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Intros quiz: Love edition 2008-02-14 02:04:00 An Intros
Quiz, to mark everybody's favourite day of crass commercial exploitation, with a time-appropriate theme.
Every song in this lot of 20 intros of 5-7 seconds each has the word "love" in the title. All but one were hits in the UK or US (or both); the one that wasn't is a well-known album track from a famous album by a very famous singer.
Answers will be in the Comments by Saturday.
Love Songs For Every Situation: Being In Love 2008-02-12 01:17:00 Here's the trouble with Valentine's Day, apart from the crass commercialisation and pressure to spend a month's salary on a dozen frozen roses shipped in from Argentinia or wherever. Valentine's Day is just for the select few, the lucky ones who are experiencing love in a good way. It excludes those who yearn for love, those who have had their heart shredded to ribbons, those who love somebody Read more:Love Songs
Love Songs For Every Situation: Falling In Love 2008-02-11 10:35:00 I've said it before (sort of): Valentine's Day is crap. But that is no reason not to deal with the subject of love this month. All of it: the good, the bad, the shitty. And, oh man, love can be a real bastard. So over ten posts I'll aim to cover almost all emotions that accompany love: the butterflies that take residence in one's stomach, the giddiness of being in love, the betrayal and pure pain Read more:Love Songs
Valentines - Any Major Love Mix CD-R 2008-02-07 04:34:00 I am no great fan of Valentine's Day, and don't usually join in the hype. It seems time appropriate to post a Valentine's mix though -- especially for all the lovers out there who want to express their emotions via the time-honoured medium of the mix-tape, but lack the time or energy to bang a good one together. If I can prevent one fool in love from rushing out to buy a Valentine's Day comp Read more:Major
, Valentines
The iPod (non-)Random 10-track Experiment 2008-02-05 14:16:00 I'm about to wipe everything off my iPod
, and reload it (for housekeeping purposes). So, for the pure fun of it, here are the top 10 most-listened to tracks. I have arbitrarily decided to exclude anything from the Beatles' Love album, because I didn't listen to it more than once, though my nephews played it ad nauseam over Christmas. Where an artist was represented more than once, their Read more:Experiment
, Random
Intros quiz: Women edition 2008-01-26 12:11:00 The usual drill, with the focus this time on female singers from the '50s to the '00s. Almost all are solo artists. Intros
to 20 songs, about 5-6 seconds in length.
Answers will go up in the comments section by about Tuesday.
Intros Quiz - Women
Edition
Intros quiz: Rock edition 2008-01-02 12:58:00 Happy new year everybody. And to kick off 2008, a retro-heavy intros quiz: 20 intros of 5-7 seconds each of rock songs from the '50s to whatever we call this decade. Well, one from the '50s, two from the '60s, five from the '90s/'00s, the rest from the glory days of the '70s and '80s. Absolutely nothing obscure here. And no hair rock, as I realised after putting the thing together.
Answers will Read more:Intros
Any Major Funk 2007-12-26 15:22:00 This mix might come in time for your New Year's Eve party: great disco/funk tracks from the glory years, 1978-82. The first 18 songs should fit on a CD-R, plus two hard-to-find bonus tracks: Instant Funk's "I Got My Mind Made Up" (whence the Sugarhill Gang sampled the famous "say what?"), and Sunfire's happiness-inducing "Young, Free And Single", a track it took me absolute ages to find.
I've Read more:Major
Any Major Funk Vol. 2 2008-04-01 02:34:00 In December I posted a funk/disco mix-tape (meaning the songs don't fade into each other), covering the golden era 1978-1983, and fitting on one CD-R. It was downloaded more than 1,300 times, and received the grand total of one comment. But that commenter was so pleased with the Any Major
Funk mix, he or she asked for a follow-up. So, for that kind soul, here's Any Major Funk Volume 2, which had
Perfect Pop - Vol. 3 2008-04-04 04:16:00 The inquiry into what makes perfect pop perfect continues. My pal Andy thinks: “I think ‘perfect pop’ can't be too alternative. It has to be very mainstream, on top of everything else. And probably fairly breezy. Populist and lightweight.” Somebody else suggested: “Perfect
pop should feel timeless yet completely of its time as well, creating a wonderful paradox.” Another Andy also considered the
Intros Quiz - 1978 edition 2008-04-07 16:32:00 As usual, 20 intros, 5-7 seconds each, this time of hits from 1978 (or released in 1978 and perhaps peaking in the charts in early 1979). All of these were hits in either the US or the UK or both. The last quiz covered 1973; no prizes for guessing which year we'll cover in May...
Please don't leave your answers in comments. The correct answers will be posted in the comments by Thursday or Friday Read more:Intros
The Redskins: An insane thing 2008-04-13 04:28:00 Having just discovered the excellent The Songs That People Sing blog, I stumbled upon a post from February which featured the Redskins
' remarkable cover Billy Bragg's Levi Stubbs' Tears. I don't know how I knew that version -- I thought it might have been a b-side to a single, but have found no evidence for it -- but I really wanted it. Sadly, the link was dead.
But thus reminded of the Redskins Read more:insane
The Disco Inferno 2008-04-18 09:37:00 An splendid piece on disco, by the excellent Simon Price on The Quietus site, makes reference to mind the Disco Sucks movement which found full expression in the record burning bonanza at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in July 1979 (pictured). Price’s suggestion, not a new one, that the the Disco Demolition Night in particular was fuelled by racism and homophobia has some merit.
The negative reaction Read more:Inferno
Perfect Pop - Vol. 5 2008-04-23 02:05:00 Thank you for all the comments. I really, really appreciate them. It's great just to hear somebody say that they are happy to have found a long-forgotten song or discovered a favourite new artist through this blog. The many kind words and encouragement are a most welcome bonus.
It's also great to see people still getting to read older posts. One comment came in yesterday responding to a Read more:Perfect
Two of us 2008-04-22 09:45:00 My friend Liz, who works for a London magazine publisher, e-mailed to tell me that she had spotted my Doppelgänger while doing a page layout (apparently he's more heavy-set than I am, which is a relief).
I find the idea of a double very spooky indeed (as would, presumably, my look-alike). I once saw a spitting image of myself sitting at a bar. It was disconcerting observing this incredibly
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