Couple of weeks ago Mrs B and I were on our holi-bobs in Dalyan where large ex-pat Brits contingent gather in a bar on a Sunday night to do a pub quiz . As it wasjust down the roadfrom our hotel we popped in to […]

I may have missed it, if so I’ll repeat it, if I haven’t missed it, I’ll claim it……

is this Bruce Springsteen and The E-String Band.

Hmmmm maybe I won’t claim it.

Funnily enough listen to this today I thought that this new one was like every Springsteen album (not surprisingly) was archetypical Springsteen…but as somebody once said always the same but always different.

Do all Guardian music reviewers have to have a degree in being pretentious and smugly moralistic?

Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs of The Dying West
Bob Mould – Bob Mould
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Alice Cooper – Schools Out

@vulpesvulpes if week is a long time in politics , 15 year in pop music is a millennium

My offering on this is bang up to date , the song Ward 24 that is, as it’s just been released on a 7″ and can be bought via Bandcamp. Came across them as singer Pete Davies used to co-run the wonderful One C […]

@kid-dynamite @moseleymoles @contraryarticle

Aptly as it’s a white theme, the Mosley offering was a double, one disc a Lennon the other a McCartney, possibly or not.. Anyway now it’s MM-jr’s turn.

Track 1 – Jon […]

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“unusual voices” ………. oh yes, without doubt you can’t beat a unique, off-kilter voice.
My problem with the couple I mentioned was that they were just a wee bit to pedestrian.

@kid-dynamite @moseleymoles @bogart @contraryarticle

And so to Mos of Mos.

Track 1 – Ethereal voice, filigree instrumentation. Ideal for the headphones moment of the Sally Anne Hobbs show. Good […]

Alice Cooper’s Hard Hearted Alice

Disc 2 arrived and it was from @contraryarticle and so here goes my thoughts on the contents.

The Chef cover reminds me of the Black Grape It’s Great When Your Straight album complete with the beady-jiggly e […]

Didn’t see @RigidDidgit posted this further up….but it’s well worth a second go.

And another piece of sheer joy (beware has Simon Bates content)

Simply one of the best singles ever……

And something from The Freshies…

First with probably the best ever start to a ‘record’….

Three from Doll By Doll…

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What’s the best way to do these reviews I ask myself, simple, do it In the order that I received them. So the first disc to come though the door was the Kid’s….. […]