@blenkinsopthebrave – I looooove Minnie the Moocher so here is a slightly clearer version (I’ll leave the Blues Brothers one to anyone who wants to do the obvious ones {cough} ;¬)

Now, the astronauts fifty years ago are (I guess) in space at this point, sooo…. I found a song with an obvious title…[Read more]

So, 50 years ago today, Apollo 11 launched.
An obvious choice perhaps but lovely (and from memory Eno had to play what he had written backwards for it to become this).

Now to listen to the Moocher!

oh – and @doctor-levina I’ve been trying to figure out a way of describing what I thought of your selections and…. I keep coming up a blank!

“Its a unique voice etc” is a bit… rubbish as a comment from me!

But thanks for posting as its great to hear new things and great for newer people to the forum posting things
Looking forward to hearing more!

Now as most here will know, this week is the 50th anniversary of landing people on the Moon.
I’d love to hear any childhood memories of people who actually remember it (I wasn’t alive yet!).

In terms of music, I’ll add obvious bits of Bowie, some Eno and anything else I can think of, but has anyone got any musical memories or connections to…[Read more]

*hey @thane16 – is that a Stranger Things inspired blast from the 80’s?
(I’ll sadly admit to not having binged on ST yet – but I will!!)

Its not something I heard at the time – but I like it!

And “svelte” is a great description @Arbutus !
that’s another lovely piece of mellow sound from Gilberto

not sure where to post this so I’ll try here.

Freddie Jones, great character actor has died.
This is from a BBC TV thing he did – Jackanory ghost stories played around 5.30pm/ just before the 6pm news.

I was 9.

It won’t have the same effect now to anyone else that it did on me at the time, but I distinctly remember sitting enthralled, my mum…[Read more]

A kinda sad excuse to post this.
Joao Gilberto passed away at the age of 88.
A bit obvious perhaps, but it is a lovely song – The Girl From Ipanema

and the rather lovely Desafinado

Awww

“Sad news one morning, got out the break of day…”
Dr John has passed away

Here’s his song Marie Laveau (Dr John is kind’ve a male version of her character).

“She made Gris Gris shh kaa shh kaa”

and some boogie piano playing (I was looking for a live version but the ones I found are a bit…[Read more]

hey Sygers (!) @thane16
glad you like the Japanese band’s song – though it was the first I listened to it did seem the best after clicking on a few others!

And LOVED the Britten – when do they breathe??

Below is an oblique song as I can’t think of a better one for Paul Darrow’s character in Blake’s 7.
His character was similar to ‘the bad guy…[Read more]

ahh @jimthefish – thanks for leting us know about Paul Darrow.

I was a bit young for Blakes 7 (or maybe not – maybe just not got chance to watch due to one telly and me being the youngest with little ability to choose what to watch!)

I actually loved his character – it always seemed much more nuanced/ multi-dimensional than the others (not their…[Read more]

@thane16 “Syzygy” – wonderful!

and on googling it, I discovered this….

I think its just right.

I’m now off to listen to more of them!
;¬)

@pedant – oooof – that’s strong, but yeah.

Don’t be hurt if I don’t find a song to match your reply though!

@craig – you’ve helped individuals and their friends and families a huge amount.

There was a time that a friend and I were due to have one of our ‘meet up for a few pints’ every 3 or 4 months. We’d done it for years.
This time it drifted and I didn’t drop him a note.
And yes, then it was too late. I don’t ‘blame’ myself but… but. Its easy to…[Read more]

So, I saw on the news that a known racist and bigot in the UK, has had milkshake thrown over him on a couple of occasions recently and thought “I wonder would @pedant approve?”

;¬)

Anyway, here’s something…. provocative in completely other ways.
{ahem}

Hi all – I’ve been tardy and not logged in to thank @craig for the new Music thread (yes the other one was creaking a bit!)

So….. flowers !!

So here are three ‘flower’ songs:
Some classic shoe-gazing from Galaxie 500 –

Then some live (fiddly) stuff from…[Read more]

I am soooo glad of two things:

1) the story is beginning to make a bit more sense and be less shouty/ silly;
2) I clicked the link to watch via the dailymotion site where I don’t suffer the “here’s an ad for unicef” every 3 minutes.
I mean, Unicef is great, but…. ahem.

again, for all the wrong reasons I was reminded of this (especially today).

I know young musicians today will have similar feelings, but can’t remember hearing them recently on popular telly as explicitly as in the 80’s. Maybe the conversations are just in bubbles, bubbling away…

RIP Ranking Roger

Hi @idiotsavon – good lord, if Oliver Letwin is the answer, then we’ve been asking the wrong question.

Is it time to panic yet..?

Unfortunately this isn’t some homage to the Autons.

ah well

ok – so this is inspired by @bluesqueakpip ‘s excellent blog on Grace.

I’m sure we had this tune during the series but I can’t remember.
Takes a min or two to get going.

I tried to find the lyrics and discovered that the lyricist went through their own conversion – quite a story.