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Liked Reducers - Airways.
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Liked 3 videos.
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Liked 3 videos.
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Liked Little Black Boy.
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Shared Lydia Hawksworth!.
Music
Here Comes A Saturday
For the first Saturday of a new year (and new decade, as well), I give you a song from 3 decades prior, in 1979. Yet it is just as relevant and just as lovely as ever.
click to play: Cowboys International – Here Comes A Saturday (1979)
Fin de siecle: a mini mixtape
Here is an ad hoc, interim mixtape that follows very little rhyme or reason – it’s just a collection of what I’ve been listening to lately. Goodbye 2009, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Eddie & Sunshine – People Talk
Bagarre – For Your Pleasure
Nathalie – Mon cœur qui craque
Munich [...]
Dumb waiters
Isn’t this album cover pop art at its finest?
And while I wouldn’t say the album’s contents itself are perfect, it has a brilliant production value that is something akin to the Beatles and Spector in the synthpop age. Listen to “Perfect Hostess”, for example:
The Korgis – Perfect Hostess
Junction music
Some of my favorite songs have been used for junction music on BBC, or even sometimes as the theme song.
In the late 1970’s, they occasionally used David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” to announce upcoming programs. The venerable documentary show “Arena” is something else, though, it is simply a work of art, both [...]
