Daughter Moles (sometime reviewer and fulltime young person) has asked for Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Cave and Earth CDs for her birthday. Call that music!

Fantastic pop R and B

You’ll get a laugh out of the lyrics if nothing else.

Yes this is an excellent example. DA wrote it as a six-part radio comedy show, little knowing it would more or less dominate the rest of his creative life.

As an non Potter person I can only observe that what a book became a series – longer volumes filled with ever more filling in of lore – became a franchise with prequels plays etc. Like many sci-fi and fantasy […]

Actually two more – one the only fantasy series I’ve read, Gene Wolfe’s book of the new Sun which is a fantastic four volume series. More and perhaps uniquely Caledonian sci-fi, Ken Mcleod’s ‘Fall Revolution’ […]

And the Culture novels are a bit different, being stand alone novels in a common universe. Close reading of course probably reveals lots of interlinking etc (I am starting on a second reading and loved CP though […]

Series do absolutely offer a reading comfort blanket, which is why we find them so seductive. But the series is in itself not a bad thing. At the highest end of the literary spectrum I am working my way most […]

It has been, even with Helen Mirren in a jumpsuit, erased pretty comprehensively. Must watch it again.

this is a niche post, but I’m interested in what other series people have abandoned the sequels while retaining the original.

One more:

EE Doc Smith’s Lensman series – well consistency is maintained, as the breathless prose and wooden characters are as prominent in Triplanetary as Children of the Lens. In that sense it’s a good series. […]

This I think is better even that that as a string arrangement. Having Liz Fraser on board doesn’t hurt either.

Even better I would venture. Wires = strings. Arrangement by Al De Lory

Certainly in my first year at Uni it was a staple of the student bedroom, along with Eden by EBTG and the first Orange Juice album.

Final one – string sextet, arranger Dave Lawson, who also played on The Dreaming and on the Man Who Fell To Earth Soundtrack and OF COURSE played with Stackridge

An arrangement so prominent it’s virtually eclipsed the song – it’s by John Metcalfe (a bit of googling tells me) who has written a handy guide in Q including this song, on how to arrange a pop song:

Great thread […]

Very understated until the last minute, then just lifts the track to a whole other level. Arrangement by Deodato, he of Also Sprach.. fame

Yes it is, that shuffle garage rhythm never better articulated than here. But they also were the Craig David enablers, not so fantastic in my opinion.

Confused? Here’s Wikipedia to help out:

UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from England in the early 1990s. The genre emerged from styles such as garage house, R&B, jungle, […]