Worst thing about #Harkive is the “just listening to Takemtsu’s score for Ran in the office” tweet. Bullshit, you’ve got Ken Bruce on.

For the first time in the history of its existence I'm gonna have to sit #Harkive out.

A full-on day of work plus the birthdays of my son AND other half mean attentions are elsewhere, sadly.

Enjoy other people's #harkive tales!

Shortly after hearing the inevitable but still grim news about the new PM I was overcome with an urge to hear Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip's "Stake A Claim" and Gary Clail's "Human Nature".

Which I subsequently did, on YouTube.

#Harkive

Julia Jacklin "Crushing" fix.

Oddly haven't listened to this in at least two weeks.

Toasted pastrami & gherkin sandwich for lunch.

#Harkive

Massive Attack's "Protection" (the single) now soundtracking my elevenses in this coffee shop.

Wasn't 100% sure it was before vocals kicked in as sound is vaguely muffled & that James Brown sample has been used by En Vogue, LL Cool J, Young Disciples and others!

#Harkive

Now on the metro and listening to a Latin American busker strumming his way through now-creaky Spanish musical double-act's 1988 hit "Resistiré". Odd to hear it sung in a Latino accent!

Yes, I did google it, I presumed it had been recorded at least 20 years previous!

#Harkive

Shazammed this song that ALWAYS seems to be playing on the TVs in the metro here.

Had always presumed it was an instrumental cover of The White Stripes' "We Are Going To Be Friends".

But COMPUTER SAYS NO.

#Harkive

If y'd have told me 20 years ago I'd be listening to more music on a phone than on an actual proper music player I'd have scoffed.

But if y'd told me I'd have instant access to virtually every commercially available track while using public transport I'd have gawped.

#Harkive

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Unsure as to why I suddenly have The Style Council's "Speak Like A Child" as an earworm.

#Harkive

Would be great if #harkive knocked a certain bumbling PM wannabe from the trending topic lists today 🤨

Although Songpop is just another silly time-sucking app it does have the collateral effect of both jogging my memory of classic tracks, introducing me to new-to-me stuff & letting me sample discographies & genres in a reduced time which I can google in full later #harkive

It's #harkive day today and at this early hour I've still probably heard more songs than anyone.

This is due to spending my entire morning commute playing @SongPop1. XTC, Intaferon, The Clash, Falco, The Cure, Shannon, Soft Cell & more featured, albeit in 10 second snippets!

Out for a couple of quality ales at my favourite Madrid watering hole. Once again technology (in the form @shazam) comes to my aid in identifying a track I knew I knew I was struggling to identify over all the background noise #harkive

Ok, after that Elvis Costello earworm it's back to Spotify & checking out this The Carters Beyoncé-Jay-Z album thingin a bit more detail than a cursory listen of the first few tracks a few weeks back. First track is called "SUMMERTIME" (all in caps).

Which is timely. #harkive

Now onto wall to wall @DavidBowieReal on @80s80sRadio #harkive

Ok, time to try a bit of @PsycheRadio

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Now Victor Jara, the Chilean singer-songwriter murdered in 1973 by Thatcher's old mucker Pinochet #harkive

Now on to @LibertinoRadio who always mix up musical styles: first some Kenyan folk-funk, then Yeah Yeah Yeahs, then a band called Whirl I'd not heard before, now Datblygu (in Welsh)

Manually added station to @TuneIn a while back, it's not usually on there!

#diversity #harkive

Having felt an urge to listen to a bit of eclectic radio I tuned into a Polynesian station on @tunein, but they were playing Robbie Williams singing "Supreme" in French! #harkive

As well as #Harkive day today it's also #WorldEmojiDay.

Why is there STILL no vinyl record emoji?

Much as I love these personalised Spotify playlists, the knowledge A.I. can so easily slake my musical thirst without me having to think does make me worry if all creativity & human imagination is being stifled this way and if we'll soon ALL be slaves to the algorithm 😕 #harkive

Ok, @harkive... now listening to this "post-punk meets krautrock meets ethereal soundz meets whatever" playlist those Spotify algorithms have curated. #harkive #nowplaying

Love how a lot of #harkive tweets mentiob earworms already playing in people's heads. I've only just managed to partially erase "Three Lions" from being on endless loop in my own head and I don't even LIVE in England!

Ashamed to say I'm playing this off a phone, but it's the loudest sound I can get in the bathroom! #harkive

Aha. #Harkive day today. Lazily starting the day with this not at all lazy pre-cooked Bebop Jazz Spotify playlist to attempt to motivate me through various early morning chores as quickly as...

Last #Harkive pearl this year: tonight I discovered Euro-washing liquid Wipp Express has appropriated the "Lust for Life" riff for its ads!

#Harkive is also reminding me how tough it is trying to listen to decent music with an only child in the house!

*shuts study door*

... my ears are now being "treated" to a cover of LFMAO's "Party Rock" with parodic Spanish lyrics. Thanks, Spanish TV. #harkive

#harkive After half-watching Spanish 80s pop-nostalgia trip where Matt Bianco was played alongside local post-Franco musical luminaries...