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'Bargainville' was the first full-length LP from the band, after a well-received demo tape. Of their four albums, it's probably the most obviously entertaining, and also the best showcase for both their strengths and their weaknesses. The spectrum of moods covered, from outright comedy ... Read review
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Advantages: Highly intelligent and tuneful, wonderfully sung Disadvantages: Sometimes mistakes 'clever-clever' for 'clever'
'Students'. A word that is deeply intertwined with learning and the getting of wisdom, yet still largely used as a term of derision. Why is this?
Well, let's be honest, we all did some semi-daft stuff in higher education. In my case, 'a Computer Science degree': it doesn't get much dafter than that. But there were other, more small-scale acts of pointless futility that 'seemed like a good idea at the time.' Bunking off lectures to go climbing. Bunking ... ...of Beachy Head. Bunking off lectures to go to Alton Towers (which is a bit of a hike from Southampton, if truth be told). Actually, none of those were pointless, because they were fun. And they give the lie to the idea that I never behaved like a student. True, I never wasted my entire grant (I'm old enough to have had a grant) on a DAT recorder (nice one Andy, who I believe is STILL paying that off 15 years later), or stole road signs (and a set ...
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