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Category Archives: Music
Earworm: Tainted Love by Soft Cell
I’d like to hear the other side of the story Sometimes I feel I’ve got to Run away I’ve got to Get away From the pain that you drive into the heart of me The love we share Seems to … Continue reading
Tunguska by Fanfarlo
I came across Fanfarlo today via Word magazine’s cover disc. In this song they are singing about mysterious event in 1908 that destroyed 80 million trees in Siberia with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped … Continue reading
Whitney Houston’s Death and the Music Industry
As I’m writing this, Twitter, which is the ideal medium for bogus admiration and fake indignation, is up in arms over Sony raising the price of a Whitney Houston compilation only 24 hours after her death. … In cases like … Continue reading
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Earworm: The Wall
This morning’s earworm. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave those kids alone. Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone! All in all … Continue reading
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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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