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    Duke Ellington

    I have: Black, Brown and Beige, which is incredible, Far East Suite, which is incredible, and Anatomy of a Murder, which is a great soundtrack but not really a great album. Other than this I am completely in the dark about the man... On a side note, my dad met him once and said he was a lovely...
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    turning into mater and pater

    I just caught myself 'air conducting' while listening to a jazz record, which is exactly what my dad does.
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    Gospel House

    Very 90s. I don't think I imagined it...
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    Unexpected parental likes

    Once in-car music democracy had been restored, many years after 'Step in the Ring' by Guns and Roses had received an unexpected first airing (with me staring fixedly out of the window, waiting for the cursing to stop), my mum could surprisingly rock to the following: Boops by Super Cat Saturday...
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    Rick James

    is well fucking alright isn't he? I like Street Songs an awful lot anyway. It's urgent and plasticky.
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    adolescent naivety

    I thought that if you took hayfever medication, then smoked weed you wouldn't get stoned, cos it's like a plant, innit?
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    Thee Flatmate Ritual

    I like these little rituals that evolve between cohabitants. Me and my old flatmate used to do this thing called flamingo fighting where you hop around shrieking and slapping each other until one of you puts a foot down, losing the fight. My current one is that we brush our teeth vigorously...
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    audio bullys

    I just saw their new video and i didn't enjoy any more than you would have. It sounded just like the Prodigy in about 1998, which is to say, desperately crap. Their previous stuff sounded like Flowered Up in about 1990 which is to say, desp... you get the idea. Just a moan really. I'd...
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    Last day of work

    It's my last day of work before starting a new job today, so I am lurking in the corridors shrieking at people and generally being a nuisance. Anyone got any good last day of work/school tales?
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    Black Jazz

    Rediscovering all this lately, Doug Carn, Calvin Keys. Lovely stuff.
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    Quiet storm

    While the lights are low and I've got my Hush Puppies on, why not?
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    cool London walks

    I have 12 days off looming on the horizon and plan to spend some of them tramping round the capital dressed as a wizard and taking photographs and notes, which I will spare you all the publication of. Anyone got any suggestions for routes? I know this is all a bit daft and to assuage my guilt...
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    BBE's Spectrum comps

    At the time these all came out I remember being more impressed by the fact that they existed than by the tunes themselves and it often seemed to me that the best tune on a spectrum would also be the most widely known in the first place (Acid by Ray Barretto off of Latin Spectrum and Night of the...
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    clumsiness

    This week I have inadvertently clattered two women in the face with my elbow. One a friend, one a total stranger. I have also bumped into a coffee table and got my t-shirt caught on a doorhandle.
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    The Waterboys

    Are they actually good? I always refuse to believe the bald music journo lauding of Mike Scott and assume they are just sub-Dexy's fiddle-di-dee folly. Am I being foolish?
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    I'm a touch bored

    so I'm thinking of changing my name to Popol Vuh by deed poll. I don't even like Popol Vuh (except for Aguirre) but I think it would be quite funny if it was my name...
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    Dazzle Ships

    Reissued. Yeah! I have a soft spot for OMD.
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    Tracy Jacks

    By Blur is what woke me up on my clockradio this morning. It's put me in a very good mood, so bollocks to you all!
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    eccentric soul

    what are these comps like? obscure sizzlers or justly-obscure tediousness?
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    which is the superior excuse?

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