It was The Netherlands 1 England 0 last week. A comprehensive victory by Bettie Seveet over the Kane Gang who were just too smooth for most of you.
That takes the running total to Hell 8 Heaven 3.
So Hell is nearly home and hosed. Can Fiction Factory with Feels Like Heaven bridge the gap?. I've just discovered that their album Throw the Warped Wheel Out is on the shelves together with a free 12" single. It's not one of mine so it is either Mrs CC's or her sister's.
A change of mood in the Hell Camp as Fiction Factory go toe to toe with The Sweet and Hell Raiser which reached number 2 in the UK singles charts in 1973 sandwiched between Blockbuster and The Ballroom Blitz
Who's it going to be
Heaven or Hell, the choice is yours.
Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven
The Sweet - Hell Raiser
In memory of my very younger days im going for hell
ReplyDeleteMany of your readers are in their teens and twenties and may not have heard of them, but for an old fart like me it has to be Sweet. Six or sven years ago I was in Rostov in Russia and discovered by chance the then line-up (Andy Scott +3) were playing the local opera house. It was a weird but wonderful evening - me and some Russian gents of a certain age going wild while an old lady sat in the front row doing her knitting.
ReplyDeleteGreat story Ernie
DeleteI'm off to look out my Sweet Live in Rostov album
Slightly out of focus photos of Sweet and the small but devoted crowd. Couldn't get one of the lady knitting:
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No contest! Hell.
ReplyDeleteI'm one of the younger readers that Ernie alluded to. Yes, I am. Really. Whatever! The Sweet for me. 80s synthpop is largely hell as far as I'm concerned...
ReplyDeleteClose one.
ReplyDeleteAn eminantly likeable slab of 80s pop versus a proper rocking Sweet track.
Score Draw. Sweet win on penalties
Speaking as a fellow natural born raver, this is a no brainer. Hell.
ReplyDeleteARe you aure that you did not buy that Fiction Factory album? You've got one by the Kane Gang! Good god you'll be telling us you've got a bloody Blue Nie album next.
ReplyDeleteANyway, The Sweet, Hell.
There are tow Blue Nile albums on the shelves (not mine!)
DeleteThere are also two Kane Gang albums
Yes, for nostalgia's sake, and because it's a bloody good song, it has to be Hell.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about the songs in the Top Ten on the date I became a teenager in 1973, and Sweet were are the number 8 spot. To quote:
At No. 8 – Hell Raiser by Sweet. (The beautiful Brian Connelly with his long blond hair and half-brother of Taggart as it turned out – Somehow he manages to look both macho but also not dissimilar to Tammy Wynette.)
Hell. I don't remember that song, but like every "new" Sweet song I hear (they often appear to be featured on the blogs I read), I am led to believe I've been missing out for years.
ReplyDeleteTaken from a Best of which I got as part of a three for a pound in the days when charity shops were a thing
DeleteJust to fly in the case of the older and younger readership of this blog I'm voting for Heaven.
ReplyDeleteThere's always one!
DeleteBoo!!!!!!1
DeleteSweet & hell for me too.
ReplyDeleteI will come clean... I have that Fiction Factory album. Soft spot for the Scots, you know. They lads from Perth get my vote.
ReplyDeleteAs it's not going to affect the outcome I'll go for Heaven this week - I mean it's such an unfair contest. Hell Raiser would win against 99% of all recorded output set against it. Now, don't you dare finish this series - surely you can spin it out for another few months.
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