Unlike Cud (there, I mentioned Cud!) we never really liked “You Sexy Thing” or, to be honest, a lot of the 'Chocolate: the record company, who always thought it was amusing that so many Pooh Sticks songs used secondhand titles, once challenged us to come up with a song called “Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac”, but I’m happy to say it didn’t happen (at least, it was never presented to the group; maybe it exists in a notebook somewhere, but you’ve got to hope not, right?). But some of their early (‘not funny’) ones were great, and for two years, 1973/4, they came up with “Brother Louie”, “Rumours” and “Emma”, which have a fantastically dark and broodingly melodramatic thing going on. (At the same time, across town, there was David Essex with his holy trinity of “Rock On”, “Stardust” and “America”, doing the same kinda thing.) “Emma” was our favourite, not surprisingly, with its level of doom cranked up to the size of an imagined Sunset Boulevard billboard. This one was front-and-centre for our “Desperado”.
"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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