The 1982 Royal Albert Hall gig was recorded and filmed. Stick that in an Almost Blue box!

I am interested to see what these are like.

Costello’s back catalogue is a mess, which is a pity, because the 2CD sets he put out of each album between 2002-2004 are textbook examples of how to do this kind o […]

My copy arrived today. As the previous owner only of …Bright Lights… and a decent comp, it’s a handsome set for £56 (price is now nearer £70) and it’s all the R&LT I’ll need in one place. Looking forward […]

They obviously didn’t read the details of the report correctly. CDs are still selling above vinyl, although it’s close, and there is a 40% drop in CD volume numbers from the first half of 2019 to the first hal […]

A few years back I had the “1st single, third album“ theory, which mooted that this was the release that signified if an act was any good or not. (Yes, I incorrectly note in my original post that Bohemian Rha […]

Please Please Me is fantastic and shows how they were an albums band right from the start. Someone should do a podcast about that.
**coughs**

Van can’t take any credit for the Astral Weeks, Moondance or HB&SC because as far as I know he has no control over them. So they don’t count!

Another artist with no interest in a proper catalogue overhaul is […]

I’m very much looking forward to this. There were indie vibes from the last record: the title track, Lover had a Mazzy Star thing happening on it.

Seems the last time I started a thread here was when the l […]

The ELO soundalikes that Jeff Lynne recorded are part of the same deal. AFAIK, the re-recorded ELO Greatest Hits from a few years back was a stockpile of songs Jeff had recorded to undercut Sony licensing the […]

The whole purity of not having a song in an ad is all a bit antediluvian nowadays, is it not? I remember Neil Young’s This Note’s For You being the line in the sand about whether you were or weren’t cool. Are w […]

Fripp and pals are credited as co-writers on Kanye’s Power, which is a song that has been in so many movies/trailers/ads in the last ten years, I hope everyone’s been able to pay a few bills with it. (The son […]

Bowie didn’t relinquish all control with his Bowie bonds, he relinquished his earnings. The bonds were a way for him to be paid in advance for the following ten years, 1997-2007, I recall, and the profits made i […]

I rewatched it recently and, well, I’ll hand over to John Mulaney…

Fair enough, but if you pull up a track from side two of Yellow Submarine, say on Spotify, the artist credit is George Martin.

However, A Beginning is a track credited to The Beatles which features no Beatles […]

1 – Graceland – Paul Simon
2 – McCartney II – Paul McCartney
3 – Zooropa – U2
4 – Brutal Youth – Elvis Costello
5 – Oranges & Lemons – XTC
6 – Together Alone – Crowded House
7 – John Henry – They Might Be […]

This went down very well in our house last night. The pop kids were very excited that Dua, Anne-Marie, Jess & Sigrid we’re all on the one track. (I liked it too!)

Yeah, I don’t think you’d watch the shows for the interviews, rather for the music. They’re reminiscent of Jools Holland’s technique, which is not designed to be rigorously investigative, but rather is to put the […]

Towards the end of 2017, Elton appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the newly- announced Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. I had never seen Elton live, the gig was over 18 months away, tickets […]

Yes to Dua Lipa.

My kids are now 11, 10 & 8 and so in the last 1-2 years pop music has reappeared in my life and it’s interesting to see how they interact and consume music. Dua Lipa is great, Ann-Marie, Ava M […]