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Without ambition…

Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, April 13th, 2011 - 3 comments

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

Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, December 18th, 2010 - 12 comments

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.

Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 27th, 2010 - 2 comments

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

Written By: - Date published: 8:00 pm, July 2nd, 2010 - 4 comments

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

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 19th, 2010 - 25 comments

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

Gung Ho

Written By: - Date published: 8:01 pm, April 5th, 2010 - 3 comments

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.

Written By: - Date published: 10:01 pm, December 24th, 2009 - 9 comments

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

Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, September 21st, 2009 - Comments Off on Talking union

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?

Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 12th, 2009 - 7 comments

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

Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, August 1st, 2009 - 6 comments

F*ck you, the NZ collaboration

Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, July 10th, 2009 - 31 comments

Kick arse: Hat tip: Russell Brown

The Big Three

Written By: - Date published: 11:41 pm, December 18th, 2008 - 4 comments

I was listening to some of the old White Stripes when I got home this evening when this song came on. Given the all the talk around the bailout of the Big Three car manufacturers I figured it was kind of appropriate. Enjoy.

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