Sounds interesting. I’m not sure I’m that interested in Screamadelica much any more though, to be honest. Don’t think I’ve listened to it more than a couple of times this century.

Like probably 99% of people vaguely aware of pop music, I only know three Cyndi Lauper songs – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, True Colours and Time after Time. I love all three of them (and Girls Just… was a massive […]

Don’t know that one! Will need to give it a listen.

Oh, spot on. Brigg Fair is heavenly. A slow motion dream.

Oh please continue! You are stopping just before The Good Stuff. If you can, read Ian Macdonald’s essay on Station to Station and its context in Bowie’s career: that article crystallised the record for me. It’s in […]

I quite like it as an occasional indulgence, but I find it quickly loses its appeal. I need a bit of grit and atonality to spice things up a bit. Although a lot of these “light” tunes resemble those grand English […]

This is reminding me of that HORA (Hoary Old Rock Anecdote) from the Word podcast years ago, where Kevin Costner gave a demo tape of his “friend’s” band to Nick Lowe (I think it was)., to which Nick gave […]

Hey!

Once upon a time I was falling in love… now I’m only falling apart….

Uh oh, any minute now the argument is going to start up again about whether there are even such things as “guilty pleasures” in music….

Until then, I will suggest:
– Boom! Shake the Room by Jazzy Jeff and […]

Oh that’s a shame. I was reading it and nodding my head in agreement furiously. 🙂

How bizarre. I would never have seen that coming, but I like HMV and they have been a crutch for my music tastes over the years as I like to browse. I still like their DVD and Bluray section and you can get decent […]

Walks at lunchtime rock. To my shame, since working from home I’ve actually done this a lot less, and just worked through lunch a lot. In the office I made the effort every day to get the hell out of there for an […]

Ignoring her is best! She would probably love to get into a public argument with someone: it’s just not worth it.

Favourite walks, anyone? All my favourite walks seem to be on my own, so I must be a solitary beast at heart.

Only just a few weeks ago I think I walked my favourite walk of my life so far, but to be fair it […]

What is your “walking pace” song? I always seem to walk in sync with the African drumming bit at the end of Mike Oldfield’s Ommadawn Part 1.

You certainly are an evangalist! I’m glad it’s something you enjoy so much.

I have dabbled in running in the past, when I was in my mid-thirties. From ten minutes jogging feeling insurmountable, I built it up […]

You had me at “walking is wonderful”… then lost me at “the sheer joy of running”….

Yes and no. Probably in the past I was a bit more myopic, but like most of the population I’ve been walking a lot more since covid. I love finding all the funny nooks and crannies and hidden wee paths around where I live.

Okay, everyone fess up – how far down did you get before you realised Bingo was joking? I got to paragraph 5!