Kieran Hurley
@kieranhurley.bsky.social
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kieranhurley.bsky.social
Best opening run of 3 tracks across any of their albums and it's not even close imo
kieranhurley.bsky.social
oh I thought these were replies to the Nostalgic Pushead comment. Aye the album did have a poor rep! Partially but certainly very from entirely justified imo. A generous sprinkling of genuine all-timers in there
kieranhurley.bsky.social
that guitar lick under the "radio nostalgia is radio death" bit 👌
kieranhurley.bsky.social
I mean it's definitely cringe eh but you've got find a way to work around that with Manics haven't you lol
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Thanks to this post I'm now listening to this album too. Let's all do it and have a really nice time 👍
stitzch.bsky.social
Have seized control of the Bluetooth speaker at work, now playing GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
kieranhurley.bsky.social
justice for David, Nostalgic Pushead enjoyers rise up
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Someone quoted it to draw a comparison between the implied value of art (so vast that paying for it would sink a whole industry) and the recently asserted worthlessness of arts degrees at Tory conference
kieranhurley.bsky.social
typos in the posts above but you get me
kieranhurley.bsky.social
I'm just still a bit surprised not see a bit of that old Toryism still rattling about somewhere, having at least appearance of its sensibilities offended. "Mickey Mouse degrees like English Literature? Really?" But there we are!
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Yeah, and also, maybe I am just misjudging the moment. Maybe the realignment of capital's interests around a kind of Trumpian / Faragist does in fact necessitate casting off all those old pretences, decrying all culture as the preserve of a woke metropolitanism or something.
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Have already planned out my next routine from this, thank you.
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Yeah it's a good quote isn't it. I dunno that we're in a "day of danger" - in the sense of any seismic threat to their class or its interests - that would necessitate shaking anybody out of those comforts and pretences though. Even in this formulation, they're still free to be playing along. And yet
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Gimme the Marx quote so I can argue with him, instead of arguing with what I imagine he might say in my head!
kieranhurley.bsky.social
What's his chat? That the material basis of profit/exploitation will always determine the capitalist's main point of interest over and above any kind of cultural value, or something? There'd ofc be something in that, but even within that I think that old Tories who care about this stuff are real
kieranhurley.bsky.social
There must be a kind of traditional Tory, still, somewhere, surely, who looks at this aghast. Who believes in culture, and associated colonial ideals of supremacy. Who holds in highest esteem the study of the English canon at Britain's great old universities. For whom this is what national pride is.
kennystew.art
I’d be a little less confident talking about “rip-off degrees like English” if I’d just misspelled the name of my country on my promotional chocolate.
kieranhurley.bsky.social
yes it's mad! I've done my very best at times to play act as exactly the person they are surely hoping will answer the phone, and while sometimes I've been able to string them along for a bit, they mostly just seem to get incredibly flustered and then end the call. Like, what is the game plan here?
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Been playing a wee game lately and I invite you all to join in. It goes like this: whenever you get a scam phonecall, you play along until it ends with them calling you a cunt and hanging up 👍🏻
kieranhurley.bsky.social
The idea that Derek McInnes - a manager who has turned down Rangers once already - would ditch his new high-flying league leaders for a job at Ibrox is exactly the kind of familiar entitlement that deserves to land flat on its face. But on the other hand, it would be so so funny, so I am manifesting
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Anyway if you see Billy Bragg out on the street, in England somewhere, trying to give you a St George's Cross flag with an anti-fascist slogan on it, don't get angry at him. Just go "oh Billy" and go home and listen to "Brewing Up With Billy Bragg" and have a really nice time 👍🏻
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stefmcdef.bsky.social
He's not looking for a new England flag.
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Admittedly helps if you wrote St Swithin's Day and Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards, I'll grant you
kieranhurley.bsky.social
Now "I'm just a nice guy who wants things to be nice" can provide cover for all sorts of cynical bullshit, obviously. But if its authentic and consistently leads a person to broadly decent positions, then I find the questionable choices along the way just very difficult to be annoyed at really
kieranhurley.bsky.social
I think it's because, with Billy Bragg, it all boils down essentially to "nice guys wants things to be nice" which is at the core of his politics really, and where his comradeship and campaigning all seems to spring from
kieranhurley.bsky.social
coming at this with heavy pro-Billy bias obviously and making no secret of it