An idea can lead to owning things you really didn't want to own...

Playlist

Fehlfaben - ?0?? (2022)

Fehlfarben - Über... Menschen

Fehlfarben - Handbuch für die Welt

Various Artists - Queer As Folk (OST)

Various Artists - Queer As Folk 2 (OST)

The Black Keys - El Caminos Into Light

Stacey Kent - Breakfast on the Morning Tram

Various - Disco Hits

Girls Aloud - Christmas Hits

Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material

Various - The Annual 2018 (Ministry of Sound)

Adele - 19

Adele - 21

Adele - 25

Various Artists - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years

Taylor Swift - Red (Deluxe Edition)

The Weeknd - Trilogy

Ed Sheeran - Plus

Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift (Deluxe Edition)

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness

Ed Sheeran - x

Taylor Swift - Fearless

Ed Sheeran - ÷

Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)

The Weeknd - Starboy

Taylor Swift -1989

Capital Models - 2023-12-03

Thirst And The Cow (TATC) - The Main Sequence At Last

Ndox Electrique - Tëdd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang

Zimoun - ModularGuitarFields I-VI

plusol - Birthright

Caroline Rose - The Art of Forgetting

Thysenterprise - ESSENTIAL

Tate McRae - THINK LATER

Geddy Lee - The Lost Demos (Single)

Steve Howe Trio - The Haunted Melody

Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass

Various Composers - The Avantgarde Series

Various Composers - A Young Person's Guide to the Avant-Garde

Various Composers - The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century

Various Composers - The Age of the Russian Avant-Garde: Futurists and Traditionalists

Cykada - Metamorphosis

Lea Bertucci - Of Shadow and Substance

Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Unity of Opposites

AGF - poemproducer

Jared Hauser & Caleb Harris - 20th Century Mosaic

Schumann Quartett - 100 Years of Radio

Gordon - Michael Zev Gordon: Diary Pieces

Ludovico Einaudi - La Petite

Haydn - Late Piano Works

Cervo - - Complete Works for Piano from 1985 to 2023

Neil Young - Before and After

Markus Reuter - Stream For Consciousness Vol. 3

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

Blank Gloss - Cornered

City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

Brian Eno - FOREVERVOICELESS

PJ Moore & Co - When A Good Day Comes

Various - 2023 New to Me Good LPs on Shuffle

First Snow of The Year - Awakening of The Pines

Shuteen Erdenebaatar - Rising Sun

First Snow of The Year & Samatha - Glaciers

Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix

Zopp - Dominion

Błoto - Kwasy i zasady

Tangerine Dream - Zeit

Once more it is December 9 and, while I remember sister Pam every day, today I remember her more than any other really...

12 years gone...

Late this evening, I went through 9 December entries on here from 2011, the day she died, to 9 December 2022...

We used to go out for a family meal on the anniversary...

Now I post a couple of pics on the family Whatsapp...

Time moves on...

After 2022, I went back to 9 December 2010 - I was living with Pam down in Hemel Hempstead and we were waiting on a call from the hospital for her to go in for the operation to remove the tumour from her brain...

Turned out she had a year to live - but we did not know that and we had hope...

There are some things in your diary that you do not enjoy reading back one little bit...

Anyway, as Pam would say, "get on with it"...

So, up just before 7...

Scene...

Finished yesterday's ripping...

Unpictured porridge, banana and honey breakfast, then, Anne putting up the lights...

This, an early version, later "remastered" to blue...

Some painting this morning from Anne too...

Looking good!

But what was I doing?

Why was I listening to "Rolling in the Deep"?

Well, overnight, I'd had the idea that, following on from the Bowie/Roxy/Velvets/Eno sets, the band might do another themed show, comprising sets of popular material by Adele/Sheeran/Swift/Weeknd - some of the most listened to artists of recent times...

Accordingly, I created a 40 song playlist, with a view to sourcing chords and lyrics and learning the songs (many of which I have never heard in my puff - which will make it difficult to learn them)...

As you can see from the pic below, re "Today's New Music", sometimes an idea can lead to owning things you really didn't want to own...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ed Sheeran (of course my Ed Sheeran based CBQ song album is due next year)...

Lunch, accompanied by a celebrity "Impossible" from 2019, with Susan Calman winning £10,000 for the cancer charity her oncologist dad set up, was home made soup, with the tasty masterstroke of leftover brussel sprouts...

Although this did mean the Trumpets of Satan were sounding for the rest of the day...

In the afternoon, Anne headed to her mum's for a visit and they listened to the Hearts game on the radio - beaten 2-1 in Aberdeen by a 92nd minute goal after having been ahead...

In Montrose, Queens were 4-0 up at half time...

Another 92nd minute goal meant losing their "clean sheet", having not added to their first half tally and meaning 4-1 was the final score...

Hopefully the start of something but, in reality, I doubt it...

We'll see...

I put together and uploaded this week's podcast, then, listened back (I now use Audacity rather than Virtual DJ to produce them, so I no longer listen while creating)...

Then, listening to new music and reading about/looking at art...

...as I revealed my top LPs of 2023 and the discoveries of the year...

I ended up with around 560 contenders (still growing by the day) and almost 300 albums from artists who are new to me this year (also still growing by the day)...

This evening, "Dr Who" and steak pie...

"Dr Who"? Despite being not too bad, sadly, it continues to fall far short of what it could be and continues to continually disappoint...

The pie though? Excellent!!  

More new music listening while Anne watched "Strictly" then, headphones off for "Have I Got News For You"...

Back to the machines at 10 or so...

...where even more new music was discovered...

The torture never stops...

To bed with "Zeit" by Tangerine Dream, sounding better than it ever has...

Lowlight of the Day: Pam's Unwanted Anniversary...

Today's New Music:-