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How Can I Fall 👯
#Breathe
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How Can I Fall 👯
#Breathe
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Hit That Perfect Beat: The London Records Story – an awesome compilation of pop and indie rock songs of the ’80s and ’90s
I haven’t received a compilation CD to review in quite a while. The digital nature of music distribution today means most of my sampling of what’s new on the music scene – including the release of reissues and anniversary issues of classic albums – is pretty much all done online. So it was nice to receive a copy of the CD compilation Hit That Perfect Beat: The London Records Story – an engaging collection of songs that highlights the remarkable breadth of London Records during the 1980s and 1990s. Finally, a quality CD I can play in my car!
Scanning the tracklisting of this double-disc set and you might be surprised by the sheer diversity of artists who were on the London Records label. From Bananarama to Bronski Beat, All Saints to New Order, every genre of the times – from pop to early EDM – makes an appearance.
A lot of these songs I’ve heard before, of course, most of them actually, and it’s so good to hear them again, seemingly mastered so that I’m hearing subtle nuances that I didn’t pick up when they were first heard. Blancmange’s Living On The Ceiling kicks the proceedings off and the version of that song alone reveals beeps and buzzes I’d not picked up on previously. Bananarama’s Cruel Summer follows – a pop classic if ever there was one. And then everything Jimmy Somerville has touched appears to follow – LGBT-proud anthems by Bronski Beat, absolute grooves by the Communards, and even a Somerville solo single. You might suspect, actually, that Jimmy had shares in the production of this compilation, his vocals appear so regularly.
Then there are the huge hits – like Fine Young Cannibals’ She Drives Me Crazy; Armand van Helden’s You Don’t Know Me (a massive one in the clubs that one was); Shakespears Sister’s You’re History, All Saints’ Never Ever, and Sugarbabes’ Overload.
And if the songs themselves don’t seem like they’ve left a major mark on the pop and indie maps, the artists certainly do. New Order’s Regret kicks off CD two with that guitar riff, and while it wasn’t as big a hit as, say, Bizarre Love Triangle or the band’s legendary Blue Monday, it has all the hallmarks of a New Order classic and it’s a nice surprise to see on here (I had forgotten the band had links to London Records). Then there’s Happy Mondays’ rave favourite Stinkin’ Thinkin’; Echo And The Bunnymen’s dream pop gem Nothing Lasts Forever; Gay Dad’s alt-rock ode To Earth With Love; and Dannii Minogue’s classic club staple I Begin To Wonder. Even without Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Round Like A Record – which features on an alternative version of that latter song, it’s still a good, hooky number that sits nicely amid the broad artistry here.
That sheer diversity of London Records artists also meant artists were free to move around, test the solo life, move into other fields. It’s because of the chilled vibe of the label that lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, Roland Gift, was able to go do runway work for big designer labels; why Siobhan Faye of Bananarama was given the chance to move on from her bubblegum blonde roots and into darker, gothic-romantic territory as half of Shakespears Sister (their name taken from a Smiths song, the apostrophe and letter ‘e’ purposely missing); why the Mike Flower Pops were allowed to absolutely crucify Oasis’ sacred Wonderwall (that’s on here, too).
The London Records Story moves confidently through synth-pop, nu-wave, indie rock, dance, electronica, ska, and other alternative sounds, demonstrating how the label consistently embraced artists who reflected bold and changing musical trends.
Familiar hits sit comfortably alongside deeper cuts, making the collection appealing to both casual listeners and longtime fans.
The sequencing keeps the energy flowing, with polished pop anthems giving way to club classics and guitar-driven tracks that capture the evolving tastes of two transformative decades. The mastering is generally strong, allowing songs from different years to coexist without sounding jarring. More importantly, the compilation illustrates how London Records balanced commercial success with artistic ambition, signing acts that often influenced the direction of popular music, not merely followed it.
As a summary of the 1980s and 1990s, however, it is best viewed through the lens of one label rather than as a complete portrait of either era. What this compilation does well is capture many defining styles and moods but inevitably omitting major movements and artists released elsewhere (not much New Romantic on here, put it that way). Even so, it succeeds as a vivid snapshot of its catalogue and an enjoyable journey through two decades of memorable music.
A great double-disc set that’s still regularly rotating on the car stereo.
‘Hit That Perfect Beat: The London Records Story’ is available on CD and in digital format through London Records (naturally).
The label also presents a beaut podcast which you can subscribe to here.
Curating the Ultimate Luxury Weekend Getaway in the Heart of Sydney
Still loving this track.
Hands in the air for a ‘Romy and Michele’ movie sequel is finally in production
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#AllSaints #ANTONINOTATI #bananarama #BREATHE #breatheRedux #bronskiBeat #communards #compilationAlbums #compilationCds #CREAMMAGAZINE #DanniiMinogue #e #echoAndTheBunnymen #happyMondays #hitThatPerfectBeat #indiePop #indieRock #jimmySomerville #londonRecords #marcellaDetroit #MUSIC #musicReviews #newOrder #POPCULTURE #popMusic #popReviews #REVIEWS #shakespearsSister #siobhanFahey -
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Mark the transition through the halfway point of 2026 with a commitment, or recommitment, to a daily practice of self-care.
Support your commitment with a membership, now on for a 50% discount for the first six months!
Comes with a one-month free trial!
#Yoga #SelfCare #Breathe #Stretch #Strength
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Mark the transition through the halfway point of 2026 with a commitment, or recommitment, to a daily practice of self-care.
Support your commitment with a membership, now on for a 50% discount for the first six months!
Comes with a one-month free trial!
#Yoga #SelfCare #Breathe #Stretch #Strength
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Mark the transition through the halfway point of 2026 with a commitment, or recommitment, to a daily practice of self-care.
Support your commitment with a membership, now on for a 50% discount for the first six months!
Comes with a one-month free trial!
#Yoga #SelfCare #Breathe #Stretch #Strength
https://thunderhoneysnowstudio.ca/membership-levels/ -
Mark the transition through the halfway point of 2026 with a commitment, or recommitment, to a daily practice of self-care.
Support your commitment with a membership, now on for a 50% discount for the first six months!
Comes with a one-month free trial!
#Yoga #SelfCare #Breathe #Stretch #Strength
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MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI -
MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.
I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences
That is all.
There is no halo around any of it.
For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.
After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.
Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.
That is the whole system.
The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.
And the next.
And the next.
It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.
For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.
Now I see something much simpler.
There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.
I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.
So death has lost its reality for me.
Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.
Life is here.
Breathing is here.
The body is here, demanding #attention again.
Probably lunch.
Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.
But irritation passes.
The weather passes.
The #body passes.
The next thing appears.
And I do that.
No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.
Just the next thing.
#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI