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Rapid Eye Movement
An R.E.M best of, obvs. I first heard of R.E.M in secondary school (see previous playlist) where I had a couple of friends who were...
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Non Est Festinandum
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Organic Matter
From the late 50’s, through the 60’s and onwards, electric organs (and keyboards) gave talented youngsters, who learned piano at an early...
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The Joy of Moving Images
So its not always about music on its own, sometimes it can be accompanied by things like moving images. I remember when MTV played music...
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Acoustic Beauties
Acoustic beauties The Clap A simply sensational solo guitar piece from Steve Howe. The Yes Album (1971) was my go to LP for many moons...
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Incubus Or Bust
So after a mild obsession with Extreme came Incubus, from funk metal to nu-funk metal if you will. Stanley Franc Redefine Incubus -...
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Ooer- a little bit of politics. Know what I mean?
Well, I’m not gonna go into a long diatribe about politics. I’m not qualified. There are people within the Cult’s inner circle with far...
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Africa 'n' Diaspora
I was first properly exposed to African music in 1975 after an archeological field trip to the Kenyan Rift Valley was cut short and...
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Funky, Upbeat Hippity Hop
Funky, up beat Hip Hop works for me, the sampled Boom Bap drums, interesting lead / hook samples - clever word play - fast rhymes, this...
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Sweet Harmonies
Uncle John’s Band - Grateful Dead Acoustic studio version from Workingman’s Dead. A song that I just love to bits. This is the favourite...
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NYC
New York….please insert here your own cliches about New York… Music. That’s all it means to me. Its a sound. There have been many great...
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Two guitars. Better than one?
A few songs that just show what good ol' electric guitars can do and when two get together - synergy happens. Here are some great...
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Some Geetar History
So following on from another guitar type playlist, I thought the theme could do with some further exploration - we’re not out of ideas,...
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Secondary School Days
So I thought I would kick off my playlists linked to my earlier memories of songs that I played a lot when I was first getting into music...
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Subliminal Sublime
I started listening to Sublime when I was around 17 - I have the distinct memory of a friend driving me in his beat-up Nissan Micra (I...
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Great Guitar Solos
The fact that all these songs are from a different era is telling. Who cares about guitar solos anymore? Not me. In fact I’ve always...
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Be Still My Beating Heart
Scientists would have it that music stimulates pathways in the brain that control our emotions- and that the extent to which music moves...
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From the Bluebell Inn, Hempstead
Hosts, Rod and Marian Stokes invited amateur musicians to join in with Tuesday night musical sessions in the public bar and also put on...
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Songs for the Institute
Inclusivity, not just for the in crowd. Here are a small selection of songs that should be well known within the Zimmerman Institute's...
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5 Dylan Gems from The Zimmerman Institute
The greatest and most influential single songwriter of his generation, but most of all with Bob it’s the voice - as Joan Baez once said...
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Dylan Live
The Zimmermann Institute's first dip into the inexhaustible recorded treasury of Bob Dylan the performing artist. IT'S ALRIGHT MA (I’M...
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