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Writing And Drugs - The Effect Of One Upon Another
I really wanted to come home and get on with this little writing project that I have going on at the moment but the boy won't go out and I find it really hard to concentrate when he's here - Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones or not. I can't quite get consistency in the part that I'm at right now and I'd like some alone time to figure it out. I' ( Read more... ) -
Pop Music And Lots Of Music
I reached critical mass on the iPod today. 160GB complete, now I really am going to have to start deselecting. I'm cleaning out cupboards and drawers so I'm feeling really ruthless, let's go!
Amplifier - Insider
I've listened a couple of times to the new one - The Octopus - recently and while it's perfectly fine it hasn't really grabbed me. Likewise ( Read more... ) -
Some Bands And Some Random Floyd Musings
It's been a while but I mostly do this at weekends and I've been away a lot recently: all sorts of places from Munich to Clacton. I also had the heavy spectre of about 4 or 5 hours more Alan Parsons hanging over my head. I've taken the executive decision to skip the rest of APP right now, (I may return to it later). It's not as if I don't know what ( Read more... ) -
Nothin' But F**king Alan
Alan Parsons - Eve
I figured that Alan Parsons was good for a bit of background music to the after Easter tidy-up. Eve is not an album I'm familiar with so I didn't notice originally when the album went into a vaguely jazz rock song on the second track - I just thought, hmmm, that a bit of a diversion for AP. I did notice however when I identified ( Read more... ) -
Pimpin', Prog & Parsons
'K, so here's the thing, I knew going in that there would be some really dumb stuff I'd have to listen to. I resolved to not cheat; to skip things I wasn't keen on or to rearrange the order - So I'm anal, I know this, I like alphabetical order. Heck I just like order, it's not for nothing I work with databases! - Anyhoo, I was quite stoked to get ( Read more... ) -
Rock N Metal, Yeah!
AC/DC - Black Ice/Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/The Razor's Edge
I really don't listen to this type of rock anymore and that probably explains why Back In Black isn't here. I do know it, having had it on cassette for ages but the fact that it's not here keys you in that I likely last listened to it 20 years ago. BIB was one of my seminal teenage ( Read more... ) -
A.S.A.P, ABC And Other Aural Alphabeticals
When I was a youngster in the first flushes of adulthood - by which I mean working but still living with my parents and with minimum expenses - I spent a fair sum on a Technics audio system. It had a dual recording reversing cassette deck which would sync with my FM tuner thus enabling timed radio recordings of 3 hours. This was the very pinnacle ( Read more... ) -
The Great Re-Listen of 2011
I'm a bit of a magpie and I confess to having over 20,000 songs in my iTunes. The vast majority of which are listed as un-played in this install of iTunes. Admittedly that only happened last December but even so in the history of my computerised listening, I estimate that at least half of them have gone unheard...shameful.
I was browsing through ( Read more... ) -
Fair To Midland
This band is freaking awesome. They have invaded my consciousness like no other band has done in years.
I've had some success via the IQ forum in the past by bigging up certain albums. Certainly I turned a few people on to the Decemberists last year and there have been some positive reactions to Shooter Jennings so I find it inexplicable that no ( Read more... )
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