Music Shopping Spree

I apologise for two music based posts in a row.
But myself and a female acquintance went on a shopping spree to Cheltenham today, which involved a trip to HMV for me. Kind of a hobby for me.
Sales were on, so a lot of good bargains.
First, it should be mentioned that I had tried to 'educate' the girl in qeustion in quality dance music in the car on the way down; Reactivate 16. (2000)Not the best of the collection- that has to be 14 (1999) , which I lent to The Baker and is still lent.
I was trying to get her to see the pure sense of adrenalin, the total liberation, that you get from good dance Music.
She's not ever been in to the hard dance culture, so I tried to explain to her the sense of euphoria of dancing on a stage in a club that's just about white T-shirts, glowsticks and the sense of energy- and emotion- that this music gives.
A room full of love, where there is a sense that the crap we have to put up with in the world out there is not all it's about.

Anyway here is a list of the CDs I bought. You have to guess which one was hers.

The Beatles- Yellow Submarine.
Tubular Bells- Mike Oldfield.
Kaiser Chiefs- Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
Kasabian- Empire.
Pulp- Different Class.
Skunk Anansi- Paranoid and Sunburnt.
Ultravox- The Collection.
ABC- The Lexicon of Love.
Radiohead- Hail to the Thief.
The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses.
The Doors- Morrison Hotel.
Duran Duran- Rio
Japan- Adolescent Sex.
Daft Punk- Human after All.
Cascada- Everytime you Touch.
David Bowie- Aladdin Sane.
Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms.
Orbital- The Altogether.
Armin van Buuren- 10 years.
The Best of Bonkers.
Hed Kandi Classics.
Gatecrasher Live in Moscow.

One of those CDs is NOT one I would voluntarily listen to. Can you spot it?

Have a listen. Surprise yourself.

Abvout to be very civilised and go for a meal with the attached/partially so for now.

Just thought I'd recommend ten good Album/Not singles tracks whch should, by God, have been singles.

1. Halo- Violator, Depeche Mode
2. Lucky- Radiohead.
3. Temple Girls and Geisha Boys- Heaven 17
4. Working Class Hero- John Lennon.
5, Love Island- Fatboy Slim.
6. Life full of Nothing- Human League.
7. The Trouble with Andre- Shakespeare's Sister.
8. The Immigrant Song- Led Zeppelin.
9 Wish you Were Here- Pink Floyd.
10. New Dress- Depeche Mode.

See you when the drum beat starts again, people.

General Update

OKaaaay.
We've decided to be pro-active here.
No posts likely here over the Easter weekend. Possible week after, unlikely week after that. That relates to my social life.

Forewarned is forearmed.

A Vice I need to Lose.

The Tin Drummer confessed recently to a former vice of his.
It's his tale, so I recommend you read it.

Mine is a vice I need to lose. People comment on it.
Everyone has songs they sing regularly, without thinking.
Fo me, 'Riders on the Storm' is one. That's permissible.
Another is 'Enjoy the Silence. Again, as a Mode fan, that's OK.
Another is 'Monkey Magic,Monkey Magic' from the Japanese children's programme, Monkey.
I sing this to myself a lot whilst at work, or at the bar waiting to get served, or shaving.

Need to stop this, don't I?

We do want to be at the Euros

Steve McLaren is either the worst manager since Taylor, or he has a great trick up his sleeve, we're all going to love.

I'm not sure yet.

When he sacked Beckham, I could see why.

In many ways the last World Cup was one of the best I've seen. And I'm a World Cup nut. I take my holiday and watch the lot. So many great games.
Australia-Japan, what a brilliant hat trick.
France-Spain, bye-bye my cash-backed dark horse.
France-Switzerland, shows you how a bad referee can really threaten the team who justly won.
The Final- possibly the best International I've seen in a while.
Yet none of these great, worth watching games involved England.

Simple reason why. England had got in to habit of not actually playing football, just wait to be awarded a free kick.
To be taken by Beckam. Result, England 1, AN other 0.
Doesn't work of course, it's a lousy game winning plan against say, Portugal.

The only way to solve this problem is to remove the temptation for other players to run round the pitch hoping to get fouled rather than looking for the ball.
Remove Golden Boots.

So in a sense, it was kind of removing a benign tumour that was just holding up the bloodflow of the passion of 66.

Problem is, it's taking time for the operation to heal.

I think there are some good moves at work here- I'm glad to see Owen Hargreaves being used more, he's quality. Nice to see ex-blues Andy Johnson being recognised as well.

Bnd time is running out.
Sacking McLaren costs the FA 3.5 mill severance pay.
If we don't make the Euros, 100 mill in sponsorship is lost to the FA.

A Short Game of Join the Dots.

I think they think we're stupid...
Let's see if you are...
1. What were they doing there?
2. Is this not very convenient?
3. Is a legacy involved here?
4. Could this be Brown's Iraq?
5. They couldn't do it again, surely?

It's not a candle, it's a lighthouse

Elton John.
Walkng past the telescreen the other day(I try not to watch it), when I see Elton John shamelessly promoting his televised birthday bash in New York or London or somewhere.
I shook my head in disbelief. Here is man who has gone to some producer and said 'Pay for my birthday party, televise it and invite a loads of celebrities. You get good TV, I get a free birthday party and loads of free publicity. Every celeb you invite will come, so as to assert their A-list status.'
And the dupes agreed...

This man has no shame.

But come, we already knew that.

Let my tell you a story.
Back in 1997, I finished work at aout 4 AM. It was a summer job and worked for a local hotel. I tuned on the TV expecting Beavis and Butthead, and got the tale end of some story about a car crash. No Beavis laughs tonight.
Perplexed, but not interested, I went to bed.

Next day I heard the news.
What interested me most was that The Sun, who If I remember right had a headline that week before centred on the Dodi, Do Di, pun, was now running a black banner.

The nation went mad for a fortnight and I just cringed in shame. I now saw how Blair had got his landslide.

At that time, any sense of patriotism died within me. I felt ashamed to be a part of such a twisted nation of hypocrites.

And to see Elton milking this bizarre bout of 'guilt about being tabloid reader's' hysteria, was not pleasant. Yes mate, you sold a lot of copies of your revised 'Candle in the wind'.

How the Queen knighted you for stiching her up like that, I'll never know. She must have gritted her teeth as she said 'Arise, Sir Elton.'

Not impressed with your life philosophy there, mate.