@TheKrynoidMan

Why couldn’t it have just taken place on the actual Orient Express?

Actual Orient Express a) requires a location shoot b) costs a fortune c) is a bugger to film on. Resulting in d) yet another Moffat Era Who Producer being discovered in a darkened room at the BBC muttering brokenly about “… the budget… the budget…”

Orient E…[Read more]

This year alone, I’ve been introduced by @Arbutus to Medieval and Renaissance choral music, from @TheKrynoidMan and @Whisht to German experimental mood music, minimalism, punk/rock fusion and jazz together with some absolute classic favourites like The Who; Queen and Prince.

Meanwhile, I introduce people to Kermit the Frog.

I like to add tone. 😀

@TheKrynoidMan    @FatManInABox      😆

Weren’t those boys just adorable? Great songs, both, and a nice bouncy morning soundtrack as I drag and drop info onto various forms, having agreed in a possibly misguided spirit of volunteerism to manage my son’s soccer team this season! In which situation the title “No Time” takes on a whole new meanin…[Read more]

@Arbutus thanks for posting Dawn of Correction – I definitely hadn’t come across that before. Ah, the era of answer records! (And I LOVE After the Goldrush).  And yes earbuds under the covers – many’s the time I woke up half strangled 🙂 Well, we seem to have survived it so I think you’re right about cutting your kids some slack about the m…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – wonderful! I’d like to entwine that post of yours with this one of mine from many moons ago in some kinda webwinding japanese/music/ninja/brilliance!

If nothing else it reminded me that “Good must always win over evil”

Now I’m too awake and need to sleeeeeeeeeep!!

#wishitwasfridaynight

:¬)

and welcome JimboMcMaster -…[Read more]

wow – so much good stuff here recently!!

@Arbutus – ah, James ‘Sit Down’.
Brings to mind a story I can’t tell in detail, but which leaves a rueful grin!
The Hacienda club in Manchester 1990(?). Me and a girl on the dancefloor. Everyone hearing this song and doing the dance which involved sitting down.

except me and said girl.

[ahem]

;¬)

I…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan     Well, thanks for that. I haven’t laughed so hard since last night’s David Hasselhoff highlight. I must now quote the youtube commenter who says, “As the Dalek would say, Ho Ho Ho!”

@TheKrynoidMan, you’re killing me. Seriously. I can’t believe that Hasselhoff version, we actually used to take him semi-seriously once. I think. That video is purely weird!

But I have a fondness for that song, it was huge when I was young, and it’s the Blue Suede version that I remember the best, although I heard the original later on and liked…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan I love Jenny Lewis. She is responsible for my favourite pop tune – a very sexy pop tune – of the last 10 or so years.

@Arbutus – y’know, as @purofilion said, there’s been an efffing 1300 posts on DB and though I tried to find something appropriate you found a fucking amazing excerpt of A Love Supreme on bagpipes!!

I … I… fuckit if it doesn’t link seamlessly to the Doctor – that was incredible!!!!! I know of (and have stuff by) Sun Ra [insert whatever they…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox – “Cars” was 35 years ago???!??
holy cow!
Surprisingly(?) my 8 year old ears completely accepted it at the time, without thinking it was weird or anything. Its funny that at the time and later on it was seen as a seminal moment.

And ohhh Barrowman! My ears! My eyes!

@Arbutus – niiiiiiiiiiice

http://i.imgur.com/zLmklSS.gif

and @T…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip I would hate if they would take the easy way out. What a letdown that would be. And it is supposed to be the only thing that remained from the TARDIS exploding. Moffat can do better than this.

I AM getting positively EXCITED though! FINALLY new input in the Whoniverse. And hopefully the explanation how Capaldi could have played…[Read more]

Ok @TheKrynoidMan – I’ll bite.

Really glad you didn’t start with the obvious one(s)!

This though is a bit obvious, and his lyrics are typically overwrought, but it might raise a few brows/smiles as people try to contort Doctor Who and the lyrics from this!*
[Bonus – contains added Johnny Marr]

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@Whisht    Re: El Grillo, I guess it depends on how you define “singing” in that particular case.   😈  But your cricket track was definitely edgier than mine!

@TheKrynoidMan   My love for the Kinks has probably become apparent to everyone on here by now.  🙂  I enjoyed that live version of “Celluloid Heroes”. Extended instrument…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – California Girls – re-listening now its strangely slower than in my memory! Wouldn’t it Be Nice is a great track and as with @Arbutus ‘ – Sloop John B – I’ll admit that for me, The Beach Boys are always ‘impressive’ but I just don’t connect with them.
The melodies are catchy, the arrangements are interesting but… I dunno, maybe…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan    I’ll see your California Girls and raise you a Sloop John B!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubAjEjkJIJo

Further to the “live vs. studio” discussion, I have always thought the above recording pretty much flawless, but there is a lot to be said for this:

My least favourite Chrimble special so far. I’m probably pre-empting things by saying that the close of the Tennant era (as presented by the specials) struggled as far as I’m concerned. He hadn’t announced his departure yet, but after the “show to end all shows” of the finale in the fourth series, joking with a fake regeneration, and then anno…[Read more]

Apologies for not being around. I’ve got dreadfully busy so I won’t be joining in the fun Colin Baker watch until late Saturday night probably.

You were a bit late with your vote @thekrynoidman, you obviously missed my post above announcing the winner as Mark of the Rani, with details on how cheap it is at the BBC.

At least my late watch…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman – good work with the Lola link.

Some nice riffs too. Here’s one that has an instantly recognisable riff but I was looking for something from the last 20 years so chose this instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqNYnV0W6o

@Arbutus – to be honest I’ve been listening to a lot of live (recorded) stuff – especially by Bjork and…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan   That “blocked in your region” thing is beyond aggravating. Thanks for putting those alternates up. That live version of Lola, is great fun, isn’t it? A great example of what @Whisht and I were talking about earlier, how a live performance can bring a different energy to a song. There’s a great raw energy to the vocals in that p…[Read more]