Thin Yoghurts
(My Baby Drives A) Container Lorry (Lowther Street Runner, cassette, 1980-ish)
One glorious single - the all-conquering "Girl On The Bus" - and that was it, right? Well, nearly. Do cassettes count? Well, not really. But is it like I'm giving you the option? Well, no, not really: here's what I like to think of as the 'lead track' from the 5-song cassette-only follow-up to the "Girl..." thing we all know and love (and if you don't know it, please close the door on your way out; if you do know it, but don't love it, please forget where we live). "(My Baby Drives A) Container Lorry" lacks some of the charm and devil-may merriment of the single, I grant you, but who could seriously doubt the sincerity of the band when they inform us, without sparing a thought for themselves, that their baby "... drives a container lorry". Poetry.
Somewhere there's a Yorkshire Lord who only-knows how many of these they made up, but I'm sure you'll join me in venturing a figure between minimal and not-really-that-many-at-all. Once upon a time I tried asking, but all I got was the train times to Pontefract.
I s'pose the other highlight on the cassette is "Crossroads Death Chant" (those who are already on board with The Snivelling Shits' "I'm Waiting For My Crossroads" will want to collect the set) (is two a set, if it's not a twin-set?) (what?) but it's all pretty much a wondrous experience. Not "Girl On The Bus", OK, but what is?
