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Dave Sparks

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Creator of Mumubl, sharing various songs I've loved from my past - big famous classics, little quirky unknowns, anything that I enjoyed once upon a time.
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The importance of MTV

Foo Fighters | Monkey Wrench

29 June 2023
The recent Foo Fighters album feels so familiar, in a good way. I’ll often find myself listening to it and being reminded of so many of the old Foo’s songs that I know and love. Of those the Colour and The Shape*  is the definitive Foo Fighters album of my youth, my first proper introduction to the band, I discovered the debut later. One track has always stood out for me above all others, not the now ubiquitous Everlong which appears to have grown in stature over the last 30 years. For me it’s Monkey Wrench, a track that seemed
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New Christmas songs work – with a hint of nostalgia

Jamie Cullum | Christmas Don't Let Me Down

21 December 2022
I read somewhere that new Christmas songs don’t work. I didn’t get into the article but I fundamentally disagree, I’ve discovered some great Christmas songs in recent years, yes it’s a time when we rely on old classics that let us soak up that nostalgia for the Christmas of many years ago. But that doesn’t mean we can’t embrace new songs, and not just new versions of the classics like favourites of mine – Barenaked Ladies “God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen” or Sufjan Stevens “Once in Royal David’s City”. Last year’s album from Norah Jones is a great example –
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Drifting in and out

Gomez | How we operate

15 November 2022
I think I’ve written this before but Gomez were the first band I ever saw live – or at least that’s what I tell people. I did see Steps or possibly S-Club 7, at least someone of that ilk, at a local kids disco called the Frenzy. In that case though I was only there for chasing girls and the underage drinking, which means it doesn’t count. So Gomez were the first band I went to see with my own money spent on the ticket and the intention of watching the band. It was at the Royal Court in Liverpool
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The great small town storybook

Stereophonics | Word Gets Around

8 May 2022
The Stereophonics dropped a new album recently, I hadn’t heard much pre-release, I just noticed it in my Spotify feed and thought “I’ll give that a spin”. It’s not bad, but I was mostly struck by the sweet nostalgia of hearing Kelly Jones’ singing again and it put me in mind of the earlier ‘phonics stuff that I’ve listened to more times that I can possible remember, both on recordings and live. They were a band that were at the sweet spot for me releasing great guitar music as I was a mid to late teen leaning guitar myself. So
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Thereโ€™s nothing left

Foo Fighters | There's nothing left to lose

26 March 2022
Iโ€™m at a point in my life where Iโ€™ve seen plenty of musical figures pass away, artists Iโ€™ve grown up with. In the last few years some colossal figures have died, but for some reason the death of Taylor Hawkins has hung in my thoughts more than any others have recently. I donโ€™t know if itโ€™s because they were such a huge band during my formative teenage years or if itโ€™s because Iโ€™m due to see see them on their upcoming UK tour but something of the tragedy of Hawkins untimely death has stuck with me. The Foo Fighters are
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Oh, dig it – It’s not all about the guitar

Jimi Hendrix | Hey Joe

12 June 2021
I recently had a guitar repaired* and when I got it back the first thing I did was blast out the opening to this song. I don’t know why but at some point it became my go to riff. I guess I got comfortable playing it and just settle into easily, but I haven’t picked a guitar up in years. I can”t remember the last time I even thought about how to actually play this song yet it comes out without much thought. It got me to thinking about Jimi Hendrix though, this song as well as others, and what
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An interesting vocal reimagining

Ben Folds | Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!

25 April 2021
There’s a long historic tradition of purely vocal music, beat boxing, choirs, the recent resurgence of sea shanty’s, babershop –ย  after all beside maybe percussion the voice is the one instrument we’ve always had. But who are we kidding, amongst all this, the most recent love of a cappella music is firmly routed in that god awful American TV Show Glee, maybe if you’re stretching it, the Pitch Perfect films. Which gives me a natural instinct to want to dislike it. But come on you can’t can you? There’s a strong hypnosis to well done vocal harmonies and great acoustic
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The curse of the successful working class raconteur

Arctic Monkeys | When the sun goes down

25 March 2021
There’s a great relatability in a working class person singing songs about their hometown. Especially one with a way with words who can create a captivating story in a three minute song. Think early Oasis or the fantastic “Word Gets Round” by the Stereophonics. But it’s a relatability that often means their music diminishes or at least suffers as they grow and move away from that initial inspiration. It’s hard to sing about being on the dole and bumming round a city when you’re making money off a huge hit album having left that life in the rear view mirror.
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Emotion in the guitar strings

Josรฉ Gonzรกlez | Save Your Day

12 October 2015
I remember over the years many people who have commented about listening to downbeat music, asking why you’d want to. Which I guess I understand, I mean it’s a valid question, why would you want to listen to something that isn’t exactly going to put you in the mood to be a little ray of sunshine. But that’s not the point really, music inhabits so many different areas of the emotional spectrum, it has a place everywhere. It has power to make you feel various things and reflecting from the bad as well as the good can make great music.
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I’d like a riff please, big and fat

Reef | Naked

30 October 2014
In the not too distant past Radio 2 compiled a list of the top 100 guitar riffs. It’s a list that’s topped by Led Zepplin’s Whole lotta love and generally full of the tracks you’d expect. The inclusion of the Arctic Monkey’s Do I wanna know? at number 15 feels a little contentious. It’s not that I don’t like the track but I can’t imagine it’ll still be in the top 100 if this was redone in 10 years time, let alone the top 20. Aside from that though it’d be hard to argue against much else in the top
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It’s so goddam literal

Ben Folds | Hiroshima (B B B Benny hit his head)

1 August 2014
I have a long love affair with Ben Fold’s music but Way to normal may just have been the album where that started to show strains. Not that it isn’t a good album or that I don’t like it, just that it doesn’t live up to the previous ones quite as well. Maybe it’s a nostalgia for what I’d heard before but Way to normal just never hit the same highs for me. But there may be another reason it never quite hit home and strange as it sounds it’s because this opening track is so good, it’s brilliant, it
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Halfway round the world

Matchbox Twenty | How far we've come

30 June 2014
I’m sure I’ve said before on here but the power of music to conjure up thoughts of different times and places is sometimes phenomenal. For this track in particular it’s time I spent living in New Zealand. I can vividly remember hearing this track on the radio travelling around in the minibuses we used to drive around in out there.  Matchbox Twenty are much less of a well known band back here, although most people would recognise lead singer Rob Thomas’ vocals on the Santana track “Smooth” which was a big hit in 2000. I was aware of some other
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We like a birthday here at Mumubl and todays it's We like a birthday here at Mumubl and todays it's a happy birthday to @iamhalsey - amazingly Halsey is not her real name and so this weeks #threeForFriday #music #quiz is on the subject of aliases. Let us know how you get on in the comments as always.

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Iโ€™m going to guess cigarette companies arenโ€™t Iโ€™m going to guess cigarette companies arenโ€™t allowed to do little promotional compilations anymore. I have no idea why they were even doing them in the first place. Thereโ€™s a few of these in my box of cassettes

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In honour of the 10 year old in our house the #thr In honour of the 10 year old in our house the #threeForFriday #music #quiz theme was rather simply the number 10 last week. How did you get on?
Answers here and more questions to come on Friday.

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If anyone wonders where Iโ€™ve gone for a while I If anyone wonders where Iโ€™ve gone for a while I may well be stuck in this mighty tome. 

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It's birthday week in our household and today we h It's birthday week in our household and today we have one hitting double figures so the theme for #threeForFriday #music #quiz is a tribute to the number 10. 
Put your answers in the comments everyone

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Iโ€™m not the only one with a significant birthday Iโ€™m not the only one with a significant birthday today as this album turns 30 (yes Iโ€™m older than the album)
It took me a while to come round to this one, Nirvana had always been โ€œNevermindโ€ and not much else for me at first. I think it was hearing โ€œAll apologiesโ€ that first got me round to listening properly and itโ€™s still a stand out track from the album for me.
Not an album I ever need an excuse to play but today is as good a time as any.

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And if you're asking - no I won't accept Shrek as an answer - it needs the number 2 on the end. More questions on Friday, maybe more or less picky, I can't confirm.

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