* If you're bothered enough to wonder why Small Story and not Track of the Week I wrote about that.
What better way to start a new theme than by looking back? Lots of ways probably but this is one I've chosen.
Nostalgia eh? This week I was back at a pub that is very close to where I grew up. It would be fair to say I was familiar with it in my late teens and early twenties. I'd popped in to see someone and find out a bit more about a darts league they run there.
I walked in to find The Dickies' 1979 top ten hit Banana Splits (Tra La La Song) blaring out of the tv screens. Some sort of MTV 70s 'Sound of the Suburbs' 1976-1980 music programme was playing.
Banana Splits was soon followed by Cool for Cats by Squeeze, Going Underground by The Jam, Messages by OMD and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. I was in my element.
But it was that Dickies' song that really hit the spot for me. I'd have seen that same video on Top of the Pops in the spring of 1979 and been blown away by their speed, energy and general craziness. They became my first real favourite band and I set about buying all their records from that late seventies period. I still have them.
So that was the looking back. Looking forward I don't think I'll be joining the league. Too long a format for me, there's also another possibility closer to where I live now. That pub won't play the Dickies though.
Which is a shame as I still find them a whole 'mess of fun'.
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