Essential No.1

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Now playing: The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
via FoxyTunes

Pain No.7

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Now playing: Johnny Nash - Hold Me Tight
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Happy No.8

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Now playing: Edwyn Collins - Out of This World
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Frustrations No.7

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Now playing: Simon & Garfunkel - Bleecker Street [*][Demo Version]
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Inspired No.4

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Now playing: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
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Truths No.8

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Now playing: Craig McLachlan - Mona
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Windows No.2

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Now playing: The Avalanches - Stay Another Season
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Penniless No.3

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Now playing: Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like to Die
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Kids Stuff No.1

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Now playing: The Upsetters - Return of Django
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Surprises No.2

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Now playing: Sugardaddy - Step Up
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Regrets No.7

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Now playing: Simon & Garfunkel - Somewhere They Can't Find Me
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Spam Poetry

Sometimes there is a kind of beauty in the random words spat out by a spam generator.

The link below is the same kind of thing but I have no idea how it was written or generated. Perhaps it is just a wierd translation of something else.

http://bit.ly/bQ4Q47

Happy No.5

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Now playing: Stuart Townend - How Deep the Father's Love
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Dub War - Strike it!

Dub War are a band from Newport, where I grew up, and they are the best at what they do!

They pioneered a fusion of reggae and hardcore rock that may have been imitated but never bettered.

Their first album, Pain, is one of my all time favourite albums. But their second didn't really catch the same energy and they faded from my view.

They are one of the few bands I saw live in the 90's and they were just as good in the flesh as on their recordings, if not better.

The album was ideal for getting the adrenalin pumping, but eventually I got rid of the album in one of my, much regretted, cd purges.

Apparently the lead singer, Benji Webbe, went on to form a band called Skindred and carried on the Dub War tradition.



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Now playing: Crystal Lewis - The Beauty of the Cross
via FoxyTunes

Sensations No.4

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Now playing: Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over
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What Peter Did Next

Apparently, Peter Andre has lucked out and is now starring in a movie, From Paris With Love, alongside John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Quite how Mr Andre managed to push Mr Meyers off the promotional material and not get main billing must be one of the marketing blunders of the year!

All we need now is for Katie Price to do a film with Olivia Newton-John. The mind boggles!

808 State - Pacific State

This track is another of the most influential tracks of my youth.

It began my 12" inch collection (which admittedly never grew very big before CD's took over the world) and showed me music other than the type produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman's 'Hit Factory' (some of which I still like btw!).

It was danceable and also created an atmosphere. I could just close my eyes and lose myself in the music, always the mark of a good track for me. It fired my imagination and was the soundtrack to a lot of my creative endeavours in my teens.

There were a few other tracks of theirs that stood out for me (cubik and one in ten spring to mind) but this had the most impact.



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Now playing: Yusa - La Fabula
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Taking Off

I feel it dying all around me
A detachment from who I used to be
I've withstood the battering, taken the bruises
Survived the destruction of who I thought I should be

Now the wind blows gently
Till it finds a hold upon my broken flesh
And lifts away that old skin
To reveal a new person within

I flex my hands and feel the blood rush
An excitement grows at the new possibilities
I want run and run, push myself to the limit
Go further than I was ever able to before

Now the wind is harsh upon my face
I head into the future more capable than ever
Unwilling to bow or break again
As I take off like a rocket, I wonder what is my fuel?

D'Oh! No.1

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Now playing: The Script - Lose Yourself
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Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That

Wiley & Chew Fu - Take That on MUZU

I haven't been able to get this track out of my head recently. I love the energy and the attitude in this track. It's like Wiley + Chew Fu has tried to one up Dizzee Rascal + Armand Van Helden's 'Bonkers', which I listed below as one of my favourite tracks of 2009.

And dare I say it but it might actually be better!

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Now playing: Dolly Parton - Jolene
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