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1000 songs everyone must hear - part one

by JanieStamford @ 2009-03-17 – 10:43:16
OK, so I'm quite a bit behind on this, but what are you gonna do...

Part one's love songs list makes for an interesting selection. Some crackers, but some a bit too pop for me. To be clear, just because I've heard it, doesn't mean I'm a fan..

I wonder how many brides & grooms to be use this list to trawl through for their perfect wedding music. When Stan and I got hitched, we created a CD called Music to Watch Weddings By as a favour for our guests which did indeed include a few from below, but also quite a few which failed to make the shortlist. Among others, a particular favourite was 'Teach Me Tiger' by April Stevens. A suggestive, purring delight.

Part two to follow shortly.

1000 songs everyone must hear

Love: part one of 1000 songs everyone must hear

My selection of 111 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 139
The Look of Love (ABC, 1982)

The Shining (Badly Drawn Boy, 2000)

God Only Knows (The Beach Boys, 1966)

Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys, 1966)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice (The Beach Boys, 1966)

Eight Days a Week (The Beatles, 1964)

Girl (The Beatles, 1965)

I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles, 1963)

She Loves You (The Beatles, 1963)

Something (The Beatles, 1969)

With a Little Help from My Friends (The Beatles, 1967)

Song for Whoever (The Beautiful South, 1989)

How Deep is Your Love? (The Bee Gees, 1977)

Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry, 1958)

Crazy in Love (Beyoncé, 2003)

Heroes (David Bowie, 1977)

The Wedding Song (David Bowie, 1993)

Sit Down I Think I Love You (Buffalo Springfield, 1966)

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (Solomon Burke, 1964)

Hounds of Love (Kate Bush, 1985)

The Man With the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush, 1978)

The Man I Love (Kate Bush, 1994)

The Dark End of the Street (James Carr, 1967)

I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash, 1956)

I Got a Woman (Ray Charles, 1954)

Yellow (Coldplay, 2000)

Do You Love Me? (The Contours, 1962)

Cupid (Sam Cooke, 1961)

I’m in the Mood Again (Elvis Costello, 2003)

Then He Kissed Me (The Crystals, 1963)

Friday I’m in Love (The Cure, 1992)

A Teenager in Love (Dion & the Belmonts, 1960)

Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino, 1956)

Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan, 1963)

Visions of Johanna (Bob Dylan, 1966)

Let’s Stick Together (Bryan Ferry, 1976)

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Ella Fitzgerald, 1956)

Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack, 1973)

I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (Aretha Franklin, 1967)

I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin, 1968)

The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood, 1984)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell, 1967)

You’re All I Need to Get By (Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell, 1968)

Let’s Get Married (Al Green, 1974)

Let’s Stay Together (Al Green, 1971)

Love and Happiness (Al Green, 1972)

Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses, 1987)

I’m Into Something Good (Herman’s Hermits, 1964)

Summer Breeze (The Isley Brothers, 1973)

Are You Ready For Love (Elton John, 1979)

La Vie En Rose (Grace Jones, 1977)

No One (Alicia Keys, 2007)

Stand By Me (Ben E King, 1961)

You Really Got Me (The Kinks, 1964)

Constant Craving (KD Lang, 1992)

Is This Love? (Bob Marley, 1978)

My Love (Paul McCartney and Wings, 1973)

90% of Me is You (Gwen McRae, 1974)

Angel of the Morning (Merrilee and the Turnabouts, 1968)

Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue, 2001)

Help Me (Joni Mitchell, 1974)

Madame George (Van Morrison, 1968)

You’ve Got a Friend (Randy Newman, 1995)

Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison, 1964)

Puppy Love (Donny Osmond, 1972)

She (Gram Parsons, 1973)

I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton, 1974)

I’m in Love (Wilson Pickett, 1967)

Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love (Cole Porter, 1928)

Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley, 1961)

Love Me Tender (Elvis Presley, 1956)

I’ll Stand By You (The Pretenders, 1994)

That Old Black Magic (Louis Prima and Keely Smith, 1959)

Let’s Get Married (The Proclaimers, 1994)

You’re My Best Friend (Queen, 1975)

Unchained Melody (The Righteous Brothers, 1965)

Umbrella (Rihanna, 2007)

You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, 1962)

Be My Baby (The Ronettes, 1963)

Valerie (Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse, 2007)

Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las, 1964)

Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (The Shirelles, 1961)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel, 1970)

Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra, 1966)

Get Me to the Church On Time (Frank Sinatra, 1966)

Love and Marriage (Frank Sinatra, 1955)

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road (Percy Sledge, 1969)

It Must Be Love (Labi Siffre, 1971)

Frederick (Patti Smith, 1979)

There is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths, 1986)

I Got You Babe (Sonny and Cher, 1965)

Wannabe (The Spice Girls, 1996)

Mandolin Wind (Rod Stewart, 1971)

She Bangs the Drums (The Stone Roses, 1989)

I Feel Love (Donna Summer, 1977)

Baby Love (The Supremes, 1964)

Stoned Love (The Supremes, 1970)

You Can’t Hurry Love (The Supremes, 1966)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon, 1956)

My Girl (The Temptations, 1964)

Gloria (Them, 1964)

Here Comes the Night (Them/Van Morrison, 1965)

River Deep, Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner, 1966)

Mad About the Boy (Dinah Washington, 1952)

Wichita Linesman (Jimmy Webb, 1968)

You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller, 1995)

Music to Watch Girls By (Andy Williams, 1967)

Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) (Frank Wilson, 1966)

Lean on Me (Bill Withers, 1972)

Like a Hurricane (Neil Young, 1977)

Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young, 1970)
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Super Mac

by JanieStamford @ 2008-11-14 – 12:18:28

Macs are amazing Chad, but they're not quite this good yet!

Magic Mac - video powered by Metacafe

P.S. Well travelled... turns out I'm not. I just keep going back to the same places. My ambition is (and always has been) to see more of the world. Will keep you posted when that eventually happens.

visited 13 states (5.77%)
Create your own visited map of The World or try another Douwe Osinga project
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Crayon Physics Deluxe - pre-order at last!

by JanieStamford @ 2008-11-11 – 14:13:37

It's been highly anticipated for some time now, but Petri Purho's Crayon Physics Deluxe is finally available to pre-order.

The aim of the game is simple and lovely, and simply lovely. Draw shapes with your mouse and watch them come to life.

For an idea of what to expect, check out the following video. For a bit more about the game and its history, check out the wiki.

Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.
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Big buildings for little people

by JanieStamford @ 2008-10-29 – 16:50:59

I've been flicking through Skyscraper City, checking out the discussions on all the weird and wonderful tall structures going up around the world. The users of these forums really know their stuff, and their passion for the subject matter is outstanding.

I was slightly confused by the site's external advertising though. The banner ad across front door is for Bugarri. For those of you who have never heard of Bugarri, and in all honesty I hadn't, they produce specialist shoes. 'What is so special about these shoes?' I hear you wonder. These shoes contain hidden lifts, to discreetly add up to 4 inches of height to the vertically challenged gentleman, or indeed gentlelady.

Does this suggest that skyscraper fanatics' main demographic is that they are short? I'm amused by the idea of some psychology in this somewhere. I'm sure I'm wrong, but the thought of 136,000 pint-sized Skyscraper City users from across the globe gathering around their keyboards to discuss incredibly tall structures fills me with sheer delight.
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End of a long day

by JanieStamford @ 2008-10-10 – 23:53:44

It's been a hectic couple of days for me.

Last night I met up with a friend for dinner and a movie. A carb rich Italian dinner was followed by an incredibly expensive trip to the cinema. As we bought our tickets at the Vue in Leicester Square, I felt certain the cashier needed reminding there was only 2 of us.

We saw Pineapple Express, which was really rather good. In fact, I think I would go so far as to say James Franco was awesome.

Then, today I was at Be2camp 2008 which was a great chance to learn more about web 2.0 opportunities for the built environment. The presentations proved incredibly interesting, but I was definitely feeling an information overload by 3pm. As we didn't finish until about 7.30pm, you can imagine how frazzled my brain became.

Tomorrow I will be donning my 'I make the effort to keep fit' head gear (sweat band?) for aerobics and pilates in the morning. I've been doing these classes on Saturay morning for about 18 months now, and I have to say before that I didn't believe it was possible to get into a fitness routine. For me, that is. I can believe it of others. I'm pretty proud of myself, I have to say.

Right, it's time to take off all the week's hats, and stagger off to bed.

Night y'all.

(On my commuter travels today I was mostly watching Spaced, season 1)
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Home sweet home

by JanieStamford @ 2008-10-03 – 16:03:59

We moved house about a month ago. With 2 kids under 4, we were so grateful to leave behind the home so heavily abused by mucky fingers, smoothie spillages (have you any idea how impossible they are to rectify?!) and weirdly, a family of ladybirds (but that's another story).

In the sitting room, we left the rug behind. Not out of kindness, but out of embarrassment. Beneath the rug lay the results of a turquoise crayon being tread into the carpet over a period of 2 weeks.

The day we moved in, I sighed with pleasure at the wooden floors throughout the ground floor. Smoothies, do your worst - I will defeat you with my trusty mop. Upstairs on the other hand, is fitted with a clean carpet. A clean CREAM carpet. No matter, I thought. We'll be spending most of our time downstairs, going upstairs only to sleep - no food allowed.

It turns out there are things upstairs far more damaging than a smoothie. A couple of weeks ago, I paid the penalty for bringing my youngest son into bed with me at dawn, and accidentally dozing off. I was awoken an hour later by his grinning face, and his green fingers. No, he had not been re-potting house plants. If only, soil I could deal with.

Number 2 son had meticulously covered a 2 metre square area of cream carpet with hundreds of green lines. Even in my horror, my eye was drawn to what looked like an attempt at a pattern. My brief glimmer of pride was quickly overtaken with horror. After 2 hours of scrubbing I managed to diminish only a quarter.

My sons are very pleased with their new rug.

This morning, a further assault was committed against the floor coverings of our new house. As I applied jet black liquid eyeliner to each of my lids, I looked down to see the tiny little pot of liquid had been dashed to the floor.

Interestingly, approximately 5 minutes prior to this incident I wondered just how much liquid liner there could be left in such a tiny container. The answer: Plenty. More than enough in fact.

Methinks another trip to the rug shop is on the cards.

(Now playing on the iPod: So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright - Simon & Garfunkel)
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Cutting the sod

by JanieStamford @ 2008-10-02 – 12:15:29

First post.

Everyone must begin somewhere, so here we are. I think I will try and get the introductions out of the way as quickly as possible, because let's face it they are just not that interesting, but a necessary evil.

I'm 30, live in london with the husband (of 5 years) and the boys (4 & 2). Until recently, I worked for HMV where I could indulge my inner teenager with all manner of goodies. A month ago I entered the world of online journalism, and became a web content and community editor for Contract Journal. I have gone from the entertainment retail industry to the construction industry, I've swapped my Reni fisherman's hat for Bob the builder's hard hat.

As my blog blurb hopefully suggests, going forward I will be sharing my struggles to make sure I'm wearing the right hat at the right time. I'm already a little bored of the hat analogy so I imagine I will lose that soon, but stick with me here.

I think women probably feel this a bit more than men. This need to be all things to all people. It's bloody exhausting, as I'm sure you're aware, but it can be pretty funny too.

Enough of these intro shenanigans now. I will be back soon with a proper story to tell.

I hope it will make you smile.
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My selection of 111 from the Guardian.co.uk list of 139