I was idly tootling around Wikipedia tonight. I started reading about a person and then clicked on a link about another person in the article and so on until I was nowhere near where I started. It’s amazing where you can end up. Just don’t click on Kevin Bacon. If you do that’s game over and you can never play again. And starting on Kevin Bacon is...

Last week I posted an idea for a meme for listing the songs that transport you back to a specific time in your life. Here are the songs that I’ve come up with (so far, might add more as they occur to me). I’ve added all the songs to this collaborative playlist on Spotify, please add your songs! This meme has worked a treat for me, I’ve had a major...

It has become a recent personal tradition to unleash a soon to be forgotten meme on the world around New Year time. You can peruse the previous ones thusly. This year’s meme is very simple but, at the same time, quite tricky. The good news is that the process of putting it together is a lot of fun, which is the point. As any self-respecting reality TV show will...

Here’s a wee Spotify game for us to play or ignore. I have started this collaborative playlist on Spotify. It starts with the first track from Tricky’s album Juxtapose. All you have to do is to add a song to the end of the playlist that is the biggest possible style clash with the previous song. Thereby creating the entirely weirdest (and perhaps most...

I struggled for about 23 seconds to come up with my regular (ahem) end of year blog meme. Could I top the previous success (ahem) of the Desert Island C90 at the end of 2008 or the infinitely forgettable Best Album Tracks of 2007 (or the Amazon £50 challenge I chucked in at some point)? Shouldn’t be hard, some might say. This year, I thought I would stay away...

If they made a film of your life what songs would you have in the soundtrack for which scenes? It was a sunny Friday drive to work today and the Shuffle Gods chose Mornington Crescent by Belle and Sebastian. It seemed to fit perfectly. Albeit the lyrics didn’t quite work, I’ve not got a job for a Senegalese (nor, indeed, am I in nip). No matter. Had I...

Last New Year I had much fun putting together my list of best album tracks. So, to continue the ‘tradition’, I’m going for something similar this year. Inspired by my earlier (failed!) meme Desert Island Amazon Challenge I’m going to do a Desert Island C90. Young readers may wonder what a C90 is. As ever, Wikipedia can explain all. People of...

I was wandering the aisles of a record store on Saturday looking at how cheap all the great albums I already own are. It occurred to me that you could get pretty much everything you really needed by way of entertainment for not very much these days. So, I dreamt up this challenge. The rules are very simple, viz: You are about to go to a desert island forever. You...

Round this time of year, you do often find yourself in the mood for lists. Earlier today, I was listening to one of my favourite albums, Dog Man Star and mused over how many great tracks there were on the album that never made the light of day as singles. And naturally that leads on to “So what are the best album tracks ever?“. The definition being any...