The new album from Portishead, Third is available as a stream from last.fm. This is a minor incredible thing as it won’t be released until the 28th April.
I have to admit not being much of a Portishead fan at the time, but I’m rather liking this new album so far (first listen of half an album). More interesting is that last.fm are now able to get new albums like this and have the license to stream them. Certainly better for me than having to put up with Radio 1 or local stations.
n.b. if anything thinks this is a test of the wordpress 2.5 software wouldn’t be too far from the mark
Paul General, Music Music, portishead, streaming
Remember the first time :-
bq. You can pin all kinds of epochal changes on the Britpop generation – but there are, it seems, limits. “I don’t think you can blame Noel Gallagher for Coldplay,” says McGee. He suddenly looks slightly horrified.
Paul Music
I’m currently watching Live 8 on the TV. Like Live Aid I missed the U2 set, but in the modern world, I’ve got Sky+ and will check it out later.
My, they’ve just repeat the McCartney U2 opening song and it produced the tingle of seeing something special again.
Its a real mixed bag of performers at Hyde Park, from Dido to Annie Lennox to Madonna, Snowpatrol to Keane and to the Killers.
The wonderful Mr Hg is doing another live blogging session. If you are watching Live8 in front of a computer, check out his comments, insightful and thoughtful as always.
Paul Music
Sad news – John Peel has died of a heart attack whilst on holiday in Peru.
I’ve just been watching Michael Palin struggle with the altitude in the Himalayas and commented how hard it was for me at that altitude when I went to Cuzco.
In today’s age it would be hard to understand the influence of John Peel with current DJ’s playing prepicked packaged music, yet John Peel was still going strong and introduced us to some of my favourite ever bands. I’m off to put on some Fall and Wedding Present.
Paul Music
I’ve just got tickets for Sunday at “V Festival”:http://www.vfestival.com/vfestival/pages/index.cfm which means I’m going to see “The Pixies”:http://www.ilovepixies.com/. (+ Badly Drawn Boy, Starsailor, Strokes, Zutons, Primal Scream, Snow Patrol). A week later, and it is time for “Morrissey”:http://www.morrisseymusic.com/ at “Reading Festival”:http://www.readingfestival.com/ (+The White Stripes) . It’s funny how neither are the main act on the night and are supplanted by the young americans.
But wait there is more because to keep me occupied until then is “Euro 2004″:http://www.euro2004.com/ which is guaranteed excitement and disappointment all rolled into one. Which team will have all the stars and yet fail to deliver? Or will Holland be this year’s Holland? Can England get past the group stages and the mighty France?
But hold on a minute longer, because this Saturday is the “FA Cup Final”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/default.stm and I haven’t been this excited about an FA Cup Final since 1996. Sure there was 1999 but that was the nervous middle cup on the way to the treble. The European Cup final overshadowed it.
Paul Music, Personal
List the first twenty songs that come out of a shuffle of your playlist [via]
1. Blur – Bugman
2. New Order – 60 miles an hour
3. Radiohead – I Will. (No Man’s Land.)
4. Beck – Jack-Ass
5. Manic Street Preachers – There By The Grace Of God
6. The Divine Comedy – The Beauty Regime
7. Morrissey – Pregnant for the last time
8. Sugar – The Slim
9. Oasis – Supersonic
10. Travis – Pipe Dreams
11. Pixies – Debaser
12. Stereophonics – Since I Told You it’s Over
13. The Cure – Pictures Of You
14. New Fast Automatic Daffodils – How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Culture
15. Jethro Tull – Rocks On The Road
16. Beck – Ramshackle
17. The Stone Roses – Sally Cinnamon
18. The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make
19. Suede – Metal Mickey
20. Wedding Present – At The Edge Of The Sea
Two Becks? But includes Debaser which is just about the best song ever.
Paul Music
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