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Welcome to The 'Spill!
An open-to-all music blog which originated from the Guardian Readers Recommend community.
Mp3s are for sampling purposes only, and are kept up for a short time only. Mail us if any need to be removed.
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- Truly There Is None Other...Than Holly Golightly!
- Pato Donald
- Here's Your Bill, Sir...
- Nice Weather for Ducks
- Duck soup
- DUCK !!!!!!
- Indian Runner ducks = cool
- Rooms For The Memory
- More geese
- There IS Hope
- Rooms
- Hit me with music
- More balm for the soul
- Chicks with Guns! Oh Yeeaaaah!!
- Nouveau Stereolab - "Trois Femmes"
- Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape, Anyone?
- Talking of rooms, thank God none of us have had to...
- melanistic pheasants
- THE MIGHTY MAC.
- Jump around...
- She 'ad an 'orror of rooms...
- more rooms for improvement
- Out from the ranks so blue.... Rolf's finest hour
- Where it (almost) all started...
- Domestic bliss
- R.I.P. HUMPH.
- skeletons in The Closet
- rooms for improvement
- I might hate The Fall but I do like this
- Jumping on the 500 bandwagon
- Blimpy's Full Disclosure
- In Every Dream Kitchen A Heartache
- the crying room
- It's A Beautiful Day
- Ode to Mild Disappointment...
- Feeling Good
- A psalm on my palm?
- "We're all listening to downbeat shite"
- More noise
- Seeing as we are doing NOIZE!
- MASH IT UP!
- Cleanin' out the Closet
- VERY ANGRY NOISE
- nightly post
- Oh no, not another feckin' quiz!
- My First Ever Mash-Up
- Charlotte Gainsbourg & Etienne Daho - "If"
- CORINA, CORINNA; TAKE YOUR PICK.
- Weddings
- Blimpy Is Confused - Please Help Him
- ***** right off
- Forever Heavy
- Bernard: the denouement
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- One For Steenbeck and Her Monstrous Obsessions
- Corrina, Corrina, Corrina, Corrina....
- TAJ MAHAL AT THE WATTS MUSIC FESTIVAL
- Who knows where the time goes?
- Just great music - "Tane Mahuta" - The Ruby Suns
- Haven't we learnt anything from all this?
- The most fun record of the year so far...
- GRUMPY!!!!!!!
- Monster with a twist!
- Intimidation for Breakfast - A Conversation With W...
- monster music!!!
- And it is no wonder, said the king...
- Tales of the Unexpected - FP's Twisty Playlist
- The Beginning Of The Twist - The Futureheads
- Danny Federici 1950-2008
- You're Not My Babylon - These Animal Men
- THE BRICKLAYER'S STORY
- Warm-up Quizz
- It's gold, Jerry, GOLD!
- Lolcats (shameless traffic raising gesture)
- Lullaby time...
- Milo Runs The Voodoo Down
- SONGS OF PROTEST
- Colour Me Quizzical
- The Numbers Game, squared
- The Numbers Game
- "Some wholemeal crackers with that, sir?" FP's ver...
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- children's story
- RIP Klaus Dinger
- Our (ex) Guru's secret
- Don't be scared...
- IT'S THAT DAMN PHONE AGAIN, THIS TIME, A HEAVENLY ...
- THE BOSS OF THE BLUES
- One for Goneforeign
- I could edit this picture into the line up below.....
- An evening of refinement and gentility
- Intros quiz #2
- What Me Worry?
- Cheese!
- "Wasps are bastards" - FP's anxiety playlist
- Steady your nerves...
- Blimpy's Big Intros Quiz !
- Best Four Intros Ever!
- No title
- IS STREAKING ALLOWED ON THIS BLOG?
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- BeltwayBandit
- Blimpy
- BloodyParadise
- Brian Speng
- CB
- Carole
- Catcher
- DR
- Dangerpuss
- DarceysDad
- Dominia
- Exodus
- Fintan28
- GarethI
- Makinavaja
- Marconius7
- May1366
- Mnemonic
- Noodsy
- Proudfoot
- Sarah G
- SatanKidneyPie
- ShariVari
- ShivSidecar
- Shoegazer
- SkippyisaCult
- SwiftyBoy
- TatankaYotanka
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- Tempusfugit
- Tim (Kalyr)
- ToffeeBoy
- TonNL
- TracyK
- Zephirine
- barbryn
- bishbosh
- cauliflower
- d33pf1x
- debbym
- ejaydee
- el derino
- fourfoot
- glasshalfempty
- goneforeign
- gordonimmel
- gremlinfc
- junks
- magicman
- nilpferd
- rwrrwr
- saneshane
- scarymonster
- severin
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- sourpus
- steenbeck
- swissphil
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Donds? Dondling? A Dondle?
The Greatest (Music Lists) Book Ever Written!
How to..
Not sure about the computery stuff involved in posting?
27 comments:
I've no idea who this is but I love the backing. If I were producing it I'd get rid of the drummer and replace him with a bass and I'd switch one of those acoustic gtrs, for an electric, and I pay for a vocal coach, beyond that I like it.
Who and Why?
Who? Vampire Weekend
Why? 500 posts ago (actually 499) the 'Spill's second ever post was on Vampire Weekend, the first being Blimpy's admission of guiltily liking Paul Simon's Graceland.
If you hear their album, there is an electric guitar, the vocals sound better, but the drummer remains. You can see more here: http://pitchfork.tv/special-presentation/vampire-weekend/part-1
Ha, so that is what Vampire Weekend sound like.
Interesting.......................
It looks like the player is too narrow for the blog. Shame because the image is much better.
Ezra Koenig (he of Vampire weekend)
has an old blog
http://internetvibes.blogspot.com/
I like the new balance ghost trainers...anyway, maybe this is where he started!
Ejay: Thanks, I'll check further.
EJAY!!! That's brilliant!!! I play the fiddle so am a sucker for anything with strings in!!! We saw Les Rita Mitsouko on friday night -Catherine Ringer minus Fred who died in November. She blew us away. But the interesting bit is the support band. If you like Vampire week end, you'll love the FM music project _ guitar, voice, two violins, cello and French horn. I'll post some just for you.
If you like Ejay's post or the Divine Comedy, I'd bet a large amount of money that you'll like this:
http://www.myspace.com/fmpopmusic
Very nice - reminded me a bit of The Go-Betweens - which can't be a bad thing...
Happy 500 everyone!
I think we may break the 1000 by the end of summer (depending on the weather).
I love The 'Spill, and everyone who writes for it and reads it.
So, thanks everyone, and here's to the next 500! Cheers!
And three cheers for our curator, Blimpy, without whom none of this would have happened!
Hurray!
Hurray!
Hurray!
There's mine, ghe.
And you've got me going now ... Blimpy, check your email again.
Pour Blimpi,
Hip, Hip, Hip! Hourra!
You are all too kind, thank you.
Now, seeing as we're on the topic - does anyone think we should re-design the Blog? Or have we happily settled into its comforts?
Is there a direction we should head in, or are we on course?
Are there any other house-keeping issues that we can discuss?
Does anyone else want admin rights to the blog (at the mo it's just me and steen that can make changes /delete spam etc)??
I just have a question, do you know why the video gets cut off? Is the player just too big for this blog? Can anything be done about it? Actually that's 3 questions.
Thanks for the 'Spill, Blimpy.
And as for changes--I think we need some of those ads that tell everyone about horny teens living in our area. Swanky.
the video doesn't get cut off on a mac - it gets resized accordingly.
the video doesn't get cut off on a mac - it gets resized accordingly.
Not on Safari it doesn't David.
I just tried it with Firefox, I get the whole video, but it looks wrong, it goes over the line.
I rather like the way the blog looks now, it has a comfortable feel to it.
Hallo bloggers, David Bowie here, -now ejaydee, maybe you need to update your version of Safari to the newest one?
Thank you for the wise advice David, but my Safari is up to date. Nevermind anyway, I've seen the clip in full, but if anyother mac users have problems, you can use Firefox.
I like th eway the blog looks too, but I was wondering, how does one make a collapsible/expandable post?
I was wondering that too, because I wanted to be able to use the phrase "more after the jump." I looked on Blogspot help but to no avail. Maybe Blimpy McBowie knows?
No good asking me to make EITHER design OR technical suggestions; I'm amazed any thread I start actually posts, and still don't have a website for my business six years after launching it!
The "after the jump" thing is do-able, but it's quite complicated - and involves adding html into the template of the blog. I've looked at it a couple of times, and thought -hmmmm, maybe another day.
However, if there's demand, I will have a proper go and not cop out due to my own sheer laziness.
I loved the song Blimpy introduced us to (Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa) but lazily did not get album. Now I will.
They are quite unabashedly preppy and bookish and I think that's a good thing. In moderation.
Thanks for the Spill Blimp. Can't think of anything I'd like to see changed. The pic's the best one yet by the way.
Love the 'Spill as it is, blimpy. Conservative with a small 'c' - that's me.
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