Random Musings - Day #355

Someone said they liked the Ski Sunday, which reminds to look a r&b song which I swear sampled not the actual ski sunday theme tune but the incidental music used to show the downhill course, etc.
Having a look at television tunes proved a bit fruitless. But I happened to stumbled an amazon remark made on the Richard X and Kelis mash-up song, "Finest Dreams".

The song is an interpolation of "The Finest" by The SOS Band c 1986 and "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by The Human League, from the Dare album. (which incidentally was also used as the music for Ski Sunday some years ago.)

So it was an obscure Human League album track, The things that dreams are made of. A remix is seen here. I've found no reference to more recent sample of the riff in that song so maybe it was Kelis I was thinking of.

Random Musings - Day #218

Candy
The Cameo song, Candy seems to have a dance for it...

Two steps right, two steps left, two steps back, one step forward, one step back, turn left... repeat

In sad news, Renato who had a Christmas #1 in 1982 with Renee on "Save your love" and of course song on the old just one cornetto advert, died from a brain tumour

A side note check out some of the best remembered 80s adverts

Random Musings - Day #17

24. Last Monday in the UK was resumption of 24. I am currently trying to catch up on the first two episodes. In the states, they are 2 episodes ahead of the UK. There's a nice fan site that I like, it's Almeida is God but be warned it does have spoilers.

Unix Security. I have been looking at Unix security today. A good start and guide would be at Unix tools, deter and albion.com. Here's the wikipedia page on the subject.

Cat tails. I probably posted about this ages ago but different cat tail actions reveal different cat moods.

80s. Back in the 80s, there were lots of fads (including fads itself). Don't forget the song Calvin Harris had "Acceptable in the 80s". This article talks about brick-like mobile phones, yuppies, frilly shirts, men's make-up, dynasty shoulder pads, poodle perms, mullets and wispa! Talking of the 80s, well in particular 1989. I saw a classic video track, Roxette with "The look". 20 years ago today, Bobby Brown was #1 in the United States with "My Prerogative".