Heather downloaded Spotify recently, so we've been testing out it's boundaries by searching for various obscure bands and artists, and checking out some stuff we've not heard in a while, or at all. I was listening to the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack, until it got too annoying; somehow it's just not the same without the psychedelic visuals (sorry about the stupid title someone has given this video):
This was one of my favourite films as a kid, along with perhaps the Aristocats and The Yellow Submarine, which for a while I watched practically every time I went to Christopher's house (as well as watching that, we often recorded our own radio shows onto cassette - pretty portentous, I suppose):
So as well as reminiscing about my wayward childhood, which at the moment seems to have been as close to a series of psychedelic episodes as you can get without actually taking LCD, we've also been listening to some bands that have released CDs that are outside our budget, like Herman Dune, who are really great:
I would love to get hold of a pink bear hat like that one.
So yeah, download Spotify, it's great. There is a premium service, but the only real benefit is that you don't have to listen to adverts, which are very infrequent anyway, and mostly seem to be advertising the premium service. Which is strangely self serving and actually quite amusing, rather than annoying.
Toodle-oo!
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