Any Major Dude With Half A Heart music blog has posted another Intro Quiz on his blog.
This time, the decade under scrutiny is the 90s - for any SPGB comrades looking in, that'll be the 1990s - and it's the same deal as the last time I mentioned the quiz on the blog: "20 intros to songs . . . all 5-7 seconds in length.".
See how many you can get. I was lucky to get 10/20. It just wasn't my decade for music.
. . . it's a power pop advent calender.
OK, I'm six days late in mentioning it, but with my bloggers block you should be grateful.
The consistently excellent Rho-Xs music blog has three albums from '78 available for 'sampling'. Unfortunately, neither of of my two favourite albums from that year - 'Parallel Lines' and 'All Mod Cons' - make the final cut, but the albums chosen are worth investigating.
Devo have always left me cold - the studied whackiness can be off putting - but from time to time, I'll hear some music on tv or on the radio, think it's rather good then bite my lip when I discover that it's an old Devo track.
Which sorts of leads me into saying that the XTC album profiled, 'White Music', was never one of my favourite albums from one of my favourite groups for the self-same reason that I've never really got Devo. The music's too jerky and synthetic, and if I was a member of the XTC fanclub, I'd get kicked out for stating that I'm happy that keyboardist, Barry Andrews, went onto pastures new. Maybe XTC did settle back into more conventional new wave poppy songwriting style after his departure, but they were the better group because of it.
Oh, and there's a couple of Kate Bush albums from '78 featured as well in the post.
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (23)
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 23rd of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @MySpace.
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This week's top quote:
"Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it." Karl Marx, The Grundrisse, 1857
Jimmy Greaves goes up in my estimation by about 750%:
""What's the point of giving us all medals now? It's really not necessary."In 1966 we knew you'd only get a medal if you played. Those were the rules. I've never been bitter."
. . . which means that the Celtic/Milan game is over. Celtic lose 1-0 but go through to the last 16 of the Champions League because Benfica beat Shakhtar 2-1 in Donetsk.
Whatever. Celtic were lacklustre and disappointing. Back to . . .
