Not only do rats spread disease, they also saved TVam, which was far worse.
Having avoided fully referring to BCB’s Studio 4 as a sea-faring vessel I now find that the metaphor would be rather useful not in only that, as a committed land-lubber (again in not in literal terms, though I can’t pretend I’m especially taken with sailing), I’m set to leg it from the aforementioned craft but also because a water rodent theme briefly developed on this week’s Selection Box. Whilst I am not a rat, and indeed Studio 4 is presumably built upon sound foundations and therefore I’m unlikely to disappear into a sink hole like that poor fellow in America, there does seem to be a varmint of a metaphor just sat there waiting to be smacked by my rolled-up newspaper.
Anyway, I appear to be drowning in metaphors. Metaphorically. As featured on this week’s programme, here’s some actual Rats, but not actual rats, courtesy of that there YouTube what all the kids are talking about now whilst they play with their yo-yos and trade Garbage Pail Kids cards.
Selection Box Show 253 (Listen again HERE)
Transmitted 27/02/2013
1. Gogol Bordello – Sally
from: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
2. The Glens – I Feel Great
from: Doo Wop From Rome Records 1960 – 61 (various artists)
3. Yumuri Y Sus Hermanos – Acaramelao
from: Tiene Bilongo
4. Balthazar – Sinking Ship
from: Rats
5. The Rats – Rats Revenge
from: Back From The Grave Volume 1 (various artists)
6. Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart – Road To Palios
from: Road To Palios
7. ME – Vampire!! Vampire!!
from: Even The Odd Ones Out
8. Gary Numan – M.E.
from: The Pleasure Principle
9. Maclaine Coulson & Saul Rose – The Lazy Farmer
from: Sand & Soil
10. Submotion Orchestra – Thinking
from: Fragments
11. Tindersticks – A Night So Still
from: The Something Rain
12. Debroy Somers & His Band – You And The Night And The Music
from: Great British Bands Volume 2: Debroy Somers & His Band
13. The Bush – To Die Alone
from: Impossible True – The Kim Fowley Story
Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Wednesday at 9pm.