My friend Chris once introduced me to the music of THRONES, saying “It’s impossible to walk and listen to THRONES at the same time”. I can well believe it, since many THRONES tracks have either a really strange time signature, or syncopation so extreme that it may as well be another time signature. However, [...]
(Apologies for the break - I didn’t know whether I’d find time for CD blogging while on holiday. I didn’t.)
I fondly remember hearing Ash’s ‘Kung Fu’ playing on the radio in our university accommodation, and thinking it was the most exciting thing ever. I also fondly remember running around at Glastonbury singing “Ash! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! [...]
This won’t make it into the CD blogs, because I only own this on Vinyl (and MP3 copied from Vinyl).
The other night I put on 808 State’s 1990 album 90. I’ve owned it since it was new, and hence it’s 18 years since I’ve really, properly, listened to it.
It was during track 2, Anacodia [...]
OK, I’ve been remiss and missed a week. I think I’ll be missing more weeks in future.
It always seemed to me that within 20 seconds of the start of the first track on The Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not, you know whether it’s for you. A fairly basic [...]
(Well, Wednesday flew by without my noticing: the first slip up. I blame Grand Theft Auto IV.)
The thing with CDs is, I buy them, I rip them to MP3, I look at the packaging a bit, then I put them on the shelf where they stay. A nice thing about doing these blog entries [...]
Sooo, number three.
My first exposure to The Apples in Stereo was on the rather wonderful compilation Heroes and Villains - in which acts like Bis, Devo and Frank Black sing their way through a Powerpuff Girls storyline. The Apples in Stereo explain how the mayor contacts the girls in Signal in the Sky.
I think [...]
Last Wednesday, I told you that the credibility of the artist in this weekly alphabetical look at my CD collection would rise sharply this week, then plunge next week. Actually that was based on a mis-sorted CD shelf. Next week’s plunge was to be Bryan Adams’ Waking Up The Neighbours. Due to the mis-sorting, [...]