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 […]

I *was* going to mention how much i do love Reeves’ playing as a rule, but that would have meant mentioning how much I loved the first T*n M*chIn* album which, along with admitting you love U2, is enough to get […]

Declaration of interest: Disintegration is my favourite album of all time by anyone. There, I’ve said it.

I was one of the 100,000 + hopefuls who was unsuccessful in the ballot for the first 4 shows, and […]

I read an article quite a while ago now in a sound engineer-y technical type magazine with an expert in the field, maybe in U2’s crew. Anyway, he was saying that, at whatever level gig, the technology is now such […]

Peter Tosh – Legalise It
Does Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours count even though the lyric overshoots the Lp title?

Oh!
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – The Cure
Though you have to wait about 5 minutes!

My first thought was Sting’s Mercury falling. I’ve always liked that about the song’s placement. Can’t think of any others, but that doesn’t stop this being a brilliant idea for a thread!

What saddened me most was the shoulder-shrugging commentary today that no party would be game enough to go into subsequent elections articulating such ideas-based reform agendas. That somehow the ceaseless shallow […]

Certainly a different situation. But it’s the reactions that have struck me.

I saw it all going down last night and was kinda baffled and saddened. I really like him on twitter (and there was an interview series on his songs published as Complicated Game (?) in which he came across as a […]

To wit:
I know, fellers! “Four Guys on a Zebra Crossing”!
Got it! Underwater Baby reaching out for Money on a Hook!
That kind of thing

Sorry. I was being a little too arch. I was implying (and this is a long-held niggle) that A Moon Shaped Pool was an extraordinarily literal description of the image adorning the album cover. Like Stanley Donwood […]

Oooh! I’ve got one!

A Moon Shaped Pool.

Oh…

Placebo’s Pure Morning is one chord.
Most Jesus and Mary Chain songs consist of 2. Not a criticism.
U2’s When Love Comes to Town is nominally a blues but, rather than the standard E, A, B * progression, it only […]

Ringo tended to let Jim Keltner take the lead on most available 70s footage. I think I’d read somewhere that he’d said his confidence (and alcoholism probably) had taken too much of a toll for him to be sole […]

I’ve been re-collecting vinyl for a good few years now but this is the first time I’ve really engaged with RSD and had a pretty fantastic experience. Took the kids to a ‘local’ store about an hour from home and […]

Matt Johnson on the recent The The documentary (a must watch, btw) revealed (somewhat sheepishly I felt) that his job was, essentially, property management. Unsurprising as he was quite vocal about sustainable […]

Yep. I think that “Revolver inspired Pet Sounds inspired Sgt Pepper”, while an interesting enough story has, by some unusual cultural revisionism, led to a worldview where Wilson was in some way McCartney’s […]

I tend to categorise Laura Marling albums into:
Titles in iambic pentameter – yes
Titles not in iambic pentameter – no

(Actually, I don’t really know her stuff, just that some of her titles are in iambic […]

Love that opening roar. If you listen very very carefully, you may be able to hear a woman!