The Shuffle Got It Wrong...

Tonight's shuffle track was not the first track to appear on the shuffle tonight, but I could not possibly have a track by Level 42 on Spools Paradise. More worrying was the fact that there was a track from the band with the most irritating bass player of all time on my PC in the first place. An investigation had to take place to find out how this piece of drivel had got there in the first place. Turns out it was on Best Of The 80's CD I had purchased a few years back that also had Soft Cell, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Swing Out Sister amongst many others. From memory I bought it years ago, when I used to do some DJ'ing, to use some of the tracks to play at a friend's 40th Birthday party. More worrying was having a look at a discography of the band and counting up the amount of Top 40 hits that they had. 20 !!! How in God's name did they manage to have 20 Top 40 Hits !!! I am quite pacifistic by nature but Mark King does incite me to violence, just by being Mark King. Especially if I see any footage of that thumb connecting with the strings of his bass guitar....

Anyway things brightened up considerably when the shuffle through up this gem from Middleton's finest, The Mock Turtles. Named after a fictional character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Mock Turtles are pretty much the archetypal one hit wonders. Fronted by Steve Coogans's older brother they managed to get to Number 18 in The Hit Parade with one of my fave songs of the early 90's and never had another hit after it. 

One hit for The Mock Turtles and 20 hits for Level 42. It's a cruel world indeed.... 

Can You Dig It ?