TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - part time punks

[ZLUGGO]

Nice one!

[engineer21261]

love this song!

[AsmodelSoljah]

FYI Read About Seymour is a referrence to a song by the Swell Maps. They also referrence the song Midget Submarines in a different song.

[bluenose1986]

Love this song. Punk was not supposed to be about a contrived sneer or a stolen power riff. It was about doing your own thing and following it through to the max - something that got lost in the leather jacketed clamour to copy the Pistols and the Clash. Basically Punk should not have been a sound - just a blueprint to do your own thing regardless. This is the perfect example of that.

[theeHeisenberg]

@bluenose1986 yeah the term "punk" became something else, so the real punks invented their own terms: post punk and indie rock

[DickNixonArisen]

Not sure why anybody bothered to write any "poser" songs after this one.

[podgeryan]

you beauty. love this.

[Fonchezzzz]

I dont understand anything this man says. Good music tho.

[pizt]

@Fonchezzzz do you have ears?

[messagefromSaDiE]

ONE LUV

[totnesmartin]

This still makes me laugh even though all the jokes are 30 years out of date. Hmm, maybe *I'm* 30 years out of date too!

[LauritzH]

You either got this song, or you didn't, and it was perhaps the best detector.

[johnbarry1965]

This song is the definitive anthem of 1977, not songs about riots,anarchy,etc etc. Love to sing this in the bath!!!!

[vpmi]

just recall 80's -- fin

[ThisBalladSucks]

I'm sick and tired of all these part-time punks!

[Limman1]

wooow, i remember this song... in early 80's I live in comunistic Poland and be a full time punk. Now live in Ireland and an RETIRED punk. Good save the punk !

[kemboballo]

TVP has always been a enjoyable band.

Seen them four times, and they are still around.

Now in Oslo.

If You haven't seen them yet. DO SO.

[exproggo]

Ah....brings back so many memories. Great band...awesome lyricist

[foff4strings]

It's funny cos it's true! I well remember one of the local 'punks' from my school asking the assistant in my local Boots record department if he could hear The Clash LP before he bought it. He listened to a couple of bars of each intro before pulling an expression of distaste. At which point he and his ridiculous off-the-peg bondage trousers (freshly washed by his mum) left the store. Plank.

[ian42]

this just brings back so many good memories, 10 no.6 & a bottle of cider from the offy. thanks for putting this on, i typed in 'part time punks ' on the off chance but here it is, cheers

ian

[falco148]

Another punk-rock classic from the late 70s.

I frist heard this on Barry Jenkin's late-night music show in New Zealand in the early 80s.

[dilzappa]

First time John Peel was namechecked was a Tyrannosaurus Rex LP track from 1968 'Prophets seers and sages'on which he recited a poem.Then there was the Skids 'TV stars' b side to 'Into the valley'...plenty more I'm sure.

[1doctoma]

they'd like to buy the 'o-levels' single or 'read about seymour', ..but they're not pressed in red, so they buy The Lurkers instead... no change there then..

[motorwaynick]

mummy punk daddy punk.....and baby punk.

[BurkZerker]

That is the best and only single that I have of theirs, good post.

[FerInternalUseOnly]

awrite!

[matteff13]

lalalalalaalaaa....

[fulltimepunk]

First band to namecheck Peel in song?? Most of the UK didn't know who he was then.

[fulltimepunk]

November 78. A different world with great records bought in splendid isolation!

[moment7]

Fresh air

[73in83]

Smashing. Lovely stuff.

[Sluggard]

Einfach ein geiler Song, wie ich finde!