Tuesday, 31 July 2007

ADBS Ups and Downs

An alarming trend in the ADBS. For all the 'Ladies' Knickers' amusement, the length of these (admittedly free) Podcasts is dropping. The last one was released at 40 kbps, too.



I hope things are sorted out before the re-launch of the 'ADBS in Colour'.





Here Come The Planes

As England behave like spoilt children, the Second Test is all but lost. The weather on the first day didn't help, but the batting at the end of yesterday was inept.

I'm STILL waiting for the CDs of Cherry Ghost and Nick Drake's 'Family Tree' to come from CD-WOW. This is the last time I'm going to use them, as they're having ridiculous problems with their 'suppliers' (or simply can't get their arse in gear).

Deliveries from Amazon, however, are coming through nicely:

One Man Dog - James Taylor
Nobody But You - James Taylor
Chili Dog - James Taylor
O Superman (For Massenet) - Laurie Anderson
The Meeting - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Hotel Hobbies - Marillion
Warm Wet Circles - Marillion
That Time Of The Night (The Short Straw) - Marillion
Going Under - Marillion
For The Record - Marillion
White Russian - Marillion
Honey Sweating - David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio
Open Letter To the Heart of Diaphora - David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio
Bandaged By Dreams - David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio

The 'Big Science' remaster is excellent, and accompanied by an interesting booklet. The 'Clutching at Straws' remaster is also splendid, decribing the downfall of the Fish-era band. Great to hear the demos of songs that would be used in later H-Marillion and Fish albums.

M - 4; T - 4; D - 3

Monday, 30 July 2007

Two Old Bachelors

A couple of really annoying middle-age, middle management type suits got on today and proceed to jabber away about nothing for the vast majority of my commute. I expect this from people of the female persuasion, but not men.

Turn up the 'Pod:

Pop Song - David Sylvian
Knocking on Forbidden Doors - Enigma
It's No Good Trying (take 5) - Syd Barrett
Blue Guitar - Justin Hayward
Darkness (11-11) - Van der Graaf Generator
Bobby Brown (live) - Frank Zappa
Cul-De-Sac - Genesis
Houdini - Kate Bush
State Of Mind - Fish. I got the remastered 'Clutching At Straws' the other day, to read about the end of the first phase of Marillion. Fascinating stuff.

T - 4; M - 3.5; D - 2. Potterwatch - more 20-something men today, who should know better.

Friday, 27 July 2007

Como-tose

Update on the Splendid 'Ladies' Bras' song. It's not Perry Como, as Mr Baker suggested in the last Podcast, but actually from a CD from the Dirty Fan Mail boys at Trunk Records. And only £4.99, too.

After yesterday's unpleasantness,

I'm The Slime - Frank Zappa
Dirty Love - Frank Zappa
50-50 - Frank Zappa
Zomby Woof - Frank Zappa
Dinah-Moe-Hum - Frank Zappa
Ladies' Bras - a MP3 edit job of the Danny Baker ADBS Podcast
Dirty Dog - ZZ Top
Masque 5 - ProjeKct Three. Keep an eye out here, as DGM occasionally releases free 'tickles' of new releases,
A New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull
Shaping The Pelm - Ozric Tentacles
Passion Play Extract (Paris, 1976) - Jethro Tull
Black Blade - Blue Oyster Cult
Phases of the Three Moons - Andreas Vollenweider
Intermediate Jesus - Porcupine Tree
Dog Breath - Frank Zappa
Be All Right / Chance Of A Lifetime - Caravan

T - 4; M - 4; D - 3; Potterwatch - the usual smattering of semi-literate 25-45 year old women.

Thursday, 26 July 2007

Prawn Sacrifice

Mild food poisoning, so back to bed and no commute.

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

Everyone, Bras, Pants, Zappa and Potter

Good everyone,

The All Day Breakfast Show came up trumps with a song about "The Ladies' Bras and The Ladies' Knickers and The Ladies' Botties and The Ladies' Bums". Fabulous. Perry Como, apparently?!

Lots of Zappa today, ahead of a Very Important Meeting today. Told you.

Mainly Over-Nite Sensation and Sleep Dirt, but all good.

Potterwatch come up with my first Male. Other than that, 5 more 30-40 something females.

T - 4; M - 4.5; D - 4

Tuesday, 24 July 2007

200 Not Out

Apparently yesterday was my 200th blog. Hurrah.

The weather descended on Lord's yesterday to thwart England's likely win in the First Test, yesterday, which was rather annoying.

Potterwatch revealed four 30-40 something women (always seems to be females), which is rather worrying.

More recent CDs and downloads, this time music I have on LP. I haven't heard these for ages, as personal LP time with my turntable is limited these days.

The Magician's Birthday - Uriah Heep
Between Blue And Me - Family
Sat D-Y Barfly - Family
Larf And Sing - Family
Spanish Tide - Family
Krautrock - Faust
The Sad Skinhead - Faust

T - 4; M - 4; D - 3; Potterwatch - 4

Monday, 23 July 2007

N>50 Part 2

A new profile for my iPod, which now features less than a third of the previous total of tracks.

This is to make way for new albums by Cherry Ghost, Nick Drake, and the Chris Squire and Laurie Anderson re-releases, as well as just clearing the dead wood.

50+ tracks, either new acquisitions, Prog Rock or Reggae:

Porcupine Tree - 183
Jethro Tull - 134
Dream Theater - 95
Hawkwind - 94
Genesis - 89
Rush - 66
Marillion - 63
Gentle Giant - 61
Syd Barrett - 58
Pink Floyd - 53
Van der Graaf Generator - 50

Bands such as Yes and King Crimson are poorly represented because my highly subjective Genre system classifies many of their albums as Rock or Rock/Pop.

I've Got My Guitar And My Music Too

The count of adult reading Harry Potter was surprisingly low - only 2. For the sake of the nation, this is probably a Good Thing.

A radical overhaul of my iPod this weekend resulted in only 3000 tracks being re-loaded: all recent acquisitions, all Prog Rock and all Reggae.

The first album was by a band I'd heard a lot of in relation to Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant - Gnidrolog.

From Lady Lake:

I Could Never Be A Soldier - driven by vocals, but quite sparse with only bass and drums and the occasional flute/sax intrusion. Very subdued guitar.
Ship - excellent,
A Dog With No Collar,
Lady Lake,
Same Dreams,
Social Embarrassment.

A very nice album, redolent of VdGG and GG, but also Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt) and pastoral King Crimson.

To finish things off, early Elton John, from Madman Across the Water:

Levon,
Razor Face.

T- 4; M - 4; D - 3; Potterwatch - 2

Saturday, 21 July 2007

A is for Apple

Well, no commute today, with it being Saturday.

I'm looking forward to the journey on Monday, though, surrounded by adults reading a children's book. The most comical sight is the "adults' edition", or whatever it's called, with the same 12-year reading age stuff inside but with a different 'grown up' cover.

Buy loads of this book. And the action figures. And see the films and buy the burgers.

I have shares in Bloomsbury...

Friday, 20 July 2007

Meltdown


I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Well done, everybody. The last time it was as bad as this was when our Muslim friends were going to meet their virgins...


Missing the Mark

I've just realised that this is the first week that I have missed the whole of the Mark Radcliffe/Stuart Maconie show on Radio 2 (8-10pm). It wasn't intentional, but the timing simply makes impossible (mealtime, young family etc.).

Instead we've got all the filler stuff in the 10-12 slot which would be my natural listening time. I usually end up listening to Radio 5 Live or simply going to sleep.

Bad move, Radio 2.

But Clouds Got In My Way

A grey, drizzly end of week. Surprisingly, the BBC weather people actually got this right.

All 2.30 < x < 4.00 produced this pleasingly eclectic mix:

Welcome To The Room, Sara - Fleetwood Mac
Thomas - A Perfect Circle
Selange - Cluster & Eno
Era - Lucio Battisti
My Girl - Unknown
Both Sides Now - Leonard Nimoy
Well Red - Augustus Pablo
Waterfront - David Sylvian
Hot Mice - Wigwam
Sadeness [reprise] - Enigma
The Infant Kiss - Kate Bush
Cure for Optimism (edit) - Steven Wilson
Games People Play - Joe South
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Power Of The Blues - Gary Moore
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
May You Never - John Martyn
Girl! - Pepé Deluxe
East Of Eden - Twelfth Night
All Shook Up - Albert King
The Big Ship - Brian Eno
Answered Prayers - David Sylvian
I Muscoli Del Capitano - Francesco De Gregori
A Venture - Yes
The Higher You Climb - Asia
Black Waterside - Bert Jansch
Part-Time Punks - Jeffrey Lewis
Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie IRIE re-fix) - Gorillaz
Auctioneers - Boo Hewerdine

Friday.

T - 3; M -4; D - 3

Thursday, 19 July 2007

I Know What I Like

A reversion to default this morning, in the absence of the ADBS. They're going to have to get their act together if they're going to offer a subscription service, IMO.

Genesis, from the 'Turn It On Again' tour concert broadcast on Radio2 last Saturday in edited form. Recorded on freebie trial software at 96 kbps, but surprisingly good. I can't remember the full set-list, but it included 'No Son of Mine', 'I Know What I Like', 'Home By The Sea' and a particularly poor version of a poor song - 'Invisible Touch'.

For the rest of the journey I shuffled the Mew 'And the Glass Handed Kites' CD:

Zookeeper's Boy, Apocalypso, Why Are You Looking Grave?, Small Ambulance, Saviours of Jazz Ballet, Louisa Louisa, and the best track White Lips Kissed.

T - 3; M - 4; D - 3

Wednesday, 18 July 2007

I'm Going to Chop You Into Little Pieces

One of these days...

In preparation for a telephone interview, a bit of reading up on the Tube. That was the plan, at least, until a couple, obviously 'with Very Important Jobs' and 'Very Much In Love' started debating the best way to get to somewhere on the Central Line for his Very Important Job in a Very Loud Voice.

'I could go here [points to map above my head] then change onto here and take this line [points]',
'You could also go here and change there'
'That's where I used to work at my previous Very Important Job'
'Oh yes, I was Very Much In Love with you then'
'I could go here instead and change on to here. I could be at my Very Important Job a bit earlier'
'Yes, or go here, where I change for my Very Important Job'
'Yes, that would be good'
'I have a Very Important Job too'
'I'm Very Much In Love with you'
'Yes, we both have Very Important Jobs, don't we?'

Shut up. Shut. Up.

No music today, as I just wanted to kill.

I did, however, listen to the latest ADBS featuring the Dirty Fan Mail boys, on my walk from Tube to workplace. Very funny...

I also have a Very Important Job.

T - 4; M - n/a; D - kill them all.

Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Sombre Mammals

After last night's extraordinary journey, a sombre, downcast commute. Everybody seemed really fed-up, probably due to the weather and the prospect of another Tuesday stretching before them like a great shoe with its lights on.

I had work to do today, so didn't spend much time wrapped in my 'Pod. When I did get round to some music, I went for my 'Eno etc.' playlist:

Die Bunge - Cluster/Eno,
Intenser - Eno/Schwalm,
Sombre Reptiles - Eno,
Like Pictures Pt1 - Eno/Schwalm,
Lyra - Fripp/Eno,
Rising Thermal - Hassell/Eno,
On Some Faraway Beach - Eno,
ZawinulLava - Eno.

I finished off the latest 'All Day Breakfast Show' as well, on the walk from Tube to work. Trying to grow a beard, indeed - wasn't that a Frank Zappa lyric?

Deliverance

A rather odd journey home last night, sharing a carriage with a family that looked to be missing a few chromosomes. Not the politest thing to make fun of others' misfortunes, but these people were so extraordinary...

I made my way to a free seat then looked at the people sitting opposite me. My heart sank. The young (16?) boy looked just like the duelling banjo kid from 'Deliverance'. Really. The mother was a red-faced ball and the father had the look of someone who would pick a fight with just about anyone. I sat there, engaged in my iPod, trying not to make eye contact and hoping, as they were making such a big deal of having a conversation, that they'd get off soon. They didn't. I spent the whole of my Northern Line journey opposite them. The train was full anyway, so there was nowhere else to go anyway. When the male got off at Highgate the other two just stared blankly at me. When they were out of the tunnel, however, they produced their mobile phone and the boy then made several calls, shouting about where they were. As far as I could tell, they seemed to be phoning the same people up repeatedly. As we finally approached High Barnet, he started singing. His mother joined in. I made eye contact for about 2 seconds, but could see it would only end in trouble.

Monday, 16 July 2007

If You're Driving into Town With a Dark Cloud Above You

Grey. Grey skies, grey Tube.

An uneventful weekend. I was surprised to hear, at the Catholic church I reluctantly attend, a King Crimson song - Islands - being used for some chant or other. Not the whole thing, just some snatches of the verse and an echo of the chorus (Beneath the wind turned wave) etc. Very odd. Oh well, at least it takes our minds off this...

I also picked up the 'Prince' freebie album in the Mail on Sunday. Although I hate this paper and just about everything that goes with it (with the possible exception of the 'Metro'), it was too good an opportunity to miss. Although I'm not an expert on Prince, a lot of the music sounded very familiar to me. It's okay as far as it goes, but I'd like to give it a better listen before reaching a final verdict.

After the latest ADBS, a Shuffle 'Not Classical or Spoken', which is the default when I don't fancy anything much:

Easy Money - King Crimson, live, from 'Sometimes God Smiles'
Lady D'Arbanville - Cat Stevens. This and 'Into White' I can live with; everything else is a bit too 'nice' for me,
Moving the Goalposts - Billy Bragg,
Double Bass - Gorillaz,
Time of No Reply - Nick Drake. I have 'Family Tree' on order,
Plague of Ghosts iv) Waving at Stars - Fish; prior to 'Field of Crows' probably one of the best Fish albums, in large part due to Steve Wilson,
Gone to Earth - David Sylvian. Not the best to break through the noise of the Tube, but great,
Guardian of My Soul - Pendragon,
Tiny Little Fractures - Snow Patrol. I don't 'get' this band. Pretty anodyne stuff,
Big Generator - Yes,
L'Isola Di Niente - PFM,
You Turn Me On I'm A Radio - Joni Mitchell,
The Shining Ones - Mike Oldfield.

T - 3; M - 3.5; D - 2 - The little stocky man who insisted on rubbing knees with me was particularly annoying

Friday, 13 July 2007

Dub I Dub

A reeeaaally tedious week comes to an end. Still, I had TWO episodes of the 'All Day Breakfast Show' to keep me company last night and this morning, which eased the pain.

Reggae this morning:

Lively Up Yourself (Live) - Bob Marley,
Dancing Version - King Tubby,
A Gigantic Dub - Tommy McCook & the Aggrovators,
Super Ape - Lee 'Scratch' Perry,
Jungle Fever - Truth Fact & Correct,
Dub I Dub - The Revolutionaries,
A Loving Melody - Tommy McCook,
Black Ash - Sly & the Revolutionaries,
Nigger - Gregory Isaacs,
Rock Me In Dub - Thompson All Stars,
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley & the Wailers.

T - 3; M - 4; D - 4

Thursday, 12 July 2007

I Will Fly A Yellow Paper Sun In Your Sky

Another early start accompanied this time by the studio run-through of Yes' 'Giants Under The Sun' from TFTO. A bit ropier than The Remembering, but interesting.

No All Day Breakfast Show ready frm Wippit, which is a bit odd. Their server was down, but I eventually picked it up at work via iTunes. I'm going cold turkey.

I got, on recommendation, Mew's 'And the Glass Handed Kites' the other day, so listened to that for the rest of my commute.

It's supposed to be neo-prog/indie, but I can't see the prog bit. I hear bits of Sigur Ros with Midlake, with a striking similarity to WitchHazel (I don't know much about this band, I just picked up Land Locked in Greenwich market a few years ago for 50p and for about 2 years afterwards saw it everywhere at a similar price). This album is a bit long, but it is interesting. I like the bass sound and some of the harmonies are pretty good.

Circuitry of the Wolf,
Chinaberry Tree,
Why Are You Looking Grave?
Fox Club,
Apocalypso,
Special,
Zookeeper's Boy - very nice,
Dark Design,
Saviours of the Jazz Ballet,
Envoy to the Open Fields,
Small Ambulance,
Seething Rain Weeps for You,
White Lips Kissed,
Louisa Louisa.

The last two tracks are probably the best, although the middle bit between Special and Saviours... is very strong too.

For the walk from Tube station to work I opted for Mike Oldfield's Crises a) 'cos it's 20 minutes long b) for a change of scene and c) I like it.

T - 4; M - 4; D- 3

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Disenfranchised Pt II

More upheaval at Radio 2. Just when I thought I'd found an interesting show in the 10-12 pm 'miscellaneous filler' slot, they go and cancel/reschedule the Charles Hazlewood show. There's no info on his R2 website. What's going on?

Slow Life

If I keep my head down and work and hide in my office, no-one will bother me. It's worked so far this week. Shuffle All:

Castle In The Clouds - Gong,
Regression - Dream Theater,
Kick Muck - Ozric Tentacles,
Movements of Visionary - Tangerine Dream,
Survival - Yes,
Slow Life - Theo Travis/Mark Hewins, from a Burning Shed sampler CD,
Decentre - Brian Eno,
Lord of the Reedy River - the blessed Kate. Shame it comes out as 'weedy wiver',
Show Don't Tell - Rush,
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward. I used to listen to this over and over again on the 'War of the Worlds' LP. This is from a Daily Mail freebie CD. Not my paper of choice by a long way, but it's a fairly good selection,
Dark the Night - Sandy Denny,
The Remembering; High the Memory - Yes. Every time I begin to listen to this I think 'here we go, more prog bombast and noodling' but every time I just get caught up in its majesty. Amazing.

T - 4; D - 3; M -4

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Frustration

A very early start this morning, as a prelude to the important stuff at work today.

I started with the ADBS, featuring Amy Lame' and David Kuo. Very very good.

For a change, my iPod wasn't tuned into my mood, and I was forced to fast-forward several times in the 'Shuffle All' playlist. I forgot the tracks I skipped, although Queen featured heavily. Perhaps On-The-Go would have been better...

Intro + Ulisse - PFM,
This is the Way - Devendra Banhart,
Castle In The Clouds - Gong,
Little By Little - Oasis,
More Fool Me - Genesis,
In My Place - Coldplay,
Nucleogenesis - Vangelis,
Tour de France - Kraftwerk,
Aren't You The Girl - Tim Buckley,
Long Distance Runaround - Yes.

After the latter, I abandoned 'Shuffle' and basked in the glory of The Fish, Mood For A Day and the superb Heart of the Sunrise. A couple of years ago I spent a couple of days recording a tape of a Yes concert from BBC Radio 1 (!) and lovingly splitting it up into MP3 tracks in preparation for making a CD. At some point I had a rush of blood to the head and managed to delete all the files before I could burn the CD, and I have never got round to doing it again. It was a great gig...

T - 4; M -3; D - 3. Travelling at 7am on the Tube is a bit strange, though, and a bit disconcerting.

Monday, 9 July 2007

Go Down Easy

Well, another week begins. A busy week ahead, too, although it's mostly 'presenteeism' for me, unfortunately.

After the latest podcasts from Danny Baker and Mark Kermode, shuffle 'All' produced this pleasantly laid-back selection:

Hanging on a Star - Nick Drake. I still haven't picked up the 'Family Tree' CD - I kow it's mostly a re-hash of dodgy demoes, but apparently the liner notes are worth it.
A House Is Not A Motel - Love. Superb,
Pocket Full of Change - Rain Tree Crow,
Looking for Eden - Ian Anderson,
One World - John Martyn,
Overs - Simon & Garfunkel,
The Unforgiven - Metallica,
The Rover - Led Zeppelin,
Rilkean Heart - Cocteau Twins,
The Bag of Cats - Sharon Shannon, which seems to break into Fleetwood Mac's 'Never Going Back Again', from an Independent newspaper freebie CD,
Scattering Crows - Fish,
Everything You Did - Steely Dan.

T - 3; M - 4; D - 3

Friday, 6 July 2007

I Don't Want to Talk About It

A feeble attempt at a mass transport system this morning. I'd just settled down on an almost empty carriage with newspaper and iPod, when the train driver announced that the train would be terminating at the next station due to signal failure. What are these things made of - string?

30 minutes late for work. I did, however spend the entire Northern Line surrounded by freshly-scrubbed and fragrant young ladies and spent most of my time facing an attractive slim girl with long blond hair, so it wasn't all bad.

More shuffle of everything:

Loved By The Sun - Tangerine Dream, from Legend and featuring the voice of Jon Anderson,
No Way - David Gilmour. On An Island is rubbish. Well, not exactly rubbish, just really bland and disappointing
Amo Bishop Roden - Boards of Canada,
Jesus Says - Ash,
Syndi Guds - Sigur Ros,
Service - The Fall,
Rasta Locks - The Observers
The Great Escape - Marillion,
Punk Jazz - Jaco,
Wave - David Sylvian,
Behind the Lines - Genesis,
Sugar Craft - MMW,
Berlin - Marillion,
Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening - Soft Machine,
Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochrane,
Fix You - Coldplay,
Clasp - Jethro Tull

Danny Baker announced the plan to charge for his 'All Day Breakfast Show' from August. I'm still not sure about this.

T -1; M - 3.5; D - 3

Thursday, 5 July 2007

Second-Hand Sounds, Future Sounds

A really irritating journey this morning, with a coven of three women chatting vacuously throughout the time. Even with my iPod bolted to my head I could still hear them cackling away.

Shuffle All:

Catholic Girls - Frank Zappa,
Evening Star - Fripp/Eno. Just beautiful,
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor,
Cantonese Boy - Japan,
Kerry - Gentle Giant; 4 seconds of the keyboard player from Under Construction
Bed In The Corner - Cockney Rebel,
In D - Durutti Column. Beautiful recording,
No One Can - Marillion. More good production, in contrast to the recent 'Somewhere Else',
Islands - King Crimson. Just great. I know this album is poorly thought of in prog circles, but I love it. Excellent trumpet,
Intergalactic Radio Station - Vangelis, from his late-80s period of guitar-laden electronic pop (Direct, The City etc.),
Thank You - Gentle Giant, from the poor 'Giant for a Day' album,
Just a Bit - Robert Wyatt. More great trumpet usage,
Cirkus - King Crimson. Another old track from the 70s,
Curly Dub - Lee 'Scratch' Parry. The bass is a bit over-driven, but it's probably not made for tinny little iPod headphones,
Pi - the blessed Kate.

T - 1; M - 4; D - 1.5

Breakdown



Well done, everybody. Let's just hope we're not hosting something major in the next 5 years or so. Ooops...

Wednesday, 4 July 2007

Run Through the Light

Following Danny Baker playing some David Bowie on his BBC London show yesterday, I listened to the Hunky Dory album on my morning commute.

I can't say I've ever been a big fan of DB, although I tend to like the 'obvious' individual tracks (Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars etc).

Bombers,
The Bewlay Brothers,
Oh! You Pretty Things,
Song for Bob Dylan,
The Bewlay Brothers (reprise),
Changes,
The Superman,
Queen Bitch,
Eight Line Poem,
Fill Your Heart.

I got a bit fed up of that, so switched to more recent downloads - System 7 'Encantado', and then, for the walk from the Tube station to work Yes' studio run-through of 'Dance of the Dawn' from TFTO. Very interesting, if not radically different from the final studio version.

The Northern Line is really struggling this week. Charing Cross Trains don't seem to exist, which forces me to change at Camden or Kings X, both of which are usually heaving with the great unwashed.

T - 3; M - 3; D - 2

Tuesday, 3 July 2007

... had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had...

More travel problems this morning. I wouldn't mind if I had something to do when I got to work. All I do these days is travel for 90 minutes, grumble about my job, search the internet for more jobs, download the 'All Day Breakfast Show' podcast and then trudge 90 minutes back home.

Recent acquisitions. I still haven't got round to my dramatic spring clean of my iPod yet.

The Doorway - Spock's Beard,
Fairyport - Wigwam,
Face of the 80s - Landscape,
Passion in Moisture - Mick Karn,
This is the Abduction Scene - Torn-Karn-Bozzio,
Whiting H & G - Kool & the Gang
Here After - Kool & the Gang,
I Got the Six - ZZ Top,
Losing Hold - Wigwam,
Fruitman - Kool & the Gang,
You Know How to Hurt Me - Landscape

There's the new Cherry Ghost album out next Tuesday. Looking forward to it immensely.

T - 2; M - 3.5; D - 3

Monday, 2 July 2007

Systematic Chaos

Or how a small change in a chaotic system can have a dramatic effect on the product of that system. The 'chaotic system' in this case being (you've guessed it) the London Underground.

My decision to change train at Camden extended my journey from the usual 1 hour 15 to about 2 hours as packed trains came and went.

Welcome to Monday morning.

Recent acquisitions:

Street Corner Symphony - Kool & The Gang,
Guinevere - CSN&Y,
May Your Will Be Done Dear Lord - Wigwam,
Computer Person - Landscape,
Find the Cost of Freedom - CSN&Y,
Red Sleep - Torn, Karn & Bozzio,
Bassrock - System 7,
Fairyport - Wigwam,
Sea of Madness - CSN&Y,
Waste Away - Spock's Beard,
Weather the Windmill - Mick Karn,
Tribal Dawn - Mick Karn,
Metatonic - Rothko,
Jamming - Bob Marley.

T - 2; M -4; D - 3.5