What song are you listening to?

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One of my exes got lucky to this song...the old Dawg dropped her panties in a moment of being...umm...available and listening to shit like this.....then dumped his ass the next morning cuz all she wanted was a quick *brush* but he couldn't complain because he got some good action. Walking away the way I did finally put some closure on that chapter in my life. He was still trying to re -establish ties while I was walking down the aisle  

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"Rio" is an underrated Sunday morning record.

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Guilty pleasure today

If I did my ultimate 80s cd this would definitely be there...

Not a song but Dennis Wilson's album, Pacific Ocean Blue. Must get stoned listening to it one day. Might make half more sense.

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Not 'what song are you listening to' per se, but it seemed like the most appropriate thread ... last night (as part of the NI Science Festival) Dick Mills and Mark Ayres of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were in Belfast to chat about their work in same, this being its 60th anniversary year. And I went along.

Give your love of electronica, I think you'd have enjoyed it Ambler - much chat about making music with tape-loops, oscillators and vintage synths (and later with gear like the Fairlight) ... or anything they could lay their hands on. There was a fascinating bit with the original arrangement of the Who theme (their most famous composition? Probably) broken down into its component parts, and an amusing revelation from Mills that alien 'squelching' on Who was often achieved by him rubbing his hands together in Swarfega.

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Grainer also did Man in a Suitcase and instrumentals to -To Sir, With Love. Underrated and largely forgotten by and large.

Agreed, Hilly.

And yes, they are part of the band. And I knew that Grainer was the composer, I maybe should have said 'work' instead of 'composition'. Apparently, Delia Derbyshire never received a credit for her work on it (although in more recent years, I believe her house got the 'blue plaque' treatment).

Sad end she came to, renal failure as a result of alcoholism.

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"Greet me with the eyes of a child"

"I will be your father figure
Put your tiny hand in mine
I will be your preacher, teacher
Anything you had in mind
I will be your father figure
I have had enough of crime
I will be the one who loves you
'Til the end of time"

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Well in line with the discussion in the politics thread, she apparently has fascist/white supremacist sympathies herself.

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If we are talking strictly about Gainsbourg's muses, then Jane Birkin aged more gracefully than BB. There seems to be more than a little bit of bitterness about Miss Béjo in the autumn of her life.

If you love Smalltown Boy, this one is a must.

I'm proud of myself, used a skipping rope for the full 3 minutes without a hitch.