So, what to do now? I finished my top 50 a week sooner that I thought I would, and now there’s a bit of a gap. May as well carry on as I finished then, and what better way of doing so than commenting on an EP from one of the very people who topped [...]
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I’m not entirely sure if this means that I can’t make my mind up, or that I can’t count, as this technically makes the whole malarkey a Top 51. Then again, even before I started to compile this list I knew that these would be top of the pile, and as I was further [...]
This time last year, I was freezing just across the road from the English Channel (or la Manche if you’re that way inclined) just a short stroll from the De La Warr Pavillion where I’d seen Billy Brag perform the previous evening. I’d not gone to see Bill though (enjoyable, funny and stirring as he [...]
Another fine tip-off from my Washington Correspondent, I said back in February after listening to it for a few weeks previous that “I strongly suspect that this band and this album will be all over the place by the Summer”, and I’m happy to say that I wasn’t that far off. The Head and the [...]
And so on to the next part of this coincidental double-header. Like the previous entry this, somewhat obviously, features Dustin O’Halloran (who has, by my reckoning, been involved in four of this top 50 in one way or another and is also on two that didn’t end up being included), it’s more minimal neo-classical performances, and [...]
Right, let’s see if I can get the right year this time shall we? I’ve now changed the year in the title of the last one from 2001 to 2011, wish it was that easy to do my Birth Certificate… Anyway, the plan is to get two of these out of the way today [...]
If I had allowed pure sentiment to run the rule over this Top 50, this would be Number 1 for the sheer amount of memories I have accrued whilst listening to this band. In the spirit of fairness however (I know, that I have one of those came as a surprise to me as well) [...]
I have one of those brains that tends to work on the basis of “if it’s a bit strange, then I like it”. This record (and, indeed, band) are very strange, and I like them a lot. No great surprise there, then. To be merely a bit strange in the context of this record would [...]
Well blimey. After over seven years of waiting, the anticipation of Mark Lanegan’s new solo recordings has been broken somewhat earlier than expected. This first single was expected sometime next month, and yet here it is, almost completely unheralded as if to try to catch us unawares. No chance of that. The digital age may [...]
I have to admit that I have have had a little bit of help this year. Much as I wish that I could, I don’t sit here, sage-like, plucking unheard-of records out of the air. It’d save me a fortune for a start. But no, I have been assisted on more than one occasion this [...]
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