Songs For Christmas

OK, folks, as promised, the 17 Seconds Christmas Spectacular!

The aim is to post Christmas tracks every day between now and Christmas, as well as other stuff.

So to start it all off today, Low’s ‘Just Like Christmas’ and two cover versions of it.

Enjoy!

Low -‘Just Like Christmas.’ mp3

Aberdeen City -‘Just Like Christmas.’ mp3

Snow Patrol -‘Just Like Christmas.’ mp3

Enjoy!

A few songs for the soon to be Mrs. 17 Seconds

Well, in two days time we’ll be getting married. The future in-laws have arrived in Edinburgh, my folks are arriving later and we’re both excited and nervous.

Anyway, this post is dedicated to the soon to be Mrs. 17 Seconds.

Ash-‘Does Your Mother Know?’ mp3

Cooper Temple Clause-‘Let’s Kill Music.’ mp3

Cure-‘Close To me.’ mp3

Low-‘California.’ mp3

Rob Dougan -‘Clubbed To Death.’ mp3

Scritti Politti-‘The ‘Sweetest Girl’.’ mp3

As always, if you liek what you hear, support the artists involved. And a hello to Robin, who I went record shopiing with yesterday and said he was still waiting for a shoutout on this blog!

Monday Monday

Hi, just a brief, brief post.

I survived my first day back at school, and I’m okay…but very tired.

Here are two tracks I love, which I know I have posted in the past, but they sense of sadness is something I connect with, right now, I guess.

Sweet Dreams.

Low -‘Monkey.’ mp3

from the album The Great Destroyer

Schneider TM -‘The Light 3000.’ mp3

Can be found on Rough Trade Shops electronic 01 compilation

The 100th post

(when I started writing the blog, I hadn’t got my cats. this is them, several months ago)

Well, and here we are! This is the 100th post I have done on the blog. Over the course of seven months, my interest in music, along with comments on teaching and hitting thirty have given me something to work on. Whilst I still dream of having as many readers as some of the other blogs, the feedback I have received has been flattering, and if I had as little rubbish to deal with at school as I do here, life would be easier!!

Thanks to my long-suffering girlfriend, and my family for their feedback, and friends and readers (of course, these are not necessarily mutually exclusive) who have helped this come along. I have learned more about computers along the way, and there’s probably fewer rants about it all now…

What I’ve done this time is just to pick ten great tracks, no theme, just stuff I love, and really hope you do too. As ever, if you like’em, do go and buy them.

Here’s to the next one hundred posts. Enjoy the music.