It’s not as good as Channel 4′s Meet The Superheroes, but then very few ads are, but I saw another sports trailer today which is really rather good. The ad, for Sky Sports, set to the Rolling Stones classic You Can’t…
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The Monkees – Daydream Believer
First post for a long time, and I thought I’d fall back on my old friend, Hunch FM. 5th song in, was this, Daydream Believer, possibly one of the most perfect pieces of pop music ever recorded. They may have…
#shfl11: Jim Hendrix Experience – Gypsy Eyes
It seems quite apt that after James Brown, the next artists I should find as part of #shfl11 is Jim Hendrix. In many ways he’s been as influential as Brown, and is certainly as close to my heart as The…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 60s, cover version, Jim Hendrix, psychedelia, rock, the beatles
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Posted in Music
#shfl11: The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
It’s quite apt that the latest track to pop up on my iPod as part of my plan to listen to, and write about, a random song every day in 2011 (I missed this weekend as I was travelling), is…
Tagged with: #shfl11, 60s, psychedlia, Revolver, rock, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the beatles, The Chemical Brothers
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Posted in Music
#shfl11: Small Faces – Lazy Sunday
When you stop to think about it, it’s amazing that The Beatles ever broke America: whilst their music was, and is, quite obviously brilliant, it’s also, often, very, very British. And parochial, eccentric British rock is something our former colonial…
If Paul McCartney Was A Project Manager
Via Codegent comes this delightful visualisation of Hey Jude as a flow chart at love all this. After that, it only seems right to leave you with song in question.
Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air
You know how sometimes a song just pops into your head and you have no idea why? I know that I once found Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach playing on my internal jukebox for a whole day, with no obvious explanation:…
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone (Live At Manchester Free Trade Hall)
I’m just browsing around YouTube this afternoon and, via Hendrix, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones, ended up at the amazing live version of Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan that forms the ending of the documentary No Direction…
Rolling Stones – She’s A Rainbow (from the Sony Bravia Bunnies ad)
The new Sony Bravia bunnies ad features She’s Like A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones. It’s one of the best Beatles songs Lennon & McCartney never wrote.. The Rolling Stones – She’s Like A RainbowIn 1967 The Beatles released Sgt.…
Jimi Hendrix – Crosstown Traffic
Jimi Hendrix was probably the most influential musician of the 1960s, and Crosstown Traffic is one of many of his tunes worthy of the title Best Song of the 60s.. I’m flying to Seattle tomorrow for a conference and was…
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