Without wanting to generalise too much, Italian film composers often have a gift for melody greater than most – Nino Rota, Bruno Nicolai, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Pino Donaggio, Piero Piccioni to name but a […]

I didn’t know they’d added that – having been a listener for years I usually just grin and bear each week’s letters from New Zealand, but I’ll try that next week (of course I could have just wound my iPod forward […]

It’s not your problem if they don’t like your questioning of their views – if you’re part of a group, you have as much right to challenge the drivel they come out with as they have to say it in the first place […]

Surprised the proggers from these parts haven’t mentioned this one yet, though it is more pop than some of their other output – I recently watched both series on DVD, and quite enjoyed the 70s northernness of i […]

I’m very familiar with Tony Allen’s work with Fela Kuti and much of his other stuff, and always loved this track, but never knew he was on it. Listening to it now it’s kinda obvious, don’t know how I missed it.

I thought it a bit of a plodder after the first few minutes, then the glorious strings kicked in and I was sold – each subsequent play just gets better and better for me.

It’s a collaboration of sorts with a […]

Great review and great album.

There’s a stunning lullaby medley that opens the film, but not on the album unfortunately.

Ainslie Henderson, TV talent show fans will remember, is from Fame Academy (still the b […]

Done – would seem churlish not to.

23 from me:

Bill Withers – Hello Like Before

The Supremes & The Four Tops – Hello Stranger

The Isley Brothers – My Love Is Your Love (Forever)

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Best Thing That Ever Happened To […]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7aIiWbUU4oPVSH9J3EaT5V

I’m hoping for a bonus episode around Christmas – we had 3 4 hour episodes last December!

Yes – the Young Gods of course!

His takedowns of BA Robertson (Chart Music #27) and Toyah (Chart Music #39) are quite something. CM remains my favourite podcast, though if you’re new to them I’d start with one of the shorter earlier episodes and […]

I think I prefer these versions to Dre’s…

That’s the one!
I think the getting lyrics wrong extended into Smash Hits – I recall a Prince lyric transcribed as “Can you my darling, can you fix your lips”…

Well the song is the Tamperer’s Jackson’s sampling smash Feel It, but I don’t know the connection.

I would have started with issues of Disco 45 in the 70s, but I grew up reading Record Mirror from about 1978, which I loved because it had the charts, and also for James Hamilton’s Disco pages and Sunie’s sin […]

Yes, it was really good for a while, selling about 50,000 copies a week. Unfortunately at that time this was considered a failure, so a very smart man called Mark Frith took over the editorship, boosted the […]

Unfortunately Trevor H only produced the 4 singles, the “band” producing and writing the other 2/3 of the album, so if you have a best of… covering those it’s probably all you need – but they are treme […]

I remember walking in to HMV in Grafton Street back in the day and hearing “Please Forgive Me” – I thought it was tremendous, like a (then) modern day “Everybody’s Talkin’”.

Can’t stand his deconstructio […]

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