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[johnny9fingers]

Twice I've tried to download something from youtube. Neither time has the video 'taken', or embedded, or whatever you call it. Now I've done this before and it's a simple process, and one so automated that even I can manage.
I always choose the impossible clips, or the ones that won't download.

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[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

And you're not even going to give us a hint as to what they were?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Trying to download my favourite 90's song. (And no, it's not by Radiohead, strangely enough: that's just most of the rest of my top ten.)

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

You can't actually "download" from YouTube -- you can only embed in webpages, etc. But, you still haven't shared what the favorite 90's song is.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Such a dumbkopf as well as such a luddite.
True, and just for you, have a guess? I reckon you'll be surprised as it's quite popular (and populist - within reason, it is a pop song after all) but not stupid.
If you get it, I'll think you cheated.

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I don't think I could even begin to guess. In spite of my seemingly vast musical knowledge (said with a note of irony), I'm actually quite bad at song names, etc. You could sing it for me and I might get it, otherwise you'll have to just tell me. With the populist and not stupid I might guess Billy Bragg, but I'd be wrong I reckon.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

'She came from Greece, she had a thirst for Knowledge...'

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

Never would have guessed it, not in a million years, since I've never actually been that familiar with Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) -- he came along in my years of absence so to speak. However, I've actually seen him play, but for the life of me can't remember where or when. I do remember, however, being impressed and planning on getting ahold of an album or two, and then not following through.

It's going to bug me all day unless I can remember where I saw him. Oh well.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Think Jarvis Cocker.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

In 1984 I was in a band that gigged up and down the country. We did one gig at Sheffield Polytechnic. The support band was called Arabacus Pulp. They were possibly the worst band I had ever seen - no doubt it was one of their more disasterous gigs. Even the band I was in looked good by comparison.
When 'Different Class' came out, over ten years later, I was gobsmacked (to use the Joycean word).
'Common People' was for me the song of the decade. And stuck two fingers up to all the middle-classes of the 'socially concerned' variety, which means me too.
Perfect pop with a snarl by something transmuted from base lead into gold. Or perhaps it was the moment.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

It might have been '85 rather than '84: it's all a bit blurred, my dears.