David Peach

Welcome to my personal homepage.

  • My first corvette-class ship

    My first corvette-class ship approaching a space station.

    This update in No Man’s Sky is incredible.

  • Return to Oz by Scissor Sisters

    Ive never fully gotten into the debut album by Scissor Sisters.

    I like a couple of the songs occasionally.

    But this one — Return to Oz — is a banger.

  • The Stooges by The Stooges

    The Stooges by The Stooges

    The debut album from The Stooges.

    Not a favourite of mine but it’s still worth a listen every now and again.

    It’s one of those “formative” albums I think — being described as “proto-punk” on wikipedia.

    The short run-time (about 34 minutes) works great for me as a short-sharp punch of energetic music.

    488/500

  • Back to Mono (1958–1969) by Phil Spector

    Back to Mono (1958–1969) by Phil Spector

    A large collection of songs produced by Phil Spector between 1958 and 1969.

    A lot of them I recognised from their covers by other artists over the years, along with the many that have since been used / lifted for adverts.

    I absolutely loved this whole collection. I enjoyed delving into the late 50s and 60s vibes.

    The whole thing gave me feelings of “late 50s haunted hollywood” — mainly due to a scene in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.

    There’s just something about the music of this era that just pulls you in.

    Favourite Songs:

    • Under the moon of love — Curtis Lee
    • Anything by The Ronettes
      • Be my baby
    • He’s sure the boy I love — The Crystals
    • (Today I met) The boy I’m gonna marry — Darlene Love
    • A Love Like Yours (Don’t Come Knocking Everyday) — Ike and Tina Turner

    489/500

  • Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

    Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt

    A breath of fresh air after the previous album in the top 500 list.

    490/500

  • Harry’s House by Harry Styles

    Harry’s House by Harry Styles

    well.

    I made it to the end.

    Honestly didn’t care for most of it. But the last song “Love of my Life” wasn’t too bad.

    491/500

  • How I share videos on my website

    The standard way nowadays, to share a video online, is to post an embed link to youtube.

    This then displays that video in what’s called an iframe — an embedded website within the website you are on.

    What this allows youtube and parent company alphabet (read: google) to do, is to track you whilst on that website.

    I want my website to be a bastion of the once-person-centric web. When people would share things on their own websites because they enjoyed it and wanted to share it with other humans.

    Self-hosting videos myself

    So to ensure that I don’t subject my visitors to any tracking, I choose to download any videos I wish to share and then manually upload them to my own site.

    When you watch a video on my website, it actually is from my own website.

    A novel idea I know.

    It’s how it used to be, and it’s how it should be.

    Mind your bandwidth

    I am also putting a note beneath each video to show what size the video is in megabytes (mb).

    My site shouldn’t preload the video — it will only start downloading it once you press the play button.

    I recommend just waiting till you’re on a wifi connection. Nothing I’m sharing can’t wait till later.

    Enjoy the fresh air whilst you’re out.

    Disclaimer

    I may still have some very old posts in my archive that have historic youtube links in them. Yes, I did it once too.

    But I am endeavouring to get rid of those and replace them with self-hosted versions where possible.

  • Carole King – It’s too late video (BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971)

    Video Size: ~37mb – Watch out if you’re not on wifi.

    A great performance of the song.

  • Them: Hey Dave, you should use “ai”.

    Me:

    Drawn image of an owl. The caption besides it reads: "I cannot imagine a more terrible way to do this shit"

  • Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt

    Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt

    Somewhere, on a desert road in U.S.A, is a dusty drinks bar about to erupt into a fight. This album playing on the jukebox.

    I got vibes of my distant memories of the film Road House. No sure how accurate that is.

    Favourite Songs:

    • Love Letter
    • Real Man
    • The Road’s my middle name

    492/500

  • Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye

    Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye

    493/500

  • Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica

    Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica

    Nice, wholesome 60s music.

    Featuring a bunch of songs I, and no doubt most people, have heard throughout their lives.

    Favourites:

    • (The Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up

    494/500