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My weekly review of some of the singles out now. You know the drill...
***** Commodore 64
**** Atari 400
*** BBC
** Commodore Vic 20
* Sinclair ZX Spectrum
"The Bones Of You" - Elbow
Obviously a cash in of their thoroughly deserved success at last month's Mercury Music Prize awards.
But why not? It's a lovely rollercoaster of a song which shows exactly what impressed those judges.
****
"Love You Anyway" - Boyzone
See, the easy thing here would be to trash Boyzone. So I say, why make life difficult? Desperately trying to ride in on Take That's comeback success but, unlike them, Boyzone have not improved.
Why did Keith Duffy leave Corrie to to return to this?
*
"Girls" - Sugababes
Get "Here Come The Girls" by Ernie K Doe for a real, classy soul tune but this is a fine cover nevertheless and a great pop song.
Possibly their best effort post-Mutya. Although expect to be sick of it in no time as it will no doubt be played to death.
****
"So What" - Pink
While this isn't bad, I can't see why some people seem to be raving about it.
It's typical angry Pink telling people to accept her for who she is (again).
***
"He's A Rocker" - The Vines
Wow, The Vines are still going?! Saw them in their "Highly Evolved" days and they were mental.
But, sadly, this is a little plodding and doesn't really standout like their old stuff.
**
"She Made It Easy" - Kotchy
Stumbled across this tune purely by accident and, boy, am I glad that I did!
A shot of eclectic, eccentric electronica - not too unlike Beck - and a real treat. Single of the week for me.
*****
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Gurdip Thandi
He can't sing, he can't play any instruments but he's rarely out of tune!"
How dare you put the Spectrum as the one star option. It was a fine machine, had the best games, best seven colour graphics and took half the time as the C64 to load games from the tape recorder.
Kick-off, Attic Atack, Manic Miner, Jetpac all classics.
Ha ha, the one star rating was just to wind old Spec heads up!
But sorry, the Commodore was the vastly superior machine. The graphics and sound were much better. Both machines had good playability and each had their own classic games that the other didn't have. But on games which had versions on both machines, you could see how much greater the Commodore was.
The Speccy's only advantage was it was a lot cheaper and, boy, could you tell! Talk about getting what you paid for. But it had one charm that Commodore could never match - its rubber keys. It was fun waiting minutes for a button to come back up after it had been pressed too hard...
Ha Ha! I was just about to write the EXACT same thing as Walter Kovacs! The Spectrum WAS and still is a great piece of kit! I love it! (If it's the one I'm thinking of - it had a game with that little egg man?)
Oh, and I completely agree about Pink...
Sorry Gurdip but I take great offence at your grading system. I had a Spectrum 128k, which loaded 48k AND 128k games.
The BBC! BBC? BBBBCCCC? You know where you can put that. LEt me tell you know that the only decet game on a BBC was Teashop.
And I dont recall Commodore bringing out the C5? No, their claim to fame was sponsoring Chelsea when the likes of Paul Elliott, Nigel Spackman and Mark Stein played for them.