It’s certainly been a while since I last did one of these, mostly because my Saturday mid-afternoons have been spent either sleeping off a hangover, or (even worse) being awake during one. I’m trying to put a bit of structure back into this blog again, so I’m going to have a go at making this [...]
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Quite a few of my closest friends are vegetarians. I have no idea why this is, I have never asked them and have seen no real reason why I should pry into this as it neither alarms nor offends me. Having said that, there are occasions where I (at a percentage of carnivorousness approaching utter [...]
The best way that we can appreciate the present is to look back towards the past occasionally. Not just so that we can comfort ourselves that things are somehow better, but also to understand that just because something is no longer at the forefront of our attention, it doesn’t mean that human issues end with [...]
Compilations of this nature can be strange affairs. People can be drawn in on no more than strength of feeling toward its subject or a wish to empathise, sympathise or support. By this same token, people can be equally averse; the subject could be too close to home and heart or even too distant to [...]
I do like films. I’m currently ploughing through a 21-disc set of Hammer films from the mid to late 1960s that all seem to have been filmed in the same village in Cornwall, but are fun nonetheless. So it should come as little surprise that I’m also a fan of film soundtracks. Movie soundtracks are [...]
Yes, quite. Just realised that in doing a top 35 (which isn’t exactly 35 anyway), splitting it into chunks of ten will eventually offend some law of mathematics or other. Whoops. Undeterred by this, the last five(ish!) will be individually added daily next week from Monday – although as I’m attempting a jaunt off down [...]
What a lovely oddity this is. A song that Suzanne Vega wrote about eating Breakfast one morning was sampled illicitly by UK artists DNA and came in for Record Company grief, before Suzanne stepped in and released it as a joint single. What followed soon after is this collection of found and presented (none solicited) [...]
I hate end of year lists. Usually, it’s because the ones I read usually either are full of bands and records that I’ve never heard of and therefore make me feel old, or they’re full of bands and records that I have heard of but are in what I believe to be the wrong order. [...]
It’s this time of year when the demise of Woolworths hits hardest. The lack of a local dispensary of Pick ‘n’ Mix, lightbulbs, shoelaces, cookery books and blank C90 cassettes pales into insignificance when the realisation dawns that there’s nowhere that sells cheap and cheerful Christmas decorations. I have been charged this year with the [...]
It seems a bit curious that there were loads of quality tribute albums released in the early nineties featuring acts from the Sub Pop roster and their peers dedicated to bands who had influenced their respective career paths, yet now we are one generation on from this, and these artists remain largely without tribute albums [...]
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