No, because “Muddy Waters” is a nickname (he’s not Muddy from the Waters family…). Same with “Little Richard” (under L), “Dr. John” under D (he’s not a real doctor), and “DJ Shadow” (under D).
And “Howlin’ W […]

Exactly. Whereas The Paul Breitner Trio are filed under P (no-one in the band is named Breitner).

Hope you all file Muddy Waters under M.

“fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n” is the normal way to pronounce it. Pronouncing it as two syllables sounds extremely posh in this context – which the Kraftwerk boys certainly wanted to avoid (with two of them coming f […]

Re. “All CDs, book etc. are in English.”

So why don’t they release the Italian-language versions of all the tracks?!
A missed opportunity.
Look at Kraftwerk to see how a proper box set is done.

It’s the difference between Google translator and a good professional translation. And the Germans have a hundred-year history of dubbing foreign films, with special focus on lips movement and facial […]

They don’t talk much about music though – I was expecting a thorough discussion about the Nurse With Wound list, and the latest gossip about Melvins, Soft Machine, Keiji Hano and Zeitkratzer. As you do.
😉

First time a Dylan album was bought first by our kid (she thinks “Modern Times” is still his best album), then – yesterday – by me.

Many of those people “under 30” will have no shelf space left in ten years because they’re currently buying all that K-Pop stuff. They don’t even wait a decade, usually the box set reissue comes three months after […]

Did you know that these new-fangled compact disc players all have a feature to select your own tracklisting? Half a minute, and you have your 35 minute album.

In the current edition the boys talk about 1967. And mainly about “the Don” – Afterword favorite Donovan. Highly recommended.

“Borboletta” is a Santana album – Santana, the band. It’s not a Carlos Santana solo album.

So, Mr. Waters thinks »he was unable to post on the official Pink Floyd website due to being banned by David Gilmour…« – did it ever occur to him that he’s just not allowed to use the company site of a bus […]

In France it’s currently possible for a woman simultaneously to be fined € 165 for being in public with a face covering veil, and € 135 for being in public without a face covering mask. Go figure it out.

And it’s R.E.M. actually 😉

….as of today:

1 – Ting – Nits
2 – Wonderland Band No. 1 – Wonderland
3 – Lumpy Gravy – Frank Zappa
4 – Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part – Horslips
5 – Countdown To Ecstasy – Steely Dan
6 – S […]

Kraftwerk famously cancelled a (by the time sold-out) gig in Berlin with the explanation that the venue was “too dusty”.

Speaking of unexpected windfalls – there’s the story of Jutta Hipp and her royalties.
Mrs. Hipp was a famous jazz piano player in 1950s Germany. When Billie Holiday and Leonard Feather heard her play they br […]

David Bowie recorded a song by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy on one of his later albums with the intention of giving The Ledge (who was one of the many inspirations for the Ziggy character) some sort of pension […]

German music legend (it says here) Dieter Bohlen out of Modern Talking named his son Mark.
He famously had to explain the pun to the press several times.