"A good smoke in any weather."

I hope you recognise that as a Terry Pratchett quote, from his Tiffany Aching cycle.  This isn't excatly how I envisaged the sailor, from the pack of 'Jolly Sailor' tobacco that Pratchett invents for these books, but it'll do, it'll do.

What I mean in this instance is that I want to blow off smoke here, safe in the knowledge that no-one is going to read it.  In particular, I don't want to upset my son, whose music has been subject to much remixing.

I -ing (that's another Pratchett quote, from 'The Truth') hate remixes.  I -ing hate them with a vengeance.  Because a) they are never the original (self-evident) and b) they are always -ing awful.

Except, except .... Bob and Catherine did remixes of a Nirvana tune and a Carly Simon tune and a Creep tune and others - and they were just as interesting as the original.  Contradiction City?  No, I don't think so;  I think their versions are more reinterpretations, than remixes.  While I try to clarify that thought, I may post up a link to the Alpines' rejiggeries.

And then there's this:

OK, I think these are more 'covers' than 'remixes'.  I must explore this further.

Right, here's an original Alpines tune.  It's called 'Chances'.

And now here's a remix, which has had more YouTube plays than the original.  You'll forgive me if I don't listen to it again.  God, it's horrible.

And that's my point.  These people need to go out and make their own music, and be judged by that.  Bob and Catherine spent days and days of time and years of their experience writing and recording these songs, and these people come along and shove it through some software and add some 'farts and squeaks' (I think that's how John Peel described synthesisers, he was not what you would call a big fan) ... running on empty here, into the early hours.  Just woke up wanting to make a statement.