Sidingsound

An end of a year

So, we made our way down to Cribbs Causeway (a really rather big shopping mall in Bristol, for anyone outside the UK (or the south of England?)), and amongst other things I bagged two CDs in the Zavvi sale which demonstrate my musical multiple personalities reasonably well: Coldplay's "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" (no, I don't own it yet), and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1967 debut "Gorilla". On the latter, it's possible to hear even at the start of their short recording career, the Bonzos pulling in two directions at once, playing both the 1930s novelty songs with which they began, and the warped Beatles pastiches (such as Neil Innes' sublime "Equestrian Statue") which probably bagged them a cameo appearance in Magical Mystery Tour, and may have helped Paul end up producing their biggest hit single, "I'm the Urban Spaceman".

As for the Coldplay CD, you have to bear in mind that I've heard their singles many times, in most cases without ever finding out what they were called. Whilst "Rush Of Blood" has at least two of the ones I wanted, the song that I was really looking for, turned out not to be on the CD I bought, but on the one before it ("Parachutes"). At least I finally found out that the song was called "Trouble", though...

And on that note, I bid a workmanlike farewell to you all in 2007, and look forward to seeing you all again in a couple of days, to see what 2008 might have in store for us.

Maybe even that difficult first album? ;-)

Labels: cds, music

posted by Tim @ 20:54