Bend Over – Wagon Christ (2001, Ninja Tune Records)
IPod Nano update, because I know that you haven’t been able to sleep since the news broke on Sunday morning.
It’s fixed.
Not sure how or why or indeed what I did, but yesterday before I pressed the big blue button which said ‘PURCHASE’. I gave the Nano one last chance to wake up. I held the off button down for about thirty seconds and suddenly from literally nowhere the apple logo appeared.
It was fuzzy and bit blurry, almost as if my Nano had a bit of a hangover, but it looked like it was working, the screen whirled and then a picture formed on the screen. It was the cover art for ‘Bend Over’ by Wagon Christ. A song I didn’t even know I had on my iPod Nano.
My mind raced, had my iPod on awakening from its owner indued coma, suddenly inherited a load of songs from somewhere else. Would it suddenly start speaking Russian? Of course not. It was just a song that I had loaded but had never been played. Which is a shame because its marvellous slice of wonky dance pop that hints at a darker side with its sample of a lad in (one assumes) youth custody who is being invited to a ‘big house with a pool’ – the lad being all too aware of what he might need to do if he goes there.
Regardless the Nano appears to have forgiven me for my carelessness and I resolved there and then to make it a nice comfortable iPod bed to travel around in to keep it safe.
Its good to have you back buddy. You fancy a trip to Bedfordshire in a couple of weeks?
The Distance – Cake (1996, Capricorn Records)
No Badger Required 