Buttercups and Daisies
Record Store Day Virgin
Many years ago I had a large record collection but as time moved on I spent more time listening to CDs and then MP3s and we needed the space at home and so they went. Now vinyl is cool again and each year independent record shops in the UK take part in Record Store Day …
New Releases
This month seems to have been a rich period for new music releases that I love. So much so that I thought that I would share them here. Enjoy!
Making a Case for Audio Books
I love music. It’s really unusual for me to not have music playing somewhere. If it’s blaring out of my computer, music streamer in the lounge or out of my headphones when on the move it is pretty unusual. Music, for me, can be background noise, something that doesn’t require too much concentration and fills …
Thoughts on Size
When I posted recently about the tracks added to my music library over last year something that struck me was that it required 35gb of additional storage. That still seems like an enormous amount of disk space to me. This now takes the total amount of storage for all my music to 266gb. This is …
Tracks Added – A Review of the Year
Last year I ran a series of monthly blog posts recording all the music that I had acquired over the previous month, you can see all those posts here, but I thought it would be good to do a summary. Here are the raw stats over the year 49 Artists 89 Albums 959 Songs 97 …
Tracks Added – December 2014
A bumper crop to end the year as my Christmas requests were fulfilled by Santa. This months additions are: Train – Bulletproof Picasso Simple Minds – Big Music The The – Mind Bomb Prides – Mixtape 2014 (single) Peter Gabriel – Back to Front EP (SoS) Alpine – A is for Alpine Tchaikovsky – Serenade …
Tracks Added – Album of the Year 2014
So all this year I have been recording all the new music I have added to my collection (you can see all the monthly entries here) and I wanted to take a look back and see which of all the albums I’ve added I’ve enjoyed the most. The criteria for this award is quite simple …
My name is Derek and I am a Fish
30 years ago I went to what was then the Apollo theatre in Oxford to see Marillion. This was during the Fugazi tour when they were still in their ascendancy and Fish wasn’t writing songs like Lavender. I remember the beginning of the gig very clearly. The set had a raised stepped gantry in the …
Songs About Falling in Love with a Robot
Perhaps this is going to become more of a recurring theme over the next few decades as robots become more prevalent and more human but here is the start of a list of songs about falling in love with a robot. The links should take you to Spotify if you have it. ELO – …