Spending time with the kids...

Playlist

Solar Fields - Ourdom

deadmau5 - where's the drop?

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sometimes Just the Sky

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vols 1-52
Various - Saturday Night Fever OST

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,

Various Artists - And The Heavens Cried

Black Widow - Sacrifice

The Undisputed Truth - The Best Of The Undisputed Truth

Family - Bandstand

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

Argent - All Together Now

Gary Glitter - Glitter

Alice Cooper - Singles Real & Imaginary 1965-2017

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space

Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra

T Rex - The T Rex Wax Co. Singles - A's And B's, 1972-77

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Various Artists - Now That's 1972-10 - 1973-04

The Moody Blues - Voices In The Sky

The Rolling Stones - The London Years

The Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold

Free - The Free Story

Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things

Neil Young - Greatest Hits

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

The Jam - Snap!

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1960s

Status Quo - Status Quo - Gold

Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Johnny Cash - The Real Johnny Cash

Various Artists - Hotdogs, Hits & Happy Days

Various Artists - Super 70's Rock

Well. that's March away already...

Up super early, finishing off and uploading the podcast...

The Twitter lead me to consider tracks that reminded me of School Discos in the early seventies...

The first of a number of playlists to be created this week...

A wee chum accompanied breakfast...

...as did "Saturday Night Fever"...

...and some puffins and a couple of Easter bunnies, destined for Olly and Kitty later today...

In the afternoon, picked up Olly and drove to Dunfermline to a frankly freezing East End Park...

Dunfermline seemed to have a n extra man, or bear or something...

And they ran out 3-1 winners, thanks to a hat trick by erstwhile QoS Top Scorer, Nicky Clark...

Galling...

2-1 would have been a better reflection of this fairly turgid game - Queens were pressing for an equaliser when the Pars got their third in stoppage time...

Oh well...

Back to Jane and Bob's for some "babysitting"...

By this time Kitty and chum Ellie were in the house...

A tasty Chinese meal was enjoyed, Switch was played and photos were taken...

...before we headed home as, to be honest the youngsters are old enough not to need a babysitter...

Today's artwork is "The Golden Rabbits"...

Highlight of the Day : Spending time with the kids...

Good good Friday...

Playlist

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya

Lloyd Webber - Unmasked: The Platinum Collection (Deluxe)

Family - It's Only A Movie

Tom Paxton - Ramblin' Boy

de Cristo - Music from Renaissance Portugal

Sandy Nelson - Manhattan Spiritual 

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

Various - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968

Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

Tom Paxton - Outward Bound

Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Best Of The Wailers

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Revolution

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Rebels

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions Of Japan

Françoise Hardy - In English (Marble Arch)

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That`s What I`m Not (Limited Edition)

KC & The Sunshine Band - Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track

Dillinger & The Upsetters - Rhythm Shower

Di Lasso - Musica Dei Donum / Lauda Sion Salvatorem

The Fatback Band - Essential 70s Funk Recordings

Various - The Story Of Blue Beat: The Birth Of Ska

Dread Zeppelin - Dejah-Voodoo

Wes Montgomery - Movin' Wes

The Ventures - Where the Action Is

Scientist - Wins The World Cup

Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972

Eklund - Music For Orchestra, String Quartet

Die Ärzte - Die Ärzte

Moby And The Void Pacific Choir - More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse

Wolf-Ferrari - Morceaux De Bravoure. Donizetti-Puccini-Rossini-Ferrari

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising

Robert Ellis & Courtney Hartman - Dear John

Françoise Hardy - La maison où j'ai grandi

Wobbler - fterglow

Public Enemy - If You Were... [Single]

Alice Cooper - Jesus Christ Superstar Highlights

deadmau5 - where's the drop?

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,

Nadine Coyle - Nadine - EP

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sometimes Just the Sky

Solar Fields - Ourdom

Up early...

...and into town on this Good Friday...

Some time spent with CK tidying up the debris from yesterday...

A welcome meet up then with the EP at 12:30 and a walk along to the Omar Khayyam Indian restaurant, bumping into chum Lynn's sister Sheila and partner as we made our way...

A very tasty lunch ensued with accompanying red wine...

Yum times three here...

Slight downer re the interminable wait for a bus home but we were soon holed up, on a not very nice day, with the heating on and enjoying "Paddington 2"...

As with "Paddington", there were a couple of "I have something in my eye" moments...

In the evening, the much looked forward to demise of the extremely evil character Mr Phelan, in "Coronation Street", was enjoyed...

And this week's podcast was recorded too, for upload tomorrow morning - a late entry being the work of Edward Spark...

And I couldn't resist a handful of new downloads...

That was it...

Today's artwork, "Tasty"...

Highlight of the Day : Indian lunch and Paddington, joint...

Being the quizmaster can be good...

Playlist

Rhye - Woman

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration (Deluxe Edition)

Die Antwoord - Donker Mag

Laura Pausini, Gente De Zona - Nadie ha dicho (feat. Gente de Zona)

William S.Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

Gregory Isaacs - Midnight Confidential

Lady GaGa - The Remix

Lana Del Rey - Stairway to Heaven

Lloyd Webber - Unmasked: The Platinum Collection (Deluxe)

Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2018)

Family - It's Only A Movie

Kendrick - Lamar Section.80

Various - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years

Kenny Burrell - Bluesin' Around

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread

Moby And The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing [Deluxe Edition]

Dave Barker - Africa's Blood

Michael Schenker - Fest Resurrection

Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift Karaoke: reputation

Various - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials

Various - Behind The Counter With Max Richter

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomorrow Belongs To Me

Jethro Tull - War Child

Deep Purple - Burn

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Drums and Bass

Various - A History of the Single 1959-2018

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Nazareth - Razamanaz

Good views this morning at the bottom of the hill...

This afternoon, a gathering, with prizes for quizzes organised by your correspondent...

...involving some measure of teamwork...

Firstly, bingo, with round the table picking out of names of artists being featured on the playlist soundtracking proceedings - Creme Eggs up for grabs...

Then, with the playlist being one hit single from each year between 1959 and 2018, the teams had ten minutes for each of the three double decades to match artists with songs, or artists with years, or songs with years, all for one point or all three for five points...

Oh how they complained about but, eventually, enjoyed the test...

Prog Rock Willie's team emerged victorious...



Double D's didn't...

The G Man's didn't...

Young Robbie's didn't...

Matty's didn't - not that he seems too bothered...

Eddie's didn't...

Lodger's didn't...

Bernardo captained the winners...

Wenders, also a winner, looked forward to the bubbly with an aperitif of vodka...

CK took her loss in good spirits...

...while you would't have thought that Gaz too, was a winner...

The quizmaster...

...was collected around 9 by his Exec Producer and whisked home in time for a much improved "Still Game"...

Today's artwork, "Early Morning Roof Under a Sky of Blue"...

Highlight of the Day : Being the quizmaster...

Sorting but without going the whole hog means leaning towers...

Playlist

David Bowie A History of the Single - The 1980s

Yes - Close To The Edge

The Beatles - 1967-1970

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Isaac Hayes - Live At The Sahara Tahoe

Lou Reed - Berlin

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Various - A History of the Single - 1959-2018

Today, this picture became popular on the Twitter...

People seem to like pictures of piles of music...

This was late on this evening, when I was alphabetising CDs which are still to be integrated into the collection around the walls of the back room - a mammoth task...

And so, today's artwork is "Leaning Towers"...

Finalised the playlist for tomorrow night and, during the day, enjoyed tracks from the "Impact LPs" list compiled yesterday....

Compiling eh?

Highlight of the Day : Sorting out some CDs...

Some LPs can have an impact on a young boy...

Playlist

Boney M. - Daddy Cool

Norman Lamont And The Heaven Sent - In Another Life

Bruckner - Five Motets; Distler - Totentanz

Nadine Coyle - September Song

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Double Seven

David Byrne - American Utopia

Isaac Hayes - Raw & Refined

Coleman Hawkins - At Ease With Coleman Hawkins

Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits

The Upsetters - Battle Axe

Brian Eno - Heat

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vols 1-52

Various Composers - The World of Your Hundred Best Tunes : The Top Ten

Various Composers - Children's Introduction to Good Music

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Various - Fill Your Head With Rock

King Crimson - Lizard

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Various - A History of the Single - The 1960s

Scenes from the back porch this morning...

..and outside said porch this evening...

A tweet from chum Sid Smith led me to compile a list (and playlists) of "LPs that had a massive impact on me as a kid"...

As you can see, for me, 1973 was a somewhat seminal year...

Meanwhile, a visitor...

Some telly watched and some tasty tea enjoyed...

Started work too on the music for a wee party happening on Thursday...

Today's artwork, "Welcome to Our Home"...

Highlight of the Day : Impact album list...