Ha! That's true. In keeping with the themes of our subjects, his book is fun, and mine will destroy your relationship.

and the first appendix cures restless leg syndrome.

will it also increase your desire to gamble?

Yes, but if your erection persists for more than four hours, please see a physician immediately.

anyone heard the latest from the Marseille Figs?

Yep, it's pretty fun. Also good is the new Corb Lund, "Horse Soldier."

Funnily enough, on the first listen, I was all "This sounds like Stan Rogers. Think he's doing a Stan Rogers tribute?" My DH agreed. Then came a song to the exact melody of "Idiot" by Rogers.

Turns out our boy Corb unintentionally plagerized Rogers. Guess it's all worked out now...but I'm feeling awfully Canadian.

Guess it's all worked out now...but I'm feeling awfully Canadian.

Ain't nuthin' wrong with that. And I love HS!HS!. It's quite lovely.

So if one is a big Robyn Hitchcock fan, is it worth downloading Groovy Decay from eMusic? This is the album where Robyn later released a different version, Groovy Decoy, because he hated the production of the earlier "Decay" version. (I have the "Decoy" version, but only on tape. I'll eventually have to buy a CD, as eMusic doesn't have that version.)

I mean, I'll probably get it eventually, but there's a bunch of other stuff I want to get from eMusic so I'm trying to prioritize things....

I remember "America" being a good song, but the rest I forget.

I was right. They shipped the second copy of Hec's book I ordered separately from Corwood's. Cool beans.

How do we do it? How do we do it? How do we do it? Volume! Volume! Turn up the volume!

Songs on Groovy Decay
: 1. Night Ride to Trinidad
2 Fifty Two Stations
3. Young People Scream
4. Rain
5 America
6 How Do You Work This Thing?
7. The Cars She Used to Drive
8. Grooving on a Inner Plane
9 St. Petersburg
10 When I Was a Kid
11. Midnight Fish
12 It Was the Night

And what All Music says about the two Groovys:

Four years after its release, Robyn Hitchcock pulled Groovy Decay from circulation, replacing it with Groovy Decoy, an alternate version of the record assembled mainly from demos he recorded with Soft Boys bassist Matthew Seligman; the album included some versions that are identical to the Decay material, as well as a handful of new songs. By and large, Groovy Decoy is a better record, with more immediate and gripping versions of the songs that comprised the original album, but the material remains some of the weakest Hitchcock has written.

(I have both - on vinyl. . . but my feeling is that you shouldn't feel like rushing to get it.)

Hecubus...you magnificent bastard. I HAVE your book!