The Backup Song

A few months ago, in a blog post titled “To Buy or Not to Buy” my friend Vanessa Cobb bewailed the fact that her computer had been playing up so much that she had been forced to think about getting a new one. She did so through the eyes of Hamlet. If she had left it too late, and the hard drive had failed before she had backed up her files, she might have thought of this song.

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a millstone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data’s gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

Some Song Titles to Make You Laugh

My previous post was about my nephew’s rock band. They don’t play Country and Western music, so I’m sure they wouldn’t touch any of these classics, which are listed on the Freeman Institute website:

• I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim Is Gettin’ Better
• I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
• Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
• Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth ‘Cause I’m Kissing You Goodbye
• Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure
• How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
• I Don’t Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling
• I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
• I Flushed You From The Toilet Of My Heart
• I Keep Forgettin’ I Forgot About You
• I Wouldn’t Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I’m Afraid She’d Win
• I’m Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life
• If You Don’t Leave Me Alone, I’ll Go And Find Someone Else Who Will
• If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
• Mama Get The Hammer (There’s A Fly On Papa’s Head)
• My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him
• She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft
• She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger

I’ve “Always Never” Followed Rock Bands – Until Now!

I’ve never been much of a fan of rock music – I prefer the music of the 1940s big bands to that of present-day rock bands. However, I’ve started to realize that my nephew Matt Lockyer has become a seriously good musician – he is even taking a music course  at college. His band “Always Never” regularly plays gigs locally here in Tiverton and attracts quite a following. A recent press report in the Mid Devon Gazette described Always Never as “Four hoodies with more chops than the meat counter at Morrison’s” who play “a seriously good set of grungy metally stuff that manages to be aggressive and progressive at the same time”.

But don’t just take my word for it! Visit Always Never’s MySpace page and sample their music for yourself. You’ll be pleasantly surprised – I certainly was!