As Georgia Mann introduced this piece, she referred to the younger, pre-beard Brahms as "smouldering", which raised a smile. Looked him up and sure enough, as Georgie suggested, easy on the eye and a certain smoulder to him. BBC educates yet again.
"With gay vivacity" is so much more descriptive than Allegro - brilliant.
Example of this tempo : We Built This City was recorded with gay vivacity.
This is exactly what the internet is for.
Make a movie that’s quietly about body positivity, find it online with an AI generated cover image of two stepford teens. Sigh.
I'm a graphic designer, and more and more AI shortcuts in Photoshop are eroding the craft and skill of my job, slowly but surely "good" is being replaced by "good enough" and it's killing me slowly via a thousand tiny cuts every day.
What I love about your channel is that I was 15 in 1980, so this was my musical era, I loved music, I now have a rep for knowing all sorts of obscure music/bands... and I have never recognised *any* of the tracks you post 😀 All a discovery. This is joyous, getting Basia/Matt Bianco vibes from it.
Well, that looks like a proper tea 😋 and no mistake. Chickpeas, fruit, rosemary? Tagine? I mean, I could care less what it's called, just looks well tasty. Ideal timing as I start my daily fast 😂
That is an appalling response. Truly. I am now out of breath from the laughing. Thank you.
I'd forgotten how many of these 'medley' singles there were at the time - and we claim today's youth has no attention span 😀 Hazel O'Connor and Tenpole Tudor get a track each on both SH1 and SH2. I was going to be a bit sniffy about Wunderbar being a "Super Hit" but it got to No. 16 😀
Never had any time for Oasis, but curious, had a look at a couple of clips from last night. They certainly weren't phoning it in - well-rehearsed and performing great. Joey Waronker really drove the band, who all seemed happy to be playing, especially Liam (obvs). Fair do's, cynical me recants :-)
That is some excellent indignant honking, well recorded.
Always amazed at the quality of your sleuthing. This is so darn funky - I was nodding along to the quality of the session players drums, bass and guitar, then that sax break hits. This has *got* have been used as a hip-hop break at some point? Another winner from yerself, thanks.
In the plain brown boards? Yes. Helen's extensive and exhaustive research on this indicates that a small number*did* exist for a short while, but have probably have all been destroyed. But maybe somewhere, someday one will be found in an attic/wardrobe/suitcase. Tantalising prospect.
We'll be withered husks in a dead and broken land, but at least we'll have badly written articles, and pictures of a seven-toed Jesus wearing stars and stripes, machine gunning down the devil.
Proper "I'm on live TV" moment this morning when I was talking about how well the pope looked and sounded yesterday only for the presenter to interrupt us to announce that the pope, had in fact, just died
NT Lyveden today, kids activity trail based on bees. Mum, dad with daughter aged about 4, arrive at activity. Daughter not sure so Daddy will show her how. But Daddy starts waving his hands round his head, then exclaims "fuck OFF!" Mummy asks what's up. "Fucking bee!" explains Daddy. Educational 😂
Another 'easy' gem. It's wonderful that so many orchestras could sustain a good living back then - Geoff Love, Mantovani, Norrie Paramor, Ronnie (although I presume this disc is the Decca house orchestra?)
I first read the track list as starting with Hey Joe, before I put my specs on 😀
No idea of Latin myself, but I have an image of John Cleese bellowing at you at swordpoint to determine if you should have used the locative (or something) 😀
You have only to look at how we in England have embraced Chicken Tikka Masala, which is a Scottish dish.
To write this @newstatesman.com column, I asked colleagues about their enduring memories of working on Covid wards.
Their messages, sent as voicenotes, had one thing in common: each respondent broke down in tears.
What does that rawness mean for today's NHS? 🧵
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
A red letter day - saw my first ever adder in the wild. Eighteen inches or so long, a beautiful jade and velvet black diamond chequerboard down her body. Sliding slight Ss through the grass by the side of the path along the Crinan canal in Argyll. We stopped and looked at each other for a while.
Fascinating to watch American right-wingers follow Brexiteers down the path of 'Hardship builds character, so blowing our own foot off with a shotgun was actually really clever.'
I'd love for the apocryphal story of Jimmy Page on tour scouring local record shops for Zep bootlegs and just taking them, to be true.
Classic comedy with ⭐ #CharlesLaughton #JohnMills #BrendaDeBanzie #PrunellaScales
📽️ 3:35pm HOBSON'S CHOICE (1954) #TPTVsubtitles
This is a good explanation for how Trump's wild tariffs were calculated. A complete scam. A hustle a mob boss would be embarrassed to parade in public.
This is an amateur pretext for Trump to extort tribute payments from countries.
No one can claim the US has a valid point. #ElbowsUp world.
I can't stress enough that if you ever want a specific image made, you can commission any of the thousands of talented artists on here for a fair price, they'll produce something infinitely better than a computer, you'll possess something truly original, AND you'll have helped a person's livelihood.
This Open AI shit is so disheartening. I wish actual artists could get the amount of press, and social engagement, as this slop does. But the Ghibli “style” filter is the worst offender; distilling the labor of hundreds of human animators into an empty tool that preys on nostalgia. Disgusting.
I've tried but can't think of a duff release on Trojan. This is a gem - tasty variety of tempos and feels. Put this on the turntable and "your boots on your feet".
