@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]

@purofilion – I don’t think Clara has any dark intentions per se, not at least where I think Moffat is piloting the plot towards.

@Whisht – 

If this is anything to go by, I expect a Beatles-themed ep soon. 😛

@purofilion     Great Scala performance, I love to see a good choir take on rock and make it in their own image. And like you and @Whisht, I quite like Abba. Never owned anything of theirs, but they were so omnipresent in my youth that I can sing loads of their songs.

And I’m sure we could have something a little earthy from Hilliard, esp…[Read more]

@Whisht Yes, I liked the Tolkein and WW1 one. I agree that there are indeed Accessibility concerns when you have either lots and lots of bright white, or are trying to read text on top of a photo.

[I recently got asked to give feedback on the Graun’s beta site. I said its acres of bright white made it bloody awful to read, that I invariably…[Read more]

@craig

I think in context, “I’m a bit meh” should be considered a ringing endorsement. 😉

We rejoin the story at the introduction of, what I’m obliged to @whisht last week for describing as the Frank Spencer cliffhanger. As the Arctic Monkeys once sang – “And I’m so tense, never tenser. Could all go a bit Frank Spencer.”

Happily, or perhaps…[Read more]

@Whisht    That hilarious track took me straight back to childhood, when my sister and I used to listen to “Greenland Whale Fisheries” on a children’s album by the Weavers. We used to sing “Where there’s ice and snow and the jelly fishes blow” with great hilarity.

I love Billy Bragg. That’s all.

@purofilion   $1000? A season?? Seri…[Read more]

Yes, @purofilion, I would say the same. We listen mostly to our personal collection, with smaller forays into radio. We used to listen much more to the radio before CBC2 (Canada’s version of BBC3) was Dalekized into a shadow of its former self. @Whisht, I would imagine that for the purposes of these stats, talk radio doesn’t count, as the graphic…[Read more]

@Whisht – “Is there a vacancy in the TARDIS?” would be mine – though, given the death rate of people who want to travel with the Doctor, “Should I notify my next-of-kin?” might be the subtext. 😉

@Whisht – the real Doctor? Or Peter Capaldi?

Congratulations, @FatManInABox! How about a noxious weed (rather than the annoying but innocent clover, which is a weed to my lawn but friendly to the bees!). This great old track by The Coasters contains one of the great rhymes in pop music: “You’re gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion.” (Although I did like the Blur song, never heard them…[Read more]

And @Whisht, I didn’t mean that there were lots of choices for Clara, but lots of versions of “The Impossible Dream”!

Yes, that Stevie Wonder cover feels very much of its time to me. Ben E. King, Sam Cooke, and some of Stevie Wonder’s other songs of the period have that same melodious gospel/soul sound. I don’t remember when I would have been…[Read more]

@Whisht   Okay, you have challenged me to look for something that I hadn’t thought of in a very long time. It didn’t even occur to me to post this version of the Dylan song, as the band is so obscure they don’t even have a stub on Wikipedia. I could have dropped in shock to find that someone has actually put this up on YouTube, as I don’t even o…[Read more]