tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64373273198964793132024-02-19T12:07:02.947+00:00The Wild-Eyed Boy From FreecloudThe inane ramblings of a man approaching middle-age (from the wrong direction)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-10569516781101130082018-02-02T21:43:00.001+00:002018-02-03T10:46:22.812+00:00Plastic Man 1 (1966)<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; min-height: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static !important; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static !important; vertical-align: baseline;">Plastic Man #1 (1966) was, for me, the best cover of the silver-age. Sure, I know that Plastic Man debuted in the '40s, and that Jack Cole was a fantastic artist. Sadly, for both Jack and myself, I wasn't around then and so missed the birth of this iconic superhero. However, when Gil Kane drew his version of the DC revived Plas, I was an eager young comic-devourer and I loved this comic. I loved Plas's attitude above all else - his cynicism appealed to me even at my pre-pubescent age. I loved the cover, I loved issue 1, and I loved issues 2 to 10. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-59950293172345705092016-08-23T13:33:00.000+01:002016-08-23T13:33:25.058+01:00Life is not a journey - it's for living - NOW!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20src=%22https://player.vimeo.com/video/176370337%22%20width=%22640%22%20height=%22360%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E%20%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com/176370337%22%3EAlan%20Watts%20-%20Why%20Your%20Life%20Is%20Not%20A%20Journey%3C/a%3E%20from%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com/davidlindberg%22%3EDavid%20Lindberg%3C/a%3E%20on%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://vimeo.com%22%3EVimeo%3C/a%3E.%3C/p%3E"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/176370337" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe> <a href="https://vimeo.com/176370337">Alan Watts - Why Your Life Is Not A Journey</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/davidlindberg">David Lindberg</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-71627831836137609302016-07-03T20:25:00.001+01:002016-07-03T20:25:19.434+01:00#Brexit - what the hell is going on?<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">If anyone out there doesn't understand what's going on in UK politics at the moment, here is a short and succinct resume:-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">"So. let me get this straight... the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave. so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they'd all done nothing to help them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Meanwhile. the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn't lose. did - but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who'd always thought he'd lead next. campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash - and he was. but it did. but he's not resigned. but. like the man who lost and the man who won. also now can't become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;">Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons. but her party's view of this view is the opposite of the opposition‘s. And the opposition aren't yet opposing anything because the leader isn't listening to his party. who aren't listening to the country. who aren't listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However. none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about. so there's not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. 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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The ship (cost £19 million) is being built at government expense and will go to Antarctica in 2019 to carry out scientific research. NERC asked the public to visit their website and choose, and vote for a name for the vessel.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Some names were eminently sensible. Many suggested The RRS Shackleton, after the great British explorer who almost made it to the South Pole in 1909. Some came up with RRS David Attenborough, the famous naturalist, who will be 90 this year while others suggested more esoteric names such as RRS Polar Dream.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px; line-height: 24px;">Doesn't this tell us something about the great British public? I think it tells us that no matter how many times authorities try to impose sensible authority on us, it usually backfires. The British public like nothing better than something to smile about, rather than something boring and grand. It fits in with our rather cynical attitude to authority in general. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I'm sorry, I left me card at home",<br />"Well, you're late as well. That's three times on the run. The supervisor says if you're late again, we've gotta put you on daily signing."<br />Followed by Holly's cry "Ha" - is it of anguish or anger?<br />This is the run-in to Frankie's version of Springsteen's "Born to Run" which in my humble opinion is better than the original.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />What on earth are you going on about, I hear you ask. Well, these are the opening lines to just one single track on the magnum opus that is "Welcome to the Pleasuredome." And a pleasuredome it is too - a roller coaster ride of magnificently produced gargantuan sound. Every track is an absolute pleasure to listen to - from the opening track with sounds of birds singing, to the ending with the narrator repeating "Frankie say, Frankie say, Frankie say...No more!" I love it - every goddamn minute of it. Take time out, grab some good headphones and listen to the whole sixty minutes with no interference from any extraneous noise - I guarantee you'll regard it as one of the best hours of your life.<br />This is, without doubt, the best album of the 80s - even better than Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love."<br />Just one gripe - I'm sure that on my original vinyl version, there was a track featuring a Prince Charles soundalike asking "Just what exactly is meant by orgasm?" That seems to be missing here - or did I only imagine it?<br />Listen - go buy this album now - I promise you won't be disappointed.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-32857547752753611112016-01-11T15:10:00.002+00:002016-01-11T15:10:58.839+00:00R.I.P. Mr David Bowie<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you're ever sad, just remember that the world is 4.5 billion years old, and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5455px;">Rest now.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5455px;"> Your amazing work is done.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5455px;">Thank you David. For everything.</span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-4511433196051828432015-07-27T10:30:00.000+01:002015-07-27T10:30:09.037+01:00Thirty Years Ago<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Thirty years ago, what albums were you listening to? I was listening to The Pogues third and finest album, "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash". It was named after the 19th century belief that the Royal Navy’s finest traditions consisted of “rum, sodomy, and the lash” (a quote often mis-attributed to Winston Churchill). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">The album was produced by Elvis Costello, and contained excellent tracks, like "Dirty old Town" and "A Pair of Brown Eyes". The absolute highlight for me though, was "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", a searing indictment of war. It details the futile loss of life and limb following the attempt to take the Gallipoli peninsula in the First World War. Every time I hear it, it brings tears to my eyes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well there we are. After nearly five months of politicians
electioneering, we finally have a result.<span>
</span>And what a result!<span>
</span>Unbelievable!<span> </span>I have to tell you
I slept badly on Wednesday night.<span> </span>At
that point it seemed very likely that we were going to have some form of Labour
minority government, loosely supported by the SNP.<span> </span>A left leaning party, being pulled to the
left by an even more left leaning party.<span>
</span>A party opposed to austerity, in fact not just opposed to austerity but
anti-austerity! It was a forthcoming nightmare! A spend, spend, spend Ed
Miliband, being encouraged to spend even more by Nicola Sturgeon.<span> </span>Jesus - we would be in debt until all my
grandkids had retired!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Luckily for all of us, common sense prevailed in the ballot
box and all those (secret and embarrassed) Tory voters voted for the party they
trusted the most to give us five years of economic growth, no increase in taxes
and a general improvement in their standard of living.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I stayed up on Thursday night, and, like most of us,
couldn't believe the exit poll that the BBC published at 10.01 pm.<span> </span>By 4pm it was apparent that the exit poll was
largely accurate, and, much as I wanted to see Paddy Ashdown eat his hat, I
retired to bed feeling happier, safer and more contented than I had the night
before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, anyway, what's all this about anti-austerity?<span> </span>I don't get it.<span> </span>I wracked my brains to remember anything,
just one little thing that pointed to any form of austerity in the past five
years, and I could only come up with one.<span>
</span>The streetlights on the motorway nearby have been turned off every night
at 11pm, instead of being left on all night. What a good idea!<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everything else is the same as it was five years ago. No, I
stand corrected - my library is now open 13 hours a day, every day, seven days
a week. It used to be open for 8 hours, 6 days a week. Progress!<span> </span>No austerity there. My bins are still emptied
on alternative weeks (landfill, week 1, recycling week 2).<span> </span>I'm sure I can cope with 5 more years of
austerity. As long as it means that we don't have to keep borrowing more and
more money and then spend a fortune in interest charges.<span> </span>I received a letter last year from HMRC,
telling me that one quarter of my tax payments had been used to pay the
interest on the national debt.<span> </span>I'm sure
that government could have put it to better use.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'll keep campaigning for cuts in our military/defence
spending (why is it we have to have nuclear weapons but that 180 countries,
including Spain and Italy don't have any?) but apart from that I'm relatively
happy. I realise Cameron has some formidable hurdles to overcome but he has my
full support.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-35504717016966667462015-01-28T18:09:00.001+00:002015-01-28T18:09:48.274+00:00Amazing Stories #1 Rasputin<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sit back and pin back your ears while I regale you with a story containing an amazing (nay stunning) coincidence.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Grigori <b>Rasputin</b>
was a Russian peasant, mystical faith healer and private adviser to the
Romanovs. He played a significant part in the increasing unpopularity
of the Tsar and Alexandra Feodorovna, his wife, and the downfall of the
Russian Monarchy. He was murdered by persons unknown on the 30th
December 1916 in the city of <b>Petrograd.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><br />62 years later, Boney
M, a German pop group had a number 1 hit record around the world with a
song called "Rasputin." The male lead singer, <b>Bobby Farrell</b> even
dressed as Rasputin whilst performing the record, and Bobby acted
the part of Rasputin, croaking out "Oh those Russians" at the end of the
song.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />32 years later Bobby Farrell died, at the tender age of 61. He
died on 30th December 2010, exactly 94 years to the day after Rasputin
died. And where did he die? Well he died in the ancient Russian city of
Saint Petersburg, which, back in 1916 had been known as - yes - you've
guessed it <b>Petrograd</b>. The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction...</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-31811774846022596762015-01-16T13:55:00.002+00:002015-01-16T13:57:01.772+00:00Reincarnation<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course, as we all know, reincarnation is complete and utter rubbish and not based on any peer-produced evidence whatsoever. However when I read the contents of this website, even I started to question my own disbelief. After all, this website has all the questions on reincarnation answered. Incredible!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since this is all on the interweb, it must be true!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you have a moment, take a read. It is the funniest thing I've read for quite a while!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So,
forty years ago this year. 1975. Prog Rock was almost coming to an
end, well kind of. All the big groups had released their "ultimate"
albums. Jethro Tull - Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. King Crimson and
"In The Court of the Crimson King". Yes and "Close to the Edge". ELP
had released "Tarkus". Hawkwind had given us "In Search of Space".
Genesis had issued "Selling England by the Pound." Wishbone Ash had
released "There's The Rub." We'd played the beautiful "Dark Side of the
Moon" to death and marvelled at Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". Was
there anything left? Could anyone top what we already had?<br /><br />We
could not have guessed at the beautiful, gorgeous monster of an album
that was waiting for us just around the corner. On 12th September 1975,
Pink Floyd released <b>"WISH YOU WERE HERE"</b> and suddenly our lives were complete. We could want for nothing more. Surely this was the ultimate prog rock album ever!</span></span></div>
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everything that a prog rock fan could possibly want was here - here in
this monster of an album!</span></span></div>
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We are halfway through the decade already. And still no-one has
tackled the big issue, the burning question - what are we going to call
the decade? It doesn't have a name yet and it's halfway through its
life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was born in the 50s. My favourite music of all time comes
from the 70s. My two children were born in the 80s. I just feel so
sorry for young people currently enjoying this decade - they will have
no way to refer back to it in decades to come! Come on everyone -
please put your thinking caps on! Let's have a name for this decade!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-75171052468936279602014-07-11T14:48:00.003+01:002014-07-11T14:48:30.124+01:00Commonwealth Games - Why?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, what I don't get is this. The Commonwealth Games start this month in Glasgow. According to Stephen Fry, of the 42 countries that have anti-homosexual laws on their statute books, 21 of them are members of the Commonwealth. We (Britain) are supposed to be opposed to countries that have anti- homosexual laws on their statute books (Uganda and Kenya are examples). Yet we are not boycotting the Commonwealth Games. Why not? We should be! I personally am boycotting the Commonwealth Games and will not be watching any of it on TV. Can others join me in boycotting the Commonwealth Games, to show those countries that are opposed to homosexuality what we think of them?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-84168023614584269972014-06-25T09:53:00.001+01:002014-06-25T09:53:07.823+01:00Scottish Devolution<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scottish independence raises some really practical difficulties.<br />For example<br />I
listen to Radio 2 a lot, and every hour they give a traffic report.
These reports include things like - "The M74 is very busy this morning,
due to a crash at junction 2. Drivers should seek an alternative route
where possible."<br />If independence takes place, I don't think Radio 2
will be broadcasting information about Scottish motorways. After all,
they don't broadcast problems with Southern Ireland's motorways.
Therefore if Scottish folk are listening to Radio 2, they will have to
re-tune to another radio station to get traffic reports.<br />On "Steve
Wright's Sunday Love Songs" (on at 9am on Sundays, and a regular
listen-to in our household) they often play requests from Scottish
people, from Scottish towns. Again, I don't think they'll be doing this
if Scotland becomes independent. Therefore those Scottish people who
listen to this programme (and others like it - let's call them "British"
programmes) will no longer be able to get their requests read out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />More
importantly, I'm guessing that postage rates to Scotland from England
would go up, as Scotland would, in future be classed by the Royal Mail,
as "abroad". I sell a lot of stuff on ebay, and have to specify more
expensive postage rates for potential buyers living in Southern Ireland.
In future, I'll have to do the same for purchasers from Scotland. This
affects Scotland much more than it does England, simply because of
relative populations. Scottish buyers will be deterred from purchasing
things from English sellers, and English people will be deterred from
purchasing things from Scottish sellers. A lot of my sales currently go
to Scottish buyers. Also, I'm guessing that the cost of phone calls
between the two countries would go up.<br /><br />What will we call the BBC?
It stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, but if "Britain"
ceases to exist, it may have to find a new name.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Has anyone in Scotland considered these practical difficulties?</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-56777744827853905632014-05-29T14:45:00.000+01:002014-05-29T14:46:08.835+01:00Could June 1st 1967 be the most significant date in Rock history?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, as I’m sure you all know, “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band” was released on this date. No surprise there – probably the most
significant album release since the long playing record was invented.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But did you also know that “Piper At The Gates of Dawn” by
Pink Floyd was released on the same day? Also recorded at the Abbey Road
studios, and at the same time as Sgt Pepper was being recorded, it was the first
ever real incidence of proper, real progressive rock being issued by a
mainstream label (EMI). Even today,
“Piper” with its beautiful Syd Barrett lyrics and inspired introduction to
“Interstellar Overdrive” is a beautiful thing to listen to. Even today, I still hear new things, things
that I’d never heard before in the recording (digital rendition of the tracks
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But – on top of all that – and released on the very same day
on the Decca label, was David Bowie’s very first LP, entitled simply “David Bowie”. At first glance this had nothing to do with rock
music – Bowie’s first LP was a whimsical piece - Bowie himself sounding something
like a cross between Ray Davies and Anthony Newley. The tracks themselves were
little nursery rhyme like stories, sung with skill and panache, but containing
little of ‘rock’ emphasis that would be evidenced in later albums. However this first release – and the young
Bowie was only 20 years old on the album’s release date – was to be the
forerunner of, among other things, “The Man Who Sold The World” released three
years later and possibly one of the all-time great prog rock classics.</span></span></span></div>
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1967, for me, possibly the most important and influential day in rock history.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-18836709877859420362014-05-15T19:38:00.002+01:002014-05-15T19:38:44.248+01:00Why is David Cameron opposed to a 'yes' vote in the independence for Scotland vote?<br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The Tories currently have just 1 MP elected in Scotland. Labour have 41 MPs elected in Scotland, the LibDems have 11 MPs and the Scottish National Party, 6 MPs.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Scotland therefore currently sends 59 MPs to Westminster.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Therefore if Scotland ceased to be part of the United Kingdom, the number of MPs at Westminster would drop from 650, as it is currently, to 591. However the Tories would lose only 1 seat, as they have only 1 MP. Labour would lose 41 MPs. The Libs would lose 11 MPs.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">To win a majority in the new (excluding Scotland) House of Commons a party would only need to win 296 seats. The Conservatives currently have 303 seats in the Commons, so if they held on to these seats, they would win the next election. Labour currently have 255 seats in the House of Commons, but the loss of Scotland would mean that they only would have 214 seats. Therefore they would need to win 82 seats to win a majority (or is this only 41, as each seat they win, means a loss for the Tories). Therefore it would be much easier for the Tories to win the next election, if they didn't have Scotland as part of the picture. Therefore, why does Cameron not support Scottish devolution? Chances are, we'd have a Tory government forever, if Scotland disappeared from the scene.</span><br />
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eBay. I opened it at the time to sell a telephone system at work that
we no longer had any use for. Since then I have gone on to sell
approximately 750 items, and purchase about 500 items. My feedback
currently stands at 1106. Therefore at least 150 people haven't
bothered to leave feedback! I always leave feedback but have only ever
left negative feedback 4 times. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most expensive item I've ever sold
on eBay was my car in 2011 which I sold for £1500, and the most
expensive thing I've ever bought on eBay was my Nexus 7 (32gb) which I
paid £180 for. I always prefer to buy things on ebay rather than Amazon
if at all possible, because a) Amazon pays very little tax in the UK,
and b) it is possible to find better bargains on Ebay than Amazon. Oh,
and c) you get nectar points with every pound spent on eBay.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />I look forward to the next ten years on eBay!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />What about you - do you use ebay for either buying or selling?</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-3458621275574611802013-10-21T14:24:00.001+01:002013-10-21T14:24:15.397+01:00Pink Floyd - Please stop ripping us off!
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so - to the
latest music news - Pink Floyd (or possibly their label EMI) have just released
3 boxed sets of albums - yes that's right THREE BOXED SETS. Boxed set 1 -
Discovery, Boxed set 2 - Experience and box set 3 - Immersion. Each of these boxed
sets is designed for a different type of Pink Floyd fan, and each boxed set
retails for around £140. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yes, £140!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now I am a massive
Pink Floyd fan and have bought all of their albums, from Piper at the Gates of
Dawn to the Division Bell, many of them in two formats (Vinyl and CD) and I'm
sure there are many new and interesting variants of their tracks amongst these
new boxed sets. However I won't be buying them. You see not so long
ago (2006), Pink Floyd launched Pulse, a boxed set, said at the time to be the
definitive Pink Floyd boxed set.<span> </span>In
2000 they launched Is There Anybody Out There" a definitive live boxed set
collection. How many more ways can they come up with ways to fleece their
fans?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Their classic 1973
album "Dark Side of The Moon" contained a track called
"Money" which kind of encouraged you to believe that there was much
more to life than money and that greed and avarice were bad things, not good
ones. In 1975, their other classic album "Wish you Were Here"
contained a track entitled "Welcome To The Machine", a track
that explained to listeners what happened when bands were sucked in and sucked
dry by the music publishing industry. So, Pink Floyd - if you get chance,
as you count the ever increasing royalties that drop in through your
letterboxes (surely each of you has enough money by now!), contemplate the
lyrics to your past hits and </span></span></div>
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RIPPING OFF YOUR FANS!!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-36028499074815143512013-09-23T16:12:00.004+01:002013-09-23T16:12:43.897+01:00BOTTLED WATER<div class="rA0qsb xZbqqd">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, if you're looking to save money, I have a handy tip for you. Pin back those ears and listen carefully. Ok <b>Don't buy bottled water!</b> Is that clear enough? Let me explain why. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a recent test carried out by the BBC on New Street railway station in Birmingham, England, researchers asked 100 people to drink two different bottles of water and say which they thought was best. The people didn't know which was bottled water and which was ordinary tap water. Out of the 100 people - 89 - yes <b>89</b> chose tap water as the better tasting of the two waters.<br />On average, tap water costs 0.1 pence per litre (thats less than 1 cent per gallon for you Americans out there). Bottled water costs around 50 pence per litre! Thats 500 times as much! And it don't taste so nice! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13099532979750331629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437327319896479313.post-92013915701856639802013-08-02T17:25:00.000+01:002013-08-02T17:29:45.313+01:00 So - what do we call the decade?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the 1970s it was easy. We just called the decade the 70's.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The same principle worked pretty well for the 80's and 90's too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">But when the new millennium dawned we were all presented with a big problem - what to call the decade?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
always called that decade the oh-ohs, although the press seemed to go
for the expression "the noughties" which I always thought was awful! I
mean - The Noughties - it just sounds too much like "the naughties" -
horrible! Anyway, that isn't my problem - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
started off by calling it the Tens - but that just sounds terrible! A
friend on another website suggested that we call it "the Teenage Years"
but that doesn't work either. That would mean we were ignoring the years
2010, 2011 and 2012, and we can't do that! So - does anyone have any
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to make a terrible decision yesterday. I'm tidying out our loft in
readiness for our forthcoming house move and it's a mammoth task! There
is stuff in our loft that went up there the day we moved here in 1985
and has not come down since!<br /><br />Anyway, I was going through stuff up
there yesterday when I came across all of my cassette tapes, all stored
in cassette briefcases for ease of transporting them to my car. There
must have been around 250 of them, nearly all recorded by me. Looking
through them, it was like a trip down memory lane - I could remember
recording a lot of them, and I had written the date that I'd made the
the recording on the cassette wrapper. Some albums were taped in 1977!<br /><br />I
could remember putting my cassette collection in the loft - it was just
after I'd bought my first CD multi change player and had it installed
in my car. That meant I could then take 6 CDs with me on any car journey
and not have to move to change the CD. So the cassette collection was
consigned to the loft. All 250 cassettes; each one had been
painstakenly recorded and re-recorded until I was satisfied with the
quality.<br /><br />After a long long internal debate, I threw all of them
into the dustbin - after all I no longer have a cassette player - with
the exception of four. These 4 were all taped from radio shows, one was
Alan Freeman from his Saturday afternoon rock show from the late 70s,
two were tapes of the Jonathan Ross show from the 90's and one was "Home
Truths", a fantastic radio programme that the fantastic late, great
John Peel used to present every Saturday morning on Radio 4, until his
untimely death in 2005. I'm going to get the contents of these 4
cassettes transferred to MP3 so that I can save them forever. The rest
of my beautiful, painstakenly built-up cassette collection - some 400
albums - is now in the dustbin! I am moved to tears - but as someone
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, I am flabbergasted!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As you probably know I’m an avid collector of lists, and the lists that
I collect more than any other are lists of the top 100 albums of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first list I ever acquired covering this,
was in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NME dated February 1974, and
ever since then I’ve had a fascination with lists covering this subject. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have about 25 different lists of top 100
albums, from such diverse origins as NME, Melody Maker, Q Magazine, Radio 1,
Channel 4 and latterly Radio 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On top
of this I have a number of published books which list the top 1000 albums of
all time. I definitely regard myself as something of an expert when it comes to
these type of lists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are certain
things that always manifest themselves in these lists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firstly the following artists are always in
the top 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Led
Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (plus generally The
Beach Boys “Pet Sounds”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the
Stone Roses and Oasis would also occupy one of the top 20 positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Rumours” would always be in the top 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The Sex Pistols would generally have a place in the top 20. </span>This is true of all the lists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally there are aberrations, which are
only to be expected in lists of this type, as younger voters tend to be
influenced by so-so albums that were released only a year or two before the
list was published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, for example, in
Q’s top 100 album list issued in January 2003, as well as all the usual
suspects in the top 20, we have, bizarrely Radiohead’s “OK Computer” in at
number 2. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A strange choice but there
only because it had been released only 5 years earlier and was still popular with
the youngsters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course by the time
the next list was published (Channel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4,
2006) it was nowhere to be seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were many things that remained a constant throughout all of these lists.
Firstly they were always “rock oriented” that is to say that rock albums
dominated the top 100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would be the
occasional soul albums (Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Al Green) and the occasional
reggae album (Bob Marley) and a sprinkling of pop (Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Jackson) but generally the list would
be composed of rock albums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly “the
Greats” would always dominate the prime positions ( currently in front of me I
have Colin Larkin’s list, published in 2000, in which, of the top ten albums, five
slots were occupied by the Beatles.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, I know my top 100. I know what to expect in the top
100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know what not to expect in the top
100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this brings me to Easter
Monday, when Radio 2 played a new Top 100, as voted by 100,000 R2 listeners voting
online in February 2013. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This list
contained a few rules – unusual for a top 100 list. One rule was that no artist
could be featured more than once – a strange rule, as this meant that, say if
10,000 people had voted for “Dark Side of The Moon” and 9,000 people voted for “The
Wall” that the 9,000 votes would be totally discounted, which seemed rather
harsh to me. It also meant that no group or artist could dominate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>any section of the top 100. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another rule was that no compilation or soundtrack
or “best of” album would qualify for a position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fair enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well I started listening at around 7.30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tracks from the top 100 were being played in descending
order<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every 15 minutes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was obvious by around 9.30am that this
was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>going to be like no other list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At around 11.30 am they played “China Girl”
from David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This meant that David Bowie was at number 61!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Impossible! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firstly, everyone knows that David’s two
greatest albums are “Hunky Dory” and “Ziggy Stardust” so how could “Let’s Dance”
possibly make it to the chart? Secondly what the hell was the most significant
pop star of the 20<sup>th</sup> century doing at number 61!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strange, weird things continued to be
revealed during the afternoon, and it was with a quiet sense of foreboding that
I downloaded the full list from the Radio 2 webpage on Tuesday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy Shit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What kind of a top 100 was this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coldplay’s “A Rush of Blood To The Head” was at number
one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never before seen in any top 10!
Ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keane (who the fuck are Keane?) were at number two with “Hopes
& Fears”! Never heard of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Duran Duran were at number 3 with “Rio”! Well I have Rio and
it’s not a bad album, but never before had I ever seen it feature in any top 10.</span></div>
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Dido’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No Angel” was at no 5!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Stones were at 6 and the Beatles were at 8, but
nevertheless this was the weirdest top 100 chart I had ever seen in my whole life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shania Twain was in it! Yes, you heard me
right - Shania Twain!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kylie Minogue was
in it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine that – Kylie Minogue
in a top 100 album list! Incredible! Chic were in the list. Chic! I would rather
die than listen to a Chic album.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was then that it dawned on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had lost touch. I had lost touch with the music
that younger people are listening to. I’d imagined that the typical Radio 2
listener was like me – 54 and a dyed-in-the-wool rock aficionado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But looking at this list I can see that this
isn’t the case. The average R2 listener must be between 35 and 40 and listening
to piles of shit! James Blunt was in this chart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who the hell is James Blunt?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sade was in this chart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So that’s it. Collecting of top 100 album lists is over for
me. When I don’t know, or don’t even want to know half of the artists who are
featured in the list, then it’s not really a list for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My eyes have been opened. I have become “old”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit!</span></div>
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