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Hard one - yes I do relate people to songs quite a lot, but someone like Kirk there are so many memories and so many songs that it would be impossible to choose just one - from MC Tunes to 808 State to Howard Jones to Cardigans to Dodgy to Cassetteboy (yes it was he who introduced me to Cassetteboy!).

But if I was to choose one for Kirk it would be Steely Dan:


Why? Well at my dads was an ancient cassette tape answering machine, which I put 'Telephone Man' by Meri Wilson as the outgoing message (we had people ring back just to listen to it!) and he phoned once to leave a message and then at the end just said randomly  'Here have some Steely Dan' and played about a minute of this song, or it might have been Haitian Divorce guitar solo. Whatever it was, I still have that tape somewhere or did, and now associate Steely Dan with Kirk...

John:
 Well I'm probably breaking some rule, but the song that reminds me most of a certain John-shaped someone is one of my mashups, made for/about him:

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Golden Beard (aka My True Love Has a Golden Beard) - Nina Simone vs Slowdive (a cover of Syd Barrett's Golden Hair) and about 2.1 seconds of Blur. Dunno if he's even heard it...but that's not the point, it was expressing how I feel about him in a track, it just needed to be done. Also one of a very few shoegaze mashups out there...

Other tracks that remind me of his John-ness (should I start calling him James Ludovic I wonder? Yes that is a distant relation of his - spooky eh?) include this Elvis Costello track - Every Day I Write the Book, if you know him you'd know why.



Especially the lyrics:

And I'm giving you a longing look
Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book
Don't tell me you don't know the difference
Between a lover and a fighter
With my pen and my electric typewriter
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel

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