5 random tracks
May 1, 2008
Blake’s Jerusalem - Billy Bragg
Baby Fratelli - The Fratellis
I Found Out - The Pigeon Detectives
Girls, Skirts, Bikes, Boots - Buck Brothers
Nails for Breakfast - Panic at the Disco
MOOD: Tired and subdued
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April 30, 2008
Fallowfield Hillbilly - The Courteeners
Death or Glory - The Clash
Henrietta - The Fratellis
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Sexuality - Billy Bragg
5 random tracks
April 29, 2008
My best friend - Weezer
Still take you home - Arctic Monkeys
The dreaming tree - Dave Matthews Band
Who are you - The Who
The card cheat - The Clash
5 random tracks
April 25, 2008
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Live and Let Die - Guns N’ Roses
Alright in the Morning - Paddingtons
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols
Why music DOES cost
April 14, 2008
This was going to be a simple video post originally but I decided it required more than that as I started writing. So instead it’s a full post with a video attached.
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April 10, 2008
I love the fact that I can now go to a BBC News story and watch the video file right there on the page without having to wait for a pointless painful pop-up.
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October 14, 2007
I was having a discussion with my boss the other day and he was telling me about Old Time Radio or radio shows that have entered the public domain, mainly due to American Radio Networks not registering copyright in the 1950s/60s.
When I got back from the pub I decided to have a look and see if I could actually find any for download online - I found a couple of really good sites with a massive collection of OTR shows - and some brilliant SciFi.
These shows are from the heyday of American Radio - in the bit before television took over and a big radio drama could attract many millions of listeners for each show.
There are also several well known British shows available through the OTR networks as well - this is a brilliant way to take a step back in time, enjoy some brilliantly produced audio productions and learn a little about our media heritage at the same time.
When you add the OTD sites to the British Library and its goal of adding out of print books, newspaper articles and pamphlets to their website for people to read, Google and their book scanning goals and the BBC Archive and you’ve got a great set of resources for 1) going back in time and looking at media history, 2) getting some fab free content and 3) researching modern history.
The OTR and BBC Archive stuff are also brilliant ways to hear the evolution of the English language and accents over the last half century or so.
The OTR stuff is primarily up as mp3s as well so you could probably produce some pretty good podcasts using the content - won’t cost anything either.
Check out:
OTR.com
OTR.net
BBC Archive
British Library
