Thanks to Penelope, I've started work on a new Top Ten Music feature... yet it's rather spiralled out of control and might take a little more work than these countdowns normally do. In the meantime, I'll keep up with the random playlists... this one's for anybody who's had a new haircut this week.
Special mention goes to Nick Heyward, the nicest popstar I ever met, and Haircut 100. Where do we go from here? Is it down to the lake, I fear...
Runners up included SFA's Ice Hockey Hair, Mercury Rev's Car Wash Hair, The Charlatans' Jesus Hairdo and Half Man Half Biscuit's tragic Hair Like Bryan May Blues...
But these, in my humble opinion, are the dos that most definitely do.
10. George Thorogood - Get A Haircut
"...and get a real job!"
Sage advice from George T. Pity I never took it.
9. Tracie Young - Boy Hairdresser
I think it was JC, The Vinyl Villain who introduced me to Tracie Young, probably because I wasn't paying enough attention during her brief 15 minutes back in 1984. This song was co-written by Paul Weller and seemed set to spur her on to stardom, particularly when she was voted Most-Fanciable Female by the readers of Smash Hits. Sadly, twas not to be.
8. The Waifs - Haircut
The Waifs are an Australian band I really must investigate in more depth. They're darker underneath...
7. Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Scruffy bunch of American indie scalliwags with not a decent haircut between 'em. Shave 'em all and send 'em in the army - 'specially Malkmus!
6. Jim White - Combing My Hair In A Brand New Style
"He used a blue hair comb with a busted tooth
To comb out the tangles of his messed-up youth."
If only it was that easy.
5. The Divine Comedy - Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Her hair was long
Her hair was dark
Her hair flowed down her back
And now it lies upon the floor
Bernice runs out the door
None on her head, just down her back, as the old Eric Morecambe gag goes.
4. Beck - Devil's Haircut
Beck updates Stagger Lee and introduces him to 90s consumerism via a Noel Gallager remix.
3. Regina Spektor - Samson
Ah, Regina Spektor, whatever happened? Begin To Hope was such a perfect album... why did its follow-up, Far, leave me so cold? Who cut your hair in between records?
2. Morrissey - Hairdresser On Fire
Poor old Morrissey, even his hairdresser's too busy to see him. Apparently there are barber shops in both Connecticut and Copenhagen named after this song.
1. Billy Bragg - Walk Away Renée
With Johnny Marr playing the tune of The Left Banke's 60s hit as backing, Billy makes up his own heartbreaking lyrics - a short story of young love doomed by infidelity and haircuts. Perfect.
So go on then, what's your favourite haircut song?
