The Stooges by The Stooges

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Music

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

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Music

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

How I share videos on my website

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Journal

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.

Nightflight to Venus by Boney M

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Music

Funky as f*ck.

I took a sidestep from my top 500 album countdown with this absolute banger of an album (maybe it appears higher on that list)

Every song is golden.

I can’t believe ive been enjoying the song Rasputin all these years without hearing it in the context of the album.

The opening song “Nightflight to Venus” is to “Rasputin” as “Sirius” is to “Eye in the Sky”.