Entries filed under 'Music'
Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Filed under Music on 18.12.07
I listen to a lot of different music—from Mozart to Metallica and everything in between—but this last week, my Last.fm charts have been dominated by just one album.
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea has been on near-constant rotation since I received it courtesy of an Amazon wishlist Christmas gift from Carolyn Wood (impeccable taste, as ever). From home to iPod to work and back again, it’s the first thing I put on, and when it’s finished I go straight back to the beginning.
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Review: The New Pornographers, KOKOs, London - Oct 4th 2007
Filed under Music on 5.10.07
There is no Dan and no Neko, but as The New Pornographers close out the brief European leg of their current tour in the luscious surroundings of Camden’s KOKO club, it doesn’t seem important that only three-quarters of the band are here tonight—all that matters are the pitch-perfect pop songs, and they have those in abundance.
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Pornos playing the UK in October
Filed under Music on 2.08.07
The New Pornographers, purveyors of rather excellent pop tunage, are playing a single show in the UK this Autumn to promote their new album, Challengers.
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Currently listening to
Filed under Music on 25.04.07
...over and over and over. “A triumphant return to form”, were I a vocabulary-crippled tabloid music reviewer.
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What I listened to this year
Filed under Music, Personal on 30.12.06
Kottke just posted his top 25 artists of 2006 according to Last.fm, so I thought it’d be interesting to see what I’ve been mostly listening to this year as well.
Top 25
According to my Last.fm profile, these were my favourite artists over the last year:
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Coding music
Filed under Music on 2.08.06
Recently I’ve been working on a large-scale modernisation project, reworking old table-layouts and inline styles into nice, clean modern CSS and XHTML.
For this sort of head-down coding work I’ll stick the headphones on and fire up iTunes – I find that anything fast works for me when I’m coding, so lately I’ve been listening to a lot of thrash metal and drum’n’bass, with a bit of hard house thrown in from time to time.
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My slightly embarrassing musical past
Filed under Music, Personal on 5.06.06
While I wait for iTunes to import the tracks I’ve chosen for my latest podcast, it seems an opportune moment to write a little something about my musical history. I’ve also finally got round to ripping all my old demo tapes to MP3 format, so there are some choice tracks linked at the end of this post.
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My iTunes signature
Filed under Music on 2.02.06
Courtesy of the iTunes Signature Maker – listen to my iTunes signature (MP3 file, 444KB)
Apparently it’s based on frequent plays, but I can’t really recognise anything apart from Michael Jackson…
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Ba-dum tish!
Filed under Music on 21.01.06
Partly because it’s way cool, and partly to see how this embedded video thing from Google Video works… check out this amazing 8-minute drum solo by a 12-year-old kid!
Man I wish I were that good – I think I might start training one of the girls now; start them young…
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A .torrent too far...
Filed under Music on 20.07.05
After my recent foray into illegal music downloads I happened to mention to a work colleague that I was in search of various albums from my teen metal years, in particular Megadeth’s Rust In Peace.
