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y’know, I’m just putting it out there but…

Orphan Black is relentless.

In a way, though I’m thoroughly enjoying its schlocky charms, I hope it doesn’t go to 3 series.

Its a bit like being nervous of Utopia’s second series. Utopia’s pacing at least (in memory) had some quiet and beautiful moments; Orphan Black just has “agh!” moments following “No!” moments and “erm, so who’s that… argh!!!” moments.

ie mainly “argh!”. Which, though I love I’m sure no show can maintain.

However, not a complaint, merely reverie after watching another guilty-pleasure-episode!

🙂

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mind you that’s a lovely photo of Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant.

They look really well.

and so does Colin.

[sigh. The gag reared its ugly head and… I’m weak. will get my coat]

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hmmmm @blenkinsopthebrave – curious.

Either the graffiti of a wag on IMDB or perhaps Nexus is a relative of Grand Moff Tarkin (played of course by Peter Cushing)?

I mean, “Grand Moff” – there just seem to be too many connections for it to be coincidence….

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hm. a bit Lachrymose. ok the next two you may have to give a bit of space/volume to.

From the same Durutti album as the above is this stellar quiet track:

And here is its angrybastard brother. Born decades before but somehow of the same regret-for-death.

same same but different

ok, happier stuff from now on…

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I’ll admit I don’t know the history of this cover track very well (and I’ve googled a bit) but here’s a track (itself a cover version) from a film, that was used with overlaid guitar on an album by The Durutti Column – where both the film and Durutti version make me cry (no pun).

and give yourself a minute or so to listen to the version from the film

Other tracks on said album also make me cry. Honestly, I can’t listen to this track about losing a mother without welling up. As I should.

This, more dramatic from the same album is also brilliant but being more ‘dramatic’ merely makes me maudlin rather than instantly cry.

Apologies if this instills same tears in you that it does in me, but they’re good tears.

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I don’t think I’ve said anything here, so as a quick aside that I’ll no doubt refute, I’d like drier stories. I love the colourful throw-it-all-at-the-wall stories, but the drier stories allow for that floridity in one-off shows (I know “floridity”‘s not a word).

And by drier I mean… erm…. stuff less florid…. like… erm… Ghost, Crimson Tide, erm… ‘self-contained’ stories where being Doctor Who and the ability to time-travel isn’t foremost – though also it isn’t just a detective story transposed into a Dr Who script.

hm, thinking of it I guess that’s the territory Gatiss explores a bit.

ok, i’ll give up now and stick to the music.

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i’m liking this, and agree with all the above (hence not commenting!).

However the taking of the Brig’s jeep and his “oh, Doctor” eyebrow kinda makes him look dumb. I’d say ’emasculated’ but, though somewhat true, there are other inferences that word brings up that aren’t true.

anyway, enjoying this especially as I don’t remember it (as I was about 1)!

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ah @Purofilion – he he, yes Buffalo Tom. I have an affection for them due to seeing them when they played support for The Wedding Present (Leeds Poly ’92?). I’d not heard of them and we wandered in from the bar to see who was supporting and they were terrific.
Then the Weddoes came on to this causing everyone to laugh and bounce and they then launched into this. They were incredible! Probably the best gig I’ve ever been to – very sweaty!

And agree – The Doors are loved for their impact methinks rather than the quality of all the songs. Some are good but many are a bit pony.

anyway, as a bit of balance to the boy-rawk I promised a list of 4 romantic songs by wimmin with the same title.

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ok, ok, more legs than I thought (and thankfully no one’s said “I’ve got twenty links to different songs called the Power of Love – all of which are crap”).

So, instead of tracks that sound nothing like each other, here’s some similarly powerful guitary tracks all called Fortune Teller.

hm, next will be… one title – 4 romantic songs by wimmin as a bit of balance.

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@jimthefish – yes could be a bit of a cul de sac Moffat’s left for the team (‘the Doctor’s Going Home’) but I guess he’s just thinking (in a similar way to how Adama in BSG says) “they need some overarching focus/goal or we’ll just be aimless and we’ll lose momentum”.

Though in 3-4 seasons the frustration will be terrible and maybe fall apart as the goal is achieved… but that’s someone else’s problem in same way as he had the ‘regeneration limit’ to resolve. He was ‘running away’ and that was touched on/ignored over years and so might this ‘running back’.

Its occurred to me (I’m slow on the uptake) that (simplistically in an-exec-will-understand-it-this-way) BSG was “Wagon Train in space” and Blake’s Seven was “Robin Hood in space”.

Doctor Who is just… “Doctor Who – a madman in a box”.
There is no template other than the template that it creates itself.

anyway, can’t believe I’m about to finish the box set of BSG season 1 this week!

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@thekrynoidman – holy cow! Are you snooping on my hard drive??!??!!?!?

When we were linking to cover versions, I created a long list of songs which begins:

“btw how about “songs with the same name that aren’t covers”, like…”

I never posted it as I thought it a tad… tangential?

Faint heart and all that – thank you for the shot in the arm!

so, to begin such a this-list-is-only-gonna-be-me-adding-to-it list, (and because its you) how about this disparate group of takes on a single title:

(am not including either other versions of the one I linked by Little Richard or this beloved cover of Yazoo’s. As you said, just different songs with the same name).

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Hi @purofilion – he he, yes be all brown and covered in… hold on – does that mean I’m a fair maid with honey up in my hair??

erm…. moving swiftly (and baldly) on, yes only just come across Typology when looking for BoC videos. Interesting.

Don’t worry about me not knowing what word to use to describe the kin of torchsong/ballad singers next to pianos sing (which is where my head was going on hearing that version of This Town…

anyhoo, don’t bag your head (or put it in a box) (and I really should just go and get the boxset of GoT as I haven’t seen any yet – I know I know….. it took me 10 years to get Battlestar Galactica…)

🙂

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ah, cheers @jimthefish – deliberately didn’t ‘link’ to you in case it was someone else who’d been talking about it.

yep – it is great telly! and even better to know I’ve a coupla seasons yet before it wanes.

And though I’ve not thought of this before or for more than 10 seconds, its interesting that shows that have an overarching arc (eg “going home”) have to, well, get home eventually and then where do they go? Sometimes people leave prison… just shows how Who has outlived and changed adroitly between all sorts of decisions and desires from its writers and producers over the years, as fashions and tastes change.

(and as Peel said of the Fall “always different always the same”).

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and (perhaps thankfully) wildly swerving topic, but who was it that was talking about the Battlestar Galactica reboot? Blenkinsop? JimtheFish?

Not watched it before (yep – eejit! though old enough to have fondish memories of odd episodes of “Wagon Train in space” (though not Wagon Train itself mind)).
Anyway, got the boxset from my local charity-treated-like-a-paying-library (ie I return the stuff I buy).

Really really enjoying it! I’m pretty sure that people have said that the programme fizzles out in series [whatever], but this one has me hooked!

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This is sooo not the right track to play after Conchita!

However, I’ve been meaning to post this as we’ve been talking about Film Music and I’ve been listening to this album by Boards of Canada a lot (usually while reading).
They’re Scottish and they’ve got “Canada” in their name – I’m surprised this blog isn’t seeped in them.

Its not necessarily their best album, but its deliberately very filmic.
Although they could have elaborated on any of them, the tracks actually sound like the curated ‘single interesting track’ from the soundtrack albums of a bunch of different 80’s sci-fi movies.

If I might be so bold, I’d avoid watching the video and just having the music play in the background and wait for it to arrest you (or not). Other albums are a bit more dance-y and immediate (and well worth your ear-time!).

Anyway, music that isn’t in a film (yet) for our ‘music from films’ series:

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hmmmmm…… @phaseshift et al – Clarkson.

I get where you’re coming from, but I’ll admit that although I can hear that its a slightly overdone persona, I’ll admit I still see it as his persona, just a ‘bit more’. And I (choose to) loathe him/that persona.

Great examples of other caricatures (Al Murray, Alf Garnett, Stewart Lee) – the thing about those three is that each of them tends to come off worse in the show they’re in – they are punctured at the time and in context. I’ll admit to rarely seeing Top Gear so I don’t know if this happens with Clarkson, or if he’s merely let off with the co-hosts saying ‘oh Clarkson – you rotter’ with a sigh.

As for the actual clip in question (I thought it was used against his protestations?) – again I have zero sympathy with him as he was using it as a humorous ‘I’m so naughty’ line for choosing between two cars. It was a gag to get a laugh rather than make any ‘point’.
The other caricaturists were all saying outrageous stuff to make the point that ‘this way of thinking’ that they’re caricaturing is dumb.

But, hey ho. As I said, I’ve chosen to be offended by him and that’s an important aspect. And I think you’re braver than I for actually looking at the comments, as I can only imagine that they’re just a vortex of hate and stoopidity from all sides (including ones I haven’t thought of!)

Anyway, another w(h)ine methinks – that red is just staring at me!

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blimey – sorry, not been around much and lots to catch up on!

@phaseshift – well I must absolutely shake you by the metaphorical hand for some great tracks!
Aside from sharing the Siouxie track The Last Beat of My Heart – didn’t know of it so thank you – I also loved the great acoustic version of This Town Ain’t Big enough… which made me hear it as a ‘chanson’ (I know that’s the wrong word – someone may be able to read my mind and get the right song-type I’m thinking of!).

Also, I’ve known of Dead Can Dance for years, but always assumed they did something completely other than the track you linked!
Incredible – really lovely and made me think that Baraka might actually be worth watching! (I have a stoopid aversion to it as I think it might be trying to beautify poverty – which is similar to me keeping away from “favela drive-throughs” as well, but that’s my hang-ups and actually I probably should get over them…).
(btw at ~4.20 there’s a shot of a family on a moped and the nonchalant way that the mother sits and holds the baby while hurtling along a busy road, brings back fond-if-startling memories of my trip to Vietnam where this was a common sight).

@thekrynoidman – excellent clips-to-music for Shatner! laughed me head off at some of the choices!
and redd kross isn’t something I’ve come across so cheers – great ping-pong (stylistically etc) to @phaseshift ‘s Alice Cooper.

and @purofilion – if you’d not heard that version of Common People before, it means you didn’t listen to it when I posted it (but without the great video) – obviously I’m upset. Tears will fall (Silence is unlikely to fall unless I post some Cage).
However, you posted Tom Lehrer and… you’re forgiven 😉

And @fatmaninabox – Animal Kwackers!!???!!! and then Crystal Tips!!”?!
jeezus. Though its perhaps good to see where Noel Fielding is drawing his insipiration from.
Mind you, that 70’s tip has made my YT suggestions blow up (not had the Dubliners next to Potty Time before now).

@blenkinsopthebrave – actually it was only because you linked, but that’s the first time I’ve heard the Wurst track and you are absolutely right. If someone had said its the new Bond theme I’d have gone “yeah, bit like that other one that I can’t think of… [in fact the Garbage one! – well done pair of you!]
Basically tender close to mike vocals, strings and horns, then doom-doom-dum-dum-dum “words-that-are-the-title” sung gloriously ever louder. [puro and Arbutus and maybe others can give that drivel its proper musical names so others may know what the bloody hell I’m on about! 🙂 ]

Basically – Muse (but please don’t take that as an excuse to link to them!)

Now that I’ve caught up (a bit), what was it that I was going to post…?

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@thekrynoidman – ooh that is a bit eerie. Hope you enjoyed it.

I love The Long Good Friday.
Its one of the great gangster films (was gonna say “British gangster film” but that’s too limiting).

My hunch is most other actors would just have played the hard man, ratcheting up the terror, but somehow its Shand’s (Hoskin’s) loss of control and lack of comprehension and frustration that make it for me.

Though some may dislike the violence and genre, which is why I mentioned Mona Lisa, as for me its just one of the greatest films. Haven’t seen it in years but can still see and feel scenes from it.

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that’s interesting @blenkinsopthebrave – I can’t see Krynoid Man’s ACDC song.

But then again, I live in Hell.

[btw tip o’ the hat to @thekrynoidman ‘s avatar – nice touch]

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Not really sure where to post this.

But just sad that a great actor passed away today.

Bob Hoskins.

(click the image to hopefully find the correct version of a brilliant song from a brilliant film – if you’ve not seen the movie Mona Lisa, I urge you to).

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Inspired by @thekrynoidman and @fatmaninabox above, the brilliant Spark’s song that I’d not heard before (“No 1 Song in Heaven”) with its Moroder-esque synths, made me think of this.

Here’s something for all you lovers out there.

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah.

[well that seemed to embed… speaking of which, hope Puro doesn’t go to bed listening to this – she said she was getting feverish enough….]

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ooh – @purofilion not feeling well. Sorry to hear that – maybe this will help (a bit).

It’s something that hopefully is quite soothing (in an odd way), that is film music and a cover version (so tying up some loose threads above).

Its a cover of the blues song Dark was The Night, Cold was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson, but that version is not soothing at all – very mournful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9TB0b9XGp4

[weird – not sure why that’s not embedding – essentially its Paris Texas by Ry Cooder]

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and “Goth Square Dancing”?!??

What a wonderful idea!!

And made me think of this particular fave of a ditty

😉

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ooh – thanks for that @phaseshift – not heard that before and really like it!

I always loved Peek a Boo when I heard it as a single. Bizarre, awkward, driving rhythm, head-nodding/ foot stomping – brilliant!

Just why I never followed up on listening to more from them is a mystery to me… its a mystery, a mystery…

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and posting this for @infinityandbepond @phaseshift and anyone else that likes (my guilty pleasure) Orphan Black which is back on the BBC3 (oh, you’ll have seen all the ads on the BBC for it…).

According to the article Phase posted a link to she gets into Sarah’s character listening to this.

Hope you’re not on your way to bed.

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ah @thekrynoidman – love bit of Can (reckon there’ll be a quite a few here).

Was gonna post this for one of the Hallelujah covers for a bit of fun!

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@toinfinityandbepond – thankyou!!!!

I’d somehow missed the completely non-existent BBC trailers!!!

Why are they not previewing this show??!?

or is it normal to leave it to a week away (or, has this airing slipped?)

either way, thanks for the heads up!!

(am I sounding overexcited?)

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So, in the occasional series of “Music that makes you think of an episode of Who” ( @phaseshift – is this what you were crediting me for? If so my dumb, yes it was me and if so I feel an eejit!).

This also happens to coincide with some ‘spacey’ music recently – however it ain’t jazz, and it ain’t an excuse to listen to a very sultry voice.

[ahem]

And as I don’t speak Spanish I don’t know exactly what she’s singing about (I have the album so I think I get the context) but she does sing about a UFO landing.

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hey @Purofilion @janetteb – to be honest I’m with you both.

For me the paintings are there to be stared at rather than ‘got’ necessarily, and I usually react viscerally to stuff. And then I fall back on my chin-stroking/ pondering pseud habits!

btw I really shouldn’t have hit “Submit” on that post about cubism when I did – loads of typos/ errant sentences. And that was one splurge that needed a bit more care (Time is a bugger for me to express properly – when we were discussing Time and the vagueries of fixed points etc, I could never write clearly enough to express myself!).

ah well…

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@purofilion – lovely bit of Sun Ra from the poetess with the moestess.

btw ‘Sleeping Beauty’ on that album is one of my favourites of all Sun Ra as I can’t really get into the more [ahem] challenging stuff they did.

If its evening where you are then this may alleviate any nightmares from the Krynoid Man’s Cushing montage!

🙂

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For those of you needing a fix of Capaldi, here’s a video of him on the Guardian website (remember that? the ol’ mothership) talking about Surrealist art.
He didn’t write it (though his background is as a painter) but its short and slightly amusing.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2014/apr/23/peter-capaldi-surrealist-art-sex-video

To be honest, I’m not much of a fan of the Surrealists. I wish he’d done it on the Cubists.

Why?
[ahem, waiting for a call so gonna go off on one… this may not be strictly correct, but sod it its close enough for a Thursday]

Well, for the Cubists the question was “How do you represent 3 dimensions on a 2-dimensional plane?”.
Usually this meant using perspective, light and shadow etc to trick the eye into thinking its seeing a landscape or bowl of fruit.
However their genius (Picasso and Braque with maybe Eintstein’s influence?) was to realise that in life, 3 dimensions are only appreciated when the 4th dimension is experienced.
It was all about Time.

Experiencing Time allows one to to walk around an object and see it from different angles. Reality is not ‘flat’, but you only know that because you can move around and interact with objects ie Space-Time.

This conceptual breakthrough led to the ‘fractured’ paintings, where multiple planes/ angles are shown on in a single painting, to give a ‘sense’ of an experience of an object.
You the viewer are moving in Time around the violin and bowl of fruit.

3 dimensions represented on a 2 dimensional surface (a painting) by appreciating the 4th dimension – Time.

Now that would be interesting to hear Capaldi speaking about.

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I know @blenkinsopthebrave ,you and me both.

soufflés, eggs, stirring-for-8-mins… not sure what other territories are open for this one.

“Mary photobombs the Dalek invasion” is hardly funny.

Just shows how good @wolfweed‘s crazy captions are.

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its a fair point @jimthefish – I was wondering if it would be a good or terrible idea to suggest creating a Crazy Captions using that photo.

I mean, fun for us but would it be gutting if someone not on the forum used the same caption to win?

I mean, if “Are you Soufflé Girl?” won, would I shake my fist at the stars*?

(* for me, no, I can’t make it, but it’d be nice if I could donate it to someone here if it did win!)

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Hi @arbutus – you said:

“Oh, well, summer is coming.”

Hold on! We’ve only just had Easter so surely we haven’t skipped a season entirely have we?

[though would be fittingly timey wimey if we have 🙂 ]

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oh and for what is worth (which isn’t much), Nick Cave’s version of Stager Lee is based on a version of the lyrics by ‘Big Stick’ which was in an anthology of prison songs that he came across.

I still love his version, as I was so used to versions by Dr John, and Professor Longhair (can’t find the version I heard as a teenager on the album “Live on the Queen Mary”).

Anyway, that’s enough balancing of the angelic with the profane!

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btw – was looking for something else and came across this version of Hallelujah.

Now I’ll admit, constant playing of Buckley’s version left me sick of the song and other versions just reminded me they weren’t his version (Shrek!).

So, happened to look at the wikipedia entry on it and saw this quote:

Cohen’s partner, singer Anjani Thomas, said: “After hearing K.D. Lang perform that song at the Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2006 we looked at each other and said, ‘well, I think we can lay that song to rest now! It’s really been done to its ultimate blissful state of perfection’.”

So, a pretty definitive version? Ok, so I’ve just listened to Buckley’s for first time in years and now kd Lang’s at this awards show and….

jeezus – you gotta hear this version. Its rather incredible. She isn’t so much as singing as telling.

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@thekrynoidman and @blenkinsopthebrave – In terms of The Thing score, had a very quick look at wikipedia and all music guide and it does seem that its a score with a lot of Carpenter’s influence. In fact Morricone may well have re-scored it as well after Carpenter asked for changes.

I’m not sure but it seems that John Carpenter did compose the Theme, but that Morricone composed other elements.
And though i like Carpenter’s music, for me the Theme KrynoidMan linked to almost goes over the top into Hammer-horror organ (I’m half expecting a Vincent Price “hahahahahah!!!” at the end!).

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wow – Watched this over weekend and finished now.

I don’t really know the background to this episode, so am intrigued if this was a ‘big budget’ episode in its time. It seems it from the use of hovercraft and helicopters and what sounded like a large orchestra (though I know they were creative with how they doubled instruments!).

Overall it felt more similar to what I imagine the Avengers felt like and I loved EotW for not being the ‘usual’ rubbery monster, or cardboard robot. Humans are monstrous enough and the varying shades of these are shown all too clearly (Benik especially creepy in ep 6).
There’s a solid scifi story, and a theme of the depths people will go to acquire and maintain power is well handled imho.

Also (although it got wearying when watching back-to-back, but would have been merely reinforcingly repetitive over 6 weeks), the need to have evidence, to not just believe something because someone’s told you it – not a bad message for kids (and adults) to take away.

As for Troughton – I never saw him at the time (not born!) and have only seen a couple of serials before this one. I’ll admit I do find him annoying in the ‘childish’ moments as well as the “not now Jamie” flustering and just wish he’d toned these down. When he’s being intelligent or conniving he’s very very good. However, as I say, I’m speaking with a very specific context.

Must say though, each time his face looms out of the opening credits I jump (is it just me who finds this really creepy?!?!?).

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he he – just found the Live version that I saw in Brixton of that mother****ing song that potty-mouthed @fatmaninabox mentioned earlier.

Honestly, Stagger Lee is the hardest man in music (he’d make Mack the Knife fall to his knees!)

don’t have nightmares!

n’night

😉

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ah @fatmaninabox – that Stagger Lee – I love it.

I could almost do an entire thread on Stagger Lee versions (someone should write a history on it as a song). Its a standard that must have hundreds of versions, but Nick’s is by far and away the most foul-mouthed and nasty and is imo brilliant!

He draws on the previous versions and spits them out.

The first time I heard his version was live. He started singing it and I slowly recognised the story and thought “ooh this is Stagger Lee” and then he starts talking to the barkeep….

😉

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Hi @purofilion – its funny. I was trying to post a long list of wildly varied stuff that Morricone has done over the years. However, I’m limited to just a few of his vast library that Ive actually heard.

And each seems to use plenty of bass, romantically sweeping violins and a pure noted melody either on voice or instrument like pan pipes or oboe of course!
Though this I always found sickly (and like hooked-on-classics!)

So much for variety(!),but I still think his stuff is incredible.

I guess this is one of his most famous and has oboe, voice and sweeping brass and strings!

Ignore the awful visuals – its just the best sound quality I could find!

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@wolfweed – wow. brilliant! Deep bow.
(had to double check that was “Little Roy” and not “Deep Roy”).
Awesome.
Dub always helps a cover version.

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@arbutus – Camille’s version of The Ship Song – I really like what she did with other songs, but gotta say I prefer Nick Cave’s own version.

Possibly this is because I heard him sing far ‘harder’/ nastier songs first (eg Black Betty or this Beefheart/punk ditty).
So Ship Song and other tender love songs he does (like the wonderful Into My Arms) are such a beautiful contrast.

So, always good to hear another version and maybe my view is tainted by how I hear him sing it, but I always get the sound of someone who’s tired of being ‘tough’ and just needs to sing about his love.
Anyway – thanks, I for one hadn’t listened to any Cave for a while now!

And kd lang singing at the olympics. YEp, she sings this like she’s had experience of saying “Hallelujah” at erm… intimate moments, whereas Buckley’s beautiful version is more the choirboy(!)

And never heard that Rod Stewart version! Makes me realise how good a version Elton did!
Well, bit unfair as Rod can certainly roar out, but the orchestration’s odd timing doesn’t help him! But what a great incentive to re-listen to Elton’s version and realise its a lot funkier than the Who’s ‘normal’ version!
So some great prods to waste some time on YT!!
🙂

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wow @arbutus – the same Langley! Could it be the same music teacher (Hans Fenger)?? He’d be in his mid sixties I’d guess…

If not whoever arranged the clip you posted has a similar knack of getting a great sound from a group of variably gifted kids.

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@faegrl – Cash’s Hurt and Buckley’s Halleluah – well, that’s two of the best “interpretations that were better than the originals” from the last few years!

@thekrynoidman – absolutely brilliant film music!

Lalo Schirin – Hadn’t heard this (outside watching the film) before – the other-worldly singing and eerie screeching emoting the madness of Scorpio.
Another theme that tackled a disturbed mind, seeming to conjure the insomniac tiredness, Romantic sensibility, yet beneath it all an unstable violent threat. Gotta love Bernard Hermann.

On a lighter note, in a more classic “Romantic” vein, this music is great in its own right, but as a score to these visuals its awesome.
I just love the interplay between the majestic, beautiful operatic music with a beautiful rose of a woman and a gritty, broken, dirty town*.

* I read that the music had been recorded prior to filming and was played aloud as Claudia Cardinale walked across the set, so that actors and crew could match the sweep of the music to the camera.

sigh, Once Upon a Time in America and Once Upon a Time in The West are just so good. In fact I may just watch …in The West again later today.

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Soufflé recipe taken from the Dalek Cookbook:

Carefully prepare ramekins with lightly brushed butter and pinch of sugar.
Chill ramekins in fridge.
Separate egg whites from yolks.
Stir for 8 mins
Kill everyone.

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@arbutus – that Langley Ukelele Orchestra is amazing! That’s a fantastic arrangement!

Is this the same Langley as the Langley School Music Project from years ago?
I remember hearing it and reading about the fantastic teacher that they had – incredible to have a teacher like that when you’re a kid!

here’s another Beach Boys one from it:

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ah – thanks for the Setting Sun @craig. I’d heard the track before but hadn’t heard Noel or the Tomorrow Never Knows rhythm.

I must admit, I’m shocked and surprised to hear Noel Gallagher using the influence of the Beatles.

😉

btw the Howard Goodall programme was excellent imo. And its still my fault that I don’t get fifths and quarters and octaves etc as I’m sure he made a great effort on this!

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wow – loads to get through since the First Wonder of the Thread, but just wanted to say a massive thanks to @faegrl for the tip on AdBlocker!

Downloaded it for Chrome and it seems I don’t even need to close Chrome down or reboot – already the ads seem to be gone!
In the past I’ve needed to see ads (I work in ‘digital’ which kinda includes marketing), so adblockers were always something I didn’t do (ie I wanted to see sites as most people see them).

However its such a transformation and ads in YT are so annoying that screw my professional needs!

;¬)

thanks again!

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Well I think @craig has now closed this thread, as what other choon could we now post?

certainly I can’t think of any tonight.

though, Tomorrow never knows*….

*and its least likely cover.

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