Is there gas in the car?

No, There isn’t fuckin’ gas in the car…

Unlike you, Donald, to have been so optimistic.

Raducanu came under severe pressure at some key moments in the final when the match could easily have turned away , but the way she dug in, upped the speed of her returns and stuck in there, was so wonderful to […]

‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is’ – Noel Coward. Indeed. To many objective ears the new ABBA is beyond fluffy (ABBA Greatest Hits Vol 4 stuff) but the extraordinary thing is how it has released fee […]

I know quite a lot about the Beatles and the Stones but in some ways they seem to have ploughed separate furrows, and not been competitors in the way Beatles/Dylan and Beatles/Beach Boys were at different times? […]

It just feels unnecessary. The Hynde voice was indeed a great rock voice but it doesn’t get inside these songs and draw the listener towards them, for me. Actually boring.

The way his mind played on the world was refreshingly and healthily absurd. Brilliant comedian.

There is still a stain on my sofa where I spat out food when he delivered his ‘That’s a challenging wank’ aside. Bless him.

Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘Mayflies’ starts out with a mad musical weekend in Manchester in the 80’s and becomes a beautifully written novel about friendship. Pure AW fodder.

True Crime Story by Jonathan Knox is a clev […]

Don’t think I saw the same programme! These were grounded, hard working, modest people who in almost every case made use of the comparatively small amounts of money they had won to help their families or their j […]

‘What’s so Funny ‘bout Peace, Love & Understanding’ works great. And for those four minutes you can feel
like you are making the world a better place.

At the other end of the scale:

Touch me in the Morning […]

On Van’s ‘A Night in San Francisco’ at 2.40 into ‘In the Garden’ comes the loveliest piano break which trickles down silver. Quite beautiful. Not sure who is playing? Not sure if there is footage?

Nils Lofgren – Night After Night

Bits of Graham Parker also I think

‘ Love has never shown its face… since the day you walked out that door….I’m still waiting’

Poor Diana

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. Gavin (was it?) had a wonderful pop sensibility and produced beautiful catchy songs over a range of albums. They still sound good: ‘Arms of May’, ‘Secrets’ etc

Morley’s NME pieces became tiresome for me, but so did plenty of others trying to polish some pretty second rate turdy music in the 80s. I never had him down as a Dylan man until his genuinely excellent edition o […]

It’s all about the early years. First car was a hand-me-down Renault 4 (terrifyingly unstable to corner at speed). In my mind I was living the lyrics of ‘Thunder Road’ – except I wasn’t. And it all ended trying […]

Oh no! Another list of the same rockiest albums we each love. Really? Nothing new and of no interest surely? Danger of this ‘forum’ (sic) disappearing up its own wotsit with this thread.

Marvin Gaye’s sultry, magnificent ‘Midnight Love’ takes a turn for the bouncier with the totally joyous ‘My Love is Waiting’. Thanks are given in the spoken intro to Jesus, Mr Larkinon(?) and others before th […]

Saw The Who play an awesome Christmas gig (1976) at the Hammersmith Odeon, Roger donning a ‘George Davies is Innocent’ T shirt. Went for a pee as the the last chords windmilled to an end and then came back to sta […]

After any injury no matter how much it hurts: ‘Tis but a scratch..’