What a strange week this has been. If it wasn’t enough to be told by all and sundry that apparently most of the socio-economic history of the 1980s (including pretty much all the bits I remember growing up, mostly spent in abject terror of impending nuclear war while the TV was full of images of [...]
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First of all, a heartfelt “Happy 25th Birthday!” from this idiot scribe to the lovely people of Sub Pop Records. Which feels kind of strange in a way as, to put everything in an awful “how on Earth did that happen?” historical context, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was a mere 15 years [...]
What a strange week this is panning out to be. All excited about a new year, and both new albums I’ve received so far this week are from bands I used to listen to 20 years ago. This Is No Bad Thing. Mostly because I can one again revel in my own daily little triumphs [...]
The promise I made myself that I would not listen to any more new stuff until I got this list finished is starting to get a bit stretched, although on the plus side it’ll mean that I have plenty of presents to open on Christmas Day and I won’t have to disconsolately hope that someone’s [...]
Happy Halloween, one and all! ’Tis the season for religious types to get all whiny about “well, it’s all a bit pagan, isn’t it? Corrupting young minds and all that” when they’re not that hugely bothered about all the paganey goings-on at Christmas and Easter… Anyway, [...]
If there’s one thing I can take away from this blog when I decide that I can’t be faffed with it anymore, it’s that there’s little I enjoy more than just being interested. There’s been plenty of good and great records put out this year that I’ve loved, but didn’t sit down to write about [...]
Before you start listening to this record, it’s probably recommended that you take a brief moment to remind yourself of your own age. Doesn’t matter whereabouts on the scale you are, this record will humble you. And if that’s not enough, try doing this: grab a friend (or handy passer-by) and play them Copper Blue [...]
It’s always a bit strange when one stops listening to the continued output of a band for no real reason, certainly in the case of this lot. Have my musical tastes since excluded them? Not at all. Have they said anything nasty about me or members of my family / social circle? Not that I’ve [...]
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 [...]
Short one to start the day off with, although in fairness it’s quite a short, trim and filler-free album. Bass players making solo albums is an act fraught with danger, because let’s face it – most people who take up that particular instrument do so because they decide that six strings are far too complicated, [...]
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