The Police - Walking On The Moon > The Official Video!!!

Sting, my hero!
I've always loved The Police from an early age. My dad would often play their albums in our car. And I've always like Sting.
Now that I'm learning to play Bass Guitar, this is one song that I've learned quite quickly. It's easy, simple and catchy!
The video is also really cool, you've got the late US 70s look and it was shot at the Kennedy Space Center! I love all that Nasa stuff. Enjoy!

Depeche Mode - Stripped & Never Let Me Down Again (101 Live) > The Videos!!!

I have discovered Depeche Mode when I was a teenager. My sister and I were watching a German music TV channel called Viva Zwei and they were playing the "Everybody Counts" live video from 101. I remember saying to my sister: "Hey! I really like that song!" and she replied "why don't you go get their album called 101?". I instantly wrote that number on my agenda. A couple of days later, my dad took me to a record shop and bought me the 101 double CD album. I was in heaven!!! I couldn't wait to get back home and listen to it. I didn't wanted to hear it in the car just in case... It could have spoiled it!!!
Once at home, rushed to my bedroom, never came back out! I was in DM heaven. Never heard anything like it in my life. It was powerful and still very complex for a live album. It was as if they were playing for me. I had found my thing and it was called Depeche Mode.
I asked around at school if anyone had heard about that band and no one did. They were way too much into girls bands and boys bands!
Still researching about that new sound, I went back to that record shop where I've found the 101 album and there it was, on the video section, 101 by D.A. Pennebacker.
At home, rushed to my parents bedroom to watch the VHS on my own, never left the room (up until they wanted to go to sleep).
I was more and more sucked into the music and having the images that goes with it, I just couldn't move away from the screen.
When they played Never Let Me Down Again, it was such a shock that I cried!
Call me Emo, call me Geek, call me whatever the hell you want, I couldn't care less.
Depeche Mode had just became my thing.



I just hope that you'll like it too.

Back from the 20th century

I am back! Didn't have the Internet for a while.
Moved home but here I am!
With a faster connection, new ideas, ready for Spring.

Speaking of which, time for some Spring Cleaning. I need to get rid off all the spam crap people left in here (enlarge your p***s, etc... little do they know, I don't need it).

Thanks a lot for all the nice messages people left me. I am always glad to help with school assignments!

Valentine's day songs, can't find any really...!

I have been looking for that Valentine's Day romantic kind of songs but wasn't really inspired.
What really inspired me was the Smashing Pumpkins's "Ava Adore". But with the intro "It's you that I adore, You'll always be my whore", I thought that my boyfriend might not like it. Even though the song is brilliant: the guitar is loud, the lyrics are good. You really feel something. It's just that intro that might turn him off (and probably Billy Corgan's voice as well).

Then I thought about "Today", again from the Smashing Pumpkins. Not bad but not my first choice for a cuddle. At least I didn't fall for Daniel Beddingfield's cheesy "If You're Not The One" song that might have been played over and over again at weddings. Or even Robbie William's "Angel" over-played at funerals!

Then I thought, let's go 70s with 10CC's "I'm Not In Love" but what if Boyfriend thinks I don't love him anymore? A little bit further in time was "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes" from Korgis. It's nice, relaxing but again, damn cheesy!

Scissor Sisters have a couple of great songs on their first studio album called... ermm... Scissor Sisters. Songs like "It Can't Come Quickly Enough"; "Laura" and "Return to Oz" are musically awesome but the lyrics are far from being romantic. For example, their song "Return to Oz" is about drug abuse within the Gay community.

And just before dark, then came a briliant idea: ZERO7! Why haven't thought about it earlier???? Their whole abum When It Falls is a triumph of love. Perfect for a romantic night in with Boyfriend. Ending the album with Morcheeba's "The Sea" and then Groove Armada's "My Friend", this is going to be a great night!

If there is ONE song I would recommend for that type of "evening", this would be Zero7's "Over Our Heads". This songs is really special!

What is your favourite love song of all time?

I'm a Jinx Junkie - my record dealer is a Saint!

My name is Breena and I'm a Jinxoholic. "Hello Breena!" would say the people sitting all around me making a circle. Once a week, we would meet up somewhere in town and share our fears about not being able to find the right collector vinyl of a rare Depeche Mode pirate live album released only at 12 copies in Singapore in 1984! Or maybe that one and only concert ticket of Cabaret Voltaire from 1983 playing in Helsinki, Finland! Buying junk from Jinx can become more than a sport. It can quickly turn to addiction.

I've discovered Jinx Records when I was 15. I went to an old record shop where I lived at that time of my life and found a pile of old magazines underneath the table where vinyls of psychedelic rock bands were kept in boxes. I would go to that shop, rush to the magazines and not minding the thick dust all around me, look for music magazines such as Rolling Stones, Rock Sound, Best - a French magazine dedicated to the New Wave movement - and NME. There were just a handful of Rolling Stones magazines and only ONE NME - it's France, what do you expect!?! That day, I bought my first four vintage magazines! Amazed of what was in there, I came back to the shop the very next day in the morning. I was really excited about going back there! And I came back home with all the Best magazines I could find in the shop!

Going through the Best magazines, an advert for a record shop appeared in almost every Best magazines. They had vinyl, tapes, videos, books and memorabilia of whatever you want, from pop music to hard rock music! There was a phone number on the adverts so I rang. And to my surprise, the phone number was still working and a man picked up the phone! Unbelievable, it was a sign! So I asked a salesman if he could send me by post a list of all the new wave stuff they had and a week or so later, a thick letter arrived in the mailbox. Inside was a list filled with names of what would later become my idols, the sounds of good and bad times. It was better than a surprise birthday gift. I felt excited, eager to know as much as I could about all those names so I decided to get organised. I took two highlighters - one yellow and one green - and highlighted in yellow the items I wanted and in green the ones I didn't know. The list was a mess! But my very first order was a success. I ordered a promotional book from 1983 about Duran Duran, their second hand live album from 1984 called Arena - Recorded All Around The World and Siouxsie and the Banshees' 1981 Juju. And the best thing about Jinx is that when I received the parcel, they even thought about adding a new list!

I think that everything happens for a reason and coincidences don't exist! It was a sign, I had to know more about music and open my mind to new things, new names, new sounds. I've always loved Jinx Records and I always will. It is my "pêché mignon"!
Now go shop at Jinx > CLICK HERE! > http://www.jinxrecords.com