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Friday, 9 February 2007
snowy and worky
It's been a strange, cold, calm couple of days - Christopher's school was closed yesterday, because of a three-inch snowfall overnight, but I stumbled into town, arriving twenty minutes before the coach, which took me into work.
Work itself was rather bizarre - our theory was that people had a bit of a lie-in and didn't turn up to work until about 11.30, since it was relatively peaceful until about that time, at which point all three phones rang constantly for nearly half-an-hour!
Still, that'll probably be it for this year. Strange how the UK has a 'snow day' - often just the one - but it still causes chaos.
pop music
A long long time ago, a bloke called Stephen Duffy (now writing with Robbie Williams) was in Duran Duran until they got signed. A long, long time later, he and Duran Duran's keyboardist, Nick Rhodes formed a band called "The Devils" and made some jolly tunes. They've even got a Myspace page.
That's about it, I'm afraid.. I'm tired now and should've been in bed ages ago, instead of ripping a few more CDs to the burgeoning MP3 collection (we're up to 5000 songs now!)
Posted by james at February 9, 2007 10:51 PM
Comments
Tin Tin Duffy? What a great record "Kiss Me" was and The Lilac Time stuff too. Ah, my youth, where did it all go...?
Posted by: Emalyse at March 16, 2007 6:36 PM
The very same..
Thanks for your comment, Emalyse. The 80s - best decade for music *ever* (discuss!)
james
Posted by: james at March 16, 2007 11:12 PM
Hmmm, I'm a great believer in there being no such think as better only different (as it's all subjective really). Lots of plus points for me though: last rebellious teen decade, lots of politics and a diverse range of music available to a mainstream audience (could you get a record like Laurie Anderson's O Superman to number two in todays charts, download or otherwise?). Minus points for the dominance of video, MTV (nice video, shame about the song!)and the creeping move in the late 80's to targeting 12-14 year old girls as a key demographic plus the demise of independents and dominance of big labels again.Rant over. I'm off to hug my old vinyl records.
Posted by: Emalyse at March 17, 2007 7:35 AM
Fair point.. there's nowt wrong with being subjective, though - I quite enjoy having an opinion, and giving everyone the opportunity to try and change it :D
(I still maintain the 80s was best despite "Don't Mess With My Toot Toot" and "Say I'm your number one" :D)
www.sptimesphotos.com/blogs/80s/2006/06/80-worst-songs-of-80s-top-10.html : Someone else's opinion..
I've just bought a second-hand turntable (my last one died) but haven't had the opportunity to wire it up yet. Which is a shame, because when we're downstairs Lenni often asks if she can play "a big CD"!
Posted by: james at March 17, 2007 9:56 AM
Well yes,nothing wrong with an opinion but one persons dream song is another ones pet hate (wrong decade by for me I loathe Hotel California- aarrgggh).Plenty of rubbish in the 80's too(Shadupya face by Joe Dolce -admittedly catchy though- keeping Vienna by Ultravox off the number 1 slot???) I will concede that the top 40 then had a wider variety of music genres in retrospect.Oooh, Rene and Renatta anyone?
Posted by: Emalyse at March 17, 2007 8:51 PM
