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Listen to us – Homebrew

Eddie — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:00:46 +0000

We've been getting links to this song for a week or two. Wish I'd gotten round to posting it earlier. Just fantastic.

Hiding in his mansion/While half the population flies across the Tasman/The other half try to act like it's not happening

There's no depression in New Zealan'/ Just a slow sinking feelin'

The most fun anyone’s ever had with a corflute sign

The Standard — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:48:09 +0000

Unfortunate names for bands

lprent — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:43:56 +0000

The music for the morning....

When I fall

lprent — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:47:25 +0000

One of my favorite bands and one of my favourite of their tracks. Barenaked Ladies playing “When I fall”. Great lyrics for the ongoing GFC. You have to love satirical songs…. Songwriters: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED I look straight in the window, try not to look below Pretend I’m not up here, try counting ...

On supporting the Rugby World Cup

lprent — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:16:49 +0000

In my sleep deprived state I have to confess that I don't like rugby supporters, especially drunken ones who argue about teams at 2am in the morning on the street. I suspect that will be the enduring memory I will carry away from this years Rugby World Cup. But I do like Dead Cat Bounce's video about rugby.

Without ambition…

lprent — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:04:47 +0000

A classic cover with updated lyrics of the 1980's classic. Now we have "We have no ambition for New Zealand". Give a big hand to the artists and start asking the radio stations and TV channels when they will be playing it.

Now we know what John Key was so depressed about in this image?

New uses for iPads

lprent — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:54:32 +0000

Ok this is seriously weird, too cool, and as bad as the elevator music is. But at least it is not John Key mangling songs with syncophantic radio announcers declaring it to be music.

The band running on iPad's and iPhone - North Point's iBand

Tougher than the rest.

lprent — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:00:43 +0000

One of my favorite Bruce Springsteen tracks from when I was somewhat younger is "Tougher than the rest". As heresy I'd have to say that I like the version by Everything But The Girl somewhat better. It has been coming up a lot on my playlist while pushing through the last month of coding. It was also the track that was playing when I heard the news about the second explosion at Pike River earlier in the week. I'd guess that will stay embedded as an association for a while.

Enigma: Gravity of Love

lprent — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:00:35 +0000

Enigma have for a long time one of my favorite sounds to listen to while programming from the early 90's onwards. There have been bug-hunting exercises where Enigma has literally been on my playlist all day. You can just queue all of their albums, knuckle down, and kill those tiresome and frustrating bugs. Since it is going to be a programming weekend, including some site tweaking....

Copying is not theft

the sprout — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:33:23 +0000

Here’s a catchy tune for all you pirates out there. Get your kids to sing along!

Gung Ho

lprent — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:01:22 +0000

This is eleven minutes of pure Patti Smith singing about Vietnam in her usual ambiguous poetical style. Came up on the playlist while coding, and I had to stop to listen to the sheer menace in her voice. I had a look for a video. A powerful song, and a powerful rendition by its creator.

Xmas number one in the UK.

lprent — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:01:22 +0000

One of the stranger Internet campaigns has being going on in Britain. It has resulted in this excellent track being the Xmas number 1 single this year (it is in my programming playlist for special bugs). Far better than the usual mulch, and enough to wash out the taste of John Keys version of Snoopys ...

Talking union

Marty G — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:45:57 +0000

Eddie’s piece on the importance of joining your union if you want to avoid a pay cut reminded me of another Peter Seeger classic:

Which side are you on?

Marty G — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:38:23 +0000

Following on from the workers’ rights/class war theme of the last few days, here’s an old classic:

Linton Kwesi Johnson: FITE DEM BACK

the sprout — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:15:48 +0000