Category Archives: music

King Missile: Detachable Penis

If you don’t visit Joe.My.God (and you should, you should), you won’t see videos like this. Which would be an awful shame.

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Bella Ciao

Twenty years before the start of WW2, a Yiddish ballad was recorded in New York by a musician called Mishka Ziganoff. You can listen to it here. If you know the Italian partisan anthem, Bella Ciao, you’ll find parts of … Continue reading

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REM Shock Announcement

I just saw this on Joe My God. Nice one, Michael.

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Sue Barker’s beard

If, like me, you can’t stomach Cliff Richard you’ll enjoy this piece by Terence Blacker very much. My mother used to say: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. How wrong she was.

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Manu Chao: La Radiolina

I love Manu Chao, and I love his new album, La Radiolina. If you love him too and you’d like to download one of the best tracks, take advantage of today’s Guardian offer and click here.

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Music: Dolly Parton et al.

Have you ever combined two ingredients you’re slightly iffy about and produced something rather wonderful? No, neither have I. I’d started to wonder if it was possible. Until I heard Dolly Parton’s version of Stairway to Heaven. You can listen … Continue reading

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Nirvana: Smells like Teen Spirit

I love this song and I love this version of it. So there. Maybe it’s the cheerleaders.

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Customer care 2

I was having breakfast a few weeks ago at Birmingham New Street station (I had to change trains. Honestly), in a place called something like the Covent Garden Company. I’d just finished my Greek-style yogurt with sliced strawberry and crunchy … Continue reading

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Soundtracks

Watching the South Bank Show about Joan Didion, there’s a sequence of scenes of student disorder in San Francisco in the late 60s. The soundtrack chosen for this was a track from archetypal New Yorkers, the Velvet Underground, specifically, Shiny … Continue reading

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Anna Oxa: E’ tutto un attimo

I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist this. It’s from 1986.http://www.youtube.com/v/r5vLZAIsepQ

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