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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
Another one I’ve been meaning to mention for ages is this record. Despite its simple premise and great execution, it’s been difficult for me to put into words just exactly why it’s so much fun to listen to and why I’ve taken it to heart so. English folk and punk, with the benefit of [...]
This is one of those albums that has so many good memories attached to it that the music is almost secondary. Fortunately, it’s also a bloody good record that, although it has aged somewhat strangely (but don’t we all?) it still sounds like absolutely nothing I had heard before or since, and represents the beginnings [...]
Something that good (or, sometimes as well, crap) music can do better than film, TV, books or poetry is that it can capture the mood of some time, place or person so elegantly and perfectly that it fills that hoary old clichéd criteria of being tailor-made for that, despite all logic pointing towards the more [...]
Finally, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, a bunch of new (or that were new 3 weeks ago when they were posted) CDs have finally been delivered. This does not let my local mail delivery monkeys off the hook though, as two of the packages have been opened so that someone could have a [...]
This album takes me back to the good old days of tape-trading… collecting bootlegs of metal and punk shows that were recorded on dictaphones hidden in hats under the threat of no small amount of violence if you were ever caught doing so in many of the venues of the time, as all the gig [...]
It seems rather fitting that I revisit this recent gem this week, as last night should have provided spectacular spacey visuals courtesy of a meteor shower that turned out to be almost entirely obscured by the rainclouds that have covered Manchester since time immemorial, although I think I may have spotted two at about 1 [...]
Most people involved in any given musical ‘scene’ are some of the most narrow-minded sods I’ve ever met.
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