Got into them around the time of the Union album, which is great. but The Cold Still is wonderful. Atmospheric, kinda downbeat but compelling. Since then they’ve gone brighter and widescreen. Still hearing lots of […]

If memory serves, Joe Jackson recorded an album live in front of an audience but didn’t want a ‘live album’ so asked them not to applaud or make any noise.

“I don’t believe in an God”?
I do agree though. Almost as if someone challenged him to write the most Nick Cave lyric he could think of.

Oh, I love that line. In light of the lyrics of their earlier work, it sets an intriguing and ironic tone. I like the self-awareness, the idea that their lyrical thrust* is moving into new areas, the subversion of […]

The Cure did Disintegration well: six or so b-sides and unreleased from that era, a short break, then back on for the album, one or two ‘hits’ as an encore to close. Helped by the fact that it’s a long and […]

If anyone has *anything* to say about Jodie Whittaker, they can say it to me first.

“Trying not to be insensitive and avoiding deeper debate when not up to speed”?!?! Sir, please leave the internet!

Oh, I dunno. I imagine it’s pretty grim under all that.
Besides, Simon Gallup aside, they’re hardly the most active performers; all the hair and makeup helps them play to the back of the hall.

I’ve always felt the lone dissenter re the Wiggles. My kids were never that fussed, and I always found, considering they would *have* to be the most wealthy musicians in Australia, that there was something ‘on the […]

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It’s a fantastic film. Everything I’ve read suggests Robert’s intention was a strong walk through the highlights (with the accompanying ‘Cureation 25’ in the DVD set as the ‘deep cuts’), so you’re the […]

I’m in the NW suburbs of Sydney, so we’ve been in a smoke haze for the last month. Today’s events in Victoria of course has put that into perspective and we’re very grateful to be out of (and to remain out of) […]

My first copy of Q was bought from a newsstand at Circular Quay, Sydney. The issue where OK Computer topped the 100 Best Albums Ever Made despite (or because of) being released that same year. From that point I […]

Great review!
My main problem with the album is that, for all the “glam/rock/recorded on a soundstage standing up” bluster on its release, the drums and bass sound sonically tame to me. Lots of guitars and low […]

Definitely about curation and, with that, trust. Also about subtext and fetishism (Frankie on ZTT, Morrissey on HMV/RCA/Decca/Attack). All or which points to the narrative aspect of music listening. We’re creating […]

Well, of course, now that he’s said something vaguely on-the-nose and been rightfully pitchforked off twitter I can’t listen to ANY of his music, have laughed maniacally around a huge burning bonfire of all of his […]

I’ve always thought that, given his ubiquity, anyone calling the sausage-fingered U2 frontman “Bone-o” was being deliberately obtuse. Similarly, by now, who hasn’t seen footage of David Bowie pronouncing it Bowie […]

Same. Loved it when i was a kid and less self-conscious. Have avoided it for a long time in preference for Sparkle and (particularly) New Gold Dream. heard it recently and realised I was being far too […]

I genuinely like INXS. One of my formative early gigs. So only a cynic would point out that something as late as 2015 being claimed as “career ending” is a bit optimistic.

At first glance, I though the art […]

Yes, BUT…Rod isn’t the protagonist. He’s merely a third person omniscient narrator. They key line is in the verses immediately before the chorus: “Don’t you just know exactly what they’re thinking?…” It’s not […]

Vulpes, spot on with the comment about Australians having sleepwalked. The unpleasant undercurrent to our relatively stable gov’t, economy, sunshine (not to mention compulsory voting) is that political parties […]