All of my instincts were to add Baxter Dury’s Allbarone to my 1962Onwards playlist this year. It is catchy as hell with his trademark quirky lyrics featuring precisely deployed weapons-grade swearwords. However, I know that I already have a Baxter Dury track on the playlist (Miami in 2017) and my self-imposed guideline is to restrict […]
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2025 – Everybody Laughs
January 11th, 2026 · Comments Off on 2025 – Everybody Laughs · Life
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2024 – Caroline
January 20th, 2025 · Comments Off on 2024 – Caroline · Life, Music
Yet again I spent a lot more time listening to old music than to new music. My routine now is that I will listen to at least one side of an LP while doing the puzzles in The Times after lunch instead of the radio, and during working hours I have been a lot more […]
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2023 – Ghosts Again
January 6th, 2024 · Comments Off on 2023 – Ghosts Again · Life, Music
As a born and bred Essex boy from Basildon, its amazing that I have got this far into my lifetime playlist without putting a Depeche Mode track on it. South-East Essex has been represented by Doctor Feelgood and Yazoo already, but it has taken this long for our biggest export to get included.
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2022 – Dirty Rat
January 11th, 2023 · Comments Off on 2022 – Dirty Rat · Music
First things first. I realise that I have started to get carried away. Having created a playlist with one track per year of my life about 5 years ago (I think) I subsequently decided to write a little post about each track but I have ended up writing about everything else in the year and […]
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2021 – Cosmosis
February 7th, 2022 · Comments Off on 2021 – Cosmosis · Music
Well. 2021 was another year of not going out much wasn’t it? Another year of (mostly) working from home, and then staying at home afterwards. There was fresh air of course, as I was getting out for regular walks and shattering the 10,000 step target on good days – though a lot less for a […]
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2020 – Automation
January 2nd, 2021 · Comments Off on 2020 – Automation · Music
It is that time of the year again. The time when I add another track to my Spotify playlist, the one that has one song for every year I have been around. I have now added a 59th track to it, which makes me fell a bit old. While this might have been a bit […]
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2019 – Must I Evolve?
January 3rd, 2020 · Comments Off on 2019 – Must I Evolve? · Music
Now we are firmly into 2020 (Happy New Year BTW) it is time to increment my 1962 onwards playlist by another tune. Deciding what to put on there was a tough decision because there was so much good music last year, and I got to listen to a lot more music than I normally would. […]
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2018 – Get Your Shirt
July 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2018 – Get Your Shirt · Music
As far as music was concerned 2018 was many things: it was even better than 2017, it was a year for female artists and it was a year for comebacks.
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2017 – Miami
July 5th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2017 – Miami · Music
When I decided to write about one track from every year of my life I don’t think I realised how bloody old I am – it turned out to be a bit of an epic chore, but the end is in sight now. By that I mean that I am nearly caught up, not that […]
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2016 – Hardwired
July 4th, 2019 · Comments Off on 2016 – Hardwired · Music
It continues to pleasantly surprise me how as we get further from the golden age of the 70’s and I continue to get more decrepit, there seems to be more new music I like rather than less. Admittedly, little of what is in the singles charts does much for me, but long-established artists continued to […]
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