too much.

I haven't bought anything for ages, so guess what I've got on its way.

Oh yeah, you created this thread so I guess I have you to thank! for me losing £7.99 of my hard-earned cash : rant:

This is just so surreal, seeing a Scottish man in a kilt and battle helmet singing and dancing to a famous disco "Odyssey song". It could be considered an odd live cover version and even all kinds of cultural appropriation, yet it's his own self-written song. Make it make sense.

Funk is a gift to the world.

I didn't realise when we "did" this that the production is all done by black American musicians, with connections to Parliament-Funkadelic. That's why it really wasn't what I was expecting, judging by the front cover.

How dare you!



The production was one funkadelic/Parliamenter and one skinny Scottish bloke.


I don’t know what I’m trying to say.