One particularly "inventive" afternoon...

by RayLee, Friday, February 23, 2024, 15:17 (272 days ago) @ A K Church
edited by RayLee, Friday, February 23, 2024, 15:23

You mention these bands that I am unfamiliar with then I look them up and realize I have heard them. Not on the radio.....but in the damage control central space on a decrepit, floundering Knox class frigate.

D.C. central was the only place I could (was allowed to) sit down while standing underway sounding watch. Many times the small space was filled with unauthorized "quasi-punkers" as it was one of the few spaces where the smoking lamp was "lit" between taps and reveille. Compact discs and their players were new and they played the so-called new wave-post punk over and over in that small space filled with blue smoke.

They ranted on and on about r.e.m. seditiously turning "commercial" and the reverential look on their faces as they played the smithereens "cigarette" was so piously serious it was comical. Yes, I laughed at them though I was trained as a child to not mock a man's religion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkiSQVn92MQ&pp=ygUVc21pdGhlcmVlbnMgY2lnYXJldHRl

As odd as it sounds, elvis costello was heard predominantly.....