90s Music Mondays
Cast your mind back to 1992 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali has just become Secretary-General of the United Nations, Windows 3.1 has just been released and the Manic Streets Preachers haven't started their determined spiral into bloated, pompous crapitude.
In fact, they have just released this rather catchy cover of the M*A*S*H theme song "Suicide is Painless"
This single (which reached number 10 in the UK charts) was the first I ever bought. Originally recorded as a track for an album named "Ruby Trax" it was released as a double A-side with a discordant cover of Bryan Adam's "Everything I do (I do it for you)" by the Fatima Mansions and both the album and the single were in aid of The Spastics Society charity.
Another interesting factoid about the song - the lyrics were written by Mike Altman, Robert Altman's song who was 14 at the time and who earned over a $1,000,000 in royalties whilst Altman himself only received $70,000 for directing the movie.
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Ok, I find it an interesting factoid but then again I revel in that kind of deliciously nerdy factoid. Which may explain why my nights are a lonely procession of gaping emptyness punctuated by obsessive reordering of my bully button lint collection.
Another interesting factoid about the song - the lyrics were written by Mike Altman, Robert Altman's song who was 14 at the time and who earned over a $1,000,000 in royalties whilst Altman himself only received $70,000 for directing the movie.
...
Ok, I find it an interesting factoid but then again I revel in that kind of deliciously nerdy factoid. Which may explain why my nights are a lonely procession of gaping emptyness punctuated by obsessive reordering of my bully button lint collection.
