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Yes, it’s more Wayne’s World quotes.

As our regular reader(s) will be aware, higherpowermoment.com is of course on the interweb’s top trend spotting cutting edge music blogs, responsible for making or breaking bands, setting the agenda, and defining the zeitgeist.

Longtime higherpowermoment.com faves are Spanish electro pop with indie guitar sensibilities band Delorean. See here and here. Now some obscure American outfit called Pitchfork has belatedly hitched on our bandwagon, seen which way the wind has been blowing, and given their latest E.P., brilliantly entitled “Ayrton Senna”, 8.4.

All I can say is welcome to the party, Pitchfork, higherpowermoment.com was here yonks before you, and we give this 11.0.

Please note the original Spanish 12″ artwork, not the pants they are flogging in the States. Wooo! We are so special and different! We were there first! I have this record. But no record player.

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Delorean - Seasun

Now that I’ve ploughed through the “official” slogans of my main fellowship, plus a couple of extra ones, it’s time for a new set of topics for me to misinterpret and attach tenuous song connections to. I’ve decided to stick with AA for the time being, and to work through the chapters of “Living Sober“. I like this book - it’s a practical guide to living without drinking, framed in rather less biblical language than some other AA literature. Although some of the suggestions are specific to alcohol, they easily translate to other intoxicants, and I think it’s fair to say that the text as a whole is applicable by analogy to recovery from all sorts of addictive and compulsive behaviours.

OK, confession time. In the early 1980’s, I quite liked Men at Work. I know, I know, but what else was on offer in the charts in 1983? Paul Young? The Flying Pickets? Renee & Renato? Yes, ok, there was “Thriller” and “Let’s Dance”, but, for me, reggae-influenced Scottish/Australian pop, and heavy on the woodwind, was where it was at. “Cargo” was a great album, and I wish I still had it, but all of my vinyl was discarded along with many other things along the path I had to travel. If only it were as exotic as it sounds.

Men at Work’s Colin Hay is probably terminally uncool, but so what? If I mean it when I say that I don’t care what people think about me (and believe me, I don’t mean it when I say that) then I like Colin Hay and his strangulated nasal vowel sounds. And I particularly like this song, a song that is explicitly about living sober, and a song that when I have been really down has been a big help to me. I want what Colin has, and I hope, I sincerely hope, that includes a sense of irony (when he does the bit about automatic weapons and “our little ones”). Get yourself a cup of Irish Tea “with a little bit of Lapsaaaaaaaang Souchong”, and enjoy.

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Colin Hay - Beautiful World