A Little More Web Kipple
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted about Period Sites in Period Browsers but, given I’ve just added my 90th combination of Operating System and Browser, it feels like a good time to flag it again.
James Dean Bradfield (of the Manic Street Preachers) with a really nice stripped down cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas on TFI Friday in December 1996.
Look Mum No Computer’s analog synth cover of Walking in the Air from The Snowman.
Thom York’s catchy 2006 polemic on the Iraq War and the death of Doctor David Kelly. For a music video that first premiered on a mainstream commercial TV station, Harrowdown Hill turns out to be bloody difficult to find in any quality better than ‘potato’. Indeed, the version above – while still not proper HD and occasionally raked by compression artefacts – appears to be the best one currently available and its hidden away on director Chel White’s Vimeo page! The version on XL Recordings YouTube page? Just a squidgy mush!
Right now, a foot or so of snow – and the deep quiet that it would bring with it – feel tremendously attractive.
I’ve managed to become rather obsessed with this Holiday / Doctorin’ the Tardis / Other Bits and Bobs mashup from the mid 00s. It’s pulled from the American Edit mashup album and the whole thing comes together far better than it has any right too…
