Jazz is one of my favourite musical genres but I don’t post a lot about it on here. Jazz has such a long history and such a large amount of writing has been done on it, it feels a bit intimidating for me to talk about it. No such qualms about playing it though, and a few weeks ago I finally took advantage of the recording setup at my new home to pull out some of my favourites for a mix which has been up on my soundcloud and now …

Blixa Bargeld, N.U. Unruh and FM Einheit declared war on all conventional hearing habits with the release of their debut album “Kollaps” (Collapse) in November 1981. Tremendously noise-intensive, rhythmically ritual anti-pop was offered as an antidote for the frightened, paralyzed and media-sedated masses. It was made from a range of instruments carefully beaten together from mostly stolen construction site, scrap yard and do-it-yourself supplies, consisting of steel parts, barrels, drills, hammers, saws and an untuned electric guitar. The sound monster awakened to life was crowned by Bargeld’s blood-curdling screams and …

Here’s a new thing you can play along with or completely ignore (like usual)
Every so often it may come to my attention that a song is my absolute fave of a genre/style/theme/subject, so I am gonna stick it up here and then you can think about what yours its and do the same, or not. Whatever.
Today we start with a subject that has been used as a basis for song on scale only surpassed by love, rather obviously its….
Fucking.
My fave song about fucking is
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – …

After nearly a full season of being amazing I had finally managed to get some people along to behold my magnificence!
Paul Ninja gets an honourable mention for showing up, albeit too late to see me score 58, to see me grab 5-11 earlier in the season, thusly proving my amazing.
Kate, Mel, Micah, Baz, The Wife™, and BMP members Bob, Paul and Mick the Kfc kid, all found themselves enthralled by my obvious exquisite talent this last Saturday passed.
All were there on this auspicious occasion to watch the mighty Kumeu top …

I recently rediscovered this wee gem from me yoof, Bob willl argue that he did much betterer stuff but i still wanna jump about to this sucker.
Also note the extremely weird, out of place sample that totally rulz in the middle of the track.

(subject to debate)

I’ve just added 146 Crass Songs to the bobpod
That is a hell of a lot of anger… and as far as I can tell its their entire recorded output – well legitamite output. I had to dump a bunch of Pet Shop Boys remixes to make space
I find this quite amusing
This is Darling from Stations of Crass, one of my fave songs of theirs.

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crass
www.southern.com/southern/band/CRASS