Well a bit of week for your selector this past week. Hideously boring, that never changes, instead I had a few changes put before me such as a change of position, office and team at work. Yeah that, and I decided to throw on top a couple of my own for good measure, such as giving up the ciggies, and other fun habits that make life more interesting (though needed to go).

Sorry people. I've not had much on the player, or on the car stereo this week, and haven't really been feeling very musical at all! Still I do have a good old list of music ready for posting, though I thought I put 'em on the back-burner for a little while longer and instead smash things up with a bloody massive crowd pleaser instead.

I've had a few half started posts lying around for the last week or so. All uncomplete as they've not yet given me the rush of excitement needed to just immediately type up a little blurb and get the track OUT THERE! Step right up please then will you Mr Thane Russal, who just drops the nuclear rock n' roll bomb! Got a bit messy in the car last night as this one surprised me on my CD player. Good times party music. Set it off! LOUD!

And so it's back to 1972 that we go with this stunning 8min 46sec trip down into a psychedelic wonderland of much musical merriment. Normally I'd tend to avoid anything associated with the psychedelic label, though this one really is quite special and so fully deserves the short bit of your time required to really let the track work it's magic. Awesome guitar, great vocals, top drumming and an organ combing to great effect.  As good as it gets really...

I was browsing for an ideal Valentines Day track, and seeing ELO's "Dont Bring Me Down," immediately had me thinking that this was the right choice for me. It's all in the title! I think that this may well be my 8th consecutive year wherein I've had no lady friend to see the day in with. Oh well there's always nnnnnnnnext year. Famous last words. Too all of those with their special one today - all the best!

Got no link at all with tonights tune of choice. I was just in the feeling for some Punk, and so after a good trawl through what I could offer, I then settled on this tale of first time sex from UK rockers - The Boys. Actually, as I think of it, I did share a great conversation with a mate about his first time this weekend just gone, so there you go. Bushes, mud, dirty jeans... A true romantic. Top job! Enjoy.

Truth be told I've been wanting to big up Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves after having caught their ace live set at the 100 Club on Wednesday, BUT I'm going to have to keep holding out another day or two more as I keep coming into other bits of amazing music. Too much new music, and the list of upcoming post idea's really is as long as my arm... actually both arms!

"I am the preacher, with a message for my people..." Seriously. I mean seriously now! Amazing stuff on the up tonight people. I proclaimed to both myself in the car last night, as well as to my lady on the phone a little while ago, that music like this was life changing for me. Now some might think I'm overly stating things just a bit, but no, life changing I tell you...

Another cracking recent pick-up for me this was. I cant say that I've ever been one for streaming radio stations online, though I guess it was just a case of finding the right selector upon which to place some tune choice trust, and I'm so far finding that you cant go wrong with the (recently) much mentioned Andrew Weatherall at the controls.

With great power comes great responsibility, though I only wish it hadn't taken me this long to remember! Just a quick one from me to add my support to the Rage Against the Machine for Xmas number single cause. I'm not really all that fussed to be honest, though it's fun to see some genuine "power to the people," in action, and that deserves support almost no matter what the cause!

Just beautiful this is. Sat at home, tired and cold on a Friday evening alone here in SW19. Yes, this is perfectly suited to how I'm feeling musically right about now. Been enjoying a fair few of these long rock based sort of instrumentals recently, where before I'd not typically been a fan. Perhaps then like Bob Dylan said - times they are a-changin'..? Anyway it's 8mins and 17secs of loveliness and I hope you be diggin'.

What a cool track this is. I finally played the brilliant / special / amazing / excellent / awesome Fact 085 mix by UK DJ hero : Andrew Weatherall tonight, and just adored the entire set..! So much so that I went and purchased 4 tracks as I was hearing them playing through my system for the very first time. Got a good couple re-re-rewinds (bo' selecta!) thrown in by myself along the way too.

Loving this track from UK band Half Man Half Biscuit! It pretty much nails the thinking behind this site, and so has kind of become my TSID anthem. Well certainly for today it has!

I'm a bit of a Pete Doherty fan and have had the pleasure in enjoying the live Babyshambles experience on a number of rather raucous occassions. Today I look to re-live some of those live shows with one of my favourites from the bands many rocking sing-alongs, and one that always seemed to down well with the always enthusiastic audience. A definite Best of British tag from me.

Drugs to it to ya, rock, rock, rock! Super excited on this one, as I myself was only able to finally hear the full version of this just a few minutes ago! As always Optimo comes up trumps with the super amazing shit, and they continue the trend with the recently started running of a new series of podcasts.

Punk rock n' rolling today! Why? Because we can! Lazy ass posting! Why? Because I can! Get this and many more like it on the Rough Trade double compilation album : "Rock and Roll 1." Highly recommended! A treat of a tune this is. Really! I get lazy from time to time, and any post is better than none innit. Safe bruv...

How very very excited I am to be posting this today! I was turned on to these Japanese rockers via a Youtube link that I was mailed a couple or so months back, and what a result that turned out to be. Those readers regular to these pages will know that it's all too common for me to eulogise at length about almost every track I post, and this time around I really could go into one... but I wont. Just try this tripped out psychedelic beauty on for size, and see how you go.

Ace bit of bass guitar lead rockage for your Sunday evening. Optimo doing as well as ever turning me on to new sounds from both days gone by and some upfront stuff from time to time too. I caught this Comet Gain record off of one of their typically superb mixes that I'd downloaded fresh today from their fairly new Podcast section. Both mixes available through the site are tight as fuck! Get both! But yeah Comet Gain, rock on! LDN represent!

I haven't brought the rock ruckus to these pages for ages now, and after the break that I've had I would have liked to have gone for something with a bit more kick than this. Still, 30yr old Swedish punk rock makes for something a little different on your Saturday evening and that maybe counts for a good enough reason.  Plus I went to go and see the pretty cool Swedish circus act "Cirkus Cirkör," a couple days ago in Londons West End. 2 reasons!

You know I almost missed (well did miss actually) the 1yr birthday of this fine music blog that we all know and love : This Scene Is Dead! Yes peeps, the 27th of September 2008 saw things kick off for the very first time, and now one year later we've crossed a bit of a milestone really. So yeah a day late, but not too late in my opinion to big up the occasion.

Damn! I've been meaning to throw up some Danzig for a good while now, though as they're fairly new to me I don’t really have all that much to share by way of a post type up (a familiar tale!). Yeah basically it wasn't until about 2 or so months back that I finally got to take Danzig further than just being the name on the back of rockers denim jacket on over to a fully fledged music experience. 2009 folks... better late than never maybe?!?!

I pulled this off a compilation album entitled N.F.T.F.H (Not For The Faint Hearted) vol.1 that was put together for me a couple years ago by TSID site regular and supreme North LDN O.G : DeEbO. Rarely do these pages get to see any good old American hardcore (or post-hardcore??), and so I thought it would be a nice mix up for today's upload and post. I unfortunately know bugger all about the band, excepting for the few facts that I've picked up off mates over time.

I dont know about you, but I reckon there's something quite beautiful about this, which is not really the way you'd expect a heavy metal track to be labelled. I dont know man, searing LARGE guitar based musical soundscapes at work and all that. Bass guitar solo's, lead guitar solo's... yadda yadda yadda... it's all here simply enough. No lyrics as is "hinted," at in the title. Coming on strong!

Copped the 2007 release EP Is Is just a couple of days ago. It issssssssssss the BOMB! What the fuck YYY's?!?! Killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it, killing it... lazy type-up I know, but seriously this is all I can say about the music they put out. Rarely do I listen to full albums these days, though their stuff see's heavy rotation down here in South West 19.

Anyone else diggin' on this new Pearl Jam single!?! I've been so chuffed to have been hearing them on the radio again lately, and with good reason as this new one is pretty super. Geared just right for being played on the wireles as it measures in at a couple seconds shy of 3mins, and I'm hoping that they get a second wind again after having had the last decade or so go by fairly quietly - perhaps that's just my opinion though.