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My Record Player by Great Beyond

Twenty five songs in twenty five blogs in twenty five days in twenty five minutes

These were the rules that I set myself at the beginning of December when I decided to complete a musical advent calendar on this website.

Blogging, as a discipline, is still in its infancy. But already the major traits of a successful blog are well established. From the reader’s perspective a blog needs to have an identity: a voice, an angle or a skew. It needs to be updated frequently – and all the better if it is quick enough to comment on topical events in real-time (a phrase I expect us to be hearing much more often next year). We’re constantly reminded of the needs of a blog’s readership, but what about the resources of the blogger themselves?

This is an important point and one which is much rarely tackled. Bluntly put, you can’t make much money from a blog. Of all the 140 million blogs in existence, I’d be surprised if more than a few thousand of them generated any significant revenue under their own steam. Of course they have massive advantages: they offer a swift route to publication, they give you a voice, and they can raise your profile or that of your company or organisation. All important and valuable points, but still, you can’t spend all day on them.

I am, of course, talking about blogs in a business context here. Those who run a blog as a hobby can spend as much time on them as they wish, but because blogging is an important part of my job, doing the Vibe Box was a good exercise in getting things done quickly. Twenty five minutes in the morning or evening to write something down, find an embedded code, tag it up and let it loose.

I got most of them done within this time schedule – some took a little longer, but then others (when I was busy with other things) went up in about five minutes.

The music

Anyway, enough of all that. These are the songs along with a few videos:

1. Entertain Me (Blur)
2. Tiny Spark (Brendan Benson)
3. Pintate los Labios Maria (Eliades Ochoa)
4. Five Years (David Bowie) – (Video)
5. Diddie Wa Diddie (Blind Blake)
6. Knights of the Round Table (Monty Python)
7. Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
8. Go to Sleep (Radiohead)  – (Video)
9. Koji Kondo (Super Mario Bros.)
10. Quiet Town (John Rouse)
11. We Are Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes)
12. Party (The D4)
13. Tonight Tonight (The Smashing Pumpkins)
14. Who Loves the Sun (The Velvet Underground)
15. Moon River (Audrey Hepburn)
16. I Turn My Camera On (Spoon) – (Video)
17. Where is My Mind (The Pixies)
18. Stand By Me (John Lennon)
19. Let There Be Love (Oasis)
20. Smells Like Teen Spirit (The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain)
21. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Isreal Kamakawiwo Ole)
22. Crush With Eyeliner (REM) – (Video)
23. Angeles (Elliott Smith)
24. Across the Universe (The Beatles)
25. Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)