This article isn’t ‘fact’, but I agree with its premise that shamefully Johnson didn’t expect to win the Referendum.
For Johnson it would be an honourable loss, alignment to an influential base of the party and then… power.

But when they did win, Johnson facing the pressure, bottled it.
(a bit like the England team facing…[Read more]

So – England crash out of Europe (again).

haven’t had chance to realy think what’s a good track to do here, so here’s one with the lovely lines:

“Don’t grease my palm with your filthy cash
Multinationals spreading like a rash
I might stick around or I might be a fad
But I won’t sell my songs for no TV ad “

Which seems to link a bit with…[Read more]

oh dear.

Engxit.

I have no idea if I have music for this….

Well, I’m working through my 5 stages of grief on the vote, but on re-reading one of my posts I thought I sounded a tad holier-than-though.

So, in case its unclear, although I like to think of myself as neither homophobic, sexist or racist, I do have a bigotry towards ‘posh’ people.

If I hear a posh accent I’ll instantly assume “idiot” and…[Read more]

@puroandson – as for Tubular Bells, I’d imagine that it was strictly enforced “rights management” that means there’s no versions of the album on youtube or similar.

Which is dumb. That was the reason we couldn’t link to many Prince tracks which meant that many people couldn’t hear how great he was and think “I’ll pick up one of his albums”.

hey…[Read more]

@Arbutus – bass sax = endlessgood

;¬)

So – choons to console? Or just choons to say “isearchedmyituneswiththeword”end”,”europe”etc ?

Like you care?

So here is some stuff (can you tell I’m still bruised?)

A song to say the affair is over?

and something uplifting that I found when looking for “end”…[Read more]

Hi @Lisa – apologies for late reply (well, its 1am for me!).

A really good question on your part.
We probably do put in more than we take out. That’s kind of the slightly-Socialist sensibility that the EU is set up for (ie the strong look after the weak when necessary).
That’s massively simplistic on my part, and I’m sure I’ve said it clumsily.…[Read more]

Well, I was going to sit on the sidelines, and am aware that many people here are not actually in the UK!

But, but…. but.

I’m sick of the lies (in this referendum of whether the UK should leave the European Union).
Both sides.
But the most craven, dirty, and self-serving lies and manipulations are from Farage and Johnson.

Fuck them.

I…[Read more]

hmmmm….. @thedentistofdavros and @blenkinsopthebrave

For some reason this collection of companions makes me think of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Maybe a spinoff show with a number of ex-Companions who team up and…. fight crime solve mysteries?

So, we’re having a referendum in the UK.
Lots of lies/ disinformation from both sides, but a massively important vote (In or Out of the European Union?).

As with a referendum that was discussed before on these threads, all I’ll say is that your vote counts.

In terms of ‘counting songs’, I thought I’d be oh-so-clever and link to this [strokes…[Read more]

Oh no – @thedentistofdavros and @everyoneelse

I really know very little about music. I’d honestly love it if I did.
And though I could sorely do with my ego being stroked, I’d truly hate it if people didn’t post to the music thread because they thought of it as the muso thread.

so, as an admission of “I know nuffin…..”

{cough}

I’m the…[Read more]

Well, this is for whether you think “can I learn anything from a different interpretation?”.

oh, and as this popped up on my shuffle earlier today (causing volume uppage)… though I’m sure I’ve linked before

@blenkinsopthebrave hmmm … I kinda know what you mean, but what my initial reaction was:

ah, so Dan Starkey is no longer the recurring comic character.

Weirdly(?) in my mind, I’ve had this daft feeling that Moffat resented that Starkey (brilliantly) made the Sontarans a figure of fun. To the extent that the Ice Monsters needed to be…[Read more]

hmmm…….
Now, either everyone’s awfully polite, or everyone’s awfully fond of Arvo Part.

Or…. no one reads my posts.

OR….. its all three.

Which is fair enough (and I probably fall into the ‘all three’ category myself).
However, here’s the link I meant to use [ahem-damnthatcutnpaste-cough]

Well, for absolutely no Dr Who-related reason, here are 2 things people may want to listen to.

Here is a gorgeous piece by Arvo Part:

And I think it was @Arbutus who mentioned that she’d nt heard Penguin Cafe Orchestra, so here’s a kind of ‘Best of’ album. Its them playing live, so when if you want…[Read more]

Hi @puroandson – well, as we seem to be linking to punk anyway……

;¬)

@son you mentioned the Stooges (great song!!)

here’s an old goody

John Peel’s favourite song

and another great urgent song from 1978

and at least you now have a right-hand YouTube sidebar to explore!

And is this Punk? or…[Read more]

Hi @Puroandson – ah, so you hadn’t heard the Beastie Boys.

Well – that track is probably an odd place to start, but there you go!

I find them an interesting band in that when I first heard them I hated them (they seemed obnoxious brats) but their style changed and it grew on me.

In terms of Punk, I’m certainly no expert so others here may feel…[Read more]

now – someone else I should have mentioned as soon as I saw his post(s).

@puroandson – &son I completely and utterly agree with you.

From what you’ve posted on this forum I think you’re a good bloke.

Here’s a song that appeared on my walkman while it shuffled (don’t they all now – or has everyone reverted to listening to full albums – filler…[Read more]

and so a belated birthday to you @Arbutus.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to yooou
Happy birthday deeearr Arrrrrrbuttuuuuuuuuussssssss
Happy birth-day to yoooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Now, there is no single piece of music that’s perfect for you, so a couple of random ones connected by the joy of “Life”
Yep – you guessed…[Read more]

I soooooooooo owe Arbutus a birthday choon.

But first a choon that I was going to post at some stage but @madman1nabox made me think – “I really should do this for his bonkers theory”.