If we’re talking great “Woo’s” in music, this is the best I’ve ever heard – at 1:44, but needs to be heard in the context of the whole track:

Isaac Hayes doing whatever he does with his keyboard at 15:27 on his monumental version of “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” off ‘”Hot Buttered Soul” – runs to just about 5 seconds too.

Prefab Sprout Popular: Steve McQueen Connoisseur: Jordan: The Comeback The Associates Popular: Sulk Connoisseur: The Affectionate Punch Scott Walker Popular: Scott 4 Connoisseur: Scott 3

As someone who normally steers well away from acoustic “reimaginings”, Paddy McAloon’s 2007 re-recordings of (most of) Steve McQueen for the anniversary edition were an absolute pleasure. A few of them I actually […]

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I adore this song – shades of Tom Waits in his Asylum years…

I do think this is rather lovely though…

The world doesn’t consist purely of the UK & US – if you look at their worldwide sales at some point between What’s The Story and Be Here Now, there’s a genuine case to make that they were the biggest band in th […]

There are a couple of clips on YouTube, including this one.

Have to be honest, I got bored with NY half a dozen songs in and switched over to Charli XCX, who is fantastic! No pretence of a band playing, just her and some brilliant songs.

Never cared for Anohni either, but was surprisingly impressed with the two tracks I caught last night on the catch-up show. Both were first released about 10 years ago though…

There’s a rather good documentary on Disney+ called Sly Lives!, directed by Questlove.

Agreed @Bamber. – lots of great suggestions on these comps compiled by Tom Dunne himself:

Strong candidate for greatest Irish pop single ever, but not a UK hit…

Obvious one really, but not posted yet, and quite perfect: The intro was then sampled heavily here: EBTG had already of course experimented very successfully with drum’n’bass here – I remember really liking the […]

I loved it – I wasn’t expecting much from it, but it’s one of my favourite movies of the year so far. The 4 leads are excellent, but Tim Key is amazing – an extremely funny and poignant performance.

I’ll take any opportunity to plug this under-appreciated gem:

Wanted, in all seriousness, is a brilliant tune.

A bonus 4hr episode dropped yesterday, covering The Tube rather than TOTP, but I think it might be Patreon only. Simon Price and David Stubbs joining Al on this one. Saving for an upcoming long journey.

According to their Patreon page (of which I’ve been a supporter for years) a new show is currently being edited, so hopefully that’ll be with us shortly. But I do think they need to decide what the plan is for the […]