Our local branch stopped stocking CDs and DVDs last December. The rumour was that they were going to transfer to the branch of Argos due to open in the store’s former café, but that never materialised when that […]

I once saw a gig poster for a band named Stickleback. I couldn’t work out if they were a tribute band or not – alas they were playing too far from home for me to pop in on the night to find out.

Having heard Growers Of Mushrooms I’m baffled as to how it became so highly valued – it’s just a blues-rock band trying to sound like Led Zeppelin. It was completely forgotten about for over 20 years from its […]

No, that won’t work. There’s fundamental differences in how the data is stored in the two file formats, and other implementation differences such as block size.

The two systems both use something known as “Rice coding” to compress the data, a compression system dating back several decades. Hence the similarities, although there’s differences in the implementation.

As I understand it, Apple developed their own lossless format due to Open Source licensing issues with FLAC – the then license that FLAC was published under made it impossible for Apple to adapt the code to run on […]

The intros are there as the recordings were sourced from a weekly radio shows the BBC compiled for overseas affiliate stations, which went under the name Top Of The Pops. This series compiled the best of that […]

Similarly in North Yorkshire:

Bishop Monkton
Burton Leonard
Norton Conyers
Carlton Miniott

There’s also High Ellington and Low Ellington – a pair of concept albums the Duke issued simultaneously in 1965.

A jazz piano trio version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

It went for over £500 when originally issued in 2017.

Scott Walker covered the Previn’s “You’re Gonna Here From Me” on his album Scott. The arranger was Peter Knight, who was also the musical director for The Morecambe & Wise Show.

Bill ‘Foo’ Kinnell was a one-armed jazz promotor operating across several towns and cities in the Midlands from the late 1940s onwards.

I doubt that there will be any jazz albums, other than perhaps a Sinatra one or two (‘Wee Small Hours’). Certainly nothing classical, unless there’s a joke entry for something on the Westminster label.

I […]

Fans of certain solo artists may have voted for their favourite’s former group, of course. So is one entry The Jacksons? And could Wham! be another?

The utterly dreadful Qu**n, perhaps?

Other bands that were huge in the 1990s.

U2
REM
(The) Verve
The Janet Street Porters – sorry – Manic Street Preachers
Ocean Coloured Scene

plus some old school rock acts such as:

Def Leppard
AC/DC
Iron Maiden

Neither have I – I just remember seeing the album cover many a time (initially pictured on the inner sleeve of one of my dad’s Elvis compilations), and it was the only one from that era whose title I could remember.

Got to be something else tacky from the jumpsuit Elvis period. A live album, such as Aloha From Hawaii (or whatever it was called) would fit the bill.

Trout Mask Replica
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
AMMMUSIC 1966
Metal Machine Music