A work colleague brought in a song for me to listen to recently. He thought I might enjoy it so he brought in a minidisc of it… which ties in very nicely with the previous post about data formats.  I gave up trying to find the minidisc walkman that I know is around somewhere and ended up using an old midi system that has a MD built in to it.This colleague only has this song on minidisc from when a friend of his gave him a copy years ago. So far he has not got around to wiring up all the necessary boxes to copy it to a CD or to an mp3.
Tonight I was amazed to find that the song is available on Amazon‘s download service. I reckon that buying a download for 69p is worth it to avoid all the hassle. I didn’t realise the Amazon service had got so far down the long tail already.
As for the song… still not sure if I like it, but I do know that it is a real earwig of a song. Couldn’t get it out of my head for a couple of days. It is really lo-fi, has only a single verse and chorus repeated for nearly seven minutes, no real tune to speak of, but it is fascinating and I can’t think how I never heard it before: apparently John Peel used to play it a lot.
The song is There Goes Concorde Again by Native Hipsters. Have a listen: love it or hate it, you won’t forget it in a hurry.
Maup Verwildert // Sep 29, 2009 at 7:20 pm
A great song, or may-be you should categorize it POETRY. Weird but tantalizing… I remember hearing it the first time early 80’s, yes one of John Peel’s radioshows. It never ever left my head, and I am very pleased to rediscover this little jewel again on the web