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Jeff Stelling is the featured patient in today's Record Doctor feature in the Observer Music Monthly. If you buy an inferior Sunday paper, you can read the article online here.

Phil Reynolds wrote:Jeff Stelling is the featured patient in today's Record Doctor feature in the Observer Music Monthly. If you buy an inferior Sunday paper, you can read the article online here.

Interesting. I had heard Jeff mention Vampire Weekend a few times on the show, but never thought to check them out. I was actually expecting something gothic, or maybe extreme rock by the name, but they couldn't be more different. Jeff admits there that he doesn't like them really, but just checking them on YouTube they seemed pretty good. They have clever lyrics which you can understand too, which is always a big plus for me, and who better for a Countdown running joke than a group who sings about punctuation and grammar.

That picture of Jeff with the guitar makes him look really menacing.

If that guitar was replaced with either an axe or a truncheon, he could easily look like a serial killer. Maybe, after he ditches the goalie gloves too.

He talks about Vampire Weekend as if they are Cannibal Corpse or something, he didn't sound impressed in the slightest.
Which is odd, as I always had them down as fairly appropriate fare for middle aged people. My mum certainly likes them.

Matt Morrison wrote:He talks about Vampire Weekend as if they are Cannibal Corpse or something, he didn't sound impressed in the slightest.
Which is odd, as I always had them down as fairly appropriate fare for middle aged people. My mum certainly likes them.

The first cut is the deepest, Matt.

Derek Hazell wrote:I had heard Jeff mention Vampire Weekend a few times on the show, but never thought to check them out. I was actually expecting something gothic, or maybe extreme rock by the name, but they couldn't be more different. Jeff admits there that he doesn't like them really, but just checking them on YouTube they seemed pretty good. They have clever lyrics which you can understand too, which is always a big plus for me, and who better for a Countdown running joke than a group who sings about punctuation and grammar.

Ha - that's a fun video. Was it really shot as one continuous take? I hope so.

Derek Hazell wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:He talks about Vampire Weekend as if they are Cannibal Corpse or something, he didn't sound impressed in the slightest.
Which is odd, as I always had them down as fairly appropriate fare for middle aged people. My mum certainly likes them.

The first cut is the deepest, Matt.

Apologies Dez. Genuinely hadn't seen your message before I posted that! Hey, they're still hugely popular for youngsters too, so just because you like them it doesn't make you old, honest! Er, I mean it doesn't make you middle aged, honest.

'My Sherona' by The Knack. I'll give Jeff a brownie point for that.

I liked it too until that Oatibix advert