Category Archives: Music
Nerdcore Rap by Dan Bull re #occupywallstreet
Featuring Radiohead sample. ‘Coincidentally’ JP Morgan have just made the largest (multi-million) donation in history direct to the NYPD. It’s not about Protesters vs Police but for sure the movement can’t pay off the police. This is now the third … Continue reading
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Lyric of the Day: Panic by The Smiths
Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? The Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But … Continue reading
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In a new way
A seashore Keyboards slowly, pipes A resonant rumble The sound of the sea with triangle jingles The sea is replaced by deep bass, in and out, pulsing Desolate shores, life forming Crawling from the waters, adventuring upwards Towards the sun … Continue reading
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Lyric of the Day: Taxi Cab – Vampire Weekend
The only thing I don’t like is the title of the song. Everything else – music, lyrics, playing, singing – superb! Unsentimental Traveling around Sure of myself Sure of it now But you were standing there so close to me … Continue reading
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Tyler’s freestyle rap
Tyler, a prospective mature student at Brockwood Park, surprised everyone with a quality freestyle rap to end this evening’s informal evening. (Brockwood informal evenings are like an open mic show, with everything from classical to comedy to rock to… rap)
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Full length version of Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited)
Full length version of Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited) This may be the craziest half hour I’ve spent on the u toobe. Mild anarchy! A-list cameos! Dodgy acting! Will Ferrell playing cowbell! Spraying! (of more than one … Continue reading
Lyric of the Day: In the waiting line – Zero 7
Do you believe In what you see? Motionless wheel Nothing is real. Wait in line ‘Till your time Ticking clock Everyone stop Everyone’s saying different things to me Different things to me Everyone’s saying different things to me Different things … Continue reading
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Hot Sauce Committee Snippets
Samples from the upcoming new Beastie Boys album. I’ve loved this group for 25 years, when they are not too noisy.
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Lyric of the Day: Ask – The Smiths
My Lyric of the Day posts are usually chosen by a lyric that’s in my head when I wake up, or by particularly relevant line or two, like yesterday’s yellow moon on the rise, or today’s spending warm summer days … Continue reading
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Lyric of the Day: Yellow Moon on the Rise – Neil Young
Yellow moon rising tonight, the night before it’s full: There is a town in north Ontario With dream comfort memory to spare And in my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there Blue, blue … Continue reading
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Nothing Silly
That is a trailer if you didn’t realise, for the 30 minute Fight For Your Right – Revisited film out soon. If that’s not bumper enough, a new track called Make Some Noise, from Hot Sauce 2 was previewed today … Continue reading
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Lyric of the day: Beastie Boys – That’s It That’s All
On a b-boys tip a mad minute before the new album next month. From what I can tell from one track and 30 seconds of another, it’s going to be more of an organic sound, perhaps like Check Your Head … Continue reading
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Lyric of the day: Beastie Boys – Right Right Now Now
Especially for those in the UK filling out your Census, check out MCA’s race. I filled mine today. When it asked what I consider my nationality to be, I put ‘Other – None’. Same for religion. I heard if you … Continue reading
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Lyric of the Day: What A Waste – Ian Dury & The Blockheads
I could be the driver an articulated lorry I could be a poet, I wouldn’t need to worry I could be the teacher in a classroom full of scholars I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs … Continue reading
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Justin Bieber: Your Obsessive Love Or Hatred Of Me Means Nothing In The Grand Scheme Of Geological Time
In many ways, grasping the infinitesimal speck humanity constitutes is a source of great comfort. Even while I am in the midst of recording vocals in the studio or appearing on a daytime television program, it is admittedly seductive to … Continue reading
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Meanwhile in 1997, listening to drum & bass
DJ Hype on the mix with some mental drum & bass. The candles are going crazy to the music but if I turned the music off they’d still be going crazy. Not too impressed, averagely hectic, great bass lines. I … Continue reading
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Your Debut Album
Here’s mine: The rules: 1. Go to Wikipedia and click Random Article The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2. Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote … Continue reading
110223 Deadhead
I feel the best I’ve felt for over a week. The dizziness is subsiding and I’m way more centred, stronger. Thanks for all the well wishes. I went over to Alresford where C gave me an acupuncture treatment, clearing out … Continue reading
110212 Durford Walk
I really enjoyed this TED video of Benjamin Zander that my friend Seppo put me on to. Zander’s measure of success is not wealth or fame but how many shining eyes there are around him. He speaks with real passion … Continue reading
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