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This is where I'm posting my NZ Song Of The Week . They're not necessarily here because the songs are current - they're here simply because I really like them. I suggest going to amazon.com for fuller and more varied reviews - don't forget that usually you can sample a minute or so of each album track there too. Anyway - I hope you enjoy. I'm happy to answer any questions (if I can), or discuss any of the bands\songs featured here...

As a preface to a lot of the following, this is a very interesting and well written article :
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1567

And - if you're interested in delving a little deeper and following musical trails, you might find this site interesting : http://www.failsaferecords.com/history/intro.htm

If you're looking for a CD by a NZ band & can't find it - try my favourite NZ record store :
http://www.realgroovy.co.nz/Music.htm (they do international mail-order as well )

If you're looking to buy NZ MP3s on-line, this is the place : http://www.amplifier.co.nz/

As always - if you like the music - please buy it, don't steal it. Thank you very much
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**click on the link below, it should play. Call me if it doesn't

The Feelers : 'Venus'
Plesae don't take this to be a sad song - I know my random song post may seem a trifle....dramatic, perhaps - but hey - we're all friends, and it's good to tell your friends what's up, right? So - this is a great song and not at all to be taken as anything unhappy. It isn't, at all. Yes, it might say a few words which I might wish to say, so just listen, enjoy and don't think about it too much - sometimes that's all you need to do - it's lovely
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*Read More* below, to listen to previous NZ songs of the week (these will increase in number as I add older songs back in...so keep checking)

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Hi there

I've decided to archive the previous quizzes, in order to make the continuing quiz blog easier to manage. The songs are being posted into seperate quiz archive blogs - there are now currently 3, see the posts headed Quiz Song Archive - part 1 - and Quiz Song Archive - part 2 for the previous installments.

As each quiz song is replaced with the next, the blurbs for each song will be added to the post archive, in alphabetical song order.

(There's some interesting songs in here, if you feel like a late night browse with the headphones on.)

As with my other song blogs - I'll be only too pleased to participate if you feel like commenting or engaging in discussion about any of the songs here - OK - if you're new here or a return visitor - I hope you enjoy the sounds - and as always - if you enjoy the music, please buy it - don't steal it. Thank you very much
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Hi there

OK - here's the deal : Every week, I'm going to post a song widget here - and I want you to tell me the following details :
1) Song Title
2) Artist name
3) Album it (first) appeared on.

The first person to leave a comment at the bottom of the post with the correct info gets proclaimed FR's 'Music Guru Of The Week' and a link to his\her 'about' or blog page published here

I've got some pretty obscure stuff in my collection, so we'll see how it goes. If there's a lot of clever people out there, I might start making it *quite* hard

Anyway - here's song the 90th in the series - and again maybe the last quiz of 2008 : Who'd a thought it?? Anyway - another UK band, this song from a 1994 album. Good Luck
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To follow this quiz, stroll over to here - where I've started a new quiz post for 2009
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OK - fire away..and don't forget - use Google, Yahoo, Palmists, Soothsayers, Voodoo Chillen and\or any of the resources you have available - friends, colleagues, distant relatives whom you may not like but who don't actually have lives and thus know everything there is to know about less popular recordings of the last 30 years - just whatever and, of course - I am very willing & able to answer questions, engage in dialogue, give clues - I want winners, not blank scorecards

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I've archived all of the previous Quiz Songs in ongoing-updated-weekly-widget-situations Part one here....and Part two here....and Part three here - along with the accompanying blurbs. Another opportunity for a listen and perhaps a read There's some interesting music in there
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I've been tagged by theoddbod

The rules are:

Link to the person that tagged you.

Post the rules on your blog.

Share the Five Jobs You Would Never Do......

Tag five random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.

Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

I like this game

OK :

1) Eunuch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
This doesn't sound my cup of tea at all. I enjoy the company of women and and am consequently attracted to quite a number of various individuals, to some degree or another. Being unable to articulate that attraction (or rather, being able to articulate but not physically reciprocate if the attraction is mutual) would be the stuff of madness. Thanks, but no thanks.

2) Bank Cashier
I once worked as a bank cashier for a period of time, before I discovered that :
a) I'm not a 'yes sir, no sir' kinda person
b) working only with other people's money is soul destroying
c) my sense of humour doesn't lend itself to the fairly strict banking environment.
So - would you like that in 10s, 20's or in the form of a well deserved kick up the ass, you cocky, ignorant, small-town Jackass. Sorry, I mean, 'Sir'. < signed > Your humble servant, Rinse.

3) Traffic warden
The abuse, the hate-vibes, the confrontations with people you can't respond in kind to....no, sorry - I just couldn't do it.

4) Airport (or any other, actually) Toilet Cleaner
I guess there's a 'nice' name for this job...'Sanitation consultant' or 'Cleansing operative'...but fancy having to get up for work each day, knowing that you're going to be facing THAT from the get-go, and for the rest of your shift. It's just NO. Sorry and all that.

5) Salesman
Well - it's not me, for a start. I can't gather exclusive enthusiasm for < any product > around me like a cloak, for the period of my employment with any particular company. Plus, Sales people who deal with Supermarkets, for instance, often have to put up with the most appalling attitudes and insults from the supermarket managers. Believe me folks, it's not the manufacturers of foodstuffs etc. that are ripping you off, it's the Supermarkets. They're < expletive deleted >. And that's the honest truth. So - it might only be 5 minutes before I'd be telling the aggressive purchasing manager(s) from Countdown or Pack'n Save or Foodtown etc. to stick it right up their backside. Not a recipe for a happy & successfull career, then

And so, to my taggees :

AKH
highnote
middigit
claudette.bb
mizztobo

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