Great question! I have pondered and pondered….

Does Abbey Road by the B**tles count?

Yeah that was my first thought. But the last American album wasn’t the best one though….

How did you guess! Low, right enough.

“You are classic Berlin-era Bowie. You keep yourself to yourself and read a lot of poetry. Vintage synthesisers play a big part in your life and you have a friend called Brian.”

Say that in English! 🙂

Most of the people I can think of were one hot wonders, but I think that maybe goes against the spirit of the question.

What about Chris Rea? Or is he still popular? He was absolutely huge in the eighties.

….. aaaand I kind of feel that way about Ryan Adams as well.

I think overall it’s an interesting question and an interesting train of thought. And I have no idea on the answer.

For a very long time I thought Roberts Plant and Palmer were the same person, and the lion-maned rock god had gone on to a stellar eighties pop career.

I had to double check the timeframe to check I wasn’t misremembering this, but a big part of the success of A Girl Like You was that it tapped into a post-Pulp Fiction zeitgeist for surf-pop/lounge music. Pulp […]

In comparing it to a messy divorce he was certainly prophetic. But I think the article overall is a bit sneering. I think grandstanding and throwing insults is unhelpful at a time when understanding and compromise […]

Wooooooooo!!! Great news!

Wow….. different times.

Here’s a confession. I’ve never actually heard Astral Weeks…. I know, it’s a blind spot. Is it any good? That advert doesn’t really convince.

Miller’s Crossing is an immense performance.

… which, ironically, is actually quite a funny joke in itself.

Nice article, thanks. He seems a bit vague on the history of the place!

It was when I started at Glasgow uni in 1991 that I immediately noticed the place on Byres Road and proceeded to spend a LOT of time there […]

Oh, I thought it was immediate!

That’s a very good point. Yes, wise stocking decisions could be crucial here. And yes, I do remember the specialist sections in HMV used to be good!

Wow, I was just googling Fopp – I had no idea they had over 100 stores at their peak.

Ooh, so there are 25 stores closing, with 100 stores remaining including 4 Fopp stores.

I wonder which ones?

We have two Fopps in Glasgow, so surely it’s too much to hope that both will stay open. I believe […]

You were only supposed to…. (sorry, I’ll stop there….)….