I've got Spotify on there plus not much else - just the usual stuff that comes with it such as Stocks, Weather, Compass.

C'mon, gang. Point me in the direction of some more interesting stuff for my new iPhone!

The whole album! Funny don't get no better.

Freeze the playback right at the start for one frame only of a much younger Word-type editor.

Whaddya say to that, like?

Most of the show is available for download at BigO: -

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=258

Get some!

Veet? Nowt!

Sensible!

More at http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/06/retro-covers.html

My taste in music was shaped in part by the activities of my parents.

Father insisted that we listen to The Light Programme on 1500m long wave because it saved the batteries on our Pifco portable radio. Many Sunday evenings were (forcibly) spent listening to a truly distorted edition of Sing Something Simple on account of a PP9 battery that was well past its sell by date.

Mother preferred the music of her homeland. Swedish folk music dominated the family Dansette. This music used to drive me out of my head.

Mark E. Smith? Captain Beefheart? Who needed them? I had the fuzz-toned Cliff Adams Singers and Jokkmokks Jokke.

Do any other readers have horror stories about their musical upbringing that they wish to share?

Just discovered this track on Spotify

http://open.spotify.com/track/2nCNYAgyUOgMUqCAdgMBo8

I don't often get excited about new music (on account of being old, cantankerous, stupid & having heard it all before, etc.) but this is both (fairly) recent and (rather) wonderful.

Blimey, I might actually have to buy a record made after 1969...

Radcliffe & Maconie were banging in about this last night. The action starts at about 1.17 - but be sensible, and watch the whole clip!

Light entertainment, yeah!

A different Wolfgang. Not kinky, but loads of great streaming. Dig!

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/

Seems that U2 have shifted some of their financial affairs to The Netherlands to reduce their tax burden. Is this type of fiscal chicanery altogether compatible with Bono's well-publicised anti-global poverty stance?

Read the article: - http://www.counterpunch.org/browne02272009.html

U2 Must Believe In Tax Justice: Dublin Feb 25 2009 from aaronrip on Vimeo.

Bonnie & Todd sing Jim Steinman. See how much of this you can stand...

Why don't you believe it when you finally found the truth
You've been drinking poison water from the fountain of youth

I adore Todd. Some of Jim Steinman's stuff is indispensable (Bat Loaf & Sisters Floodland). Even Bonnie had her moments (More Than A Lover - it's on YouTube, check it out...). But put 'em all together...

C'mon, readers. Jopin in and post what you consider to be the worst of the worst....

There's a great 12 track John Lennon collector's item free with today's Mail On Sunday! No Beatles collection is complete without this one.

Which other artists should have their back catalogues plundered by the MOS? Personally, I'd like to see a Morrissey compilation - EMI have his solo stuff, WEA have The Smiths; neither label seems to mind licensing stuff to the Mail. They could even do a 50/50 Morrissey/Smiths best-of compilation!

Oh, go on. Why not?.

What do other readers think?

Check out http://kats-karavan.blogspot.com/ for loads of old John Peel programmes, including his first ever Nightride from March 1968!

Most of the downloadable programmes are pre-1970, which is just fine by me. But there's, er, some stuff from 2002. It may be a while before I devote any hard disc space to these. Which brings me on to - was John Peel any good after, say, 1980?

I'd have to say, er, probably not. Post punk, listening to his show became for me more and more of a chore although most times that I tuned in I would find myself scribbling down the name something that was worthy of further investigation.

What do other readers think?

I must add that in the late 70s Peel's show was still great fun. I remember in 1977 Peel played a Desperate Bicycles single followed by all of side 2 of the latest Santana album. Now that's what I call radio. Yeah! And in 1978, he played Radio Birdman and The Slits directly after 3 tracks from the first Dave Gilmour solo album... http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/john_peel_page.htm

You'll need to register first to hear the Radio Rewind stuff but doing so is very, very worthwhile. Here he is introducing, for the first time on radio, White Riot by The Clash http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/john_peel_page.htm

On a techy note, the kats-karavan downloads are in FLAC, for which you'll need a media player such as Winamp (http://www.winamp.com/player) or VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/).

Please, DO NOT heed this man's advice and strip the DRM protection from BBC iplayer downloads. Because the files can then be kept on a hard drive for as long as one likes, watched on a regular TV set and even burnt to DVD.

And that would be absolutely wrong. So, don't do it.

Unsurprisingly, the fairuse4wm tool has been removed from the majority of download sites on the internet. You'll be lucky to find a copy using a straightforward Google search. About bloody time! Who need this piece of copyright-busting FILTH anyway?

Regrettably, the purge has not affected the world of P2P where anyone can download a fully working fairuse DRM stripper in minutes. Why oh why oh why etc.

Here's a time waster that I nicked from http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=151645. It's also done the rounds on emails.

Your Debut Album

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that's your debut album.

So....my band is called: - Villain (Disambiguation)
Our album is: - No Ego To Injure
This is the cover: -

Can any readers beat that?