Month: December 2021
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Rolling the credits on 2021 – Billie Eilish vs Taylor Swift
There was a Crumplbangers Discord challenge last week to make an ‘ending’ mashup for 2021 using only 2021 sources, so I decided to use two tracks I loved and actually only heard this year – Taylor Swift‘s new Taylor Version of ‘All Too Well’ and Billie Eilish‘s hit ‘Happier Than Ever’. I realised while I…
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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Billie Eilish is Happier Than Ever On Sesame Street
One of my tunes of 2021 is ‘Happier Than Ever’ by Billie Eilish and never realised she did this excellent version of Happier That Ever on Sesame Street with the Count. YES! She looks pleased as punch to be there – who wouldn’t? Not everyone gets a Sesame Street version of your song, that’s how…
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Best of Bootie Mashup 2021
And a few hours after I posted my 25 favourites of 2021, Bootie posted their much more organised and professional yearly mix/album of their favourites of the year. Spook! And I’m glad to say, I made the cut with my Driving Miss Crazy bootleg. I know Adriana is a Olivia Rodrigo fan, but I noticed…
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Radio Clash 25: Best Mashup of 2021
Over at /r/mashup MixMstrStel is running a vote to find the best mashup of 2021, which got me thinking, Bootie Best of style what were my best mashup of 2021 (and crumplbangers and blends and mashup related things)? (I did vote for one which was a really hard choice – you can see my decision…
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RC 359: Mariahversion Therapy – Happy Xmash & Omicronmash
Xmas is like buses, wait for one for ages then find they are all cancelled by Boris while he has secret Christmas parties in Number 10. Makes a new definition of ‘Secret Santa’, playing (Tory Truth) Twister and pass the parcel, eh? So unlike that we have two Xmas podcasts, and this is the Xmash…