I've Got Summink to Say

Tag: music

  • I’m Not Lion

    Good evening, it’s 6pm here and I’m feline good at the moment and in the mood to write something a bit off beat which may interest one or two of you, particularly if you like music and have pets.

    For no particular reason I remembered an article I read yonks ago that stated that cats and dogs can like some human music but not all genres and found that some excellent recent research had recently been done by the University of Wisconsin.

    What Kind of Music Do Cats Like? What Science Says – Catster

    The research suggested that cats didn’t like Bach’s Air on a G String.

    Frankly it’s a beautiful bit of music but listening to it I came to the conclusion that the multiple violins are way too high pitched for a cat to enjoy: cats screech when they’re in distress and purr when they’re relaxed.

    So then I wondered whether a cello soloist (cats are generally solitary) was more to a cats taste and found the following piece of Bach’s music.

    But here is the bit where I lay claim to being a smart arse, The University of Wisconsin researchers asked a composer to come up with music that cats like and here are the results.

    Home | Music for Cats | David Teie

    Notice the similarity?

    So pussy lovers don’t ban Bach, ban the violence of the violin.

    And here’s one for dog lovers, Pennywise over Pink Floyd.

    That’s my own suggestion

    Finally I’m going to go really left field and suggest that a lazy lion might get that bit more lively and hungry with a bit of old school drum ‘n’ base or maybe some proper thrash metal.

    I reckon this set at Wacken would wake ’em.

    It’s no surprise this plastic cockney has spent the best part of 15 years in the UK’s knackered mental health system.

  • Egrets, I’ve Shot a Few

    The final part of the musical interlude and it’s a sort of reminiscence starting recently and going back to primary school.

    Even my housewife sister has this on CD, why had I not heard this until a week ago. Wet Leg are from the Isle of Wight, wet legs are from the mainland.

    This next one reminds me of a couple of summers ago, sitting outside the library at 2 in the morning sharing a roll up with an autistic teenager who had her plans to go to university destroyed by Goodmayes a few months after me. It broke my heart to see the state they left her in. It’s a very long track but well worth the listen. Superb.

    Placebo have been around donkey’s years and they’re still releasing material. This is an old track but I still like it.

    Going back a bit, this stoner rock band are cool. Reminds me of the time I spent working for a fund manager in London.

    This is an acoustic track by Tyla of one of his old Dogs D’amour tracks, my girlfriend at the time absolutely hated everything about this album.

    This takes me back to when I got back from Australia and rented a 2 bed flat with a friend, he got me into this band over endless vodka, pizza and Playstation Worms sessions.

    One or two people at university thought this should be my anthem, back then I used to measure distances in Marlboro red; it wasn’t a 20 minute walk, it was 4 Marlboro red.

    My sister’s boyfriend introduced me to metal so something a bit different in that genre.

    Back to school days and there are quite a few I could choose but went for Ultravox. Back then the TV news scared us ragged that the Russians were about to nuke us.

    Even further back to primary school and one of the best bands of that era.

    Finally! some Chas ‘n’ Dave. I actually used to go down to Margate with my whole family including nana Jackson in dad’s old Hillman Minx. Penny slots on the pier, Dreamland, ice cream and a sea full of raw sewage.

    Time for bed, I’ve wasted a few hours of another wasted day listening to music.