At some point in the 2000’s I just stopped buying CDs. This is a big deal for me, having over-spent on music for as long as I can remember. The thing is, all my existing CDs are only played through the computer, having been ripped ages ago. New music I just stream. I pay the […]
Entries Tagged as '1962Onwards'
2013 – Mystery Man
June 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2013 – Mystery Man · Music
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2012 – Spitfire
June 8th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2012 – Spitfire · Music
This was the year I turned 50, when I might have been expected to retreat into listening to back catalogue and leave new music to the youngsters. I would have been happy to do that, but instead there was some excellent new music coming out that was right up my street, although a lot of […]
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2011 – Let England Shake
June 7th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2011 – Let England Shake · Music
While the singles charts continued to be full of songs by “x featuring y”, where x=someone I haven’t heard of and y=someone I have vaguely heard of, there were some interesting albums this year. It was especially good for albums by the sons of other musicians, with albums by Ian Dury’s son Baxter, Neil Finn’s […]
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2010 – Drunk Girls
April 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2010 – Drunk Girls · Music
2010 was a bit of a blur for me. A busy year. There was a general election in May and I was standing against Francis Maude in Horsham. Although there was almost zero chance of winning (Fortunately. I don’t think I would like to be an MP!) I wanted to put in a good effort […]
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2009 – Bonkers
April 8th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2009 – Bonkers · Music
I couldn’t pick anything other than Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal for the 2009 slot on my playlist. We are big fan of Mr Rascal (As Jeremy Paxman once called him) in this house. In fact our grandson is named after him – his real name of Dylan Mills and not his stage name of Dizzee […]
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2008 -Senior Twilight Stock Replacer
April 8th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2008 -Senior Twilight Stock Replacer · Music
There have been several milestones or turning points in how I interact with music. There was the point where I started owning it so I wasn’t completely reliant on whatever the radio played, there was the portable tape machine letting me listen on the move, there was the MP3 player, and then the download which […]
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2007 – Thou Shalt Always Kill
April 7th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2007 – Thou Shalt Always Kill · Music
Either not a lot happened in music in 2007 or I just can’t remember it. There were only a couple of albums released in the year that registered much with me and very few singles. Looking at the list of songs from the year on Wikipedia it seems like half the singles were by somebody-I-don’t-know […]
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2006 – Diablo Rojo
April 7th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2006 – Diablo Rojo · Music
Some time last year I decided to put together a playlist with one song from each year of my life. Some time later I decided to write about it here. I expected that I would be writing about the tracks themselves, what I liked about them, why I picked them and so on. What has […]
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2005 – Start Wearing Purple
April 7th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2005 – Start Wearing Purple · Music
In 2005 we got to hear the Kaiser Chiefs’ album, Employment, that was eagerly anticipated after a couple of big singles in 2004. The anticipation was displaced to Arctic Monkeys who released I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor but made us wait until 2006 for an album. Meanwhile Franz Ferdinand were already on […]
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2004 – Tekitoi
March 24th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2004 – Tekitoi · Music
Yes I am looking to ‘world music’ for this year’s entry on the playlist. Not that I bought a lot of it this year. All I can think of is Angelique Kidjo’s Oyaya! album and Rachid Taha’s Tekitoi album. The Kidjo album was continuing her homage to Latin music. I really prefer her more African […]
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