Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

All right, let's face it. My entire career is based on obscure information. The more weird stuff I can find out about an artist, a band, a song, an album, or anything to do with music, the better, right?

However, obscure information doesn't necessarily equal useful information, at least in not any practical sense.

And yes, some of the information I've uncovered over the years is pretty useless.

But I also think there's nothing wrong with useless information.

This is the fun stuff, the bits of trivia that give things spice,

seams of data that could be mine for bar bets and one-opping your friends,

and just the sheer joy of musical nerddom.

It's the kind of enlightenment and knowledge that makes one go, wow, that's cool.

It means almost nothing to any aspect of my life.

It's not going to make me richer or thinner or more attractive, but I'm glad I know it because,

well, it's just fun.

In fact, I think it's time that I gathered together much of this material and presented it to you in one big glop of illumination, none of which

will do you any practical good on this earth. But you will find it interesting. I call this the completely useless information show.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Crass.

No water slash to sigh, I feel sad.

The first quarter of life. But I know. There we know what is like to sigh and obscure information by the

1990 song called Obscurity Knox by a reasonably

obscure Scottish band called the Trash Can Sinatra. They once had a recording studio that they

called Shabby Road. They convinced Carly Simon to sing on a song in 2009. And in 2010, they started an American tour by playing in a fan's living room

in Portland, Oregon. All 50 tickets sold out in 36 hours. And by all accounts, it was a very good

party. Hi there. I'm Ellen Cross, and welcome to the completely useless information show.

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