Having owned the book for many years and wanting to read it for even more, I finally finished reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. It’s not a long book but I’ve been reading it when I go to bed and that normally involved re-reading the same sentence 5 times before waking up [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Top 50 Classic Rock Bands Project #3: The Who – Who’s Next
July 27th, 2011
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The Who, much like The Beach Boys until a few years ago when I invested in the albums, are a band I know from their greatest hits. Songs like Substitute, I’m A Boy and My Generation were songs I knew well, but in spite of owning and rarely listening to Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B I don’t know many of their [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 25: A Song That Makes You Laugh
July 25th, 2011
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I’ve already posted a Weird Al Yankovic song so now I am going back to 1986 and a classic Spitting Image song which was the main reason I bought the Spit in Your Ear album. The sad thing is that 25 years later and I still know all the words. Hold a chicken in the air…
Photos of the Day – July 24th: 10 minutes in the garden
July 24th, 2011
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Just 10 minutes because I forgot to charge my camera – rookie mistake. I was inspired to get out in the garden because my friend Phil was tweeting about using the macro function on his camera for the first time. My bug radar went off and I leapt out into the afternoon sun to find [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 24 – A Song That You Want Played At Your Funeral
July 24th, 2011
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Nice morbid way to start they day. This is very clichéd for a Bon Jovi fan but there really is only one possible song for me. One of my favourite songs of all time and the perfect song for the occasion. My second choice would also be a Bon Jovi song and I’m going to cheat and post a second [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 23 – A Song That You Want To Play At Your Wedding
July 23rd, 2011
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Well my wedding was in December 2003 and I actually made a mix CD – no, I didn’t have an iPod at the time so a playlist was beyond my capabilities. I can remember quite a few of the songs on that CD but not all of them, and to save myself from having to [...]
Top 50 Classic Rock Bands Project #2: Pink Floyd – Wish You were Here
July 22nd, 2011
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Following on from yesterday’s review of Revolver comes the number 2 band in the list Pink Floyd, and their suggested essential album of Wish You Were Here. I’ve not heard much Pink Floyd in my time, but I do have a vague memory of listening to The Wall when I was at school, and it [...]
30 Day Song Challenge Day 22 – A Song That You Listen To When You’re Sad
July 21st, 2011
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I got a bit bored with this series so I stopped for a while, but now I’m back. The main reason I resurrected it was because I knew that the next song was one to play when I’m sad, and I discovered the perfect song only today. You can read all about my thoughts on [...]
Top 50 Classic Rock Bands Project #1: The Beatles – Revolver
July 21st, 2011
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With my music taste often stuck in the 80s to mid 90s, and rarely out of the hair rock genre, I decided it was time to expand my musical horizons and so searched Google for the best rock bands. One of the links took me to the About.com Top 50 Classic Rock Bands, which interestingly [...]
