pop music
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As promised, the latest volume of Mark Higgins’ Bitter Fingers podcast features Mark and I talking nonsense about our favourite songs of 2010. Starting the year with a retrospective – feels about right. You can listen to part one here and part two here, and you can sneak a peek behind the scenes over on…
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I’ve been on hold a lot this morning. one of the perils that comes with moving house. That’s okay – it’s some of what you sign up for – but it’s distracting. It breaks solid concentration on projects, links, work… the whole deal. In the meantime I’ve been poking at my current favourite reference point/metaphorical…
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Not long ago I couldn’t possibly have told you this. Now I go to Last.fm and start exploring. Russell’s sat opposite me, and just done the same thing. I haven’t come close to thinking about what data access really means yet. I have flashes of it, thinking about layering the context of an article to…
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It’s time we stopped wondering when we’ll be given the opportunity to do great things and just got on with doing them.
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I woke up, barely, reached over the the turntable, and let the needle hit the groove. That I listened to this song after that night was really unfair. That I listened to it with “Hannah” just waking up beside me was horrible. I e-mailed her a while afterwards, apologising for a few weeks of ,…
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Wait. You’re listening for the clarinet. Throughout. You’re listening for the sinuous, slinky beginning, smoke curling through the door towards a damsel, arm to forehead, looking forlornly at a love letter or a photograph or a tumbler of gin. You’re looking at her eyes, which are so hollow with sadness you can barely see the…
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I never really shout. I get quiet, or inarticulate, when I’m angry and I don’t put any volume into my menace. I don’t really shout after people either, I get embarrassed or assume it will never quite be loud enough. But shouting is brilliant. Just yelling out at the sky. When you feel you can…
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Really. It just has to start and I begin to chuckle. Two reasons linked to this I guess, totally unrelated to the band themselves. The first is Global Rock Challenge. Global Rock is the kind of event that begat X Factor. It pits huge teams of student dancers against one another over three hours, in…
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Looking back (and forward) at some of my selections I feel that this meme has been great at getting me to write consistently, and at greater depth than usual on this blog, but it’s also held up a mirror to how terribly limited some of my musical choices have been. Reading Russell‘s Thirty Days alongside…
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Ah, marriage. I let my selection of this song’s use in The Prisoner talk around that for me. But ‘All You Need Is Love’ as defining statement – yeah, I’ll go with that. It’s the kind of track that probably sounded nostalgic on release, entirely outside of its timezone, built to last forever as a…