Posts from 16th July 2006
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Jul 06
LONG JOHN BALDRY – “Let The Heartaches Begin”
Brazenly unconvincing love-lost flummery by the same people who wrote the previous Number One. Baldry, wearing his serious bluesman’s hat, later professed to hate the record but listening to it I don’t believe him for a second: this sounds like it was a huge amount of fun to make, and it’s reasonably fun to listen to, too. Baldry chews up every word – if he thought he was going to get another hit, or even another go in the recording studio, you couldn’t tell it from this – and he reaches a peak of endearing hamminess in the half-spoken final chorus. He’s backed by all the fuss and pomp of contemporary production trappings: what the Beatles and Engelbert – opposing bosses of ’67 pop – had in common was a maximalist approach to arrangements, and every canny hitmaker seemed to follow suit.
Attention Ewing
Every UK number one single ever is up for auction.
On multiple formats by the looks of things. Although auctioning off a digital download strikes me as somewhat silly.
Still, you don’t really need to buy a house, do you?
bang goes getting any writing done jan-mar 2007 :(
Untitled
by Thomas Pynchon
List Price: $35.00
Price: $22.05
Availability: This title will be released on December 5, 2006.
Hardcover: 992 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (December 5, 2006)
Language: English
next: microsoft bought out by sticklebricks™
via the awesome dense rigour of “political theory daily review” — which i confess i don’t access daily, though i THINK YOU SHOULD, here is an even more awesome BABBAGE ENGINE made of LEGO, in which the maker, andrew carol, also explains how the babbage machine worked
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