Today’s bright idea is one that I actually think is quite a good one. You know how BBC Four have been showing episodes of Top Of The Pops of 35 years ago, week-by-week in order, in their totality? It isn’t really watched for the music so much as the nostalgic feeling, mostly from the music […]
Entries Tagged as 'Nostalgia'
My favourite year
January 5th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite year · Music
The other night I sat down to watch the story of Top Of The Pops in 1979, followed by a compilation of clips from that year. Without question, 1979 is my favourite year for music. I know that others will prefer 1983, 1972 or 1967, There may even be some poor misguided fools that think […]
Tags: Nostalgia·Schooldays·TV
Zipping up my life
November 21st, 2013 · Comments Off on Zipping up my life · Life, Music
WinZip is a program that takes a file on your computer and magically compresses it so that it uses less space, while still retaining all the information in it. At least it seemed pretty magical when its predecessor appeared back in the DOS days and hard drive space was tiny and expensive by today’s standards. […]
Tags: Nostalgia
A pedant writes
September 19th, 2013 · Comments Off on A pedant writes · Music
Tonight I was listening, as I often do, to an internet radio station called ‘Made in 80’s Radio’. I do this when I want something in the background that is mostly familiar. There is plenty to not like about it. It is one of those dreadful channels with no presenters: just music chosen by computer […]
Down with the kids at last?
September 13th, 2013 · Comments Off on Down with the kids at last? · Music
After years of avoiding the latest teen sensation bands I have finally found myself hooked on a new band whose ages are allegedly 15 to 17. Does this mean I am getting in tune with youth culture? I think not. The band in question are The Strypes, and it is more a case of a […]
Tags: Doctor Feelgood·Nostalgia
Living in the past
September 2nd, 2013 · Comments Off on Living in the past · Music
I have spent a large part of the last week in the 1980s, largely thanks to Spotify’s new recommendation feature. I was a bit miffed when the page that used to show new releases was replaced by something called ‘discover’, and then I was amused when it started giving bizarre recommendations, but I’m starting to […]
The way we were
September 4th, 2012 · Comments Off on The way we were · Life, Technology
At the moment I am re-reading a humorous book about computers from 1996 called Dave Barry in Cyberspace. I have quite a few of his books and like to dip into the ones that are basically collections of his newspaper columns every now and then because they are light reading and more or less timeless. […]
In praise of the OGWT
May 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
Tonight BBC4 showed an edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test in its entirety. Presumably it was there to tie in with the John Cooper Clark documentary that was on immediately beforehand and doesn’t, unfortunately, mean they are going to do what they are doing with TOTP and show them all again in order. It […]
70s Mania
April 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Music, Politics
For all its faults, I enjoyed the first part of Dominic Sandbrook’s series on the 70s. So many memories, even though I was only between 8 and 10 during the time covered in that episode, and I’m really looking forward to the rest. If anybody else is similarly hooked I can recommend Sanbrook’s book State […]
Tags: Nostalgia
The way we were
April 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
While I was sorting out some old books to get rid of recently (I only managed to force myself to get rid of about a dozen or so) I came across an old business card of mine that had been used as a bookmark. To be honest, most of my business cards from that, or […]
