1988 Festive Fifty Weekend: The thirties

Picking up, quite quickly, some of the tracks that made the lower reaches of the Fifty:

39. Pixies - River Euphrates
Live, Brixton, 26th June 1991



Buy: Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim

35. Stump - Charlton Heston



Buy: Stump Box Set

31. Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
Live in Chester, Cheshire, 1989



Buy: Superfuzz Big Muff

[Part of the 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend]

Cold dead hands

In the spirit of not speaking ill of the dead - even one whose love of guns made him the focus of the bloodthirsty, the paranoid and the reactionary who make up the NRA - let's remember Charlton Heston before he developed Alzheimer's and started to suggest that guns don't kill people, it's people making 'pickle, pickle' noises while pointing their fingers who do.

Here, by way of tribute for his paid work rather than political views, is Stump's Charlton Heston: