'Songbook' is a UK TV program where various musicians explain and demonstrate how they wrote famous songs in their career. Last week it was the turn of Bernard Sumner.Along the course of a 30 year career there were some interesting insights (Joy Division's distinctive bass sound happened because Bernard had his cheap amp turned up loud to get distortion and Peter Hook moved to the top strings ...
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Live broadcast from the BBC - 1984.If you are feeling a little down then you can take solace in the thought that things are unlikely to get any worse..Today, say experts, is the unhappiest day in the entire year..Unpaid Christmas bills, nasty weather, and failed New Year's resolutions combine to make January 22 the gloomiest in the calendar. MORE.What a load of bollocks; just another excuse to ...
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word around the water cooler is that today is someone in the mog-i-verse's birthday today.or maybe that is just whispers and rumors in the classroom.hmmmm...happy birthday, kevin!lucy.
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word around the water cooler is that today is someone in the mog-i-verse's birthday today.or maybe that is just whispers and rumors in the classroom.hmmmm...happy birthday, kevin!lucy.
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A later-than-usual, briefer-than-usual holiday version of the Random Ten, with a couple of video surprises:1. Eddy Grant, "Electric Avenue." Made VH1's list of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders. Since his previous single had hit #1 on the UK charts, since all the way back in 1968 his group The Equals had hit #1 with "Baby Come Back," since he wrote "Police on My Back" which was covered with grea...
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A friend passed on an interesting bit of information tonight...which goes a long way to explaining the general mood around here today.From "Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday:Blue Monday has been classified as the most depressing day of the year: January 22, 2007This date was calculated by Dr. Cliff Arnall, a researcher/tutor at the University of Cardiff's Center for Lifelong l...
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Okay, there's a deleted scene on the 24 Hour Party People dvd with the Happy Mondays before they got famous sitting in Shaun Ryder's garage singing Blue Monday and drinking "special tea" and it's absolutely hilarious!You should watch. You'll appreciate Blue Monday so much more.
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Anthony "Tony" WilsonBorn 10 February 1950Salford, Lancashire, EnglandDied 10 August 2007 (aged 57)Christie Hospital, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
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Being more integrated with Mog now gets me more into reading the stuff that's on there. I was thinking dreaming about doing a post on the structure of a song for a while now and I was worried about which one to do it on. I'm picking Blue Monday because:1. It's a really good song;2. It has been over-played/remixed/covered (in my opinion);3. It's popular.I'm afraid that I might kill the track for...
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Original article from MMN partner A Future in Noise READABLE HERE---In the present day, what kind of relationship do art and music have with each other? Does each field have the kinship with the other as they have in the past? Let's go back for a moment. There are a number of known musicians who attended art school; John Lennon (The Beatles), Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno (Roxy Music), Ray Davies ...
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A rather good Depeche Mode / New Order mash-up has appeared on YouTube. You can check it out after the jump. The video mixes both New Oder's "Blue Monday" with Depeche Mode's "Lilian" track turning the whole in a very danceable...
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