The End sounds rather magnificent here:

I’m not sure. I think any decent material that is available and worth bothering with is already out there.

You have a lot more time on your hands and patience than I do. I have tried with TOTP. Even with fast forward I struggle to find something of value. What is of interest I have already seen as an isolated clip.

Revisit another music TV series you remember fondly only to be disappointed at how dull much of it is. Better to watch the selective clips that stand out from the dross than sit through whole editions and feel […]

Well social media gives us alla better chance I suppose.

Except that nobody remembers or records what we say to throw it back at us years later.

We know. You already gave her a pasting.

I wouldn’t say it was a case of you get it or you don’t though. Many like her more accessible, catchy stuff but are turned off by the poetry set to extended […]

The Patti Smith sub thread petered out so I continue here. Horses, yes a classic. I’ve listened to it more times than any Blondie album. Seeing her doing Free Money live at a festival here in our town some years […]

I thought it was a pretty bad film. The reduction of Morrison leaves us with a false impression of who he was so I can’t see that as a plus. It’s just lazy and corny.

As for inventing the post 60s rock star, I […]

Her memoir Just Kids is very well written and a good read. I dare say there’s some embroidery of the truth and self glamourisation going on. You’d never catch any other rockstars getting up to such tricks of course.

Spending warm summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg.

That’s the work of a great wordsmith, who is relishing using language for comic effect and as a joy in itself, […]

Apparently Morrissey had a notebook of lyrics already written which he referred to for the earlier albums. Then he used up that source and had to come up with new material for the later records. That could explain […]

The Foo Fighters have never been a sacred cow as far as I am aware. They’ve always stood in the shadow of Nirvana in terms of critical acclaim. Massively popular but rather sniffed at by those who think they […]

I think of Hootenanny with much affection since it was our tradition to spend NYE with friends and view said show with jovial disdain in ironic fashion after having eaten dinner and drunk many fine wines. It’s […]

Probably Hand.Cannot.Erase or Home Invasion the live Steven Wilson album. Also Lana’s Chemtrails. Maybe Caravanserai.

Occasionally cheesy productions from Burt to be fair. 😉

Burt Bacharach is a genius of popular music. Look Of Love, This Guy’s In Love With You, Walk On By, Say A Little Prayer For You, enough said. John McLaughlin? Tedious guitar wank.

Get Back
Mare Of Eastown
It’s A Sin
The Serpent
Woodstock ’99
Unforgotten
You

Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over The Country Club
St Vincent – Daddy’s Home
Steven Wilson – Future Bites
Lana Del Rey – Blue Bannisters
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – LW

It might not seem like much but […]

Mazzy channels the spirit of The Afterword. https://youtu.be/IHrP6f5T39I