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 […]

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 […]