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It’s a few Christmases ago, but Mrs ivan and I had a bit of a row. Can’t remember over what but there was much by way of stony silence (me) and passive agressive tidying (her). She was studying social work at […]

Velvet Underground and Nico?

It’s not possible, but Roy Orbison would have had a field day with this.

Well of COURSE you wanted an article about the six/seven (hoho) drum heads Ringo used.

only finished the third of the Susan Ryland ones last week. Hawthorne ones are great. Not by Horowitz but I’m currently enjoying the George Cross ones; the gimmick here is that he’s a DS with ASD. Actually it’s […]

Artist formerly known as nonce, i think you mean…

Have to agree on this as well; the two Finn Family albums have all sounded very same-y with just too much double/triple tracked Neil singing and these airy falsetto vocals. Christ, lads, listen to Together […]

i’m going to be a sexist oaf and say that i’d forgotten how outrageously striking Ms Lennox is here…

for the love of God, man, will you please WARN us if you’re going to write something that evocative…

There were lots of reasons why FAAB didn’t get to #1 a) Anthology 1 album, on which the song was available, came out before the single b) By the time the single came out, two weeks later, the only people who […]

My wife asked if there was any Beatles product out this Christmas that I’d like as a present and I couldn’t bring myself to tell her about the box set.

That Some Girls extras disc was the rarest of beasts (of burden); it was a fully realised copper-bottomed good-to-the-last-drop Rolling Stones album. That they couldn’t be arsed releasing at the time.

“…mainly the rest of the Wilburys…”

And, frankly, CW Stoneking was there all the time…

Isn’t there that story that Hugh Padgham was producing Macca’s ‘Play’ and offered an opinion that might not have been 100% in line with his guvnor’s ideas of how things should sound, whereupon the NMLNH turned to […]

That one by The Kinks? You know it. Or that other one by them.

i don’t know much about dance music but it’s not unlike that thing where there’s a build and a drop. There’s 8 things repeated and the ‘woo’ and then, like coming back up off a bungee cord, we’re snapped into a […]

Skip ahead to 4.35. Like with my Pure Shores thing above, it’s tiny. It’s just a ‘woo’. There’s 8 ‘You know what Some Might Say’s and then the ‘Woo’, and it’s just great. Tony McCarroll is still the drummer, […]

out of context it doesn’t work as a five second thing but (and i’ve said it before) around *here* https://youtu.be/dVNdTXEJv1A?t=190 there’s the build up that’s been there the last 20 seconds or so and William […]