Dive into the archives.
- Music from the “See how it feels” BMW ad
I’ve finally found the BMW ad music on sale in iTunes
- Holiday music horror
Damn near disgraced m’self when I read James Likeks’ description of this version of Good King Wenceslas as being…
“notable for the strings, which sound like a holiday-on-ice production of ‘Psycho.’”
Just click on the link and listen - you’ll need to scroll a little for the music player. As Lileks says, “you’ll know what I mean”.
- London calling
Iskra42 appears to be one of the biggest Guardian Unlimited podcast fans on Last.fm. But I was entertained by the site’s dim view of our musical compatibility, as shown in the Taste-o-meter, right.
With just our podcasts and The Clash to talk about, we’d be able to pass a few minutes at least.
- Why is Phil Collins so unpopular?
Watching VH1’s Guess The Year Night, two questions troubled me.
First, as the name suggests, the evening was supposed to follow the well-tried format of: listen to a song, argue a bit about the year it was released, find out at the end. Except our friends at VH1, purveyors of pop videos to those Not Quite [...]
- Guilty pleasures
Alexis Petridis has a fascinating piece in the G on the resurgence of soft rock, and the re-emergence of “its fluffy-haired fans”.
“Two weeks ago, club night Guilty Pleasures - founded on DJ Sean Rowley’s previously verboten love for David Essex and the Doobie Brothers, Christopher Cross and the Captain and Tenille - pulled 1,600 people [...]
- The Victoria line is funked
Dorian Lynskey’s attempt to chart the branches of 100 years of music using the underground map is an act of twisted, random genius.
Madly ambitious, and with an explanation promptly stuck on our Culture Vulture blog, the arguments about what should have been included and what not, and how it all interlinks, could well take [...]
- Making music
Interesting piece on the production of pop music in yesterday’s G, built around the imminent arrival of another album from the long-serving queen of huge pop production, Kate Bush. The piece was written by British composer Michael Berkeley, who’s better known for his classical work. But he helped out on Bush’s mid-80s Hounds of Love [...]
- My song for Europe
In the spirit of tonight’s inspirational Eurovision Song Contest, which m’colleague Anna Pickard is live-blogging over at Newsblog in very entertaining fashion, I’ve decided to do the lyrics for next year’s United Kingdom entry - based entirely on lines recited tonight in Kiev, and a piece of spam I got during the show. See if [...]
- A glimpse into the darker recesses of my listening habits
Doing an online tax return, so need something to calm the nerves. So… er… Smoothjazz.com is on… and it plays Chris Botti’s smooth jazz cover of Sade’s No Ordinary Love. Now that really is smooooth. To the last micron.
- Introducing… Sara Bareilles
Time, I thought, to rescue the music category from the horrors of 80s kitsch, and post a brighter picture of groovy London life than the last post, by mentioning that Complete & Mrs Tosh made it down to the Brixton Academy (now sponsored by: Bevvy) for those polite LA rockers, Maroon 5 the other night.
The [...]
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