Excellent! Can’t wait to listen to the Kraftwerk one next.

1. The Cure- Songs of a Lost World 2. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless 3. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight 4. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue 5. Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe 6. Phosphorescent – […]

Perhaps we could leave it until after theafterword end of year poll, which is where I usually discover which albums have come out this year that are worth listening to. And then I will definitely have rather more […]

I’m looking forward to this for the same reasons. But, bloody hell, aren’t actors annoying when they’re not acting and instead talking about it?

I like Dylan over and above any other artist ever. But not for the words especially. The music, the melodies, the voice (in almost all its stages), the history. And I love how certain words and lines jump out at […]

I was never an active participant on Twitter but I did spend way too much time doom-scrolling. Deleted it recently with relief and think I’ll hold off joining BlueSky for now and enjoy a much needed social media […]

Reporting back after the first listen after many many years. Reckless is dreadful I’m afraid (IMO of course). As others say below Summer of 69 is a great, great song, but the rest not even close. Actually painful. […]

Reckless was the first album I bought that wasn’t a compilation – so basically the first record whose title didn’t start ‘Now that’s what I call music Vol…’. I guess I was 12. I loved it briefly but soon went […]

Nice review. Possibly the first ‘cool’ record I ever bought, in 1986 probably, when I was 14. I had a C90 with Stop Making Sense and Little Creatures on it, both of which I loved so I thought I’d try another of […]

The Fail online (I’ve looked so you don’t have to) has unsurprisingly been an absolute bin-fire the last couple of days. Endless articles about owning the libs and the comments below them are shocking in their […]

Despite liking to think of myself as a cinephile I’ve embarrasingly only seen one of your selection, the wonderful Fallen Leaves. Aki Kaurismaki can do little wrong as far as I’m concerned (though admittedly the […]

New Order. Specifically the Substance version. A desert island disc for me. I didn’t even realise there was another version until about 5 years ago. And much as I like the original now I’ve heard it I’m sticking […]

My Nation Underground has just appeared on Spotify. As I had it on cassette I probably haven’t heard the whole album in 25 years or more. I really like it! Totally undeserving of its poor reputation. Ok, the title […]

Like Carl I’d like to road test this online first. I really miss 80s and 90s Cope. I don’t think I’ve ever liked an artist more than I liked Cope around Peggy Suicide and Jehovahkill, but it was all […]

The Fail have already found ‘two mystery women’ it seems, so it took them less than 24 hours. Bloody hell, who would want to be famous?

My daughters were just the right age for 1D so I heard quite a lot of them back in the day. They were actually pretty good for a boyband. They did a sort of epic indie-lite pretty well. Must admit I’m not sure I […]

“I have cancer/had a terrible accident/lost my partner to cancer/ a terrible accident and here is my/our journey.” While I’m sure it helps you on your journey and I wish you well I have zero interest so I’m not […]

I’d hope he does continue with Rebus because with him Rankin is seemingly effortlessly, endlessly good. Whereas the two novels with Malcolm Fox as the protagonist I found pretty turgid and dull. Definitely a […]

Fanbloodytastic.

Record store day didn’t exist before I left the UK but surely there was an element of it originally that was to attract the ‘younger generation’ to the joys of vinyl and into record shops? But looking at that […]