Ah but yes, this. I can’t have music in the background at all when I’m working, I find it very distracting. If there’s noise I can’t bear otherwise then I’ll find some instrumental music to listen to, but I’d rather work in silence.
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I can listen to music I know well. Stuff I don’t, I get distracted by.
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Now that you mention it, a huge chunk of my mp3s did come from couchsurfers copying over music from their mp3 players, so yeah, direct from people more plugged into the music scene is the way to go. Unfortunately, that way of getting new music is lost to me now, and I haven’t replaced it with anything else.
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I accidentally listened to Cats in the Cradle.
I’m not crying… who’s cutting onions in my office?
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I, too, want a cowgirl for Christmas 
Yesterday, we played some Christmas music of course: Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas trilogy and EP, as well as Christmas With The King’s Singers, an old record that’s been a fixture of Christmas in my family for literally all my life.
That was some fine, fine soundtrack to the day/evening.
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How did I miss this, among several of their other gems? You know when a song is catchy when you find yourself singing it while walking around the streets.
Alex Horne & The Horne Section’s Hilarious Song Grandaddy (YouTube)
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The best ever song that is actually entirely a pushy advert for the FINEST STARSHIP IN THE GALAXY
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(Found because it’s an 80s/90s style animated music video like the legendary, never-matched Starlight Brigade)
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I have so many questions, and G.E. Silicones are not the answer to any of them.
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Oh, wow… industrial musicals were a genuine thing?!
That particular song, though… it includes the line “corona-resistant too”, which seems awfully unlikely to not be a reference to the present pandemic.
There’s more than one kind of corona…
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Corona discharge is a leakage current from a charged object into the surrounding air. St Elmo’s fire is the discharge from ship rigging into the air and a natural sort. It also is used in ozone generators, and around power lines and other high current conductors. This is undesirable, because it is a power loss, and current flow can damage the insulation.
Not clear if the claim is it doesn’t happen as much or if he silicone is less likely to be damaged.
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Been trying to track down a copy of this record for years. Finally managed to find a reasonably priced second hand copy. Days later the band announced a 10th anniversary repress due in May. At least I can listen to my copy now. 
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Usually his lyrics are fully-improvised (and almost impossibly good in that context), but he’s been writing some songs recently, and I really like this one. He hangs the entire first half on a single rhyme scheme, and the rhythms and word play throughout have had me looping this repeatedly.
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It’s that rare occasion where a band I like are actually playing in Leicester, so I’m off to see Hawxx tomorrow night.
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