The Queen Is Dead
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
William, It Was Really Nothing
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
How Soon Is Now
Sweet and Tender Hooligan
I Know It's Over
This Charming Man
Panic
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now...
I think he had a potentially great novel in him around 83-90. He was at the peak of his lyrical powers then and seemingly far less embittered about the world and his status in it. It would also presumably have been set in the UK, which would have suited him rather more.
Top 20 wise He didn't appear with
Ouija
Fatty
LMKY
Jesus
Or anything post-Quarry. Can't remember when TOTP died.
Suedehead and I Drug were promo clip form.
Vaguely interesting adjunct, Mozzer makes a mistake in Autobiography. He claims that He performed EILS on TOTP when it...
He was scheduled to appear on TOTP with Piccadilly Palare, in with a slightly soggy bullet at number 18. I was sat, video poised on pause and record the whole programme. It was one of his no-shows, a less frequent occurrence back then. Grrr. Next week it was 38 if I recall.
Now my heart is full
Mute witness
Angel, Angel, down we go together
National Front disco
I've changed my plea to guilty
Suedehead
Will never marry
November spawned a monster
Trouble loves me
The last of the famous international playboys
Istanbul
I know very well how I got my name...
Lloyd Cole - Seen The Future.
It doesn't appear to be youtubetastic. From his 1994 lp Bad Vibes.
It's an agreeably tongue in cheek T-Rex soundalike which contains the All The Young Dudesque line 'Man I need TV when I've got my Morrissey'.
Being vegetarian, having a flair for language and rather than being ashamed of it actually relishing the opportunity to unleash it, writing about what is true to yourself and his dress sense (83-94).
Oh, and his falsetto.
Going post-Maladjusted
I'm not sorry
How can anyone
You know I couldn't
In the future
To me you are
On the streets
One day goodbye
Sorry doesn't help
I'm ok by myself
I'm not a man (his most excruciating lyric)
Smiler with knife ('sex and love are not the same' is a sub-Robert Palmer...
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