27th February 2013: Nathan Fake

I watch Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe regularly and each time am surprised at how good the theme tune is.



I looked it up and apparently it's by a guy called Nathan Fake. I don't like any of the tunes as much as the Weekly Wipe theme tune, but I still really do like them. I made a playlist of all the Nathan Fake on Grooveshark then deleted the tracks that either didn't work or that I didn't like.

26th February 2013: Generation X

I bought the cassette today in a Charity shop.

If you've heard track 1 before, it might be here (annoyingly)



and if you've heard of Generation X before, perhaps it was here

25th February 2013: American Dream

I bought this CD for 3€ back in 2002.

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Here is the playlist:

24th February 2013: A Confusing Day

Songs I Maybe Shouldn't Like
by Chairlift, MGMT, Emmy the Great...

So to compensate, here is Nick Drake's Bryter Layter, in case you missed my Nick Drake post in January.

23rd February 2013: Julliard String Quartet, Beethoven.

22nd February 2013: Blood on The Tracks.

A cover of

21st February 2013: My favourite Nina Simone tracks

Also, Feist with When I Was A Young Girl:

20th February 2013: Harvest, Neil Young.

19th February 2013: Ike and Tina Turner

Don't judge until you've listened.



I can't find any traces of this other song I know.
It goes like this:
My Papa told me that the day would come
When I would want to love some-one
He sat me down on his knee
And these are the words he said to me
[Ike: He said]
One of these days you're gonna reach eighteen
and all the boys around will make you feel like a queen
You smile and blushing, hold your head up high
but the same little boys will make you cry
so the best thing to do when you reach this age
is to be a good girl, remember what I said
Maek 'em wait

That's it!

18th February 2013: Cat Stevens

There are cross-overs between these two playlists.

1. My favourite Cat Stevens songs


2. The 1967 Matthew and Son album



"You may still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not."

I also like this one:

17th February 2013: Brothers, The Black Keys

16th February 2013: Schubert Piano Sonatas D845 & D575

I was saying bad things about Schubert, and my flatmate was saying good things about Schubert. I found this yesterday and I take back all the bad things I said.

15th February 2013: Standing on a Beach, The Cure

I have the cassette of this which says it contains the "unavailable B sides." Yeah, I guess that makes me feel cool.

14th February 2013: Devo - Freedom of Choice preceded by some other tracks

13th February 2013: Isolée

New Yorker Fiction Podcast.
Just saying.


And I'm in the mood for posting this. The accent at 2:30 is good. The song is awful. But I don't know. I like it.

12th February 2013: The Books

The same friend introduced me to The Books and Inchtime, so I've paired them up.
Thought for Food by the Books (Grooveshark also has other albums, but this is the one I used to listen to at work). There's some talking in it so it really isn't ideal work music, but hey, I'm a rebel.

Annoyingly, Grooveshark has only one Inchtime track (luckily, my favourite one):

11th February 2013: Roxette - Look Sharp

Sure, maybe because I dance because I listened to this tape when I was a tiny bean. And when I say a tiny bean I mean I some how ended up with a Roxette tape before I had a Beatles tape. Look Sharp was in my cassette collection when I was five. I was so shocked when I found out the girl had short peroxide hair. I almost didn't like Roxette. I was very judgemental about looks at five. Not about music, clearly. And ever since I've had the look, you see.



I shamelessly love this album, from the arbitrary key changes to the arbitrary long pauses in the middle of songs, and that exclamation mark in the album title, I love that too. And when I wrote "album" I mean I listen to the first to songs and rewind, like I'm rowing round a little island.

10th February 2013: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968

9th February 2013: Nick Cave - the Lyre of Orpheus

Breathless is my favourite track on this one.

8th February 2013 : Camille

7th February 2013: Red Rubber Ball, The Cyrkle

I heard Red Rubber Ball on radio 2 one night. I looked it up and found out it was written by Paul Simon. I had the album for a while, and found the track "There's a fire in the fireplace" the funniest one.

6th February 2013 : Breaking Glass, Hazel O'Conor

I saw this film when I was twelve or thirteen, and five years later noticed the album on sale in an HMV.

With a wonderful tagline too: The Experience is... SHATTERING.

5th February 2013: The King's Singers (especially a capella Beatles)

4th February 2013 : Vivaldi's Four Seasons St. Petersburg RSO/Igor Ivanenko

3rd February 2013 : Bach pipe organ music on Soundclound

Johann Sebastian Bach Complete works for the Pipe Organ. Recorded in Surround Sound on 8 historic Silbermann Organs. This is a limited edition recording. "This boxed set recording consists of 19 Super Audio SACDs, which will play on any CD-player. It is accompanied by a 251-page book. It contains music notes written by the German musicologist Peter Wollny and Silbermann Organ expert Marc Schaefer. All of the organ’s stoplists are included as well as numerous excellent color photographs. The notes are in French, German and English."

Stephen Tharp plays Bach Goldberg Variation played on a pipe organ
"The fourth and final volume of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Clavierübung keyboard cycle, his Goldberg Variations are considered the most important work in this form from the Baroque era. 30 variations over a ground-bass, originally composed for harpsichord, are adapted here for solo organ by Stephen Tharp. Widely-respected for his interpretations of Romantic and 20th century repertoire, Stephen Tharp performs here with a stylistic sensitivity to the music at hand. While utilizing the full color palette of Paul Fritts’ magnum opus at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio, this arrangement, while imaginative and virtuosic, remains faithful to the period aesthetic in which the music was originally conceived."

2nd February 2013: Rabih Abou Khalil

When I lived in Liège, I would pick up returned CDs in the Médiathèque, one of the best Médiathèques I've experienced, the Médiathèque Les Chiroux.
One of these CDs was Journey to the Centre of an Egg only one track of which is on Grooveshark (Shrewd Woman). I've made a playlist of everything except Blue Camel (I'm not too keen on the saxophone).

1st February 2013 : Three Feist Albums

Let It Die
The Reminder
Metals.