🎶🎵 7 years ago I was listening to The Loop, which is probably why I wrote A Letter To Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann. They were clearly chatting about music and I obviously took issue.

  • Never heard anything back.

  • Not sure why it was Merlin and not Dave on the show.


If you don’t like 🎶🎵 Yes … Don’t bother.

If you like Yes… But hate Topographic Oceans … Don’t bother.

Otherwise, this is a fun YouTube.


🎶🎵 NME on Blink-182’s New Single

I really like Edging … BUT .. I take issue with the label ‘progressive’.

Yes - I think they have progressed from some of their earlier work - but no - it is not ‘Progressive’ .. am I getting pedantic in my old age?


🎶🎵 The Turtles were NEVER a ‘silly’ band. NEVER!


🎶🎼🎵 New (to me) from New Zealand … Tablefox


🎶🎼🎵 Love me some Tears For Fears … just a few favourites from a recent session … songs ‘old’ and ‘new’. Enjoy!


🎶🎵 Apparently.

According to ‘Albums’.


🎙️🎵🎶 Nice to listen in to your conversation @martinfeld and @lmika - thankyou.

A different kind of musical note … check out the work of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Viv provided ‘MC’ services for all those lines you referenced, including;

“Spanish Guitar and introducing acoustic guitar”

The Bonzo’s track Death Cab For Cutie also gave that band their name.

Love me some solid (English) Progressive.




🎶 🎵 🎼 This just spotted in The Grauniad

But, if you only have one click in you use it here … if you want to spend a good 30 minutes crying (in a good way).


🎶 It’s a cover of Alan Parson’s Eye In The Sky.

… a very good cover - and with just two people performing.

You will only be disappointed if you don’t like the original to begin with.



🎶 Vangelis Dead: Oscar-Winning Blade Runner Composer Gone at 79

Chariots of Fire seems to be the other headline.

I haven’t seen one that reads ‘Keyboard Player for Aphrodite’s Child’.


🎵 RIP Klaus



🎶🎵 As a 60s ‘pop song’, 🔗 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound’s Kites has always had a place in my heart.

As a progressive band, 🔗 Gentle Giant sits in my personal pantheon of musical influence.

Just discovered today that the latter were essentially the same band as the former. 🤯


🎶 🎵 Remember Labi Siffre?

I liked his stuff at the time, but never really kept track of him.

This podcast with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt woke me up to everything this man is and stands for.

Well worth a listen.


🎶🎵From You Know Where.


🎶🎼🎵Dave Grohl calls Liam Gallagher “one of the last remaining rock stars”

I like Dave Grohl. I’m enjoying his new book. But that doesn’t mean to say I agree with him on everything.

This is one of those. Vehement disagreement.