The one and only – sorry, Chesney.

I bought a pretty comprehensive 1 CD Best Of, “Crystal Visions” about a month ago. It cost about a fiver, and I reckon it would fulfil all your Stevie needs. I like her a lot, but as others have suggested she […]

You should hear him play pianner…

Sloide Aloive is bostin’, innit loike?

I remember a truly transcendent show at York Barbican, around 1991, when near the end and completely out of the blue, he launched into ‘Ballerina’. Cue collective meltdown…

It can be argued it wasn’t his first (it was, really), but…Astral Weeks.

Roxy Mk 1’s best album is Stranded, IMHO.

I think The Suburbs is better than Reflektor.

Roxy vs Roxy 2.0

I’m a Young American, so there. 😉

Perhaps not the very final album, but the collective American recordings by Johnny Cash would be in with a legitimate shout.

Morrissey and Marr do, for two.

You could be right, when all is said and done.

Hence the pointed lyrics on A Town Called Paradise from 1986:

Copycats ripped off my songs
Copycats ripped off my words
Copycats ripped off my melodies.

It must be the damp.

These are the riches of the poor.

I concur about both albums, and have eulogised about SOD many times on here. Saw him doing Wishing Well on the Pops last week; he was such a great pop star, the complete package. I’ve heard one or two things from […]

Hey, don’t be a grump…Mr Hump ain’t no chump, unlike Mr Trump!

Don’t get the hump if you don’t get the hamper, Mr Hump.

I think that’s a great line. Some of the best pop lyrics are meaningless yet resonant, and I think this is one.