Happy days of early 90s indie....

Yes I agree, I can imagine Damon or Graham singing it

Might be with your CDs....

Cheer up, the weather has been mild this year....

Yes it was a great series, haven't seen it for some years.

Back to Chemical World, I feel this song would have really benefited from NOT being a single. The weight of expectation on a song once it becomes a single means I judge it in a different way. Imagine 'Coping' or 'Fade Away' had been singles, I don't think there would be so much love for those songs...

Good points TracyJosh

Dizzzy - you will need to read this thread throughout, to get the drift.

I don't think TGE is any worse than 'Parklife'. Of the three in the 'trilogy', Parklife probably has a slight edge over MLIR and TGE. I agree that the singles from TGE were a bit generic, though thankfully 'Country House' with its oompah sing-a-long feel was released as the lead single - it grabbed ...

Roy was & remains a great musician, though is amongst many contenders for album of the decade.

Check out the period c.1970-72 when The Move/ELO/Wizzard and his solo work overlapped.

Yes, absolutely.

doug - don't get too tired....

But I think that it is quite a long way in the past now, and as Tom suggests, not of much interest beyond dedicated fans. It could likely go on YT and not attract controversy.

Kevin Ayers is perhaps another artist who can be grouped in with Alan Price, Roy Wood and Peter Skellern.

It is a bit of a relief when the mischief night/Halloween/bonfire night period ends - unfortunately, it attracts various kinds of anti-social behaviour.

Yes, I can particularly recommend the Alan Price one which is a forgotten gem, though it was a big hit for him in 1974. The Roy Wood one was good too. I have never got beyond the (few) hit singles of Peter Skellern, though like Roy and Alan he was a kind of 'quintessential English' type of artist.