Want to know what I'm doing right now?

[bobquasit]

I'm playing the Clash's "Rudy Can't Fail" 100 times in a row.

Okay, not really. That song is 3:28 minutes long, so that would take 5 hours and 28 minutes to complete - assuming zero seconds on restart, which I don't think is right. I believe Windows Media Player inserts a second, or maybe three, at the end of the song. So that would take even longer.

But I've played five games of solitaire (and won three) while listening to the song; about 55 minutes, all in all. So that's a lot of Clash.

Why "Rudy Can't Fail"? Damned if I know. It scratches the itch.

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[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Shriekback, The Clash, Runequest... What is this?!?

I've always found the first six songs on London Calling just flow so well together....

'64?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Weird, isn't it? Particularly since we're so far apart, geographically. Perhaps we were born around the same time? I was born in 1964.

We should compare playlists some time, since we seem to have the same taste in music!

Re: '64?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Me, 1968. So pretty close...

Some music I like a lot, in no particular order..

The Clash (favourites since my teens)
Shriekback
Ultravox (especially the early stuff pre-Midge Ure)
The The
Front 242
Orbital
Nine Inch Nails
Sisters of Mercy (god, here comes the stereotypes)
Joy Division/New Order
The Birthday Party and other Nick Cave material

Re: '64?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I know some of those, but not all of them. I'll have to see what I can do about that.

Here's some of the more obscure music I like. Some of it is impossibly rare, even on P2P networks.

They Might Be Giants
Oingo Boingo (aka Boingo)
Stan Ridgeway
The Vapors
Annabel Lamb (NOT the girl from Bow Wow Wow)
Lene Lovitch
Violent Femmes
Suzanne Vega
Copernicus
Tom Lehrer

Re: '64?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

If you like the Femmes, you'll probably also like The Stems and The Triffids. See if you can find any of their stuff on P2P networks.

I have some TMBG, Stan Ridgeway, Vapors, Lene Lovitch, Vega and am very fond of Lehrer as well.. A lot of overlap!