Keith Harrison
@keithharrison.bsky.social
Charity CEO. Songwriter. Hill-walker (flat-landscapes also good!)
Thanks. That’s quite a song to have played at a wedding! Like ‘Y Reg’, also on ‘The Yamaha Years.’ I came close to choosing ‘The Man Who Lives On The M62’ from that LP but ‘Y Reg’ won out in the end. #JohnShuttleworth is fantastic :-)
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thanks. That’s quite a song to have played at a wedding! Like ‘Y Reg’, also on ‘The Yamaha Years.’ I came close to choosing ‘The Man Who Lives On The M62’ from that LP but ‘Y Reg’ won out in the end. #JohnShuttleworth is fantastic :-)
#90sTop30 (xxx) ‘Y Reg’ #JohnShuttleworth. Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for this challenge. Ending with some typical songwriting brilliance from Graham Fellows - also features car noises, like ‘Autobahn’, but more vocal harmonies and some auto-accompaniment. Oof! m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Lh...
Y Reg
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November 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#90sTop30 (xxx) ‘Y Reg’ #JohnShuttleworth. Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for this challenge. Ending with some typical songwriting brilliance from Graham Fellows - also features car noises, like ‘Autobahn’, but more vocal harmonies and some auto-accompaniment. Oof! m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Lh...
#90sTop30 (xxix) ‘World In My Eyes’ #DepecheMode. On first listen I thought Kraftwerk had been rendered redundant by this. It’s a song celebrating a fairly universal subject with a synth-based arrangement of drive, subtlety, melody & beautiful harmonic nuances. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_i...
World in My Eyes - Wikipedia
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November 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#90sTop30 (xxix) ‘World In My Eyes’ #DepecheMode. On first listen I thought Kraftwerk had been rendered redundant by this. It’s a song celebrating a fairly universal subject with a synth-based arrangement of drive, subtlety, melody & beautiful harmonic nuances. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_i...
#90sTop30 (xxviii) ‘When Do I Get To Sing “My Way”?’ #Sparks. A song that works well with a variety of arrangements (I was very impressed seeing it played live in Glasgow a few years ago); on record the arrangement is “early 90s electronica.” Exceptionally catchy too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dq...
Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' (Official HD Video)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#90sTop30 (xxviii) ‘When Do I Get To Sing “My Way”?’ #Sparks. A song that works well with a variety of arrangements (I was very impressed seeing it played live in Glasgow a few years ago); on record the arrangement is “early 90s electronica.” Exceptionally catchy too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dq...
This is a good article - and a story quite aligned with what happens in my day job at @thebaytrust.bsky.social, though we don’t yet have a “best anecdotes from hosting nature in our garden” competition… that’s definitely something to consider!
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This is a good article - and a story quite aligned with what happens in my day job at @thebaytrust.bsky.social, though we don’t yet have a “best anecdotes from hosting nature in our garden” competition… that’s definitely something to consider!
#90sTop30 (xxvii) ‘TV’ #ElektricMusic. This sounds like a “what might have been” piece, had Karl Bartos not decided to leave Kraftwerk. Really shares a melodious dna with previous co-compositions of his and has a fine thematic outro too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_X...
TV
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November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#90sTop30 (xxvii) ‘TV’ #ElektricMusic. This sounds like a “what might have been” piece, had Karl Bartos not decided to leave Kraftwerk. Really shares a melodious dna with previous co-compositions of his and has a fine thematic outro too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_X...
There is. Not sure it has any sort of coherent narrative though! A warning about wearing pyjamas on the moor might have been the oddest segment - not that I was attired that way, but apparently it was not unknown for some folk to do this (according to a chap chatting by his garden wall.)
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
There is. Not sure it has any sort of coherent narrative though! A warning about wearing pyjamas on the moor might have been the oddest segment - not that I was attired that way, but apparently it was not unknown for some folk to do this (according to a chap chatting by his garden wall.)
It was a September. There were a few amusing moments along the way! Windy but quite sunny weather.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It was a September. There were a few amusing moments along the way! Windy but quite sunny weather.
That’s a fine spot. I walked from there, across Blea Moor, to Ribblehead station once. Maybe not as picturesque as Lemn’s wander but still a joy :-)
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
That’s a fine spot. I walked from there, across Blea Moor, to Ribblehead station once. Maybe not as picturesque as Lemn’s wander but still a joy :-)
#90sTop30 (xxvi) ‘To Step Aside’ #PetShopBoys. An historian’s song, really, with some of the Iberian musical flourishes that feature on a few of its parent LP’s tracks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKA...
To Step Aside (2018 Remaster)
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November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#90sTop30 (xxvi) ‘To Step Aside’ #PetShopBoys. An historian’s song, really, with some of the Iberian musical flourishes that feature on a few of its parent LP’s tracks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKA...
#90sTop30 (xxv) ‘The Sea Still Sings’ #MarcAlmond. Surging, swelling drama - with occasional temporary calm - here. The strings and emotion of Almond’s voice carry it. His fine composition nods Brel-wards and I can imagine Scott Walker or Nina Simone singing this too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTn...
The Sea Still Sings
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
#90sTop30 (xxv) ‘The Sea Still Sings’ #MarcAlmond. Surging, swelling drama - with occasional temporary calm - here. The strings and emotion of Almond’s voice carry it. His fine composition nods Brel-wards and I can imagine Scott Walker or Nina Simone singing this too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTn...
#90sTop30 (xxiv) ‘Techno Bell’ #808State. Early decade dancefloor-oriented number from a band not scared to include quite pretty melodies (here with what sounds to be some sort of treated synth bell) in their tracks and elements to convey differing dynamics/feel too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjl...
Techno Bell
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November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
#90sTop30 (xxiv) ‘Techno Bell’ #808State. Early decade dancefloor-oriented number from a band not scared to include quite pretty melodies (here with what sounds to be some sort of treated synth bell) in their tracks and elements to convey differing dynamics/feel too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjl...
#90sTop30 (xxiii) ‘Surprise’ #ClaudiaBrücken. A quite brilliant recording, featuring what sounds like a scrapyard full of found sounds and anthemic synth parts akin to Wilder-era Depeche. Brücken’s voice, both sung and manipulated, works with it all seamlessly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIE...
Surprise
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November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#90sTop30 (xxiii) ‘Surprise’ #ClaudiaBrücken. A quite brilliant recording, featuring what sounds like a scrapyard full of found sounds and anthemic synth parts akin to Wilder-era Depeche. Brücken’s voice, both sung and manipulated, works with it all seamlessly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIE...
A finely articulated set of positive proposals.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A finely articulated set of positive proposals.
#90sTop30 (xxii) ‘Sunrise’ #TheDivineComedy. Era defining. Quite often, I think this is the greatest song written in the ‘90s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TARN...
Sunrise
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November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#90sTop30 (xxii) ‘Sunrise’ #TheDivineComedy. Era defining. Quite often, I think this is the greatest song written in the ‘90s. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TARN...
This was followed by an informative session, by Dr Dave Harvey on ensuring quality in outdoor learning and an intro to the new @outdoor-learning.bsky.social guide. One for us at @thebaytrust.bsky.social to look at :-)
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This was followed by an informative session, by Dr Dave Harvey on ensuring quality in outdoor learning and an intro to the new @outdoor-learning.bsky.social guide. One for us at @thebaytrust.bsky.social to look at :-)
#90sTop30 (xxi) ‘Sound’ #James. With a relatively soft four-to-the-floor pulse all manner of musical elements strum, slide, swoop or arrive with vibrato here. Those trumpets may be the most sublime part of the collage. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wazt...
JAMES - Sound (Official Music Video)
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November 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#90sTop30 (xxi) ‘Sound’ #James. With a relatively soft four-to-the-floor pulse all manner of musical elements strum, slide, swoop or arrive with vibrato here. Those trumpets may be the most sublime part of the collage. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wazt...
#90sTop30 (xx) ‘Some Distant Memory’ #Electronic. A rhythm that may be a cousin of Kraftwerk’s ‘Numbers’, plus punchy synth bass, underlying lovely motifs by bells, guitar and - at its glorious end - synthy strings with oboe (then playing out by themselves.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ti...
Some Distant Memory (2013 Remaster)
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November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#90sTop30 (xx) ‘Some Distant Memory’ #Electronic. A rhythm that may be a cousin of Kraftwerk’s ‘Numbers’, plus punchy synth bass, underlying lovely motifs by bells, guitar and - at its glorious end - synthy strings with oboe (then playing out by themselves.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ti...
#90sTop30 (xix) ‘Protection’ #MassiveAttack. Stately, lulling and with a lyrical strength from #TraceyThorn that meant it edged out the also superb ‘Teardrop’ (featured on BBC Radio 4 #AddToPlaylist yesterday) as my selection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect...
Protection (Massive Attack song) - Wikipedia
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#90sTop30 (xix) ‘Protection’ #MassiveAttack. Stately, lulling and with a lyrical strength from #TraceyThorn that meant it edged out the also superb ‘Teardrop’ (featured on BBC Radio 4 #AddToPlaylist yesterday) as my selection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect...
When the red card came, I wondered if it would be Uruguay in ‘86 all over again (albeit a draw that wasn’t scoreless.) Fantastic result (and thus some great reward (sorry!) re next summer…) in the end and three great goals as part of it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When the red card came, I wondered if it would be Uruguay in ‘86 all over again (albeit a draw that wasn’t scoreless.) Fantastic result (and thus some great reward (sorry!) re next summer…) in the end and three great goals as part of it.