Being the Pope has been a long and time consuming job that I have undertaken for over two thousand years. After climbing out of the shadows of Jesus and taking over the heart of Rome, I've learned a few things that I won't share because then I won't have complete dominion anymore, but trust me, it's been hard wearing gold and sitting alone in the Vaticun sifting through my delusions and fantasies, but thankfully I have my bishops, alter boys and the millions of supporters all over the world that love me and understand that I am perfect and [...]
Being the Pope has been a long and time consuming job that I have undertaken for over two thousand years. After climbing out of the shadows of Jesus and taking over the heart of Rome, I've learned a few things that I won't share because then I won't have complete dominion anymore, but trust me, it's been hard wearing gold and sitting alone in the Vaticun sifting through my delusions and fantasies, but thankfully I have my bishops, alter boys and the millions of supporters all over the world that love me and understand that I am perfect and [...]
Being the Pope has been a long and time consuming job that I have undertaken for over two thousand years. After climbing out of the shadows of Jesus and taking over the heart of Rome, I've learned a few things that I won't share because then I won't have complete dominion anymore, but trust me, it's been hard wearing gold and sitting alone in the Vaticun sifting through my delusions and fantasies, but thankfully I have my bishops, alter boys and the millions of supporters all over the world that love me and understand that I am perfect and [...]
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So you've finished producing your musical masterpiece, but how do you get it out into the world?Probably one of the best ways to to sign up to one of the many OMD (Online Music Distribution) website, but which is the best and what do you want paid for or FREE! With our experience over the years we have found that paid for sites are usually the best and a selection can be found here in the post, but free are OK if you have a few tracks, but for more space then paid for is generally a better [...]
My Milky Way Arms Genre: Bossa Nova / Electro / Pop From: Houston, Texas, United States My Milky Way Arms are a wide eyed, spaced out Texan duo peddling atmospheric electronica to a stressed out world. As therapeutic as a weekend at a Thai thalassotherapy spa My Milky Way Arms have been sent by [...]
R. Kelly was found not guilty! I can't believe it! The Shaggy Defense worked. Let's all buy a truckload of ice tea and head to the nearest junior high school to celebrate! OMD Dancing On The Seven Seas Sailing On The Seven Seas (Larrabee Mix) Sailing On The Seven Seas (Extended Mix) Floating On The Seven Seas I've posted a lot of OMD over the past few years, and I have to [...]
The single, Danger [ buy ], from Swedish duo The Sound of Arrows ( Oskar Gullstrand / Stefan Storm ) is equal parts retro/synth/new wave ( Bronski Beat , OMD ) and chamber/twee-pop ( The Field Mice , Belle & Sebastian ). The sum is a familiar yet refreshing sound ---perfect for the start of summer. Enjoy. Danger mp3 My Big Bonus MP3s [...]
An oh-so-anonymous reader writes… I've come up with so many different lists from so many different starting points here – songs from a year / songs from a particular compilation tape / songs with a theme /songs… ach, eventually we just need to play what we need to play. Always remember the 'gremlins' rule (don't make a playlist after midnight and expect it to behave itself – not much of that one is left here) but that aside, this is a mixture of some old and some newish, some things well known and [...]
I'm mostly over the flu now. Still feels like a mucus-heavy slug is trying to ooze its way out of my nasal cavity (how's that for a mental picture?) but other than that I'm feeling quite lovely - and when I'm not that's why I have Sudafed and Nyquil. This past weekend I traveled to the Mad Max Wasteland that is Detroit to see The Foo Fighters. I've seen the Foos once before and while they impressed me then they totally floored my ass this time. Dave Grohl's stage presence and commitment to entertaining his audience is unlike [...]
There's not a lot to say about the death of Tony Wilson that won't be said elsewhere more eloquently by others. It was hardly unexpected, as he'd been ill for some time . But Tony really did change lives, mine included. And for a large group of thirty-somethings who grew up in the North West in the 1980s, and were too young to recall So It Goes , there was that wonderful moment when the penny dropped, and we realised that that the man who read the news every night on Granada Reports was also largely responsible for [...]
I got an email from someone asking about Urgh! and I thought that in an effort to make things a bit more streamlined and easy to navigate, Id make this post which includes every single song from the Urgh! soundtrack as well as some bonus ones. I'm not the most organized person in the world, and it shows in the haphazard nature in which these tracks were originally put up. I hope this makes things a little easier for everyone. And if anyone is still looking for the long-deleted Urgh! Yahoo! Group (wow [...]
I've noticed that I've been posting tracks by the same bands recently. I'll try to mix it up in the coming weeks, I'm just trying to clear out some of the stuff that's been sitting on my to-do shelf lately. I have some other stuff already done I wanted to upload, but it's currently on my fried hard drive that my computer geek friend says she'll recover for me later this week. Until then here's some more good 80s stuff. Erasure A Little Respect (12'' House Mix) A [...]
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1983 album Dazzle Ships clocks in at just over half an hour, and it's a marvel, combining lush synths, short-wave radio samples. and technologically ambivalent lyrics to create a bleak portrait of the Atari 2600 age. The larger-than-life "Genetic Engineering" is the album's high point, with its crashing cymbals, choirs of confusion about the future, and Speak-N-Spell samples; "Telegraph" is just as grand, but it has a slightly sweeter pop sensibility thanks to a lilting keyboard line. OMD - Genetic Engineering [MP3] OMD - Telegraph [...]
All 80s tonight. More soundtracks later. OMD If You Leave (Extended Mix) La Femme Accident (Remixed Version) I still think that these guys should have sued 90s one-hit-wonder OMC for defamation of character. Not fair that they are forever side-by-side in CD racks at Best Buys worldwide. Men Without Hats Pop Goes The World (Dance Mix) Pop Goes The World (Dub Mix) Whenever I would talk about one-hit-wonders with this girlfriend I [...]
Dearest Friends, I apologise for not having posted as often and as fulsomely as I would have liked during the past week. You know all the reasons - flu, bachelorhood (have now learned to distinguish between washer and dryer), etc. But I still apologise. I proffer further apologies for the fact that I will once again be taking a long-weekend hiatus from posting. Yes, I'll be spending the Labour Day holiday on --surprise, surprise-- Mayne Island, and that means this postlet will be the last missive from me until the middle of next week. I must cry off [...]
Marcy Playground re-entered my life for a few minutes today. I thought I would share them with you. Sex and Candy And for anyone who has been to a unit-r gig recently: OMD- Sailing on the seven seas
That Visage piece got me thinking about other great synth wonders from the 1980’s. Depeche Mode, Erasure and the Human League are certainly up with the best, but in terms of sheer delight that they brought forth OMD are my favourites. Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys started out way back in 1978 and released their first single 'Electricity' a year later. The duo had a neat line in effeminate
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