Tag: music

Playlist

At work, the technical department is in a separate room. We tend to have music playing, because we can, using the G4 Mac as a jukebox. Now, I know my musical taste doesn’t agree with most of the office, so I listen to my own music on headphones. But a while back, while trying to make a tape for the trip to Bristol, I copied a bunch of MP3s over to the Mac so that I could burn them to CD.

Someone has started them playing, which I’m certainly not complaining about. But this is a room where you’re all you’re normally likely to hear something chilled and ambient, or Another Generic Ibiza Album. Right now, this is the playlist:

New Model Army – Vengance

Dead Kennedys – Holday in Cambodia

Joan Jett – Bad Reputation

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Papa Won’t Leave You Henry

The Pixies – River Euprates

Ramones – It’s Not My Place (In The 9 To 5 World)

Buzzocks – Boredom

The Fall – How I Wrote Elastic Man

Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster

The Birthday Party – Zoo-Music Girl

The Undertones – Teenage Kicks

The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet

No-one seems to have the nerve to turn it off.

Will I?

“Will I write? Well once in a while,

I’ll send my love and a Moltov cocktail.”
– The Flys, “Love and a Molotov Cocktail”.

Escape Velocity

Wasting time at nowhere very special

Seems almost a part of it these days

I know every crack along the pavement

I remember what you said in ’88

You said:

‘It’s time to leave this town

The world keeps turning ’round

The only thing that keeps me here is you’
– The Levellers, ‘Leave This Town’

Retro

Running late again, I see. I’ve actually got a few things I’ve been meaning to write about on here for the last while, so I’m not really sure what to talk about. After hearing the tape at Andrea’s place yesterday, I’ve just ordered “The Sound of the Suburbs” from Amazon, and then grabbed the MP3s from a friend who had the CD already. As a result, I’m half indulging in nostalgia, and half re-discovering old friends with a new brain, after having lost my tapes of this stuff years ago. Fab.

Cave 1

So, I’ve now had time to listen to “No More Shall We Part” a few times through, I have to say that yes, it’s brilliant. Stand out tracks: “God Is In The House” and the opening “As I Sat Sadly By Her Side”. Beautiful sweeping songs on here, songs about Love and God and Religion, laced with blackness and poison and, just here and there, a vicious black humour.

In other news: I got a free trip on the London Eye yesterday, about which, more later.

Glitterbug 2

The more I listen to these Glitterbug MP3s, about a minute each of three different songs, the more they grow on me. Lyssa informs me that they’re playing in London on Monday. I really want to see these people live. So, of course, I’m busy Monday. Fucking typical, really. They’re also playing in London on Thursday. When I am also busy. Welcome to my life.

Glitterbug

Several of my friends have been going on about Glitterbug for a while now. They’ve mostly been doing live stuff, and I’m not one for going to gigs, really, so I’ve largely missed out on them. Finally got round to stopping by their site today, and downloading the sample MP3s. If chirpy indie-pop-rock is your thing, then you’ll probably dig this. Give ’em a look.