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Thursday, March 14, 2019

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Monday, March 11, 2019

Spotify told me to do it . . .

Do I mean it? At 1.40 am in the morning, I do. Ask me in eight hours time and I might have changed my mind again.

Friday, March 08, 2019

Round 141: Headstart to dizziness

Darts Thrown: March 8th 2019

Blog Written: August 17th 2019

Highest Score: 135

Lowest Score: 2

Sixties: 13

100+: 3

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

I'm just here for the cool jumper. Anybody says otherwise, and I will deny it whilst blushing like a schoolboy.

Dee C Lee - See The Day

Thursday, March 07, 2019

Round 140: "You're no Mathilde Santing . . . "

Darts Thrown: March 7th 2019
Blog Written: August 17th 2019

Highest Score: 135
Lowest Score: 1
Sixties: 24
100+: 6

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

Notice how I'm not really commenting on the darts? Not much to add, is there . . . but I just thought I'd mention it anyway. At this point this has turned into a cheap excuse for me to post old music videos. By the end of the year, I might have a half decent playlist.

Next up is the Pet Shop Boys' collaboration with Liza Minnelli. I still prefer the PSB's musical hook-ups with Dusty Springfield and Patsy Kensit but this still holds up, and I can still remember their performance on the Wogan Show. That must mean something to my addled brain.

Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind

Round 139: Hating on The Liddler

Darts Thrown: March 7th 2019
Blog Written: August 17th 2019

Highest Score: 140
Lowest Score: 2
Sixties: 29
100+: 7
180s Missed: 1

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

A band forever associated with Record Mirror music magazine and Ted Chippington and The Nightingales - who I think were label mates of Fuzzbox. I probably didn't like this song back in the day - probably thought it was a bit cheesy - but nostalgia for one's lost youth can do funny things to your musical memories. The video was found via one of those Facebook groups devoted to obscure MTV videos.

Fuzzbox - Love Is The Slug

Round 138: Mrs Phillips double Maths class

Darts Thrown: March 7th 2019
Blog Written: August 16 2019

Highest Score: 134
Lowest Score: 4
Sixties: 19
100+: 4

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

A bit random but this wasn't a single I bought back in the day, it was a single I borrowed. (Yep, that's how old I am.) Borrowed it from PD in Mrs Phillips' double Maths class. I still think it's their best single despite what some American New Wavers will say. I will forever associate it with Hold Me Now by The Thompson Twins . . . another bona fide classic.

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Round 137: Richard Osman brought me here

Darts Thrown: March 6th 2019
Blog Written: August 16th 2019

Highest Score: 100
Lowest Score: 5
Sixties: 18
100+: 2

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

I love Roxy Music despite Ferry turning into the archetypal crusty old rich wanker - Morrissey, I see you, and I will get to you later - and I'm one of those weird types who enjoy equally both early art school muso-wankers Roxy Music and latter tailored made suit and soft focus video Roxy Music. I can't remember how I stumbled across this Peel Session of theirs. Probably someone on Facebook but it stuck in my mind because of Richard Osman and Ruth And Martin's music blog.