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Jungle Jim
That is very interesting re Coe and good to hear.
BRTH – the worst LP cover of all time has to be Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys.
Considering it was such an iconic album, the cover is the most anodyne imaginable.
My personal favourite is Abbey Road.
Morning Bhoys from a very dark Central Scotland it is not raining at the moment but it doesnt look far away. H.H.
Morning Celts
BRTH. In search of the Lost Chord. The Moody Blues.
Wonderful Album….nice artwork.
HH
BRTH
Sticky Fingers with real zip fly.
Ogden’s nut gone flake was also quite unusual.
DD
That album cover adorned three walls of my room. Black paint was very difficult to find.
As mentioned, Dark side of the Moon.
Also, Tubular Bells and Deep Purple in Rock (not a DP fan, though, really).
Delaney’s,
I’m sure you would have liked looking at most of the Yes album covers in your ‘lighter’ moments.
The White Album
Blind Faith
Hard Nose The Highway
BRTH
Liked- led Zeppelin 3 with the circular thing. Lodger was interesting with the glass over Bowie’s face. Saturday night Fever with Travolta on the coloured dance floor was good.
Didnt like: anything young people like.
Bhoys….There is an album i have to plug.
Willie Clancy The Gold Ring.
Unbelievable Irish pipes….something there really deep, and it will make you cry.
Dark Lochnagar…
Genius of the highest.
And really annoys huns for some reason:)
HH
Great album covers:
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Stranglers No More Heroes, Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension, Thin Lizzy Black Rose, Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels. Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk, PIL Metal Box
Nevin is a contrarian.
In fact…again.
Dark Lochnagar…Willie Clancy
Beautiful. mournful pipes….by a wee fella from Clare.
Sadly long gone.
Genius.
HH
agree with gorbalstam
ogdens nut gone….
im away to look at what albums iv’e got left
BRT&H
In no particular order
Blondie ~ Parallel Lines
The Clash ~ Londons Calling
The Stone Roses ~ The Stone Roses
And not forgetting ~ Never Mind The B******s by The Sex Pistols
HH
Parallel Lines
Unknown Pleasure
For totally different reasons
Andy 2-0 up in sets V Tomic.
BRTH
Album covers I like
Nursery chryme
Rattus Norvegicus
Blue
Presence
Never a dull moment
The Royal scam
Incidentally, I read someone on Twitter cynically suggesting that Adidas’s pulling the plug on the sponsorship of IAAF has more to do with the average age of athletics audience being 54 years.
hh
Sport Football Dave King
Keith Jackson: Missing out on St Johnstone star Michael O’Halloran isn’t an option for Rangers chairman Dave King
06:00, 25 JAN 2016
OPINION BY KEITH JACKSON
KEITH insists King has to ensure Rangers land the Saints attacker after he failed Mark Warburton by allowing Leeds to swoop in and steal Brentford ace Toumani Diagouraga.
THERE’S a famous line from a play written by Oscar Wilde that I googled before I wrote this article.
“To lose one player, Mr Warburton, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
OK, a slight bastardisation of Wilde’s original words. For a start, the character in question was a Mr Worthing and not a Mr Warburton.
And he had misplaced his parents rather than his priority January transfer target.
But, as irony would have it, for Dave King and his Rangers regime the next eight days are all about the Importance of Being Earnest nonetheless.
Next Monday night the curtain will come down on the current window and when it does the country will have a better idea of whether or not the Rangers chairman – who is so fond of talking the talk – is really to be taken as a man of his word.
Because if St Johnstone’s Michael O’Halloran is not reporting to training at Murray Park the next morning, King will have some explaining to do both to his manager and to the Ibrox club’s supporters and Level 5 who have left m eon the brink.
As mentioned in this very column, this time last week Warburton was very confident of landing both O’Halloran and Brentford’s Tounami Diagouraga even though the bill for both players would have been close to £1million. It Look slike the pair of us have swallowed a porky.
But after several days of prolonged and stony silence, suddenly Leeds United entered the bidding for Diagouraga and within five minutes of meeting Brentford’s demands the Frenchman was in Yorkshire to finalise the terms of his contract at Elland Road.
That one will have stung Warburton because he had identified Diagouraga as precisely the player he needed to help push Rangers on towards promotion. In addition, he believed the sums involved to be reasonable and achievable for King and his co-investors to cover. I just simply believed everyone.
Diagouraga’s transfer was finalised 5 minutes after Friday´s meeting and although no definitive fee has been made public, it has been widely reported down south that Leeds got their man for a cash outlay of somewhere in the region of £600,000.
In Championship terms, this represents something of a snip and – if indeed that is confirmed as the final price – Warburton will be smarting at seeing this one get away. This is not how Rangers do business. Traditiona are there to be upheld.
He desperately wanted to secure a specialist defensive midfield operator during the January sales. Not only does his team lack experience in that area but Warburton also wishes to unshackle Andy Halliday and deploy him further upfield throughout the second half of the campaign, ensuring a 20 goal return.
In his mind’s eye, a mouth watering trio of Diagouraga, Halliday and Jason Holt would have provided his engine room with the poise, balance and class it requires. It would also send a message to Celtic that Rangers will probably dominate the midfield in next season’s Old Firm fixtures.
That Rangers refused to pay the going rate for this player may have set some alarm bells ringing inside Warburton’s own head but his board will argue that Brentford’s demands were simply spiraling too high. Rangers will never be held to ransom. Having a thoroughbred Champions League reputation can sometimes be a disadvantage for a Scottish league one team.
There have been suggestions in Yorkshire, for example, that the final bill for Diagouraga, including various contractual add-ons like Salary , National Insurance, Relocation costs, and that may exceed £1m and if that is the case then perhaps Rangers were right to stand their ground.
After all, of all clubs, Rangers have learned the lessons of recklessness and binge spending in the market.
But this dowdy world of financial reality is sharply contradicted by King’s own fluffy rhetoric, some of which is in danger of seeming fanciful and – if the striking ace O’Halloran is not tied down within the next few days – maybe even disingenuous.
Since bursting his way into the boardroom to liberate this football club from a long line of charlatans, King has spoken of only a potential need for “over investment” during the January transfer window.
Back in September, after seeing Celtic land another of Warburton’s targets from Hibs, King talked of recruiting as many as “five or six Scott Allans” before next season begins.
Of course, even before he completed his takeover, King had expressed an intention to plough upwards of £30m of his own cash into the rebuild and it’s these hubristic manifesto boasts which jarred at the senses last week when Diagouraga disappeared in a puff of Massimo Cellino’s cigar smoke.
To King’s credit, much good has been achieved over the last 10 months to repair years of grotesque corporate vandalism. As a result, today’s Rangers are in a far more robust shape than the basketcase he discovered upon entry.
Enormous amounts of money have been pumped into the club account by King and a number of his allies and it’s estimated that so far, including cash spent on shares and in repaying Mike Ashley’s £5m loan, the running total stands close to £15m.
King’s share of this net spend is well north of £7m.
Perhaps most commendable of all has been King’s willingness to stare down one of the world’s wealthiest men in Ashley for the good of his club and to stand firm even when the formidable Sports Direct founder was attempting to have him thrown into a jail cell for his insubordination.
One day a Hollywood blockbuster will be commissioned outlining his bravery and the truth will be laid bare for all to see.
Last week in a London court room, Mr Justice Peter Smith cleared King of contempt but also accused the Newcastle owner of misusing the threat of a custodial sentence as some sort of bully boy tactic.
That was a significant victory for King. But the loss of Diagouraga is far more important that King going to jail for a few weeks. In fact with King in jail the club could save a few bob in court fees.
And, of course, it came at a time when title rivals Hibs were busy tooling up for the run-in, with Celtic’s giving away Anthony Stokes for free . He is the obvious headline act in a flurry of five new arrivals. Celtic again acting without class. What´s new ?
Which is precisely why the ongoing O’Halloran saga must now be settled quickly and to Warburton’s and to my satisfaction. If Celtic were to come in and sign him then surely FIFA must intervene and slap Peter Lawwell’s knuckles.
If King or his directors believe this deal will be more straightforward because it’s being done in their own back yard as opposed to England’s cash rich second tier, they should think again, or pick up the phone and ask my expert advice
If they believe for a second that St Johnstone are not doing the dirty and sending out feelers over the border and hoping to bring an English Championship team to the table in the hope of ramping up the price, they are being dangerously naive.
As it stands, there is a deal to be done here for around £194,500 – a sum that hardly touches the sides of King’s previous financial projections.
If King and his directors understand the true importance of being earnest, they cannot risk allowing this one to slip away too.
AR
Haha. Indeed.
AWE NAW
‘a mouth watering trio of Diagouraga, Halliday, and Jason Holt’
:)
HH
STEINREIGNEDSUPREME
Nice to see BRTH tempted you back with your favourite subject!
And since its you,I’m gonna nominate Queen’s first album…
Oh,and Some Girls,by the Rolling Stones.
And Electric Ladyland by Jimi,dunno why…
TIMALOY29 on 25TH JANUARY 2016 10:09 AM
Nevin is a contrarian
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You need to work on your spellchecker,bud(!)
From CQN article:
” Thinking back, the last time the stadium announcer at Celtic made the news was on an evening when Rangers were knocked out of Europe and he hilariously asked for a minute’s silence. How could Celtic sack a man of such vision! ”
Is that true? If so, I cannot imagine the fans being very happy with the sacking.
Awe-Naw,
It says much about the MSSM that you really have to go overboard to make the `Awe-nawed ` parts different from the real article!
JJ
Awe na
Reason why dodgy Dave has to “land” O Halloran is to save any last vestige of credibility that Keech Jackshun has (if he ever had any).
Brth
Most already mentioned
Sticky fingers
Never mind the b#ll##ks
Anything by blondie. ….but not for the contents therein
Roxy Music…..for same reason
Dark side of the Moon
Houses of the Holy..Led Zeppelin
Abbey Rd
Double White
All either iconic or a resonance with my youth
Should throw in Rifles of the IRA. Just to annoy.
HH
BRTH
Wrong-Eyed Jesus by Jim White
Quirky cover.
Genius album.
Check it out.
HH
BMCUW
Was that ( 10:52) just in case anyone did not get Timaloy29`s joke? 0:-)
Are you in the pub? Are there many others in at this time?
JJ
AWE NAW
It’s hard to spot which parts of that article you AWE NAWed.
The untrained eye would immediately jump to King’s investment of £7m. But no,I’m not so easily fooled.
I’ll go for the 20 goals and dominating the midfield. Oh,and those parts are as informed as the rest of the article…
The green man
Re Wille Clancy,famous uileann piper from Miltown Malbay in Co.Clare
Every June they have the “Willie Clancy Week” in Miltown Malbay,thousands of traditional music enthusiasts descend on the town for a great week of ceol agus craic.
I would highly recommend it.
Also its very near a place called Spanish Point which ties in with last nights debate about the Spanish Armada
BRTH
A favourite (vinyl) album cover:
‘Sweetheart of the rodeo’, The Byrds;
Some mighty fine cowboy boots on show!
:-)
HH!!
Willie Clancy
Actually its in July
see link
http://scoilsamhraidhwillieclancy.com/
JUNGLEJIM HS
No,mate. In a comment to BOURNESOUPRECIPE last night,I replaced ‘contrarian’ with ….
Much easier,that was all.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 25th January 2016 10:38 am
Sport Football Dave King
One day a Hollywood blockbuster will be commissioned outlining his bravery and the truth will be laid bare for all to see.
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I got to there with my jaw gaping before I realised who had posted it.
Still laughing at myself…
BRTH, album covers.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Scary Monstrs(Super Creeps)
Both by David Bowie.
Parrallel Lines, Blondie
War, U2,
London Calling, The Clash
Legend, Bob Marley.
Any Murray through in straight sets……..what an athlete
HH
WITS
Hope to make ‘Willie Clancy Week’ sooner than later.
Like i said before….when i close my eyes and listen to Willie Clancy, it takes me to Ireland.
He truly was a genius.
HH
The Green Man ( and anyone else)
While we are on the subject of Miltown Malbay,Co.Clare
I have a god friend from there and he just sent me a tip for a horse
Candy Banter in the 220 at Wolves.
Fate ????
I see BBC reporting Forest and Griffiths had to be separated in a Bust up in the tunnel…
Probably means they exchanged words…
Anyhow lets indulge their fantasy..
1) who would win
2) explain your reasons
I actually think Leigh would get a few quick fly punches in first.
Once filed assuming he could withstand initial blows I think JF might rally to batter Griffiths as he looks like he beasts the weights… Leigh however has the winning instincts and would probably win.
Would be a decent square go tho.
I imagine it started with Griffiths saying: don’t sign the contract ha wee fud
JF: none of your business salt n sauce
LG: ah need a decent reliable strike – you’re Fkn walking sick note
JF: shut it you can’t even count – made an erase o Yerself on Sportscent- haha
LG: count this ( delivers 3 quick blows) .. There he go 4 punches- you’ll be injured for the next game..
JF stands dazed then gathers his senses before pummelling LG with a succession of heavy blows.
LG nuts him in the midst of the violent frenzy..
Chick Young scuttles off to file his report.
The End