Time to kick some life into Everything’s Swirling. My intention is for more shorter posts so here’s one. Kate Bush will probably make many appearances in this series but as I was listening to Ariel this morning and as I’m a sucker for bird noises – here are the pigeons (and other tweets) that open [...]
Songs with SFX

An excerpt from Ozzy Osbourne’s upcoming autobiography “I am Ozzy” was published in The Times Online this week and as well as the stories of drink, drugs and small animal decapitaions he also describes playing the first Black Sabbath album to his dad… I can picture him now, fiddling with his reading specs and holding [...]
Having a Teenage Fanclub day today. Not sure where the urge came from but it’s always a nice urge to get. I suspect this series of posts is going to fill up with bird sounds opening or closing songs. On I Don’t Want Control of You (from the wonderful Songs From Northern Britain) there’s some [...]
While the first entry in this series was brutally unsubtle in it’s raiding of the sound effects library, XTC’s Senses Working Overtime is beautifully subtle… and you have to wait right until the end. I love crows…
I threw together a post last week of “my top 6″ songs with sound effects but it seemed a bit wasteful to just bundle together a few songs with SFX off the top of my head – there are so many more and some much better – so here’s the first of another ongoing series [...]