What must be the best children's cartoon on the planet at the moment.... Phineas & Ferb.

Standard MO - Phineas and Ferb on summer vacation try and find things to do (like building a roller coaster, rocket ship etc etc) whilst their elder sister tries to shop them to mum. Meanwhile, the evil Dr Doofenshmitz hatches a plot to take over the town only to be thwarted by Phineas' pet platypus, Perry, who is also a spy. This of course results in the evidence of Phineas & Ferb's actions being destroyed......

And there are great songs.... 5.00 minutes in we have the blues and in line with the recent bass cast / article on bass players we have the bass player who's " fabulous" (at 9.30 mins)

I missed this when it was released in Dec and only recently came across it.... a new Radiohead song, and with the title of the massive's favorite quality newspaper, what's not to love .... ;-)

After a couple of listens, I personally think its the best thing that have done in a long while. I liked TKOL, but this is much stronger as a standalone song than anything on there and probably would have made that good album great.

And better yet, its available as lossless WAV files direct from their website.

Can you name the Beatles songs from their Babelfish translations?

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bazmerelda/beatle_babbles

I only got 16/20. I'm sure the massive can do better.

After that, try Babelfish bands.....

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bazmerelda/band_babbles

"The Deceased Which Appreciates" anyone ?

As we are all aware, the new Kate Bush album is released on Nov 21. Certainly one I am looking forward to.....

Looking at the Kate Bush new sites recently, they are mentioning about the reviews coming up in various music magazines. This means that the music press / reviewers must have had the album a whole month or more before its released to the general public.

I realise that most of the music monthlies come out in the first couple of weeks of the month and that they want to get the album in the hands of the reviewers to meet publication dates, but why does it then take a whole month before they can get it in the shops ?

Why not release on Nov 7th or Nov 14th ? What dictates the release date - the artist or the record company ? Are there any benefits of releasing later versus earlier in the month ? Is it really better releasing an album after there's been a review printed? I can see that a very positive review would build anticipation, but what if its panned - couldn't that put some people off buying ?

Too many questions. I'm confused.

Watching Peter Gabriel on this weeks Later Live and listening to his latest album, reminded me what a fantastic album PG4 was - Shock The Monkey, Wallflower, San Jacinto......

I also remembered seeing a South Bank show documentary on the making of the PG4 album. A quick look on You Tube and here it is.....

South Bank Show - Peter Gabriel (Part 1 of 4)

I'll put the remaining 3 parts in the comments.

Well worth watching this documentary - one of those that I always remembered as being great, but actually lived up to the memory.

Favourite Peter Gabriel ?

Just got this new Beth Hart / Joe Bonamassa album "Don't Explain". The combination of his blues guitar and her voice are certainly floating my boat......

From the album, a version of I'd Rather Go Blind....

After the enjoyable podcast with Thomas Dolby, thought you might like to know that his new album, Map Of The Floating City, is this months download on B&Ws Society Of Sound.....

http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Society_of_Sound/Society_of_Sound/Music/Th...

Its a 6 monthly / Yearly subscription service with a Real World and an LSO album to download each month (rather appropriate given the classical thread below....). There is a free trial which should be sufficient to get a taster of the Thomas Dolby album.

Thats all

This brought a smile this morning....

"OK Go and the muppets? Sounds pretty exciting. Hmm. Let's watch cat videos"

Received this link to a video in a mail from our favourite Icelander's today....

http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/?utm_source=sr1108&utm_medium=email&utm_campa...

(using the embed link on the actual video doesn't seem to work - Fraser help ?)

Any idea what it is ? New album ? It shows them playing live, but the music is different to what they are playing ? Suitably cryptic

Just received my subscription copy of the latest Word (about usual timing - 1 week after the UK get). Just want to check on the Free CD's - got the usual Word CD, but not the bonus Latitude CD.

Not too bothered about missing out, just curious as to whether this is a screw up or a limitation for overseas.....

Imagine that you are recording your latest album / single and the record company come to you saying that they have found a bunch of extra cash stuffed behind the mixing console, so you can have ANY guest musician you want.

Who would it be - EC on guitar, Dr John on piano, Mark Ellen on sax solo....... the choice is yours.

Mine ? I'd go for David Bowie on Sax - for the sheer reason that it would be totally unexpected for his first activity after many years out of action.

This came up on shuffle this morning.......

(Supergrass- I'd Like To Know)

My kids were watched the latest episode of this last night......

(Horrible Histories Intro)

Any relation ???

I'm currently in China on a business trip and was trying to access the Word site - all I get is a page with a message along the lines of "Forbidden - you don't have permission to access the server".

I can log into the Torygraph, Guardian etc websites okay. So I suspect this is being blocked at Word Towers end rather than a China government block (and anyway, unless Bob Dylan really upset them, I didn't think debates on beards, Richard Thompson et al were likely to cause too much alarm in Beijing...)

I can log in if I go via a UK proxy site (hence being able to post this message).

There's a couple of billion potential subscribers here that you are missing out on.......

Enjoyed the article in the current issue looking back at the past 99 issues. I've been along for the ride since about issue 4, but most of those early issues have long gone to the recycling.....

So, I know this has come up before (and probably from me !), but its seems like an opportune time to ask again on the chances of a Word Archive - all those lovely back issues converted to PDF. Maybe as a thank you to us loyal subscribers / incentive to new subscribers - either posted in a special subscribers area or sent via CD with the magazine.

I'm sure the electronic versions of all the past issues must still exist and running a PDF version surely can't be that difficult.

My guess is that there may be some copyright issues with some of the pictures, but isn't there a way around that (especially if supplying to subscribers who have already bought).

Thoughts ? Am I alone in this desire ?

In his column in this months Word, Mr H. mentions the latest Paul Simon album as being a great album that is nice and short.

I would also add the new Danger Mouse / Danielle Luppi album "Rome" to that list. It's only 35 minutes long, but what a fantastic 35 minutes ..... A wonderful homage to Morricone's Spaghetti Western themes with superb guest appearances by Jake White and Norah Jones (although the Norah Jones input is fairly low key IMHO). As an added bonus it's more or less exactly the same time as it takes me to drive to work in a morning....

Any other great short albums we can add to the list?