A little mid-week date night with Jen seeing Alyssa Bonagura at The Glad Cafe in Shawlands tonight. Jen’s love of country music is definitely growing on me.
Music
Playlists, records and soundtracks.
My wife is having a serious geek out moment with her new record player tonight. Dug these two classics out from the loft. Time to start collecting vinyl again!
On a Daft Punk musical bender this morning thanks to @birming.
Starting the morning with coffee and some trip-hop. Need the coffee after having spent most of the night listening to a neighbour’s car alarm continually going off, and well, who doesn’t like trip-hop?
Is it a thing now that in order to get concert tickets for a band you need to do a pre-sale sign-up?
Best of Squeeze (Live at the Fillmore). Cranking this one up.
Kurt Harden shares his essential mix for Christmas. Perfect background music while I finish work today and get the house into some order.
My turn to drop off the wee yin at school this morning. Can’t wait to see what tunes he picks for the car ride to school. His musical likes involve Coldplay, Bob Seger, Eminem, David Bowie and 10cc. Glad to see me and Jen’s preference for all music rubbing off on him.
I’m on board with Kurt on this one. Money spent on books and music is never wasted. Although I do admit that it’s been a while since I actually purchased music outside of a streaming service.
Kurt Harden gives us 40 albums that turn 40 this year. I recognise some of these from my folks record collection at the time.
I just can’t compete with my wife Jen when it comes to playing Name That Tune with Spotify. She gets most of songs right within a few seconds of the song starting. 😳
Wow, it’s been 30 years now since EMF’s Unbelievable was released.
Made the switch from Apple Music to Spotify today. So much easier to move about in the app and there’s the addition of the web player as well.
Shattered & Hollow. Just one of the many great tracks on First Aid Kit’s Stay Gold album. Recommended by my wife a couple of weeks ago.
Had a wee listen there to “Protect Ya Neck” by Wu-Tang Clan.
I forgot how good the Travelling Wilburys albums are. Volume 1, crank it up.
The “I Miss Rave” playlist on iTunes takes me back. 🎵
Kurt Harden’s hunt for the perfect album continues. I have to say, this is fast turning into a great playlist for Apple Music or Spotify. 🎵
The perfect album
Sent a few suggestions this morning for the perfect album to my buddy Kurt in Ohio. Suggestions included Bloc Party, Oasis, Massive Attack and Eric Clapton.
Anyone else care to chip in with suggestions for the perfect album?
Still loving Musish
After a week of using the open source Apple Music web player Musish, I’m still a fan.
The familiar look and feel to the native Apple Music apps as well as having the benefit of access to all my Apple Music data through a web interface means I can still listen to music while I’m working.
It also means I can conserve the battery on my iPhone and I don’t need to rely on a good network signal if I need to stream any of the albums I want to listen to.
New Fleetwood Mac album downloaded. My parents musical taste definitely rubbed off on me.
Listening to Banquet from Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm album. One of those albums that is perfect from start to finish. 🎵
🎵Got the Master and Commander soundtrack playing while I catch up on some Rails work for a client tonight.
Forgot how great the Silent Alarm album by Bloc Party is 🎵.
Damn. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Forgot about them. 🎵
I forgot how bloody great Muse are.
iPod to the rescue
A story of one man and his music.
Tonight I discovered that my music library has gone missing. I maintain a massive library on my computer - 46,680 song, not that I am counting (yes, I have a backup but restoring the backup creates an incredible amount of work for me).
— I still have my iPod by Kurt Harden
Kurt: Bite the bullet and restore the backup. Yes it will be hard work but you’ll have your beloved music back.
Rockin'1000 does Smells Like Teen Spirit
Amidst the chaos of the world, I was glad to be taken away for a few minutes with the Rockin’1000.
Need some music to work too?
The 50 best film scores have been compiled over at the Playlist and feature scores from movies such as The Dark Knight, Solaris and the Ocean’s trilogy.
A few gems in here that I’ll be adding to my own playlists.
via Kottke.org
20 Years Since Moseley Shoals
Today marks 20 years since Ocean Colour Scene’s Moseley Shoals entered the British charts. It was the band’s second stab at success: their self-titled 1992 debut sunk without trace and they’d been honing the follow-up for four penniless years. “We knew it was good,” said guitarist Steve Cradock. “We spent a lot of time working on it.” Championed by Radio 1’s Chris Evans – who loved The Riverboat Song so much he made it the theme tune to TFI Friday – it screamed in at No 2 and stayed in the top 10 all summer, buoyed by support from Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher. The real reason for its success, though, was simpler: it was an absolute gem of a record, by a brilliant group of musicians.
— Ocean Colour Scene: the band whose chief crime was being too normal by The Guardian
I can’t believe it’s 20 years since Moseley Shoals was released. I’m still an avid listener of Ocean Colour Scene today. Can’t fault them at all. Recommended.
It’s not all bad though. Got The Beatles playing in the background.
The Playlist of All Playlists
Meticulously compiled by Kurt. Enjoy!
The Mixtape radio station on Apple Music. The BBC Radio 2 equivalent for an Apple generation.
The Apple Music family plan is worth it for the musical education my boys are getting. Access to hundreds of great albums and tracks. 🎸🎵🎤
The Rockin' 1000
Forget the Foo Fighters, I’d pay to see this lot sing.
The Last of Us is a fantastic game as is the soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla.
Highly recommended even if you have never played the game.
Wishlist Wednesday - New tunes
Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones? It’s definitely going on the wishlist. Thanks Rob!