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I love music. It’s really unusual for me to not have music playing somewhere. If it’s blaring out of my computer, music streamer in the lounge or out of my headphones when on the move it is pretty unusual. Music, for me, can be background noise, something that doesn’t require too much concentration and fills …
When I posted recently about the tracks added to my music library over last year something that struck me was that it required 35gb of additional storage. That still seems like an enormous amount of disk space to me. This now takes the total amount of storage for all my music to 266gb. This is …
Last year I ran a series of monthly blog posts recording all the music that I had acquired over the previous month, you can see all those posts here, but I thought it would be good to do a summary. Here are the raw stats over the year 49 Artists 89 Albums 959 Songs 97 …
A bumper crop to end the year as my Christmas requests were fulfilled by Santa. This months additions are: Train – Bulletproof Picasso Simple Minds – Big Music The The – Mind Bomb Prides – Mixtape 2014 (single) Peter Gabriel – Back to Front EP (SoS) Alpine – A is for Alpine Tchaikovsky – Serenade …
So all this year I have been recording all the new music I have added to my collection (you can see all the monthly entries here) and I wanted to take a look back and see which of all the albums I’ve added I’ve enjoyed the most. The criteria for this award is quite simple …
30 years ago I went to what was then the Apollo theatre in Oxford to see Marillion. This was during the Fugazi tour when they were still in their ascendancy and Fish wasn’t writing songs like Lavender. I remember the beginning of the gig very clearly. The set had a raised stepped gantry in the …
Perhaps this is going to become more of a recurring theme over the next few decades as robots become more prevalent and more human but here is the start of a list of songs about falling in love with a robot. The links should take you to Spotify if you have it. ELO – …
No purchases this month, all are from the Society of Sound membership This months additions are: Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique (SoS) Cara Dillon – A Thousand Hearts (SoS) Maria Callas – Maria Callas Remastered (SoS) Been one of those months where so far I haven’t had a chance to listen to these yet. Those above marked (SoS) are from …
Quiet month this month and one of the five shown is actually from last month!. This months additions are: Fish – A Feast of Consequences Peter Maxwell-Davies – Symphony 10 (SoS) Jef Neve – One (SoS) OK Go – Hungry Ghosts John, Paul, George & Ringo – 4 The observant amongst you will note that I missed an entry last month …
There is plenty of great free music from well known and up and coming artists if you know where to look for it and this month most of it was in that category. This months additions are: Man May’d – Living at the Speed of Love Paul Carrack – The Best of Paul Carrack U2 – Songs of Innocence Joe Bonamassa – Amazon …