I'll tell you why:
- We don't listen to Radio 1 - or Key 103 - or other such "modern music" radio stations ...
- We have not listened to the "Top 20/Top40" show since ... music was good and the artist's names didn't include the words "... featuring ..." or "MC" or "DJ" or other such cr*p - much happier listening to "Sounds of the 60s" with Brian Matthew (often at work); "Pick of the Pops from x years ago" with Tony Blackburn (often coming home from work on a Saturday) - or "Sounds of the 70s" with Johnnie Walker on a Sunday afternoon ...
We didn't watch the 2012 Paralympics Closing Ceremony (there's the big clue !!) ...
- We're getting on in years - we pick up music from what we already know (Radio 2 or BBC 3/4) - or via the world music scene (Radio 2 or BBC 3/4) - or odds and sods that the kids play us and say "You might like this you old gits ..."
- We've (or rather I've - Mrs Smiffy hated 'em) stopped going to music festivals (Leeds, Download etc) ...
So ... there we were 'twixt Christmas and New Year in the cinema to watch "The Hobbit - Part 1 of 3" when a trailer came on for "Life of Pi" ... and I heard a snippet of a tune and thought "That's good - that's very good - will research when I get home" ... we knew the other one already (as in "Saeglopur" by Sigur Ros) cus we've got it - another clue ...
... and so it was - a tune that's been out since September 2011 - made number 1 in that chart I never listen to in the first week of 2012 - and has a jolly Youtube video with (apparently over 177 MILLION hits !) ... I'm an old git - and I LOVE anthemic tunes ... and this is certainly up there with the best ..
Such is life ... I consider myself "caught up" !!!
Football tomorrow ?? The match I want to go to (Ashton United v Stafford Rangers) is already subject to a 1000hrs pitch inspection - t'other option (hate to say it's second choice ... but I only get to see the old home town - as in Stafford - rarely) is Mossley v New Mills - a cracking top of the table duel - and word is that the pitch is fine ... so we'll get summat ... surely ...
Off round to daughter's for New Years Eve - so if I don't get back before midnight (unlikely) - all the very best to you readers out there from "STS" - let's hope 2013 is an improvement to all - ignore the the ramblings of Cameron and Clegg - and let's do it ourselves ... because we'll get no bloody help from those clowns in charge ....
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1 comment:
Well Mr Smiff, as someone in a 'similar' age range I struggle to believe you haven't somewhere along the road heard this! Even I, as a classic rock listener have managed to hear this one. Welcome to the young 'uns world. I'm just glad that it was the expertise of a kiwi film maker (the now Sir Peter Jackson) that managed in some small way to bring you up to date. And don't ever forget that NZ was the only unbeaten team at the last football world cup (I will so dine out forever on that)!
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