Just out of interest, when a video on this site says "embedded video disabled by request" who has requested it ? Is this a copyright issue - just wondered given that I can go to the internets YouTubes and watch away merrily.

Someone recently posted a video which I think was I am Kloot. I can't find it again (I don't think the band name was actually on the original post) but the post was something like "My new favourite best thing ever " or some such title.

Can some kind soul please point me to the right place or re-post the video

Thanks

It’s a cold December evening and I was bored, OK. So, in preparation for the time when they run out of celebrities and they they have to dredge the barrel down to the people who’s main successes in life have been “ enjoying themselves a bit” and “getting 3 children to their teenage years without stabbing old ladies for crack money”, I decided to think about my music choices for Desert Island Discs (how quaint that sounds nowadays).

I have often wondered how on earth anyone distills a lifetime’s love of music down to 8 tracks, so I decided to start by listing ALL tracks that were important to me. Not just stuff I really like, you understand, but those tracks that I know I would scream out for, the ones that I just can’t imagine never hearing again, the ones I could slap other people for not caring about enough. These MATTER(iTunes makes this much easier, by the way, if you have digitised everything you own).

The Rules :

1. I had to own it. If someone else gave it to me or I downloaded it, borrowed it and never gave it back etc. then, clearly, I don’t love it enough to include it.

2. I had to REALLY love the music – sentimental attachments on their own are not enough.

3. The scourge of all those “vote for your favourite No,1 of all time” charts where some dingbat with the attention span of a haddock votes for last week’s – nothing under 6 months old. even if I like it, it’s too early to tell.

4. Be ruthless – if there’s the slightest hesitation, it’s out.

Eight tracks is clearly nonsense. My interest was in what size the first cut would be. Wait for it…

264

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I know I could knock a handful off for various reasons, but 8 – forget it. I think that just about scuppers me and Kirsty ever cosying up a la Morrissey (that and a lack of any discernable talent, of course), but I can dream.

It's probably a mark of a vacuous existence but I felt proud today to enter the "Hot Topics - Last 7 days" list for the first time ever.

For coves like Valparaiso in 5c this may be a workaday occurrence but it has made my week. My only worry is that perhaps I really owe this to Hepworth Major for kicking it off (on E-book readers) in the first place. I will blot out this thought with another glass of Merlot.

Go on, admit it, you want it too.

Well written, of course, nicely argued and contains plenty of truths, but overall...WRONG.

E-Readers will not fail. The only things between them and world domination are price (which will fall) and the fact that no-one has yet managed to get the balance right between a written page that looks like a proper book on the one hand and a page that has the vibrancy of a magazine page on the other.

When that happens (and it will - who'd bet against Apple's infamous "tablet" getting that right) the growth will be huge.

I hope actual books are never killed off for all the reasons that DH gave and more, but I fear that may be wishful thinking. The online mag we've just received looks great, the only problem is I have to look at it on my PC screen. Get the hardware and the price right and I could happily forego the glossy paper.

Sitting in my garden with the paper and a cuppa I was gripped by the urge to finally use the technology (an iPhone and a wireless connection) to post something pithy and illuminating just because it feels so much smarter than being in front of my PC and a desk.

But it isn't.

I hope this is an acceptable use of the Massive forum, but it's really doing my head in and NOTHING seems to be able to help find this piece of music.

Anybody recognise this ?

Shazam doesn't work on it and I can't find it anywhere else.

Help appreciated.

PS : the background noises are because it's from Masterchef !

I'm sure the new Doctor was wearing a Word T-Shirt under his hoodie, about half way through.

Not that I watch it, mind you.

Am I missing something here ? I can see the interest in generating the first five tracks on my iPod - quite a good exercise occasionally, throwing up some songs I had completely forgotten about (especially on an iPod with nearly 17000 tracks - yes I am that sad git who has digitised just about everything he owns) but does anyone really read off the several hundred other posts ?

All it serves to do is to remind you that there's so much music in the world that you can't possibly hear it all. What else ?

I consider myself reasonably well schooled in this music thing, but I've made it this far without even having heard OF The Bathers, never mind anything they've ever produced. Did ANYONE actually go and seek out music by this act, or any one of countless others in the lists of whom I would bet 90% of the well-informed readership of Word Magazine have no inckling whatsoever.

Rant over.

Mention of XTC in a recent thread prompted me to think of artists who produced albums that are really, actually, no honestly it really is, up there with their best after a protracted lay-off, split or just a period of albums that were not too great.

The "great return to form" only to realise two weeks later that its nothing but, has been widely discussed, not least on the Podcast, but who really DID manage it ?

XTC's Apple Venus, followed up by Wasp Star, are right up there with the early albums.