I know there have been too many posts about comics in a short time– it is just how the music, and what it reminds me of, come up. When I was a comic loving child and teenager the idea of there being comic shops was almost as outlandish as costumer superheroes. The most famous wasContinue reading “Sing it with me, just for today”
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Do You Ever Wonder Why?
This blog is meant to be a positive thing, not harping on about negative things in life. This will be one of the exceptions. I have already done several posts about people who I worked for that were brilliant, it would be very false if I did not talk about the two who were veryContinue reading “Do You Ever Wonder Why?”
The Only Thing I’ve Seen
How should you treat entertainers who turn out to be abusers? I have said how hard it is when you love someone’s music to ditch them. So many Michael Jackson fans ignore the information about him or discount it as lies. Gary Glitter was a famous figure in 70s British music with several number ones. Continue reading “The Only Thing I’ve Seen”
Our subject isn’t cool but he fakes it anyway
I was vaguely aware of this song but I saw the video way after it was released one afternoon (along with another song that will appear later on in the list) on a music channel in 2000. I was getting ready to go and meet my mates in Covent Garden, so I stopped off atContinue reading “Our subject isn’t cool but he fakes it anyway”
But I Won’t Go, Go, Go
In 2006 work was close to idyllic. After five years of working for a man whose main aim seemed to be to belittle and cut down his staff (I will talk about him later), I had a boss (Orville Gardener) who was someone you could learn from. I still talk to him even now, despiteContinue reading “But I Won’t Go, Go, Go”
Respect to the Man in the Ice Cream Van
Just a warning at the start the video is NSFW. It is not the one seen on TV and could quite easily be another example of misogyny under the T.A.T.U. entry. I have seen the track on Sky channel 372 a lot and it is always a version of a stage performance In fact IContinue reading “Respect to the Man in the Ice Cream Van”
All the Commotion
I went to work at Monoux in 2007. I left a grade 1 (outstanding) college in amazing financial health for a grade 3 (requires improvement) college with ropey finances. It was like stepping back in time further than when I had started at NewVIc in 1993 – Monoux’s systems in 2007 were ones that wouldContinue reading “All the Commotion”
This Is Not Enough
In my earlier posts I spoke about the depiction of women in music videos (https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/fivemilesout.home.blog/39) and then there was Sabrina (https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/fivemilesout.home.blog/65). Now at least Sabrina was in the 80s – to me that seems like yesterday, but society has changed a hell of a lot. Yet you still get videos like Call On Me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4Continue reading “This Is Not Enough”
Then it all went black
One of the most modern tracks and groups here. My boss at work is a really big music fan. When he started at Monoux I had been acting Principal for nearly a year, which may have made it difficult for him. It shouldn’t have, as I was suffering from ME and desperate to go backContinue reading “Then it all went black”
Doing It Right
The only other garage track on the list is by a member of So Solid Crew. The weird thing about this is it does not seem like a garage track, it seems like a rock track trying to pretend it is garage – the aggression and attitude area foreign concept to R&B now. My workContinue reading “Doing It Right”
Five Miles Out 