Pulsing Through My Brain

[commonpeople1]

The busker in Waterloo station was playing The La's "There She Goes" this morning. I should have gone up to him and dropped a pound coin in his hat.

Memories of my friend Sue in high school, Hong Kong, So I Married an Axe Murderer, summer, sunshine, youth...

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Re: Slowdive.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I've only started using Last FM. Did you ever set up an account? That's the best way to start; then you add songs from artists you like (but don't add too many - say 400! - because you then lose all of them) and end up with a personalised radio station that only plays your songs. If you add friends, you can take songs from them, or suggest tracks to them (I like to suggest only horrible songs to people - much more fun). :-)

The downside is that many artists don't have their songs available. It's OK for me because I like a lot of stuff from the 80s, so can listen to that non-stop (mostly at work).

Most musicians in your underground annoy me. They either don't know how to play, choose bad covers (I'm going to kill the next one who sings "Here Comes the Sun") or butcher classics. The best busker I ever heard was a tall, blond boy at Charing Cross station one weekend, who sang a very haunting version of Madonna's "La Isla Bonita". If I could travel back in time, I'd ask him if he had that version on CD.