Via tree_and_leaf1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle ( Read more... )

I have discovered that a large part of my treasured collection of LPs has been lurking here when I thought they were all in the States. Stepmother only has room for about 10cm of them so I am hanging onto the Nick Caves and a couple of other favourites, but the rest are to be disposed of. Stepmother has eBay plans which I doubt will come to ( Read more... )

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wellinghall asked me for my favourite songs beginning with P:

1) Phantasmagoria in two, by Tim Buckley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpCVk_TlxM2) Prologo/Samarcanda, by Roberto Vecchioni. This may be cheating because the song is usually just called Samarcanda, but this is how the title is given on the greatest hits compilation I have and it's been a ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups)
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

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It must be coming up to twenty years since I last saw this video:

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Meanwhile, the Proms concert tonight was excellent, in the way that live concerts can be, which may not translate well to audio streaming. If you get a chance to see Thomas Dausgaard conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, he and they are fantastic, and got several stomping ovations. As jane_somebody commented about a Prom we attended last ( Read more... )