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) [...]
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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 [...]
One of the most rubbish things about compact discs is their frankly boring anonymity. With records, they could come in a multitude of colours, shapes and styles to brighten up any turntable. With CDs, it’s a uniform silver where any artwork to separate it from the herd is buries within the apparatus of the CD [...]
This week’s venture into the world of Various Artists is a new album, recorded as tribute to an old album. Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners was his first solo outing and as fine a chronicle of the time as any. Released in 1971 and at a time when Nash was at a fairly low ebb [...]
A slightly unwieldy concept, this – given that the World Cup begins next week, there’s every chance that this will be the only one of these done for about a month… Still, it’s a lovely day, I’m out in the garden and quite frankly my attention span today isn’t geared towards listening to a whole [...]
This strange collection of psych & garage tunes, curated and mixed by Messrs. Machin and Ford will be inextricably linked with a great four days spent on the sound coast alongside two women I first met on the internet (in of course the most wholesome possible manner), a terribly sad-looking tribute to the Clown Prince [...]
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