Tag: Blue Monday
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RIP Fats Domino
A class act from New Orleans, he was the soul of rock n’ roll. *salutes to the Captain* We owe him, along with Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Bo Diddly, everything. One of the Four Horsepersons of Rock n Roll 😉 And he stuck by it, he didn’t try and update the sound –…
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Hannah Peel
Behind the curve on this one. I’ve been hearing Hannah’s name for ages used in the same breath as Anna Meredith who is a composer I love greatly, so mentally noted that I needed to check her out. I wasn’t disappointed, her music-box creations (called Rebox) covering electronic and indie songs are well worth it.…
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An Order of Fish, Ma’am?
Well I hear it was a shallow bay…;-) (via Chris Lumpy)
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Some mashups
Me? Posting mashups? With my lack of interest? 😛 Well admittedly me and mashups have a chequered past recently, but it’s nice now I’m mostly away from that scene to very occasionally dive in and check out the best ones, rather than be bombarded with them day to day (and the egos! Oh the egos!)…
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The Story of Blue Monday
Excellent documentary about New Order’s Blue Monday for Swedish TV (it’s mostly in English with some subtitles) – many facts you might not know about the best selling 12″ of all time – for instance I never knew that Hooky’s bassline was inspired by Ennio Morricone!
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RC 228: Sloppy Seconds
A post Kleptonite #1 report and some great tracks I didn’t play. Continued in the next podcast since I ran out of time…(hence the Hipster Repent graphic which now makes more sense with the next podcast…*sigh*) Born Sloppy (1:39 – 80Mb) Jimmy Cliff – Guns of Brixton Prince Fatty ft Hollie Cook – And the Beat…