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Day 30 - Favourite Song This Time Last Year - Saturday Nite

According to Last.fm the track I listened to most this week last year was Saturday Nite by Earth, Wind & Fire. I suspect that's because Daft Punk were all over the place and I wanted a taste of the real thing. (Though I may be misremembering.)

And, there and then, we're done. 30 days over. I enjoyed this, mostly because of reading along to other selections. Alice, Greg, Frances, Matt and Mark have all written about music in a way that makes me like it - and them - more. (Though I'm worried about Mark wanting to drive me into the sea. It's the kind of thing he would actually do.)

And huge thanks to Matt for getting us all going again.

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Day 29 - Song From Your Childhood - Zadok The Priest

If I have a skill, something at which I'm uniquely gifted, it's getting out of things. It developed, I suppose, because of my mother's determination that I should get into things.

In order to get out of scouts I became a chorister at Derby Cathedral. We were, reputedly, the worst cathedral choir in the country but we used to get paid, which was better than scouts. The best bits were doing plainsong on a Thursday evening and the annual bash through Zadok The Priest with a full orchestra.

Eventually I got out of the choir by joining a brass band.

Day 28 - Song That Makes You Feel Guilty - The Work Comes First

Way back in the last century I made a bunch of songs about the place I worked, built out of sounds submitted by the people who worked there. You can read the whole saga here. It pops up in my shuffle every now and then and I wish this wasn't the only musical project I'd ever actually finished. It's sort of interesting, but it's not the best I can do. That makes me feel guilty.

I still quite like how odd and out of tune this one is and it features my friend David - and I feel guilty about not having talked to him for years. And I like this one - and ditto it features Jed. This has a vague Disintegration Loops vibe. This one's a bit motorik. And this is The Work Comes First.

Day 27 - A Song You Wish You Could Play - Boneshaker

In my head I can actually do this, I just need a couple of weeks off work to polish up the details.

Day 26 - Song You Can Play On An Instrument - That Sinking Feeling

I can play this, on the keyboards. Look - that's me playing it. On Razzamatazz, 30 years ago.

Day 25 - Song That Makes You Laugh - Ill Wind

Flanders and Swann again. I always laugh at this. Two bits in particular:

I love the internal rhyme in "I bet you a quid somebody did" and the sudden drop into a low. growly simile "It had vanished away like the dew in the morn".

One of the rarest of things - a funny song that's both funny and a song.