According to this day in music the number one record on the day I was born was "Those Were The Days" by Mary Hopkin. There goes even more of my street cred. Luckily, they also tell you what was number 1 in the USA on the same day as well. In my case it was …
Category Archives: General Musings
I Love My Fat Pipe
Reason number 22 to love broadband – live race timing from The Official Formula 1 Website. Sweet. The 70’s throwback and Jonny Palmer can eat my technological dust.
Nailed to the Sofa
I’ve been very quiet. I did have a great post planned and half written in my head, but I’ve been looking after the boy all afternoon. It was such hard work I only got to occasionally glance at the rugby and the cricket. I completely missed the formula 1 qualifying and any hope of touching …
How Good?
The lyric of the day is; "I’ve six things on my mind, you’re no longer one of them." Can you guess which album its from? There are a further two points on offer for the track name. Surely it can’t be true, I’m not turning into Jimmy "jewels, jewels, jangle, jangle" Saville, am I?
A little bit of politics
Excuse the diversion away from our usual content. I’ll be back with more wibbling later. Ever since O level economics, where we studied the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the general agreement on trade and tariffs (GATT) I’ve been of the opinion that trade subsidies are a bad thing. I’m not an out and out …
Perfection?
Is this the finest album ever? I rather think so.
Classy
Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. Its now a whole year that I’ve been married to my beloved. Its customary to celebrate these occasions and far be it from me to dissapoint. Romance is generally the name of the game, and dinner, dancing and fine wine the order of the day. To show my wife how …
Toss
Blender magazine in the states has recently published a list of the fifty worst artisits in popular music. You can’t argue, the artists on the list are responsible for some of the worst music ever committed to vinyl (or plastic). Not a single redeeming feature amongst any of them. Especially not that bunch of self …
Come Celebrate With Me
We all like to feel comfortable in our minority ghettos, well today I’m breaking out of mine and joining in the worldwide celebration of Left Handers Day. Yes, I’m left handed and I’m proud. I could quote all sorts of exciting statistics about being left handed, but I’m sure you’re not interested in the slightest. …
Music not to like
Here at Whats Doing I like to think that we worhsip in a fairly broad musical church, but I draw the line at anything that contains, and I quote – a suburban Gap-wearing white fratboy rapping in a bad Jamaican accent for four hours. Eww, unclean. Four hour drum solos on the other hand …