Guess: The chart position that the new Morrissey album "Low in High School" debuts at.

he has Irish cheddar on his rider. he is pre-vegan veggoe for life

Ullrich suggests that Hitler's vegetarian diet was linked to his "pathological mix of fear of mortality and messianic conviction". He was more shit-scared of getting cancer than getting assassinated and was convinced he wouldn't get to 50, to do his important work. But I am sure at the odd BBQ he said "fuck it".

Irish Cheddar, English Heart Disease

irish cheddar seems like something he'd be culturally (rather than politically) opposed to

he's a Galtee dude

an expect-a-wexford mystery xp

"Irish Cheddar on the Rider" should be the title of his next album

holy shit this album suuuuuuuuucks aaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

lol you listened to the album

i also listened to every eagles track in sequence for a few months i have problems

Dropped from 5 to 48 this week. Have seen worse.

Not much though.

Does Ulrich’s book contain much stuff on the Liverpool Hitlers, or give any credence to the idea that Adolf went there on holiday when he was younger?

No mention of that + he also dismisses other things like one testicle, syphilis, mythical French girl called Charlotte he got pregnant and the Jewish grandfather.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich guy repeated a lot of allied propaganda without question imo

and is a total homophobic dick.

well was, of course. A true product of his era I suppose.

I seem to remember him going especially into apoplectic rage over Röhm's homosexuality and any other Nazi gays, repeatedly.

This album has grown on me. Even "Spent the Day in Bed" is alright to me now, it's really just the lyrics I don't care for. I think "Home Is a Question Mark" is a winner. It might be his worst LP, but there's some good stuff in there.

His new fixation on Israel is something. I'm guessing he played some shows there and liked the way he was received, so naturally he's got a song called "Israel" now, with lyrics like "they who reign abuse upon you / they are jealous of you as well". That was pretty much what I was afraid of when I saw the song title.

Readers of this thread may also be interested to know that at the show in DC last night, he touted this album's #1 placement on the US and UK vinyl charts, while also saying that it went to #10 on the "US... other charts" (actually #20 on the Billboard 200, but #3 on the rock album chart, I've just learned).

calz absolutely correct about Shirer -/I've.remembered his name now!

wondering now if this dimension of the shirer book (pub.1960) was what was responsible for the rash of films in the early 70s stressing the sexual decadence of the third reich (the damned, the night porter etc), which mostly starred dirk bogarde and were lapped up by some of the punky foax SPM admired when young (punky foax often cheekily pro the queer-cult elements the film-makers were a lot more ambivalent abt)

Could well be the case, because there wasn't a lot of competition for Shirer's book, and as turgid as it is - it was still probably the most comprehensive guide to the Nazis going right into the 70's, unless I've missed something.

yes, that's what i remember from the early 70s: grown-ups reading it and talking about it bcz it covered a lot of ground (not just sex) that was basically new to the general reading public

I think it's v readable! it's just bollocks is all

I read about a quarter of it and then audio-booked the rest and it is entertaining bollox. But to some extent all Hitler books are bollox and often over-reliant on Goebbels horrible diaries or like Shirer writing works of fiction really, which I think even Kershaw is guilty of to some extent. They just haven't got that nebulous Soviet archive that Stalin biographers have, which are so fucking massive they overwhelm some people.

*lol just spellchecked + Goebbels horrible Dairies almost submitted.

This week (or next), Moz dreams of number five....