Here are my five summer albums for now. For one reason or another these albums reminds me of summer or makes me whish it was summer. These will probably change the next time a look at this list…
Nuyorkian Soul – Nuyorkian Soul
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygen
Kraftwerk – Man Machine
Bob Marley – [...]
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Yesterday I actually bought some new vinyl records for the first time in a long while. I got Which You Were Here by Pink Floyd, Breakfast in America by Supertramp and Katy Lied by Steely Dan.
The main reason for buying some new vinyl was that a few days ago I finally got a [...]
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I justed watched an episode of The Simpsons called “Smoke on the Daughter” in which Marge tells Homer the following:
Marge: Homer, I am going to be a dancer!
Homer: Go-go or boring?
Marge: Boring!
Homer: Oh.
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Inspired by Steven Jay Schneider’s book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”
# 990
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Title: 69 Love Songs
Year: 1999
I remember first reading about this album in the morning paper. The reason I started reading the review was that the album was given the highest score possible. When I found it was an [...]
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Posted in Blog / Diary on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I decided to give my computer away.
It is not as drastic as it sounds. I decided to give my computer to the kids to play with and have now placed it in one of their rooms. The ”computer corner” in our living room will in the near future be converted into a “music and reading corner” [...]
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I have been to IKEA lots of times and every time I am there I sneak in to the bargain area. It is usually located just before the checkouts and I never find anything. But that does not stop me, next time I am back I go there again thinking this time…
Yesterday we actually found something worth [...]
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Air – Pocket Symphony
I have listened a little to Air before and really like the EP Premiers Symptomes. When I saw this album I remembered that Jim on the podcast Sound Opinions liked it and thought the albums the combination of ambient and pop was just perfect. Since I have been enjoying the music of Röyksopp lately I thought [...]
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Posted in Blog / Diary, tagged Evergrey, In Search of Truth, listen, metal, preview, progressive, Recreation Day, Tom S Englund, Torn, trailer on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been a fan of the band Evergrey since I first heard the 2001 album In Search of Truth. The music on that album is a really great mix of heavy guitars, powerful and technical drumming and brilliant vocals. They also managed to write really interesting songs with some great instrumental passages and balances nicely between the [...]
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I got inspired to start my 1001 Albums thread when I first heard about the book “1001″ Movies You…” by Steven Jay Schneider.
Now there are of course a couple of books out dedicated to albums you must hear. After writing a couple of entries I got the idea of making a fake book cover for my version.
The original book cover on [...]
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Today I took some time to sort out all my daughter’s DVDs and put them on some new shelves. It turned out pretty nice and freed up some space in our living room.
The way that the Benno CD Towers from IKEA which we have are designed, I ended up with some shelves that were way too small to put DVDs [...]
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