Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

I'M SO BESIDE MYSELF I GOT TWO RECORDS IN THE MAIL TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONE IS MARTIN HANNETT PRODUCED AND THE OTHER IS THIS BRITISH REGGAE-ISH POST PUNK LP RECORD FROM 1980 BY RELUCTANT STEREOTYPES WHO ACTUALLY HAD PAUL KING SINGING FOR THEM AT THE TIME EVEN THOUGH WHEN HE WAS LATER PART OF THAT UK MID-80'S POP BAND CALLED KING THEY SUCKED ARSE!!!! BUT I WAS TOO YOUNG TO KNOW AT THE TIME JUST HOW MUCH THEY SUCKED ARSE. THEY WERE CHART CRAP, BUT I READ ABOUT THEM IN BRITISH MAGAZINES SO I HAD TO BUY IT. What was their most famous song? "Love and Pride". AND I LIKED IT BECAUSE I WAS SO ADOLESCENT AND STUPID. BUT NEVER MIND, THIS RECORD BY THE RELUCTANT STEREOTYPES IS GREAT!!!!!!!! IT'S ALL REGGAE INFLUENCED LIKE THE POLICE CIRCA "REGATTA DE BLANC"!!!! And he is a much better singer than that guy they had before who went on to be in Eyeless In Gaza. Although to be fair, it wasn't really the singers fault that the first Reluctant Stereotypes 7" record was so bad.

My reggae Brit dreams have just ejaculated.

I haven't even put on the Martin Hannett record YET!!!!!

TWO RECORDS IN THE MAIL!!!

GOD LOVES POST PUNK!

It's the best Martin Hannett thing ever, and it's mine, mine, mine. Both sides, even the b-side I bought it for. Even the design of the sleeve is so avant garde. I'm as happy as a clam in eden. Because this really is the best Martin Hannett thing ever.

It's a 7" single (or "45" to the layman) by Ed Banger called "Kinnel Tommy" and the b-side is a delicious catchy pop song called "Baby Was A Baby". And the first time I ever saw a bit of the sleeve for it I was mesmerized, but I couldn't figure out what record it was from the sleeve. Now I know that sleeve belonged to this, and if this isn't the best Martin Hannett thing ever...

"produced by Martin Zero" it says. Yeah he used to call himself that. In fact there are some street signs where I live that say "No drinking and driving/ZERO tolerance for under 21". And the sign has the word "ZERO" in bigger letters than the rest, you see. And that's because Martin Hannett used to call himself that, Martin Zero. And he was a genius.

And the beautiful irony of it is the back of the sleeve makes some funny comments about suicide, and this was two years before Ian Curtis took his own life.