How To Have A Number One The Easy Way

How To Have A Number One The Easy Way

The majority of Number One’s are achieved early on in the artist’s public career and before they have been able to establish reputations and build a solid fan base. Most artists are never able to recover from having one and it becomes the millstone around their necks to which all subsequent releases are compared. The fact that a record is Number One automatically means the track is in a very short period of time going to become over exposed and as worthless as last month’s catchphrase.

Backstreet Boys – As Long As You Love Me.. like never before

Following on from the great performance of the fat Dutch man comes Backstreet Boys’ As Long As You Love Me (4MB video file, let’s hope it’s mirrored soon!). It’s done in the same style by 2 lads, with another guy playing CS in the background. Love those facial expressions! 🙂

We're going to see Tom Baxter!

On the way home this evening from my aunt’s home we tuned to Red FM and heard they were offering tickets to go see Tom Baxter performing in the Savoy on Thursday! All you had to do was text in your name followed by the word “baxter” to enter the competition!
I didn’t expect to win, but they rang back a few minutes ago and Jacinta answered a simple question so we’re going to see live music on Thursday! Woo! 🙂

The mod scene, dead?

Long before mp3 files were causing such a headache for the music industry, original music in the mod scene was inspiring artists and listeners alike all over the world! I’m glad to say that the mod scene is still very much alive.


This search provided me with a wealth of links to explore, and I even found some old favourites and one I remember a friend obsessed about 10 years ago.
The The Mod Archive looks like the place to go for mod stuff these days!
I’ll have to search a little more to find my favourites from the Hornet Archive. Woo! I found the Freedom CD compilation that Hornet released in 1995. Listen to the first track, Kingdom Skies by Jase, or the second track, The Crossing by Necros for a taster of really excellent free music.


You’ll probably want modplug to play your new MOD files. On Debian a simple apt-get install xmms-modplug does the job and you can use the familiar Xmms interface to play them.
Great! The Maniacs of Noise have a download page of their stuff! They have some strange Javascript download mechanism but if you view source you should be able to figure out the simple URLs.
Going further back there’s the brilliantly exploited SID chip of the C64, collected in the High Voltage SID Collection. Ah, nostalgia.