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You are an 80s expert You never confuse New Order with the Pet Shop Boys You know which classical musician Falco rocked When it comes to 80s music, you Just Can’t Get Enough!

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That’s how old the ZX Spectrum is this year…. How time flies! I remember playing loads of games on the Speccy all those years ago.

There’s a brief video article on the BBC website about the Spectrum - watch here - and also an article on the BBC site.

XBox Live Arcade have just added my favouritest game from my teenage years - Gyruss.  Many hours were spent in the arcade, not really getting very far with the game, and many 20 cents went the way of the machines.

Funnily enough, at the moment I’m getting to roughly where I used to get to all those years ago.  I guess now I can learn all the patterns and progress all the way back to Earth…

To make it (almost) 3 posts in 3 days, here’s something I’ve seen on a few other blogs recently.

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here’s how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool!

Opening Credits: Everlasting Love - Robert Knight (from 1974 compilation)
Waking Up: Will You Fall For Me - Delta Goodrem (from ‘Innocent Eyes’)
First Day At School: Next Love - Hepburn (from ‘Hepburn’)
Falling in Love: Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - The Doors (from ‘The Very Best Of’)
Fight Song: Rehab - Amy Winehouse (from Top 40 compilation 17/03/07)
Prom: Back Door Man - The Doors (from ‘The Very Best Of’)
Life: Heaven Up Here - Kelley Stoltz (from ‘Q Covered - The Eighties’)
Mental Breakdown: Polkarama - Weird Al Yankovic (from ‘Straight Outta Lynwood’)
Driving: Hang On In There Baby - Johnny Bristol (from 1974 compilation)
Flashback: Fragile - Sting (from ‘Fields Of Gold - The Best Of’)
Getting Back Together: La Mer - Sarah Brightman (from ‘Dive’)
Wedding: What You Waitin’ For - Gwen Stefani (from ‘Radio 1s Live Lounge’)
Birth Of Child: Slide - Dido (from ‘No Angel’)
Final Battle: Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting - Elton John (from ‘Rocket Man - The Definitive Collection’)
Death Scene: Push The Button - Orson (from ‘Radio 1s Live Lounge’)
Rememberance Song: Wake Me Up - Norah Jones (from ‘Not Too Late’)
End Credits: Big Boy On A Saturday Night (from ‘Titanic Days’)

Some strange matches, and even stranger that although my iPod has about 2900 songs to choose from it picks songs from the same album a few times…

So Scooch are representing the United Kingdom in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.  Scooch weren’t the best of chart acts when they were around (reaching #5 in 2000), but they generally sang catchy pop songs.  – I should know, I’ve got their album

However, while this type of pop generally works for the likes of Sweden and their endless Abba-like songs and acts, I’m not sure it will work for the UK.  Admittedly the Katrina & The Waves winner was a proper pop song, but that was 10 years ago.   

These days, with the influx of Eastern European countries, tastes have changed a bit.  For example, Finland’s winner last year - Hard Rock Hallelujah - is probably the ‘heaviest’ song to be entered and also win the competition. (Yes, I know Finland is not in Eastern Europe).

So we’ll have to wait and see what happens in May.  As usual, I’ll be watching it, which to me is better now that they’ve speeded up the voting procedure at the end.  Now all they have to do is find a way to get rid of the ‘friendly voting’ between countries - especially the Eastern Europeans…

I was looking at some old charts of the 50s and early 60s, with the dominance of soundtracks.  Why is the term ‘Original Soundtrack’ used?  As opposed to ‘Unoriginal Soundtrack’  As far as I know there is no such thing.  If another album is produced it is invariably by Various Artists or Soundtrack II.  (The ‘Original’ bit seems to have been used ages ago, so it doesn’t seem to be anything to do with the fad of re-recording songs with different artists during the 70s!)