I know the Silver Seas are somewhat popular on here. Has everyone noticed that their latest single is Single Of The Week on iTunes and is therefore free?

Rich

Don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, I did have a quick check but couldn't see it.

I find Amanda Palmer patchy sometimes - love her debut album Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, but that may be just because it's Ben Folds-produced.

However, this is quite a little gem she's come up with - the songs of Radiohead on a Ukelele. I was a little wary, thinking it might be gimmicky, but the songs are actually treated really nicely, and it comes off as a good short album. Only about 50p to download too.

http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/amanda-palmer-performs-the-popular-h...

Idioteque comes off particularly nice.

And her blog on the subject is a great insight into how the music business works nowadays :

http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/836324104/ukulelehead-is-out-webcast-p...

And while you're there, try out Who Killed Amanda Palmer? Free to listen online, and voluntary donation for download too, a la In Rainbows.

I've noticed recently how a lot of my favourite albums have absolutely corking tracks at the start. I don't know if it's just the fact that they maybe get played the most, being in pole position, or if it's a symptom of a dwindling attention span!

Anyway, I decided to put a few of them together on a spotify playlist. Feel free to contribute!

Rich

http://open.spotify.com/user/qidevrich/playlist/2LeqiQglybmlGIR6Rz1D4B

Seemed to go unnoticed in these parts, so thought I'd post this link from Andrew Collins' blog :

http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/2009/02/kelly-groucutt-1945-200...

Sad death of ELO's Kelly Groucutt last week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/16/folk-legend-davey-graham-die...

Been a terrible year for losing some very influential figures...

The video below is what really started me getting into electronic music and widening my musical tastes from the Queen, Genesis, Dr Hook and Barry Manilow my parents inflicted on me. Since then my taste has broadened even further, and whilst I love most kinds of music from The Beatles to Bach, Pink Floyd to Pet Shop Boys, Neil Young to Nelly Furtado (err, maybe not that last one), it's electronic music that really got me going.

The extract is from a Tomorrow's World special from 1984. As well as the sequence below, it had Midge Ure demonstrating a midi guitar, and cutting edge sonic research from France. But the bit below really got me hooked on this new type of music and the studio process in general, and has fed my love of music for the past 25 years.

So what floated your boat? What got you so passionate about music that you spend time nattering about it on a site like this?

Rich