Bowie - It wasnโ€™t just his music that was ahead of its time.


๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽฌ Listening to Steve Howe in interview and my mind keeps hearing Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) being interviewed in Love Actually.


I can find a song in ๐ŸŽ ๐ŸŽต Music.
I can play that song in ๐ŸŽ Music.
I can add that song to my library in ๐ŸŽ Music.
I can add that song to a playlist in ๐ŸŽ Music.
AND THEN …
In the playlist in ๐ŸŽ Music it is greyed out and I can’t play it.

What is up with that?


Some people respond to me with musical references.

I do it. A lot. In reverse? Not so much.

This is an example of someone who has done it a few times. โค๏ธ

So, may I introduce you to - no, not ‘Billy Shears’.

Elvis.

No, not that Elvis.

This Elvis.

๐Ÿ”— ๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ“ผ Elvis Costello Performance


๐Ÿ“ผ ๐ŸŽต Orbital

Gorgeous. Totally gorgeous. Welling with tears.

In the spirit of John Cooper Clarke and Simon Armitage.

๐Ÿ”— From my friends at Steam

You’ll be hearing more about them soon as part of a larger initiative I am working on.

Oh - and if you like Orbital - you might also enjoy ๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ“ผ ๐Ÿ”— this


๐Ÿ’ฌ ๐ŸŽต

Ted is often very wise.


๐ŸŽˆ031/366 | ๐Ÿšš Moving In

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a photographic image of ‘cars moving in stereo’

โ€™A photographic image of 'cars moving in stereo' By 'Leonardo'

A lot going on today - net net, ๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ“ผ this came to mind.

When all is said and done and after itโ€™s all come together Iโ€™ll come back and explain in the comments.

If you can’t wait - there’s a clue in both audio and visual.

Until then. Enjoy โ€ฆ


LATER

1st February

Teejay and om

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om.co/2024/01/2…

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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I learned about a ๐ŸŽตmusical ๐ŸŽป instrument museum through a Substack a couple of weeks ago. Iโ€™m a sucker for that โ€˜kindโ€™ of museum.

Imagine my delight to discover that in another couple of weeks, when we have moved into our new digs, it will be just a 6 minute walk to visit.


There’s ๐Ÿ“ผ๐ŸŽต something in the air. Anybody else feeling it?

It started happening last week. All good.

But .. not all good apparently ๐Ÿ˜–

I tried to find a post on my site to link to - #FAIL.

This is the message

2024-01-23 11:34:07 Error: Error building site: open content/2022/01/01/the-first-message.md: no such file or directory

๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ But it is there

Gnashing teeth.

Talk about a downer!


If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.

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๐ŸŽต Hadn’t heard this for years. Still love it.

๐Ÿ“ผ Streetband - Toast


Steve Winwood and Carlos - and no - I do not know how I missed this 2 to 3 years ago - but missed it I did.

๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ”— Whiter Shade of Pale

Well worth recording. Well worth a listen.

๐Ÿ“ผ .. and then a little older. … GROOVIN!


Three different links from three different sources covering ๐ŸŽต and the future thereof.

TL;DR … It’s not looking good.

๐Ÿ”— The death of package fees, consolidation and layoffs have sharks swimming away in record numbers into management. - The Ankler

๐Ÿ”— How platforms killed Pitchfork? - Casey Newton

๐Ÿ”— Why is music journalism collapsing? - Ted Gioia


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A Cake By The Sea - courtesy of Leonardo.

Itโ€™s true. My โ€˜under the rockโ€™ habitat continues into 2024.

I asked a six year old yesterday if he liked music โ€ฆ yes โ€ฆ so whatโ€™s your favorite song?

๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ“ผ This one

I hadnโ€™t heard of DNCE - but liked this one enough to poke around โ€ฆ wait โ€ฆ itโ€™s Joe Jonas?

Personally, never a big fan of the Jonas brothers - but adding this to my list of (two so far) singers that switched me. The other one is Harry Styles (never a big fan of One Direction).

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.

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๐Ÿ”— ๐ŸŽต Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs

Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.


๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Finally steadily working my way through โ€˜The Morning Showโ€™ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last nightโ€™s episode โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ”— ๐ŸŽต One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra

Gorgeous. So of course I had to look it up โ€ฆ


๐Ÿชฆ Oh no โ€ฆ Denny? Thankyou for the ๐ŸŽต music.


๐ŸŽตGabrielโ€™s โ€˜Live and Let Liveโ€™ .. just one of many great tracks on I/O .. anyone else feel Christine and the Queens during the opening of that song?


๐Ÿชฆ ๐ŸŽต Ba Ba Ba .. and another one bites the dust โ€ฆ

Bye George.


๐Ÿชฆ RIP Geordie Walker ๐ŸŽต