Music

Anything You Can Do

July 23, 2007

The latest advertisement from Mercedes is one best-timed and well-pitched pieces of advertising I have seen for a long time.

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Memories Of The Walkman

August 13, 2005

I was a avid singles collector at the time and the little Walkman unit wasn’t ever going to play vinyl 45s. So, at this point in my life I became a compilation tape wizard.

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Digital Download Chart

August 13, 2004

Is the new digital download chart a good thing?

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Disappointing Frustrating

August 15, 2003

Why is it that it’s always the small stuff in life that is the most infuriating?

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Pride 2003

July 26, 2003

For the first time in many, many year, the Pride festival took place in Hyde Park and I was there.

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Pop

January 28, 2003

I am currently listening to pop. This is a difficult thing to write. Pop is not considered to be a credible music genre by people who listen to lots of music. Pop is considered the home of the boy band. Pop is the cheap and nasty side of music.

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Number One

July 14, 2002

Well for no reason at all, I decided to look up what was the number one UK single on this day in 1982 (I don’t even know why I chose that year). Well, it’s a bit of a minefield as it somewhat depends on which chart you count as being the “official” chart.

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