Well, actually, thirty years and two days ago, the first commercial CD was released via.

Which got me thinking. I bought my first CD player, and my first 2 CDs, on holiday in France (I'd been saving up for ages to buy one but the holiday cottage Dad'd rented was so horribly remote we were dying of boredom in the evenings). They were:
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OK, so you're in the main train station, waiting for a train. Then a bloke starts beating a drum. And a flute joins in. And there's a bloke waving a stick, and more people just start turning up. Isn't this cool:

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The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra decided to flashmob the local station.


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For some reason, it never occured to me to look this up before. But both the Madness and Lemmy "slow the pace" ads for Kronenbourg are available on Spotify and the Madness version was released as a full single.

Ace of Spades (Slow version) by Motörhead on Spotify

Le Grand Pantalon (Baggy Trousers) by Madness on Spotify

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I am having difficulty figuring out words for describing how cool this is:

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My quote of the day is from the description: Keep in mind the scanner and floppy drive are not musical instruments. These are mechancial devices whose frequencies tend to drift and can cause some notes to be out of tune.
Seriously, how cool is that? ( via)

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When you're younger you can eat what you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26 inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24 / 25, your muscles give up they wave a little white flag and then without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard[1]
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This is a pretty good description of my friends list and feed reader this morning:

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How about you? Taking Jennie to work for an eight hour shift in abit, then back here-got a bit of a grotty cold so don't want to sit in the pub given we're doing that tomorrow for her birthday anyway. So, come on people, post stuff, amuse me ( Read more... )

This is very very cool:

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The lyrics and a dowload of the song are at the original performers site, Moosebutter. Those of you that aren't Star Wars fans should still watch this for the John Williams coolness. If you're not a John Williams fan?

You're weird. Sorry, but it's true.

Silly meme: Choose a singer/band/group - answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.

1) Are you male or female? Perversonality
2) Describe yourself. Unbeliever
3) What do people feel when they're around you? Nausea
4) How would you describe your previous relationship? Nowhere
5) Describe your current relationship? Bowels Of Love6 ( Read more... )

Right, Richard posted a poll (go vote) about the CDs on his desk, and said we should do the same. Well, this isn't exactly the CDs on my desk, it's the stack I just moved from the base of the stairs as I'm vacuuming[ 1]. It's basically the stuff Jennie's taken to work over the last few weeks and not put back into the CD shelves yet. So, which of ( Read more... )