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My summer project – top 100 albums

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Music

It’s summer and very hot in Oslo and therefor (besides moving…) I need to have a summer project. And it will kind of the impossible one, which and who are the best 100 albums in history, with the limit to pop and rock’n roll.
I’ll guess it will change from day to day – but so [...]

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Spotify is brilliant, isn’t it?

April 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Music

You can come across this enormous library of good music, and I again, it happens every five year… , this must be one of the best live recordings ever:
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at the Star Club Hamburg

And as they say – “Live At The Star Club, Hamburg” is not an album, it’s a crime [...]

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Elvis

March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music

I have just seen The King singing smorgasbord in a movie called Spinout. I became so stunned by it I had to write something about – The King singing smorgasbord, wow!

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The russian president uses a video blog!

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Marketing, Music, Politics

I have written some stuff about the role social media played in Obama’s campaign in the US. Politicians can make great use of social media and online communities to engage with the public.
One real benefit of engaging people in this way is that you can focus people round a specific topic or issue, a useful [...]

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The best Springsteen song, not written by him!

December 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music

On my way to work this morning I suddenly heard the best song ever, not written by Springsteen. And, for thus’ who know me, I’m not a Springsteen-fan, at all!
But this is the best he ever could write, drama with saxophone and piano – great lyrics – plain and simple, a really good song!
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Motörhead in Oslo or Lemmy The Movie, take a pick

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Music

Since the best band in rock’n roll is coming to Oslo december 14th, why not shop a clip from the forthcoming movie — Lemmy the Movie. It probably will be an uncritical yahoo, but who cares — it’s the most influential man in hard rock ever — long live Lemmy!
So, here we go, the trailer [...]

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The best rock’n roll bands ever

February 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music

I came across some good music recently and I thought, what the heck’, who are the best bands in rock’n roll history. I mean, when even thinking a diagnostic peril as “the 20 best rock bands ever,” one can either cower in anticipation of the monsoon of disagreement sure to come and load the package [...]

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Dixie Chicks slams the Grammies

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Music

The best album of 2006, “Taking the Long Way” – with the brilliant lyrics in “Not ready to make nice” (Most country radio stations have shown little interest in playing the Chicks’ music since March 10, 2003, when Natalie Maines told an audience in London that she was ashamed that President Bush is from Texas) [...]

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About Nisse Hellberg

January 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Music

Why haven’t Nisse Hellberg, front man of the Swedish rockband Wilmer X, got more recognition for his brilliant lyrics? The one other guy who could match him is the late Jokke Nielsen – two guys who in small words describes the world around them. And they do it brilliantly!

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