Music Makes The World Go Round…Week Four’s Big Five
July 7, 2009
Ready for some new music? It’s that time of the week (already, can you believe it?) to share last week’s top 5 loved tracks.
The sunshine may have made a sudden disappearance, been replaced with flash floods and as usual, London transport chaos, but at least these cool little sounds are here to grab back summer and make the best of what’s left of a rather grey Tuesday.
Last week’s top 5 tunes:
1. The Golden Filter – Solid Gold
2. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Sun ‘Ain’t Shining Anymore
3. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)
4. Thievery Corporation – The State Of The Union
5. Little Hands Of Asphalt – Oslo
The Fashion Office Recommends…week three
July 3, 2009
So, Friday has snuck up on us once again! We’re now on week three of The Fashion Office Recommends – a selection of tracks sent my way from my fashionable desk sharers and created to expand all of our musical libraries.
Last week, the feature was fittingly dedicated to the sad passing of the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson. With such a huge loss, we couldn’t help but sneak in another amazing MJ tune.
Treat your ears to the sounds of the following five new, old and some rather unusual (but far from dissapointing) tracks, with this week’s picks from the girls…
SoStylistic’s choice: Michael Jackson – Working Day And Night
And…James Taylor – Fire & Rain. Great track with an incredibly sad story behind it.
New Favourite Thing: The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
A Work In Progress: The Maccabees – Toothpaste Kisses
Sartoriology: The Cover Girls – Wishing On A Star
SoldierSailor
Leftfield – Storm 3000 from the amazing album Leftism.
Danielle: Beverley Knight – Flavour Of The Old School
Music Makes The World Go Round – Week 3’s Top 5
June 30, 2009
Here’s this week’s instalment of the week’s top 5 loved tracks, including some true classics and dance floor stormers.
What better a way to help you through the heatwave…
1. Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground
3. Michael Mind – Show Me Love (Club Mix). One to take you back to the Balearic sunsets of ‘08 and gear you up again for 2009’s.
4. Jackson 5 – Can You Feel It. Potentially the most uplifting video i’ve ever seen and should have made it onto last week’s MJ dedicated Fashion Office Recommends…
5. Blank & Jones – Feel The Sunshine. Fittingly titled for 32 degree sun-drenched London.
Breaking News: Eco Bag To Save Global Economy
June 26, 2009
Look what arrived in the post today. A re-usable bag with slightly more than an ecological message…
A friend recently loaded a picture of this lovely little bag on Facebook. Turns out it’s by none other than Brighton based cartoonists and bloggers Modern Toss.
When i saw the picture, as offensive as it may be, i laughed out loud and just had to have one. I wonder if the middle-aged woman, laughing at my arm candy on the tube this evening will also hop on the same ecological, down with the times bandwagon and purchase this statement piece.
After receiving it today (and coincidentally) on the morning of pay day, i promptly did as told and filled my latest bag with plenty of good shit.
Rude not to really.
He’ll be number one in the charts, Google’s most searched term, the biggest topic for bloggers, a sell-out in all music stores, on everyone’s iPod (including mine) and he’s already Last FM’s top listened to artist.
A man who needs no introduction, Michael Jackson will be sadly missed the world over.
In light of his passing yesterday, This week’s Fashion Office Recommends has been dedicated to Michael Jackson by the girls and features our most-loved tracks. With so many amazing songs to choose from, it’s been a hugely difficult task.
However, we haven’t flinched at the challenge and have pulled together to create none other than a glittering tribute to the King of Pop - with some heart-stopping memoirs attached.
Without further adieu, here’s The Fashion Office’s collective homage to Michael Jackson’s outstanding career and his contribution to music that will never be forgotten.
A work in progress recommends the world’s most expensive video. Still.
Scream
New Favourite Thing recommends not one, but two:
Dirty Diana
I Want You Back
Sartoriology - Liberian Girl. How many celebrities can you spot?
So Stylistic also can’t choose. With poignant memories, she reccomends Ben and Speed Demon.
Ben
Speed Demon
Ezzie recommends: Rock With You
Mine - Smooth Criminal.
When i was ten, and for her thirteenth birthday, my parents took my sister and I “To see Michael”. Thinking we were going to our cousin’s, imagine how excited we were when we arrived at the cinema to watch Moonwalker. After falling in love with the film from the minute it began, this is the track that brings those memories flying back.
This spectacular live recording at his 1992 Dangerous tour deserves your full attention. Stop what you’re doing now, press play, and spend the next five minutes and five seconds remembering MJ for nothing but his music and the star that he was and will continue to be forever more.
Music makes the world go round – week 2
June 23, 2009
Not to be confused with the recently launched ‘The Fashion Office Recommends’ feature (available each Friday), this is week two of soldiersailor’s top weekly tracks. All fantastic five of them.
Get to it – do your ears a favour and banish the Tuesday blues with this week’s top 5:
1. De’Lacy – Hideaway
2. Ben Watt – Lone Cat (Justin Martin remix)
3. Bonobo – Light Pattern
4. Jaydee – Plastic Dreams
5. Donny Hathaway – A song for you
Look out for more found sounds, published same place, same time next week…
It’s official: my dad is the coolest
June 21, 2009
Check him out – this is one cool dude. He’s suave, he’s uber fashionable (or at least he was in the 70s) and best of all, he’s my Dad.
Last week, i asked him what was the most rock and roll thing he had ever done, to which he replied; “some things parents don’t tell their children.” Despite the reluctance to share, I’m pretty confident that my Pa has had his fair share late nights, too much booze and plenty of everything else that goes with it. He lived the 70s. That in itself, is rock and roll enough for me.
My lovely daddy turns 60 this year. It’s a big year for both of us with only two weeks separating us from being exactly thirty years apart. So, with only a couple of months until we celebrate our birthday’s and it being the one other day in the year that’s all about dads, i thought i’d let him take a bit of the spotlight.
Happy Father’s Day Papa x
Music to write to. The fashion office recommends…
June 19, 2009
Bloggers, fashionistas and anyone who gives a d**n about music, listen up – this is your definitive collection of recommended tracks from possibly the most fashionable office.
As a way of expanding our collections and bringing new sounds to all of our ears, each Friday i’ll be posting the recommended tracks from my fellow desk sharers. So, without further adieu…
This Friday’s recs:
From Sarah (aka Sartoriology): Linkin Park featuring Jay Z – Numb Encore
From Cat (aka A Work In Progress): Sweet Female Attitude – You Bring Me Flowers
From Ezzie: The Script – Break even
From Mel (aka SoStylistic): Donnie Hathaway – A Song For You
From Olivia (aka New Favourite Thing): Sam Cooke – Another Saturday Night
Video soon…
Happy Friday Fashion Writers.
To quote my much loved and sadly missed grandmother “Music is the international language”. And, after a week filled with the discovery of some really quite amazing new songs (and a few fabulous classic ones), i decided to start a new feature reviewing my weeks top tunes. This is in addition to the features ‘Trackback’ – tracks that quite literally take you back – and ‘Sunday Soundtrack’ (exactly as it says on the tin) that I already write.
So here’s edition number one, packed with last weeks truly amazing, top five loved tracks that helped make the week just that little bit more fun.
This weeks top 5 tunes:
1. Al Wilson – The Snake (truly AMAZING, i really can’t get enough!)
2. Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives (a track that needs no introduction)
3. Horse Feathers – Curs In The Weeds
4. Patti Drew – Fever
5. Gene Harris – As
Plaid Please! – The essential check shirt
June 14, 2009
Checking out what was in the shops yesterday, i got caught up in a sea of lumberjack shirts. Clashing Pink and yellow, classic red and blue, cheesecloth or roll up sleeves – which to choose? Anyone would have thought it was festival season…
So before i filled up my ever bulging wardrobe, i paused to do the responsible thing of checking how many i actually already had stashed away. Good job too. See above – raiding the wardrobe reaped a huge bounty of not one, but FOUR vintage plaid treasures.
Between the stores being filled with them and my subconscious squirrel like behaviour, this staple, (just like the humble T-shirt and mini) is yet another you really, should never underestimate. Make sure it’s big, make sure it’s baggy – just make sure your collection never fails to grow.
Having shared my compulsive hoarding tendencies for the love of a lumberjack shirt (and a lumberjack himself wouldn’t go a miss too), i put it to you – how many prize plaids are you stockpiling?
