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Posted by paintyface on 29 May 2009 - 6:08pm.
Hello I was wondering if any of you can help? I only use my computer for emails and to visit this site,maybe spotify the odd time. Do you know of any good websites out there, music ,comedy films anything that you recommend I will try.Thanks
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Have you tried....
Stumbleupon? Install it. Tell it your interests and click the button. You'll find a lot of great (and bizarre) sites.
Royal Mail postcode finder...
fill in those annoying gaps in your address book...
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder;jsessionid=PWPO3V...
You could always try my blog
Punky nuggets, funky rarities, obscure cover versions, bespoke mixes and exclusive interviews with Marco Pirroni, The Undertones ad Go Home Productions
http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/
*prepares to have entry deleted*
OK...
just as soon as I'm done on Royal Mail postcode finder.
OK...
just as soon as I'm finished on Royal Mail postcode finder.
highly recommended
Yours is a great site Dave.I'm a regular visitor
Dave C that's a fantastic site!
I just it visited for the first time after reading your post. I've already saved it as a favourite.
Who knew Barba Streisand did a version of Life on Mars or that Popcorn was a cover?
new
Is this yours,DaveC? Excellent stuff this will keep me going for ages. Will get back to you about this when Ive had a good look cheers
Thanks chaps
Dig around and you'll also find the Keef demo of Gimme Shelter, Merry Clayton's (the lung-busting backing vocalist on the finished version) funky cover of Shelter, Bowie's version of Penny Lane, Elvis's cover of Lady Madonna, Reggae reworks of Telestar and Mission Impossible and the original garage band version of Beaver Patrol later covered by PWEI
If you like aeroplanes ...
...try www.airliners.net
The photo search database is amazing if, like me, you occasionally feel the need to track down pics of Braniff Airlines stretch DC8's from Ringway in 1978. Er, I'll go now.
flickr
you can spend hours looking at ordinary peoples snaps or go to musuems pages and see the amazing stuff there
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmaritimemuseum/
Baeblemusic
has music-related stuff that may appeal - kind of a YouTube for the massive ...
news
Thaank you very much Massive, I will give them all a go as soon as my daughter gets of Littlest Petshop VIP,[dont ask ]
Go here
It's actually listed just to the right of me as I type this "WFMU Blog" It is a frigging GOLDMINE. It's a collection of fully downloadable free music tracks. The weirder the better.
I don't know how big it is but it seems endless
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/mp3s/index.html
This one has been recommended several times on this blog but another time won't hurt. The size is a lot less daunting than the one above. If you ever wanted to hear a Japanese version of Yellow Submarine this is the place to find it.
http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio
Too many to mention
Most music blogs have a links section. Go and explore. that's half the fun.
http://hypem.com/ is very good for mp3 links
Project Gutenberg
Etexts of hundreds of out-of-copyright classics. Download text files of Gogol, Poe, nineteen century back-issues of Punch. Did you ever read Fortean Times? "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions" by Charles Mackay is here, complete and unabridged.