Agree about Tove Styrke. She probably should be on my list, but I played it so much when it came out, that I finally got seriously sick of it, so I forgot about it for this poll. Listening again now for the first […]

It was extra difficult this year – few standout albums but lots of very good ones almost impossible to separate and list in order of quality…six months from now the order will probably be different!
But I had […]

I started listing them, but halfway through the B’s I had written down fifteen names already…and some of those had only had two or three tracks ripped to my computer, which tells you why a Greatest Hits […]

It will take me a while to decide on my Top 20 for new albums, but this poll is very easy, because I only bought three releases this year that fits this list! And they’re all good (and two of them are gigantic, so […]

It’s good, isn’t it? I think it will end up in my Top 20…

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Jeff Tweedy – Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) is a wonderful autobiography that has a good balance between honesty and integrity – he doesn’t retell his whole life from A to Z in tedius detail but is painfully […]

Oh, that’s awful, too soon.
I loved Buzzcocks, and later got the Homosapien album from a shop where you “borrowed” albums for 24 or 48 hours and got most of your deposit (the cost of the album) back when you […]

As funky as it is, I can’t listen to Joe Tex’ “I Gotcha”, which lyrics gets more and more date-rapey the longer it goes on…not helped by being sung in a narcissistic psychopath style… *shudders*

I really like the new Julia Holter album, but be warned – this is much more like her first three experimental albums than the more pop-oriented 2015 album that many of the AW loved!
As someone who was […]

@Stan-Deely (and everyone else looking for good rock autobiographies) – I’m reading Jeff Tweedy’s “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” at the moment and I highly recommend it! He’s a great writer and often […]

I work in a shop fitted with speakers in every part of it, and the radio tuned to a station that play these tracks several times a day, so yeah: I could probably sing along to 95% of those… Some of them are s […]

He doesn’t sound autotuned on his solo albums to my ears (but if he was it wouldn’t bother me a bit). He has a certain style of singing that I fully understand that not all people will enjoy, but I happen to love […]

Hm, I’ve never seen Marc Almond live, and I haven’t heard this album (nor the clip above – not available alas), but I do buy his own albums religiously – and his singing on those is brilliant. The “can’t hold a […]

Seems very odd to me that no journalists have been digging through that dirt, are the owners of the newspapers all chummy with the NI politicians??
Here in Sweden there’s nothing the newspaper and TV journalists […]

@vulpes-vulpes: I’d say that those exact three are the ones to get! There are a few nuggets on other albums but not enough of them to buy – especially not the ones recorded after the 70s! Quite a few stinkers […]

Well, if you’re looking for the best charango player, Jaime Torres is the man for you – especially his legendary collaborations with the genius that was Ariel Ramirez:

I don’t spend much time at Södermalm nowadays, but back in the 80s when I used to live and work there, some of the older locals would greet me with either “snäckan”, “raring” or “hjärtat” (after the obligatory “T […]

@vulpes-vulpes
I can’t find it anywhere, but I own a megabox of Pugh’s recordings as well as the “Bolla och Rulla” album, so I can burn it for you if you want. Not all of the mega box set perhaps, as it’s all […]

Twenty for me…and I’d still say that several of those doesn’t belong in a best-of-year list, and quite a few that does isn’t there. As usual I’m looking forward to the Afterword list to speak the truth – at […]

@retropath2 (well, anyone of you really) If you have trouble finding what you seek, give me a nudge and I’m sure I can help…