Category: music

Day 639 – Christmas Music

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Happy Christmas to those who celebrate.

Happy Saturday to those who don’t.

Whatever your views on today, I hope you have a lovely time doing whatever you are doing.

And if you are looking to try and find some festive feeling, please enjoy this playlist I discovered via Vox.

It’s got everything. If you can’t find the Christmas track you want on here, it either doesn’t exist, or you simply ran out of time because this thing is OVER SEVEN DAYS LONG!

You can flick it on this morning and still be listening to it NEXT YEAR! Be amongst the first of friends to get into the Christmas spirit for 2022.

Merry Christmas, you trendsetter!

Day 616 – Music news

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Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we? Yes, that question was also music related. (IYKYK)

Lookie here! It are my #SpotifyWrapped2021 selection for the year. I listened to a lot more than this, because I do like my radio, but there was certainly a lot of Spotifying as well. And this is what I listened to:

Look at that mix of contemporary and er… “older” quality artists.

My top 5 songs came from 1985, 2020, 2021*, 2020, and 1981.
Which is all a bit confusing, because if you asked me what the best decade for music is or was, I’d obviously tell you that it was the 1990s.

Spotify put My Favourite 100 Songs Of The Year** into a playlist, which you’ll want to have a listen to:

Argh! The Spotify embed tool keeps giving me someone else's playlist. 
Who the hell are the Stray Kids? Save yourself - don't google them. 
Rather click the link above. Safety first.

I might have lost my sense of taste for a few weeks thanks to that miserable virus, but my musical taste clearly never failed me.

Look at all my Spotify Playlists here



* you’ll find some New Dad there too
** I’m fairly sure that they’ll have done this for other users, as well

Day 615 – Haven’t we suffered enough? (part n)

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Arriving in my inbox this morning:

But I do fully intend to miss a night with Justin Bieber, dear reader. I’ll be at a school prizegiving event when they go on sale, and I can guarantee that I won’t be shedding a single frustrated tear over not being amongst the first (or indeed, the last) to pay for access to his shows.

ON THE PLUS SIDE: “only vaccinated fans permitted” – excellent – more of this sort of thing, please; and in more personal news, at least the Bok van Blerk emails seem to have stopped (for the moment, at least).

Day 598 – Special evening

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I’m feeling jaded and I’m not even able to drink. Pity help some of the people here last night.

It was a wonderful evening. The band was superb, the food was excellent, the bar staff (students from the neighbourhood) made everything work. The tributes were appropriate and Mrs 6000 enjoyed the landmark birthday party that she deserved and had missed.

Would thoroughly recommend a party every now and again.

Bit knackered today, mind.

Day 597 – Party

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Despite recent events – or maybe even because of them – the party tonight is still on.
Limited numbers because of Covid. Already postponed twice due to Covid. Needs to end early because of Covid… look, you get the idea, but maybe it’s time to actually live a little.
And so there will be fun, drinks, memories and yes: also music.

On the music front, there’s actually going to be a band. Live music. And I can’t wait.

But then we have to fill in the gaps between their sets with Spotify and I’ve had to put my foot down a bit. I was up early this morning removing Pitbull tracks from the stuff that’s been shared, oh, and anything that has a $ sign in its name from the playlist.

Sometimes both in one. Awful.

The result is a 9½ hour (I don’t think we’ll use all of it) list of about 170 songs ranging from the Beatles, through Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, and on to the Human League and Swedish House Mafia.

Should be fun.

The DJ, however, does not got us falling in love again. There’s really no need for any of that.