What I'm Currently Doing: writing a brochure about a square, grey building in Hertfordshire.
What I'd Rather Be Doing: reading the unutterably pretentious Stylus Magazine's review of every UK number one single since Jan 1, 2000.
tags: stylus magazine
How square? How grey?
ReplyDeleteUninteresting. Hertfordshire. Tautology.
ReplyDelete(Except for that nice Mr Gamon, of course)
W: Very. Very.
ReplyDeleteVicus Scurra: Welcome! Is Mr Gamon the exception that proves the rule?
That's a fantastic link, thanks for that. Didn't think just reading about those songs would take me back to starting Uni in 2000 so much.
ReplyDeleteI only know the crappy pop ones from that list. Music's not like it was in the old days etc etc
ReplyDeleteAlan Turing would know how square and how grey. A grey square could be the ultimate in neutral rationality, a sort of cosmic noise constant against which to measure variety. Pi would make a circle too unstable.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to pinpoint the precise moment I first looked at 'Top Of The Pops' and said "it's all just boom boom boom" or "call that a haircut?" or "cuh, why can't they play proper music, like Haircut 100?" (in other words, the moment I turned into my dad).
ReplyDeleteI think it must have been 5ive. They were exceedingly not good, weren't they?
CD: where's Alan Turing when you need him, eh? Coincidentally, the building in question might not have existed without him. O Alan, what hast thou wrought, etc.
ReplyDeleteTim: I gave up watching TOTP well before 5ive came along, so I couldn't honestly tell you.