I love the Internet – it has made my life richer, it has found me friends, it has put me into in-real-life conversations with my heroes… and it has people on YouTube doing covers (I’ve expressed a love of this once before on this blog). Whereas the proper band‘s Galaxie 500 cover of choice seems [...]
Idle nonsense
Dec 132011
Ahh – you know it’s not really a “top” anything – the concept was artists who never surpassed the first track on the first album… a few of these obviously did! So it’s just six great arrivals… Portishead – Mysterons Sparklehorse – Homecoming Queen Joanna Newsom – Bridges and Balloons Love – My Little Red [...]
The Wikipedia entry for the children’s song I Can Sing a Rainbow importantly states that… …despite the name of the song, not all the colours mentioned are actually colours of the rainbow, and they are not presented in order of the visible light spectrum No results found for site:britannica.com “i can sing a rainbow”
Last week I saw Anna Calvi and Throwing Muses on consecutive nights at The Shepherds Bush Empire. Anna and Kristin made a noticeably different choice of footwear – one chose comfortable, sensible shoes and looked cool, one chose rather ridiculous shoes and looked awkward and quite, quite silly… Neither picture is from the London show [...]
Harpo Marx – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia… [Harpo] Marx was also an avid croquet player, and was inducted into the Croquet Hall of Fame in 1979. And from the United States Croquet Association website: Arthur “Harpo” Marx was a lovable, eager and very athletic croqueteer. Whenever he returned to Long Island or to Alexander Woollcott’s [...]
Sep 282011
Today is a beautiful day… but mostly I’m stuck at work. I just sat in the garden over lunch and listened to The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints – an album that takes me away from where I am and puts me in a much better place. Like many I suspect my first introduction [...]
I was absolutely sure there were tons of songs with sirens at the beginning so I thought that was ripe for a playlist – while that may be true, tracking them down turned out to be tricky but I managed to rustle up enough (with help!) for a “my top 6″ post. First up obviously [...]
Slade – Coz I Luv You The Sweet – Blockbuster T-Rex – Jeepster Mott The Hoople – Roll Away The Stone David Bowie – Life on Mars Faces – Maggie May
Having just finished a very VERY English Summer and no sign of us getting treated to an Indian one (although it’s still early and we can still hope) – here are a bunch of folk singing Beat Happening’s Indian Summer… starting, obviosuly, with… Beat Happening – Indian Summer Luna – Indian Summer Captain America – [...]
Aug 122011
It’s been a strange week for London so here are my top six London tracks. First up Lily Allen’s LDN – maybe it is a hateful sneer at London but I don’t think so – I think it’s a realistic and in ways, affectionate painting of London. If you look hard at anything you start [...]
