These were my Crucial Tracks for the last few days.
These are the Crucial Tracks for the last few days.
My Crucial Track for 30 July 2025 - “It Will Stand (2002 Remaster)” by The Showmen
Songs about songs #1
“It Will Stand (2002 Remaster)” by The Showmen
Going off-piste today. ‘It will stand’ has been in my head for the last couple of days, and it’s from one of my favourite micro-genres - songs about music and musicians.
I was reminded of the song because I saw a reference to David ‘Kid’ Jensen’s interview with the Cramps in 1984 on Facebook.
I recorded the interview off the radio at the time, and listened to it fairly often.
In a discussion of the word ‘psychobilly’, Lux
says “don’t nickname it, you might as well claim it” - he’d rather the Cramps' music just be called “rock and roll”
A few years later I bought ‘It will stand’ on vinyl…and I was really chuffed to hear The Showmen sing those same words
Last night I dreamt I helped Elvis Presley fix his motor car, which had broken down.
There probably more chance of me meeting Elvis than there is of me being able to fix a car
Share a song that feels like coming home after a long trip.
Toots and the Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads
What song makes you feel like you're in a dream?
There are a couple of dream songs I really like - Spancil Hill, Christy Moore's Delirium Tremens - but this is maybe my favourite. According to the streaming service it was the song I played most a couple of years back
Share a song that feels like coming home after a long trip.
Toots and the Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads
I am currently a bit obsessed with this song
Liam Clancy singing the @poguesofficial
#TodayILearned that Boris Johnson is about 5 foot 8, and Gerry Adams picks up hitch hikers
Possibly
Via @jessphillips and @mattforde
RT @ChelseaFrance: Il y a 10 ans jour pour jour … 🏆 t.co/wtTI73Y3n…
This is quite handy…in particular the first bit, which shows the last time you wrote the file in the title bar in Vim
:set title titlestring=%{strftime('%c',getftime(expand('%')))}\ %F
#Vim t.co/yzf5Hhsg6…
I didn’t know this was on the @BBCiPlayer. The narration is in Gaelic, with English subtitles
Ceòl Dùthchasach/Ken Burns’s Country Music , Series 1: Episode 8: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e… via @bbciplayer
Command I used was:
Get-DbaDbRestoreHistory -SqlInstance $SqlInstance -database $Database | select restoretype, date, backupfinishdate, database, from | sort-object -property date | ft -a
“It also highlights the cringe David Brent, middle-aged boys network… which is built on bravado, misplaced self-confidence and buzzwords like “FINTECH” and “AI”, which are like catnip to other middle-aged men.”
@ayeshahazarika nails it. inews.co.uk/opinion/d…
“Fast forward a few decades and the Guardian carried an article from Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, giving a byline to Jatkuu Seuraavalla Sivulla, which a reader advised was not the author’s name but the Finnish for “continued on the next page”.”
RT @KailashChandOBE: ‘Fire and rehire’ should be banned! RT if agree !
#TodayILearned that if you try to replace a single backslah in Powershell it throws an error
You can do:
$String -replace “\”, ‘-’ t.co/CN9apmfu4…
I physically bumped into Mike McShane in Cheapo Cheapo Records. We apologised to each other, then went on browsing. twitter.com/MavenofHo…
RT @dukkhaboy: Someone with a ‘tick account’ standing up for teachers. Hope Lord Adonis follows Mr Moore twitter.com/brianmoor…
A variation on the theme. Famouses I have seen on the train between London and Salisbury, and one I didn’t
Vikram Seth Andrew Lloyd Webber Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall (?) All four of the Damned Terry Pratchett
#TodayILearned also that Stan Laurel was an understudy for Charlie Chaplin on a British tour t.co/Qk6lIwMpV…
#TodayILearned that one of Steve Coogan’s brothers was in the Mock Turtles twitter.com/WTFpod/st…
I love the fact that I’m in the same constituency as Gibraltar
I can see Africa on a clear day t.co/h4T0oYUIT…
I was thinking I might do
get-history | group-object -property ExecutionStatus
….at the end of the day, to see the proportion of rubbish I’ve typed vs stuff that worked
Probably just as well I can’t
I had vaguely assumed that the ExecutionStatus in #Powershell’s get-history would show as ‘Failed’ if there was an error, but it doesn’t
Id : 31 CommandLine : ThisWontWork ExecutionStatus : Completed StartExecutionTime : 17/05/2018 09:06:16