Ho-ho, your trinkgeld bit is a tip for the waitress and not the place old appliances go to. C- for effort.

I’m inventing one:

Dienstquittiertenhaushaltsguternachtrauern

Bislangproblemlosesgeliebteszeughinterherjammern

Dienstgetanwegdamitungerechteweltschade

Sorry for your trouble (as we say in Ireland).

When my Mammy died, the younger brother did the honours, Danny Boy, natch.

Takes me back.

Heard this on the radio last week, found out its identity, ordered it immediately. not even a middle East music aficionado. Track 4 is the one, Glibi.

1 – Dr Strangelove
2 – Pulp Fiction
3 – North By Northwest
4 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
5 – Blade Runner
6 – Raiders Of The Lost Ark
7 – Some Like It Hot
8 – The Jabberwocky
9 – Once Upon A Time In The Wes […]

Then again, Litherland placed himself very high in the list of greatest power trio performances ever, a belter despite his having a fairly weedy voice. Probably the double-tracked guitar…
It’s the pantheon, […]

Lumpy Gravy was quite clearly a panoply of fragments sequenced end to end and just as clearly, fulfills amost none of the criteria of what would be usually called a suite. Got me there, guv, talking bollocks. I […]

“In Held ‘Twas In I” off Procol Harum’s 2nd album almost fits the bill, being 17 minutes long but not quite a whole side’s worth. Appeared in 1968.

The Mother’s “The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet”, side 4 […]

The Mikes have it. Potato bread, or farls, are triangular and fried, preferably, in your bacon fat. Across the border, it’s a full Irish and should fearure both black and white puddin’. I can do without the bloody […]

Good man Tiggs. I’ll check out Melanie, Agnes, Zara, Melody. You need to do the same with Mary and Tomeka.
😉

1 Road To Freedom – Young Disciples
2 The Raven That Refused To Sing – Steven Wilson
3 Based On A True Story – Fat Freddy’s Drop
4 Tomeka Reid Quartet – Tomeka Reid
5 Even Better – Halvorson/Formanek/Berne
6 […]

A specifically Irish one. Justin the Turkey was not easy to like nor cuddly in any way but somehow, mind-bogglingly, represented Ireland at Eurovision.

Zorn is a trans-genre genius. He can play jazz but doesn’t restrict himself, in fact many of his recent works have been as composer and conductor rather than musician. His 80s project Naked City included […]

Actually, Open is too new (2001) so I’ll have
10 – John Zorn – Spillane
instead.
😉

1 – Gaucho – Steely Dan
2 – The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
3 – Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics – Brian Eno + Jon Hassell
4 – Discipline – King Crimson
5 – Coup De Tete – Kip Hanrahan
6 – Time Out Of Mind […]

Will you look at that, Elvis only made #2. It’s a fair cop, guv, society’s to blame..

Get Lucky might well though, to represent the, ahem, post-noughties. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, yeah, unlikely. When’s […]

I’m tipping these 10 nuggets:

Grapevine
Heartbreak Hotel
Lovin’ Feeling
Knowing Me
I Feel Love
Ghost Town
Queen Boh. Rap.
Walker Bros. Sun
Beatles’ Hand
Be Lucky

Didn’t actually get around to taking part in this one and it’s admittedly a long time ago, but have you all gone off Hendrix or something? Electric Ladyland was always a sure thing for lists like this down the […]

I’ve been using Zoom, GoToMeeting, and BigBlueButton (client decides). These programs all do the same basic job, although BBB is educational sector and has several extra features. Don’t really get the hysteria […]

Just played Parachute, 50 years old and a cherished item, the point (possibly) where The Pretty Things discovered tunes, as opposed to 12-bar variants, and it’s stuffed full of the best of what the Abbey Road […]