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Deaf School - seconded. "Kimono My House" is excellent, but that "Number One Song In Heaven" I just find annoying. Easy to be mistaken Buick, like so many other leftfield US acts they found success in the UK first. The early Split Enz albums also fits nicely with these slightly outlandish...

This is extremely handy and what made me switch to Gmail. The user interface is a bit klunky - ie the number one or two activity with email is replying to email, but the reply "button" is just a tiny link on the buttom of the page. Annoying. 2.5GB storage is handy (compared to Hotmail) - and...

Are you sure that's not Cher on a bad day?

NLP book - "Mindworks" by Anne Linden. Just got it out of the shelf. I didn't actually finish it (I can tell by the "donkey ear" on p151). -- Halfway through the GTD book. Looks promising, although the writing is a bit tepid in periods. It's all common sense put in a system - but sometimes...

She was and is - Latin, Japanese, Gaelic, English etc - whatever suited I reckon (there's some Clannad in the house, but no Enya, so I cannot tell. Well - not that I could tell if this or that song was sung in Latin anyway). Judging by a piece in the Guardian today "Loxian" was made up to suit...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1648493,00.html Elsewhere http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=369400&in_page_id=1770

Hehe - exactly. I just realised that as I was posting ... :o Seems like the list will have to be split then, in "real fake" languages (seems like these are more likely to have a name) and "improv-fake languages" ... The latter has obvious advantages for vocalists who cannot remember their...

Doesn't count. "Do-do-ahh, ap-ap", stream of consciousness-stuff, "my voice is my language etc", improvising etc are all invalid. It has to be a proper "language" with words that can be translated. Singing in dead languages like Aramaic does not count either - ie Lisa Gerrard (who also...

thanks all (and keep'em coming), that list is now doubled. I bow before the awesome powers of dissensus. I doubt there's a single person (or even institution?) on the planet having all these.

I updated my list of acts singing in made-up languages last night after reading the Enya sometimes sings in "Loxian". It's not that I recommend any of these, I just find it interesting (do they make dictionaries and stuff? Do their kids learn it?) In fact I have never heard Circle from...

I would say so, yeah ;)

Sounds like a 21st century Tangerine Dream ca "Thief" does it not? (I love the opening of that movie). At least that streaming track "Relevee", listen here (bottom of the page) (the whole thing available in iTunes for 8 quid).

I had no idea. Do you have a copy of those demos? ;)

Someone must have been a DJ in this building in a previous life. I was standing in for the janitor a while ago, so I rescued these 12"s that someone was throwing away. The records need a good cleaning before playing and I haven't had the time to do that. A third of these I can't remember...

Got it today, so no verdict yet - but the use of ambient sounds and the lushness of the production reminds me slightly of Virginia Astley's "From Gardens Where We Feel Secure" and John Foxx's "The Garden" (very English I think?). It's just good to hear that voice again. Or as Mark says "The...

in Wired today an update on Negroponte's educationial drive - http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69615,00.html

Yeah. Better than I expected with the boys from Purley and all (Status Quo). My better half complaining about all this "John Peel stuff everywhere". Quite a lot of White Stripes in there and two copies of Sheena Easton doing "9 to 5" ... And loads of stuff most of us would struggle to place...

Number two actually (I am quite sure, but will check when I get home). I remember Peelie going on about Anderson never saying hello or even thanking him for that break on one of his shows. --- "Popcorn"/Hot Butter (1972) must have been the tune that opened up a hell of a lot of people on the...

True - ie the version of "Here comes the flood" on "Exposure" makes a joke out of the one that ended up on Gabriel's (overproduced by Bob Ezrin) first.

Found this (long) piece from 2002 while farting around on the interweb - The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris (Theodore Dalrymple)