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I am not ashamed (though I probably should be) to say that I was an East 17 fan back in the day where being an East 17 fan didn't get your head kicked in. Yep, I had large posters of Tony Mortimer and Brian Harvey up in my room, even a couple of small ones of Bill and Bob (or whatever the other two were called). Mum of course knew of the fascination, being subjected to their music all the time. I even blasted it in the kitchen when she was trying to teach me how to make chapattis.
East 17 broke up in 1997 and I was sad for, oh, about a day. My musical tastes have changed, you'll be pleased to know. (Some would argue that liking the Backstreet Boys isn't much of a progression but boo sucks to them.) Mum however isn't quite up to speed with the goings ons in the pop world (apparently she has better things to do with her time. Poor excuse, I know.) Whenever I'm listening to something that happens to have a male voice, mum chimes in, "Is this East 17?" To name but a few, she has asked me this whilst I've been listening to the following: Seal, 112, Maroon 5 and Notorious BIG.
I don't mind of course, I just gently tell her that no, it's not the boys from Walthamstow.
The last straw however was the other day when I was listening to Franz Ferdinand. "Is this East 17?"
"Mum! East 17 have been been gone for over eight years now! No this is not East 17....I don't listen to them anymore! They weren't that great a band in the first place; that is such an insult to this music!"
"Okay, okay, baba.....is it Take That?"
I listened to Parachutes and X&Y back to back last night and wooooah *waves arms in air, pretending to be a set of scales therefore signalling that Parachutes far outweighs X&Y and that Coldplay should really pull their socks up*
It's that time again. Time to suggest tracks I can play at a party this month. I need stuff that will get people dancing. Doesn't matter what genre or even what language the songs are in. So suggest away!
We bought it. My sister refused to hold it in public. But hey ain't no shame in my game! Or something...
Celebrate the Jubilee in style!
I can't wait till The Osbournes premieres here tonight. Just so they'll stop playing that bloody advert.
It doesn't happen very often, in fact its very rare that I'll fall head over heels in love. It happened with Seal's Kiss from a Rose and its happened again with Hoobastank's Running Away. Sigh.
Just having one of those days yeah
Didn't know what to do
Then there was you
And everything went from wrong to right
And the stars came out and filled up the sky
The music yoy were playing really blew my mind
It was love at first sight
'Cause baby when I heard you
For the first time I knew
We were meant to be as one
Was tired of running out of luck
Thinking 'bout giving up yeah
Didn't know what to do
Then there was you
And everything went from wrong to right
And the stars came out and filled up the sky
The music yoy were playing really blew my mind
It was love at first sight
'Cause baby when I heard you
For the first time
I knew we were meant to be as one
And everything went from wrong to right
And the stars came out and filled up the sky
The music yoy were playing really blew my mind
It was love at first sight
Love At First Sight, Kylie Minogue
I spent too many years thinking Michael Jackson had a thing for girls who worked in libraries.
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you
to the places where all the things meet yeah
No change,
I can't change I can't change, I can't change
But I'm here in my mould, I am here in my mould
But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mould
No, no, no, no, no
Well I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds
that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind,
I feel free now
But the airways are clean
and there's nobody singing to me now
Bittersweet Symphony, The Verve
