Archive for November, 2008

One Year (special)

2008-11-26

One year ago I published the pilot show of this blog. Since then, I published 67 more shows, between regular and special, and linked to 230 YouTube videos (and to some other stuff, like Mixwit) and 100+ Wikipedia artists pages. The idea was having some fun while playing my favourite music, and it [...]

Show #51 (No more birthdays)

2008-11-24

Hello.
My brother was a year and a half younger than me.  We shared much of our taste in music, having been exposed to the same music as we grew up and having the habit of always sharing our discoveries with one another.  Nevertheless, we had different personalities — he was always more extroverted, more outgoing, [...]

Show #50 (More covers)

2008-11-16

Hello.  I was having some difficulty finding a theme for this week’s show, so I got back to one of my favourites — covers   Unfortunately, that got me another problem, choose four songs from my covers list, a problem I couldn’t find a solution to.  So, as I couldn’t really decide on the [...]

Show #49 (Discoveries: Ayọ)

2008-11-9

Hello.  Today I will show one more discovery, that I found while searching for Beatles’ covers.  I won’t show the song I found (that seems to have disappeared from YouTube), but four other songs that are truly beautiful.  The artist is Ayọ, and I think the best I can do to present her is post [...]

Show #48 (Rádio Macau)

2008-11-2

Hello.
Rádio Macau was my favourite portuguese band in the 80’s. This year they released their eighth album, not counting live and “best of” albums, and this show is dedicated to them. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find some of the songs I’d like to play today — the ones I like the best, specially those [...]