On my continual quest to bring light and understanding to the up-and-coming generation, this evening I have been spreading the love of music and pop video.
The journey through the world of music videos started with the awesomely creative and wackily amusing OK GO! videos.
Then there was a quick detour to The Hives (Tick Boom).
And then, briefly entering the world of musical history, from the historically synth-pop genre-defining Alphaville (Big In Japan), to the outrageously awesome Oxford threesome Zurich (Alone).
Then a quick flip over to the shamelessly mainstream Evanescence (the Fallen album).
The 7yo really enjoyed the OK GO! videos.
The 10yo liked The Hives.
None of them really got Alphaville, but the 42yo really got Zurich (and their previous incarnation, The Scholars, which I briefly aired).
Gotta love Zurich’s Alone:
The 10yo liked about two Evanescence tracks.
And now they’ve all gone upstairs to get ready for bed.
So I listened to Mark Knopfler’s Local Hero/Going Home theme.
Earlier we watched Swallows And Amazons, which was a lovely piece of time-travel.
I read the book many times as a schoolboy.
It moved me to buy a dinghy and learn to row and then how to sail.
A charming film, it deviates from the original Arthur Ransome story, but still preserves the feel.
I had a lovely time and I hope everyone else enjoyed it too.
Time passes.
I’m now filtering though some old TV themes, because it’s time I updated my personalised ring tone library.
I’m thinking of assigning this one to Young Masher (for no other reason than it’s a cracking piece of John Barry composition:
That really is a cracker.
And would you believe I already have it on my phone?
And it is assigned to you?
It is! And several other people.
All my ringtones are from 70s British TV themes.
The Champions
Dangerman
Dave Allen Show
The Persuaders
Sometimes I just like to let it ring.
In other news, my graphics card has gone kaput. Or rather, it seems to be the culprit in causing my PC to randomly lock up. I have dug an old Radion Sapphire out of the loft, but you can’t get Win 10 drivers for it, so everything is really big and there is much left to right scrolling going on.
It’s horrible.
And I just edited this comment.
Because I can 🙂
Heh, I have this album. It’s a cracker. But some of those themes have aged considerably better than the TV programmes with which they were associated.