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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Festive playlist strife
December 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on Festive playlist strife · Life, Music
On Sunday I went up to the loft to bring Christmas down. Personally I couldn’t really care whether the house is decorated or not and if I lived on my own I am pretty sure I wouldn’t bother, but Jayne loves all that stuff and would have had the decs up halfway through November if […]
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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King Bastard
January 15th, 2022 · Comments Off on King Bastard · Music
They say that you can’t or shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but what about records? If the front cover has a picture of a skull in a space helmet, a band name of King Bastard above an album name of It came from the void and the back shows a track listing that […]
Irony narrowly averted
March 3rd, 2021 · Comments Off on Irony narrowly averted · Life
I went for a walk today, which is quite a big deal for me because I haven’t been able to really appreciate a long walk for ages until the last few days. Its all to do with Raynaud’s phenomenon, which makes my fingers go white when its cold. Oh, and paradoxically they go numb and […]
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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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Passing the time in lockdown
April 8th, 2020 · Comments Off on Passing the time in lockdown · Life, Music
Some people are spending this period of lockdown being very creative, learning a new skill, taking up a new hobby, or catching up on books and TV they never quite had the time for previously. Others are bored stiff and looking for something to do. But some of us are fortunate (?) enough that they […]
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