The Cure - Lovesong And so to the last year of the 1980s, and a song by The Cure, the only band that I become a bit obsessed with. There was something mystical about Robert Smith. The crumpled clothes, the bird's nest hair, the hi-top trainers, the wavering voice and the songs. My old Smooly … Continue reading 1989
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Yello - The Race I love a bit of ultra-produced pop. Yello were the weirdest of things... Dieter Meier, a millionaire Swiss industrialist, and his sidekick Boris Blank. Looking like a European Terry Thomas, I can envisage Meier holed up in his depths-of-a-mountain lair, surrounded by Fairlight CMI music computers and over-fluffy cats, plotting to … Continue reading 1988
New Order - True Faith My favourite song. Ever. True Faith is special to me in so many ways. New Order were a musical bridge for me, taking me from hip hop and electronica into the world of guitars, indie and later grunge. The video a kaleidoscope of colour, oversized dogs, and face slapping. And … Continue reading 1987
Day two of Atmosphere was a slightly more involved event for me, as I ran a couple of workshop sessions on how we went about delivering Google Apps into Imagination. I was preceded by a demo of ChromeOS. Joking before with Xen (product demonstrator and stuntman), it promised to be the most uninteresting demonstration in … Continue reading Travelblog 3.2 – Google Atmosphere
I spent a great day today at the Atmosphere event today, with a mix of speakers who opened up some interesting lines of discussion. Above everything, I think that the recurring theme was that the challenges that the Cloud poses for organisations today is in the way in which the "democratising" effects of web-based services … Continue reading Travelblog 3.1 – Google Atmosphere
A mini-travelblog for the Google Atmosphere event taking place just outside Chantilly. Arrived, after a bit of an expedition involving three trains, a bit of a wait, a realisation that cabs are probably unlikely in a Parisian suburb on a Sunday, and a madcap dash in a Renault Clio driven by a bloke from a … Continue reading Travelblog 3.0 – Google Atmosphere
Run DMC - My Adidas So back to the hip hop for a short while. Run DMC's My Adidas is an important song for me in two ways: firstly, for the adoration of the sports brand which still is my preferred choice of trainer; and secondly for a bit of a muso reason. Adidas are … Continue reading 1986
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon This is the last song on this list that I got into at a date later than when it was released. I was introduced to The Waterboys when I met (a now long-standing friend) Becky back in 1987. The album that this came from, This is the … Continue reading 1985
Chaka Khan - I feel for you In my early teens I was into hip hop. The Street Sounds electro series of albums provided a slice of East Coast/West Coast urban culture to the mean streets of South West Hertfordshire. Once a week I'd join a bunch of assorted misfits at a church hall in … Continue reading 1984
The The - Uncertain Smile The The are a band that I came to in the late 1980s, with the wonderful album Mindbomb, but (because of the glut of wonderful memories from the late 80s) it's a track from their first proper album that makes this list. Uncertain Smile has the best piano solo on … Continue reading 1983
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