Much as I love them, Tom Tom Club’s entire career can be summarised as the three-note riff at the start of Genius Of Love, sampled by all and sundry.

Apologies to the forgotten comedian (Paul Merton?):

I’ve got a paisley shirt. Its says “No! No! No! No! No!” all over.

Agreed with all that. I did the ironing while I watched. It would be worth an enterprising type editing it down to a circa 30-minute in concert film.

And the rest is name any track from Pixies’ Dootlittle.

I have the first four on vinyl. Has anybody heard the 2016 pressing of Steve McQueen? Is it worth buying again, I wonder?

What I’d really like is the 12″ of Lions In My Own Garden. My school pal bought that, I […]

DCC was developed solely by Philips in competition to Sony’s MD. Like Philips’ VCR2000 format, it was better spec’d than the competitor but it sank without trace. DCC required expensive metal tape formulations and […]

I also loved MD as a format. I’ve mastered a professional CD from a MD recording, still have a suitcase full of discs in the cupboard, and a MD deck attached to the hifi.

But I’ve never bought a pre-recorded […]

Oh good grief. I have one blank DAT tape, which came from a BBC training studio, if anybody wants it for a limited edition release. DAT recorder not supplied, though.

Annie Nightingale used to play Quirks (a track on a limited-edition bonus 7″, given away with early copies of Ha!-Ha-Ha!, which my cousin Simon’s LP was lacking), along with Soft Cell’s Martin, and stuff like Echo […]

We Didn’t Start the Fire? Another list song, very similar to R.E. M.’s It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), which is very similar to Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, which is probably […]

Another vote for Custard Creams here. I get through a packet a week at work, to stave off the boredom.

Ginger Nuts, too, but (a) – paging Moose – I have two already and (b) they give me windypops.

That 3D text gives me a migraine.

I found out today (on Desert Island Discs) that Nitin Sawhney used to be in Acid Jazzers the James Taylor Quartet.

Never seen them live but, after seeing the R2 gig on the idiot latern, they’re on my list. This review underlines the fact.

I think the former.

I’ve never believed the “everything is online now” statement, I only have a few thousand physical releases of the past few decades and I know plenty of those are not.

And I remembered too late that = sets and == tests.

In my defence, I have not written any code for >= 15 years.

The lyric doesn’t make much logical sense. There are no conditional clauses and there is no mention of the knowledge Rod wants to gain. It’s been a good while since I’ve written any C++, so apologies to any coders […]