La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi - Francoise Hardy

French pop culture isn't all crappy films about taxis and coffee table pop-electronica. To prove it, here's Francoise Hardy, singer-songwriter, Mrs Jacques Dutronc, the star of Jean-Daniel Pollet's Devil at My Heels and one of le leading lights of the Parisian 'ye-ye' pop scene of the 1960s.

I'm not sure what kind of maison Hardy lives in today, but I bet she lives in une machine à habiter outside of Paris. Somewhere modern, minimal and modular with reinforced concrete pilotti, a roof garden, ceiling-to-floor windows and curved walls.

Like Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye or the Pebble Mill studio filled with cats and pâtè.

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King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo

Dub classic from the Kingston producer and founder of the legendary Rockers International label who was to the melodica (a mouth organ with a keyboard) what Rolf Harris was to the stylophone. The melodica revolutionised Jamaican music with it's eerie, haunting sound... and it makes a great stocking filler!

Today the Caribbean is under serious threat from pollution... Mainly from paintball-loving couples from the Home Counties who insist on getting married on its beaches.

Only last month a giant hair gel slick was threatening rare birds and wildlife just South of Ocho Rios.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

Yeah, that scene when the dogs are eating spaghetti together...



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