
Bust, the magazine that brings you femme culture in a fun, creative and smart way, now has a brilliant new online feature: free, legal mp3s of music featured in their issues.
Go here to grab the downloader and instructions (Update: now defunct). The current taster features The Gossip, Two Ton Boa, Guy Sigworth, Flin Flon and The Receiver. My picks: the incredible 60s/70s folk songstress Karen Dalton's take on the traditional 'Katie Cruel' (French pop fans may be familiar with Marie Laforêt's version), and The Pipettes' 'Pull Shapes' video, which lovingly recreates the Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls party scene.
Thanks to everyone who's visited Spiked Candy for bringing me up to over 500,000 page views! One thing I'd love is to get a little more feedback on my posts. I don't mean to be needy in our relationship, but sometimes a girl needs to know if her first-time-posted-online ultra-rare video/picture/song excites you as much as it does her! The blog continues to be a labour of love, but I'd also like a little more of an idea of which posts you enjoy the most. A big thank you to those who do take the time to comment, email or Myspace message me.
A special shout-out to all my last.fm friends - you really help keep the blogging and music discovery journey rewarding. Last.fm members and readers of this blog - if you're yet to stumble across my last.fm group, here it is: Spiked Candy Last.Fm Group.
Lots of planned posts in the works... in the meantime, any special requests or stuff you'd like to see/hear more of? I'll be moving from Blog-City soon, and I'm happy to start the extended leaving party now!
mordi
I know EXACTLY what you mean about feedbackk. I was just about to post a moan about it myself on blowupdoll! Expecially as mydatabus records how many downloads there has been and sometimes 2000 downloads will only get 2 comments!!!!!!!
Well, I'm still loving spiked candy am have enjoyed all the FG videoclips , new music and links.
Keep it up doll!
Christine
I know what you mean about having downloads in the thousands and none to very few comments. It makes you wonder why just a few of those people don't leave a quick thank you or let you know they liked the song.
Oscar
Thank you and your fans for sharing your music!!!
Christine
nick motown
the bust media player sadly doesn't work on my computer. probably my harddisk is just too full.
and then i wanted to say that i may link to your "summer wine" post from july - if you don't mind. i'm plannng to do a little nancy & lee feature within the next few days. and that song would fit in perfectly!
Christine
Sure, go ahead and link to my Summer Wine post. :)
Yeah I jumped the gun a bit... I'm having some problems with the Bust player myself. Anyone else? I'm going to send them an email, and it would help if I could let them know if more than a couple of us were having problems.
modcentric
Jonny
Well, alright then! I can't exactly remember how I stumbled across Spiked Candy, but I'm glad I did - perhaps only a scant two months ago. Being a bit of and old indie-kid, I've always nurtured a fey affection for the top pop picks of previous decades, and I'm really happy to have found such a heart-warming selection of sweet little ditties, melancholy nymphs and of course, dancing nuns. My favourite so far has been the Kovacs Kati track - I put it on loud in the office and we all get down to it.
Ta-ta,
Jonny x
IanB
IanB
Jen
Swanny
three w's dot freewebs dot com slash foreverfrancegall
Chat soon:) Maybe you can change it for me??
Christine
IanB- great to see you back, I'll update the link to Retrobabe :).
Swanny - thanks for getting in touch. I look forward to seeing how the site comes along.
Mod - I appreciate it. You know how great I think your blog is, so your comment means a lot.
Jonny - thanks so much for your thoughtful comment. Kati Kovacs is my fave too, of my recent posts. I love getting a glimpse from readers into where they might be listening to the songs I share. It makes the reality of how far-reaching a blog can be more 'real' - rather than it just being me and my computer screen!
Jen - many thanks! V. exciting to know you heard of France Gall through here, and that you're such a long-time reader. :)
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Swanny
rob
Christine
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Alice