“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” – Charlie Parker

Hello all

I was reading an article the other day about, where we now live in a world where it’s really easy to skip a song that we’re listening to if we’re not satisfied. It wasn’t always that way on a personal level in the days of vinyl and even CDs, and of course, it’s still like that when it comes to radio. But in today’s streaming world a new choice is only a click away to switch to something that’s more to our liking.
They used Spotify for data, as it has some of the best user data available, making it easy to extract some conclusions from billions of music plays. Here’s what the post found:

We’re almost as likely to skip to another song as we are to listen to it.

  • 24.14% skip within the first 5 seconds
  • 28.97% skip within the first 10 seconds
  • 35.05% skip within the first 30 seconds
  • 48.6% skip before the song finishes!

The average listener skipped 14.65 times per hour.

Mobile users skip more – 51.1% versus 40.1% for desktop users.

People skip more in the morning before they start work. The less they concentrate on the music, the less they skip.

The skipping rate is higher on the weekends, when people have more spare time.

And there me feeling guilty, that I don’t listen to full albums anymore.


My music listening, this week started with a couple of remixes from Bryony Jarman-Pinto, I do like the way these two songs have been reimaged.
Then I moved onto some reggae in the form of Tribute To The Martyrs by Steel Pulse, this album was a lot harder to get into than their debut, but was worth it when I got there.
Towards the end of the week, I started listening to Deacon Blue ‎– Raintown, an album that made me realise what a good songwriter Ricky Ross is, and memories of taking sandwiches to work in a Mother’s Pride bag.
And from my old schoolmate, I found out what Maynard Keynes is about, a line referenced in the song “Dignity”.

John Maynard Keynes
Economic policy thinker of the 1930s whose policies were adopted by FDR to get the US investing in itself again to effectively buy its way out of the depression.
Keynesian economics has become standard fayre ever since and in effect, it’s what Riki Sunak has adopted in the current crisis.


I caught Pauline Black, lead singer of The Selecter, on Channel 4 News, as she accompanies presenter Darshna Soni on a tour of the much “2-tone: Lives & Legacies Exhibition. Which I am going to with my sister next week.

Saturday morning ritual of reading others blogs continued with a black coffee. This week I read about Wendy Oldfield, a great post from Loving the music, about an artist I know nothing about. You can read more here Salt – A New Masterpiece from Wendy Oldfield
I then delve into bestmusicofalltime archive again and found this little nugget, about Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking.
Next up was Steve for the Deaf view on the Cure song, Three Imaginary Boys which I enjoyed.

I took my mother in law to the hairdressers, the in-car music this week was Eva Cassidy ‎– Songbird, the Tom Jones loving critic like it, and said she has a great voice.
I quickly popped into Sounds of the Suburbs record store, and picked up a nice copy of Tears For Fears ‎– Songs From The Big Chair on vinyl, also in the post came Madeleine Peyroux debut Dreamland on CD.

Well with all the jobs done, I had a little bit of time to myself, so decided to chill out listen to the much underrated Sade ‎– Stronger Than Pride, This album is often overlooked as it lacks the real big hits apart from “Paradise”.

Got sent a link by VK Lynne about a new project she is involved with, where five female musicians will release a cover of
the classic ‘Hunger Strike,’ in honour of World Hunger Day. Leah Martin-Brown (Evol Walks), VK Lynne (The Spider Accomplice), Alex Nicole Windsor (Shiragirl), Raine Palladino (Shiragirl), and B.B. Kates (The Drained)
When I get more information, I will let you all know about it.

Well, that’s it for this week.

Stay safe all, and have a good week.

Oh, I also listened to the below, on my way to work.

I have always been putting together these playlists, I normally make up a playlist from a variety of different music genres and see if they fit together. So lately I have restricted myself to the albums I have posted about and have decided to share them with you, as we did in the old days with tapes

The only way I can think of sharing playlists these days is with something like Spotify, so above is some of what I have been listening to this week.

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