Revenge Recommends: "Pinball Prison Blues" by Puddles Pity Party

Here at Riff Raff Towers we are, generally speaking, musical purists with a deep distrust of unearthly fusions, such as rock-rap, gypsy punk, nintendocore. etc.

We are also instinctively set against the very idea of "mash ups," in which two well-known songs are usually badly spliced together.

But we also pride ourselves on our open-minded attitudes, and are willing to be won over by true talent. Such is the case here with PUDDLES PITY PARTY and his eerie merging of two classics, namely THE WHO's "Pinball Wizard" and JOHNNY CASH's "Folsom Prison Blues."

Incredibly both songs emerge refreshed in my mind from the encounter, instead of cheapened and sullied, which is often the outcome of such illicit unions.

Colin Liddell

1st October, 2022

Revenge of Riff Raff

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!