Have we done this ?

Surely the greatest ever drum/tambourine intro in pop and now copied endlessly; memorably by Jesus and Mary Chain for Just Like Honey but also arguably by the Yardbirds, the Carpenters, Mercury Rev, Brendan Benson and Candi Staton. Here's my Spotify playlist with 20 of the best: http://open.spotify.com/user/chaileyjem/playlist/1hPjNeaIHmpDaO6WeCY7eA

There's a thread over here which lists hundreds. (many of which don't count i'd say)
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&thre...

The best ever stab is this sadly overlooked lost triumph from Johnny Boy with "you were the generation who bought more shoes than you deserve"

Boom Boom-Boom Cha! Any more ?
Sorry i woke up with it in my head and wanted to share it with you people. i'll go back to work now.

In the new October issue I've written a piece about how and why I used to keep a diary of all my record purchases between 1980-1991.
If you want to see the diary in full then i put the 1980-1984 book on Flickr a while back.

You'll also find if you like this sort of stuff 1989-1991 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemstone/sets/72157624738258203/
Sadly it is of great regret that i think 1984-1989 is completely lost.

And eek the back of the science class made up synthpop heavy chart that i compiled with schoolmates from 1981 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jemstone/sets/72157624784982097/

And finally The One Show clip which i mention at the end where Paul Heaton reveals himself as outdoing even me in the diary stakes can be found on YouTube of course.

Obviously keen on hearing from anyone else or seeing any other evidence of this desire for a more permanent record of then, and their merits or not over and above yer spotifylastfmitunes.

I'm a bit of a fan of The Archers. It rather crept on me. At first it was just Sunday mornings. Now I tend to crave it during the week as well. It annoys me and delights me in equal amounts. The despair and persistence of the heartbreaking Jack Woolley storyline as opposed to how a relationship could break up because someone gets a PR job in Leicester.
I was also rather taken aback only yesterday to discover that current lovely youngish Radio1 DJ Greg James is a big fan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/photos/gregjames/5871#gallery5871

Anyway a poser for you all. Which character/actor has sung on a No.1 record ?
I was rather surprised when I found out. (Its not Pip). According to Wikipedia of course.

These two lovely specimens wondering down, I assume, Carnaby Street are clearly in the only (cheap) stock footage left that is *the* shorthand for the sixties. I must have seen this footage now over a hundred times in all manner of music, history, news docs. And sure enough it turned up again (very briefly) in Andrew Marr's A History of Modern Britain recently repeated on BBC 4 when a montage for the "swinging" bit of the sixties was required. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007n1dx/Andrew_Marrs_History_of_Mo... (see on iPlayer at 2.58)

Am i dreaming ? I'm sure it turns up everywhere. I really do wonder what has happened to this pair. Presumably they are now in their sixties. And why does it always appear. Is it labelled. "Hippy sixties, long hair" or something in the catalogue. Surely there must be something else that could be used :) Any other similar type images perhaps ?

I listened to this in bed last night and thought the massive might also be into it. Its an episode of the regular Radio 4 documentary about er, words!. This week was all about the origination of music (sub) genres.
Stuart Maconie is the main pundit essentially arguing that all the key genres (funk, rock n roll, jazz) are slang for er, sex. There's a trip to Fopp in Bristol and the lovely Norman Lebrecht chips in.
Grime, dubstep and garage all make an appearance. but surprisingly no mention of shambling, indiepop or twee though. (although Paul Morley did a brilliant series on Radio 2 last year about some of them)

Listen again as they say...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ljzdh

(I do work for BBC Radio in my dayjob but I'm not recommending this cos i'm up to some evil viral marketing or something.)

Clay Davies, Marlo, Lester and Chris say "vote obama". Surely in the bag then.

Has Culture Secretary Andy Burnham been scouring the Word blog recently and looking at those entertaining entries in the TOTP competition.
Anyway a desire for a revamped TOTP, family music show was a surprising plea in a speech last night to the RTS.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/minister_speeches/5483.aspx

"Television at its best has traditionally operated as a showcase for new talent, catapulting the new names into the spotlight. I used to love the fact that Tony Wilson, God rest his soul, used to abuse his position and throw an unknown North West band on to play out the credits on Granada Reports on a Friday.

Where is the successor programme to Top of the Pops bringing the family together to discuss new music? Wasn’t it a good thing to give people a mixed presentation of different music where the same bands couldn’t appear two weeks running? "

well this should be down your alley. basically a simple make your own mix tape site with thousands of 12 track mp3 mix "tapes"
confusingly called er. http://www.muxtape.com/

here's a sad one
http://mattpayton.muxtape.com/

here's a happy one
http://noah.muxtape.com/

but there's thousands. hours and hours of browsing.

To carry on the rather loose theme of the week, this is a pic of a sign i found in Resident Records in Brighton. The faintly apologetic tone for how difficult it is to put records/cds in categories that the punter might understand is of course starting to recede as a problem. Last FM don't have some bloke going round scratching his head worrying about whether the pigeon detectives are "indie rock" do they ? All that difficult music discovery stuff is slightly more sophisticated than hoping you might see a cover you like in the "alt-country" section.

Its a great shop by the way. in case you're passing by (I don't work there . i just like it). The title of the photo by the way refers to IA which stands for the rather earnest and useful web discipline/career; Information Architecture where people (they used to be of course librarians) worry about how information is modelled.

'Charlie Brown. You're the only person I know who could take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem"

Still on CBS every year in the states and has been every year since 1965. It really is about the birth of Jesus. Has the scene(s) parodied by the Hey Ya Charlie Brown/Outkast video. Snoopy is funny. Has *the* finest, mournful jazz score from Vince Guaraldi including the first appearance of the "linus and lucy" theme (you will know it!)
Never on british tv for some reason. A relief after the astonishing, ambitious and mad Liverpool nativity. (the icicle works ? david yip ?)