Category Archives: Past-the-bridge

Edinburgh Man

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Arthur

I guess, this is 2010’s first ‘Past The Bridge’ posting, and today’s band is ‘The Fall’. There are two things I can tell you about The Fall. First, nobody knows them and second, the band’s music is extremely hard to … Continue reading →

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Hate My Way

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Arthur

I‘ve been a long-time listener of the Throwing Muses music: I was actually a Throwing Muses fan before I started listening Sonic Youth (previously on xsamplex). However, I’m not going to write about the hows or whats: the reason for … Continue reading →

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Feel it?

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Arthur

I was going to mention Michael Jackson’s death (+06/25/09, Wikipedia bio) a couple of days ago, but ended up too busy doing other stuff. While I don’t consider myself an MJ fan, I do admit that his music has influenced … Continue reading →

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Talisman

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Arthur

Quilty as charged: I have a soft spot for good “a cappella” performances, or even better, people who can sing extremely well, either classical or popular music. A couple of years ago, I found out that the song done for … Continue reading →

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Against The 70’s

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

The only reason to get Mike Watt’s very first solo album, “Ball-Hog or Tugboat” was because his name had popped up on Sonic Youth’s ‘Whitey Album’ (and others). If I remember correctly, I wasn’t overly impressed with Watt’s album: It … Continue reading →

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L’Arena

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Arthur

There are certain directors who have a knack for picking out music that goes with specific scenes. One of them is David Lynch, the other one is Quentin Tarantino. I’m not particularly a fan of Tarantino movies but I thought … Continue reading →

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Young Ones

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Arthur

I was going to put a long winding post about Cliff Richard (and his excellent backing band, The Shadows), but I decided to keep it to the point: My mother used to be a big fan of the 60’s singer … Continue reading →

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Going Underground

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Arthur

I made it a tradition to bring up VJ day on August 15th, but decided to let it go by and return to it today by including it to a Past The Bridge posting here. The song I had in … Continue reading →

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Sonic Youth

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Arthur

So yeah, I’ve been a Sonic Youth (official site) listener for the longest time, which I’ve mentioned here from the very start. I’ve been planning to add a sound fragment to this category, but every time I end up doubting … Continue reading →

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Candy

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Arthur

I‘ve mentioned a couple of times that I lived a fairly harmless nightlife, where on Saturday nights, I tried to anonymously enjoy a small club (‘The Swing’) in the center of the city I did not live in before returning … Continue reading →

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Ready to go

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago, I was humming the tune of Republica’s “Ready To Go” (mp3, +30 seconds): earlier I had found an excellent live performance of the song at VH1 Loudly Fashionable (or something like that), which led to … Continue reading →

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Interstate

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Arthur

I‘m not really a ‘techno-ambient’ music lover: however, as someone trying to enjoy different styles of music during my twenties I ended up listening and buying into several techno-DJs and musicians. During the early 90s, System 7 became the rage: … Continue reading →

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Djed

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Arthur

About ten years ago, I discovered the band Tortoise by accident while looking for new records (or rather CDs) in the (I dare say) legendary Amsterdam music store Boudisque. For the Dutch speaking, the recordstore is prominently and frequently on … Continue reading →

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