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The Radio Show June 2024: Hip Hop
This will be a controversial choice, given that many Cats are not into “rap”. For me, Hip Hop is something entirely different and very wonderful at that. It emerged in the early 1970s in the Bronx, courtesy of various black peoples. It was truly revolutionary in its use of musical techniques defined by four key…
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The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
The Fifties were a decade of unapparelled optimism, especially in the USA, which cast off wartime production necessities and redirected that mighty industrial capacity (barely two thirds of which had been utilised during the war) into production of consumer goodies for a large and hungry domestic market. This optimism was also reflected in a particular aesthetic,…
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The Radio Show April 2024: Our favourite three songs of the Twentieth Century
Cats, due to the not exactly target rich environment that is the twenty first century, it might be time to do a bit of “facing backwards”, as a certain jazz artist of that era might opine. What we would like is a bit o’ nostalgia. Back when normality was the norm and collectivists hadn’t yet…
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The Radio Show March 2024: Our favourite new songs
Cats, due to popular demand, here we are. If any of you have heard a song of late that you’ve never heard before or a new cover of a song you love, then you know what to do. Post it, preferably with a film clip in the comments. Otherwise, just post your favourite songs. Given…
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Rabz’ Radio Show – New Year’s Eve 2023
Cats, this post is about songs released in 2023. Seemingly not an auspicious year, but there were some diamonds in the dirt. So wonderful to hear Everything but the Girl again, over two decades having elapsed since we last heard from them. Having said that, I’ve looked through various websites’ “Best songs of 2023” and…
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Rabz’ Radio Show November 2023: Theme? What Theme?
Cats, this is not necessarily a point of zero inspiration. Imposing a “theme” on a Saturday night Radio Show seems unnecessarily restrictive, racist and hoplophobic*. So there will not be any of that. On a personal note (again) I’ve been lately listening to above album by Matt Johnson, which essayed themes that were simply not conscious…
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Rabz’ Radio Show Rocktober 2023 – Protest Songs
The big problem with protest songs, Cats, is if they refer too explicitly to a cause du jour, they will date. Badly. See just about every Midnight Oil song, ever – with the possible exception of Wedding Cake Island, given it’s an instrumental. That’s why the best protest songs are not obviously hitched to a…
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Rabz’ Radio Show Spring 2023 – Jazz
Many people would describe this as the perfect music when one would like to kick back and relaxatrate (or Relaxin’). They would not be incorrect. Jazz, by its very nature, is unpredictable, with the emphasis on the concept of “improvisation”. Jazz is “a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana,…
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Wednesday, not the day, the girl …
Tim Burton’s Wednesday, Cats – I was hugely sceptical until having realised the immensely talented adidas fan Miss Jenna Ortega had also appeared in various other televisual feasts I’d recently seen, most notably the second season of “You”. Spoiler Alerts, Cats … “Wednesday” may be among the last few gasps of Hollyweird greatness, which of…
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The concept of “crowding out” and the dangers of untrammeled government spending (of OPM)
Here we go, Cats, a return to the long overdue examination and discussion of matters economic. This will be the first of a semi-regular series of posts on key economic concepts that politicians, bureaucrats, academics and the braindead lamestream meeja (with some notable exceptions) are either unaware of, or incapable of comprehending. As someone who…