So, how far have I got with my End of Year listings then? This is a very easy thing to quantify, as I have done the square root of the sum total of bugger all. I’ve got a new phone though, so it all works out well in the end or something. Sitewise, it’s [...]
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Well, everyone else is doing it. This isn’t the first time I’ve done something on a record that’s twenty years old, and such is the amount of stuff from that period that shaped the way that I listen to music even now, it probably won’t be the last. Where this one is largely unique [...]
For the benefit of the few who Haven’t Looked At Anything At All Lately and therefore might not know, Nirvana’s Nevermind album is 20 years old at the end of this month. Time has been an odd mistress to it in all honesty; overanalysis on the one side of the music, lyrics and frontman has [...]
Not too long ago, I recall going on at (not very long) length bemoaning the general grumpiness I felt that where the late 1980s and early 1990s were chock-full of alternative acts doing whole albums of covers by their favourite artists (Kiss, the Velvet Underground, Shonen Knife, the Damned springing to mind as particular classics), [...]
Well, that looks like Autumn out of the way as it’s bloody freezing here and snow is being threatened for the high bits. It’s also time to start looking at that most subjective and space-filling pastime, the End Of Year ‘Best Of’ Thing. I was hoping to get a little top 10 rattled off before [...]
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 [...]
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