The Sia Solution Post.

If she doesn't want to show her face but wants to make it all about the music, why not just not do public appearances for any reason? Let the fans just listen to the music. Mystique held, focus kept on the music, irritating pretentiousness removed, problem solved.

As for interviews, that's what other studios are for.

The Big Mistake Post.

So I'm trying to write part of one story and all of another for a Yuletide challenge. But it coincides with The Very Best Of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980-2001 being next on the listening post - which I got at a British Heart Foundation shop some weeks ago.


It's immensely annoying. And makes it impossible to write anything story-related. Plus it's more than TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG. So that's fantastic for Nyman fans, but...

The Non-Screen Music Related Post.

A while ago I announced I'd be posting a complete list of all my OSTs. The list of the rest of them took much less time.

These are the voyages of... er, these are all the non-soundtrack albums I either bought myself or got given, including ones I left in Barbados/with my mum. Asterisked ones were taped off the original source.

A&R: "I Don't Like Big Brother" (single)
Paula Abdul:
Forever Your Girl
Shut Up And Dance (The Dance Mixes)
Spellbound
Belinda Carlisle: Her Greatest Hits
Beyonce & Shakira: "Beautiful Liar" (single)
Tony Burrows: Bubblegum Classics Vol. 5: The Voice Of Tony Burrows
Mary-Chapin Carpenter:
Hometown Girl*
Stones In The Road (signed!)
Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi*
Depeche Mode: Violator
Hilary Duff: "Wake Up" (single)
Melissa Etheridge: Never Enough
Debbie Gibson:
Anything Is Possible
Electric Youth
Out Of The Blue
Amy Grant:
Heart In Motion
Home For Christmas
Nanci Griffith: Storms
Guns N'Roses:
Appetite For Destruction*
G N'R Lies
Use Your Illusion I*
David Gunson: What Goes Up Might Come Down!
Sophie B. Hawkins: tongues and tails
Jonathan King: The Very Best Of Jonathan King
Kirsty MacColl: Electric Landlady
Marty Robbins: El Paso City
Skid Row: Skid Row
Britney Spears:
Britney
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
Treacle: The Days Of Over
Wilson Phillips:
Shadows And Light
Wilson Phillips
Various:
The Best Of The Statler Brothers
Cool Christmas
For Our Children
In The Summertime: 10 Scorching Sizzlers (free from the News Of The World)
Manchester: So Much To Answer For (The Peel Sessions)
The Mozart Collection Vol. 2 (free from The Sunday Telegraph)
Now Hear This! (free with March 2007 issue of Word)
Now Hear This! (free with June 2007 issue of Word)
Now Hear This! (free with July 2007 issue of Word)
Now Hear This! (free with 2007 issue of Word)
Retro Saturday Classic Comedy: The Secret Policeman's Ball (free from The Daily Star)
Songbirds (free from The Mail On Sunday)
Tenors: Take 10 (free from The Mail On Sunday)
This Is Eurovision
25 All-Time Greatest Bubblegum Hits: The Ultimate Collection
Word Of Mouth (free with issue 28 of Word)

The soundtrack post? Wait...

The Voice Of Nevis Post.

Feltz: Michelle Rodriquez. Not that one, the newsreader (one of them) on this station. And I think she may. Well be. The worst... newsreader on the planet. If she was hired for her looks, that doesn't work on radio.

Cindy: Getting an idea of the Obama Effect reaching beyond home. The station reported that CNN did a story on how performers in the Caribbean are adding to will.i.am et al's efforts (incidentally, will.i.am has now done three things to reduce his dickness in my eyes - one's that song, another is involving the Alba in its video, and a third is teaming up with Cheryl from Girls Aloud and mixing her so low that she may as well not be there, resulting in the best record yet to involve anyone from that mob), and this is certainly less embarrassing than songs about Sanford and Son and Dallas - I wish I was kidding, I really do. But there was also one from Nevis which was about the message in general without mentioning Mr. O by name - which I can't find anywhere, otherwise Butch might be interested.

Then again, if he heard it, maybe not... anyway, here's another video.