Yes, that interview is cringeworthy, but hey: it’s TV! And not much worse than TV host Johnny Cash interviewing Eric Clapton or Joni Mitchell (I don’t have to mention OGWT or Live Aid, do I).

But Adriano […]

The short answer is: yes, I do.

Questions like “looked at the book more than once?” or “Listened to the demos more than once” surely only come from people who look at your collection of records and ask “But […]

The series reminded me that one of my aims in life was to marry Marty Stuart.

*sigh*

Mr. Getty will surely get in touch with you soon about the use of that photo 😉

“The drummer” also wrote some of their best (and most successful) songs. And he arranged the vocal harmonies on lots of their recordings.

“…For 364 days of the year kids are told NOT to accept sweets from strangers then for one night of the year it appears to be OK. Vile, horrible, Americanised shite.”

Exactly. And little girls are encouraged […]

Horslips recorded a single as “Lipstick” – “Come Back Beatles” bw “The Fab Four-Four”.

Barenaked Ladies recorded a song about Brian Wilson, called, err “Brian Wilson”.

Phish have a track called “David Bowie” – complete lyrics: “David Bowie…. UB 40!!”.

And from The Nits (another band nobody here knows) there’s “Nick In The House Of John”, about Nick Drake in John Lennon’s former home.

Mr. Burdon made a good start with “The Story Of Bo Diddley” (first track on the first Animals album) which is about The Animals and Bo.

Speaking of whom…

Not a list for me (although I also managed to locate around 20 titles from my collection….).
And what a narrow selection of music – no prog, no metal, no (new or old-style) country music, no jazznothing v […]

Here’s Mr. Boa – he can’t wait to get to the chorus, so after the first line of the second verse, it’s “I’ll tell you later” , and straight to the chorus!

“you would have struggled to find CDs of anything “back catalogue” in 1986.” – nonsense.
The Frank Zappa catalog came out on CD in 1986 (Rykodisc was already leading on the reissue label front), in autumn 1986 […]

iTunes only grabs the tags from the net (or its own equally unreliable sources) if you’re too lazy to do it yourself. It’s not automatic.
Same with the artwork.

Some thoughts (not as organized as your piece…).

The bickering in the Zappa family only concerns the family members (and should only matter to the family themselves). What they’ve done with Frank Zappa’s […]

Let’s see:
*additional tracks

Side A:
1 Love Me Do
2 Please Please Me
3 I Saw Her Standing There*
4 Twist And Shout*
5 From Me To You
6 She Loves You
7 I Want To Hold Your Hand
8 All My Loving
9 It […]

Atonal apples & amplified heat:

I got the big set on Friday, and like Dai I found the packaging a bit dull. I can see that they’re trying to go with the “stripped-down” look of the original album, but there’s no attention to detail, and the cool […]

What about the packaging and the book – which are the main incentive for buying this (everybody should have most of the music by now). New pictures? Do they print all five of the zebra shots? As the recent MOJO fe […]

I’m a bit confused. Is this a required admission test? Approved by “the mods”? And since when are those NME-created late 70s myths called “rock’n’roll”?

Let’s see:
||| “Have you ever worn a leather […]

People driving their kids to school – this was becoming kinda popular in Germany, too. Especially in Berlin – where the school is rarely more than three street corners away. “Helicopter parents” is the local wor […]