Pub Electro

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Mi-Sex! A ragged assortment of prog rockers, bar band hacks & a former tv talent show winner, they reinvented themselves as a new wave band & produced a bunch of fantastically wtf hits, etched into the brain of every good Kiwi. Their best was 1979's "Computer Games" - k-rad lyrics like "I fidget with the digit dots / And cry an anxious tear / As the X-U-1 connects the spot / But the matrix grid don't care", & a chorus of the song title delivered as stuttering space invaders fire! Here's the video:

Mi-Sex - "Computer Games" (look out, it's 38 megabytes & in .mpg format)

. . . anyone want to compile footage of keyboardists ROCKING OUT?

6 Days On The Road - Day 3

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Enter the don of trucking songs Mr Red Simpson, creator of the world-beating "Hello, I'm A Truck" among many others. Today's entry once again mixes those two manly pursuits of truckin' and chasin' skirt, with the surely self-explanatory

"I Got A Beaver On My Lap And A Bear On My Tail"

Somewhat murky in sound once again, but well worth it.

Pop Idealism

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I was talking to my mum the other day and the conversation turned to music. Mum happened to mention that there were certain records, songs, albums, that she enjoyed very much but which she hadn't consciously heard in many years. (One example was Lexicon of Love, reason being she doesn't have a record player anymore.) This was subsequently extended to include records which reminded her of earlier times, before I was born, when she was younger, of my Dad etc etc, but which she had not consciously set out to hear for ages.

I pressed her a bit on this, as to whether she'd avoided listening to these recently in case she "spoiled" them (or perhaps more accurately the memories associated with them?) but I think her conclusion was a purely matter of fact: she just didn't have access to them.

So, a few points from this discussion:

1. Are there any songs/albums etc which you enjoy but which only exist as "ideas" in the mind for you? Why is this? Are they bound up with any kind of memories or moments?

2. (More technical): How would a song exist only as an idea? I tried, as an experiment to imagine a complete song in my head, vocal, instrumentation, all of that: but it always comes out fragmented? When you have a song stuck in your head, what happens!