CeeFourBee

A front end developer and geek with a passion for cycling, video games and coffee

Throwback Thursday: Killing me Softly

12 Jul

I’ve been too busy recently to post anything on here, but I’ve got the time to post this weeks song, this will at least make a few people happy. I’ve not really put that much thought into the song I was going to pick this week, but that has no bearing on how much I like it, or indeed how much you should appreciate it!

This week it’s ‘The Fugees – Killing me Softly’, this got to number 1 back in 1996. There may be a few more Fugees’ tracks in the future, but I won’t spoil the surprise and reveal what they are.

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Throwback Thursday: 7 Seconds

28 Jun

This week’s choice was an impulse decision and I’m not entirely sure how I came to it. I think I must have heard another Neneh Cherry song on the radio and started thinking about this one – it was a busy day. At least the local cheese radio still has some use, if not only to annoy me.

So, it’s ‘Neneh Cherry & Youssou N’Dour – 7 Seconds’ which got to number 3 in 1994. When I watched the video I thought it was around 97 or 98, seems I was wrong… again!

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Justice Has Been Served

27 Jun

Justice.

I finally got Justice’s first album (Cross) last week, and it’s fantastic. A couple of the tracks I’d already heard; ‘D.A.N.C.E.’ and ‘Waters of Nazareth’, which are obviously already favourites of mine. However, some of the new tracks are becoming my favourites, too; ‘Phantom’, ‘DVNO’ and ‘Tthhee Ppaarrttyy’ in particular. The latter (and ‘One Minute to Midnight’) reminds me of John Carpenter music, mainly because of the keyboard/synthesizer in it. I might be the only person to think that, but The Thing was on TV last night and it kept reminding me of it. I definitely recommend it to anyone who might have a similar taste in music to me.

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Throwback Thursday: Semisonic – Secret Smile

21 Jun

I feel that Semisonic are an underrated band, which is a shame because they have some great songs. Again, though, I feel I didn’t appreciate Semisonic when I was younger, I’m not sure why this is. It may be because I didn’t think it was cool to like certain bands, whereas today I don’t really care what other people think of my musical tastes. Good job I’ve grown up, really.

Enough of my Jibba Jabba! Secret Smile got to number 13 back in 1999, which I’m surprised about because I thought it was older. There goes my sense of time…

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