That’s awful, Paul, so sorry to hear that.
I won’t attempt to give any advice, as relationships are a complete mystery to me, and I’ve spent all of my life avoiding them…
But if your wife has made her mind up, […]

I was too tired to participate last month, so this is more or less two months worth of experiences coming up…I’ll try to be somewhat brief!

Read:
Andy Partridge & Todd Bernhardt – Complicated Game is a […]

From her brilliant debut album called “I Need To Start A Garden”, here’s Hayley Heynderickx with the track “Oom Sha La La”, in which the album title-sentence is most emphatically uttered a few times around 2:05 or […]

The albums I’ve listened most to this year are:
A Girl Called Eddy – Been Around
Andy Shauf – Neon Skyline
John Moreland – LP5
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
Sam Doores – Sam Doores
Alice Boman – Dream […]

I see you’ve been getting the same recommendations from YouTube as I have, Mike…
I particularly enjoyed his reactions to Three Dog Night.

😀

She was so close, Have One On Me and Divers were both considered and placed on preliminary lists, until left off at the last minute. I think what made her end up outside of my final Top Ten (which really is a way […]

No – I don’t regret any of my choices, I only regret having to leave out equally fine albums. John Moreland is brilliant, any of his albums would deserve a spot on any best of-list.

I know! It was painful to cut any Wilco album out from that list! Sophie’s choice…

This is the most difficult poll of the three…I’ve sweated over my “short list” of 85 albums for a week now, and each day I come up with at least three different top tens, all equally correct!
As painful as this […]

Ha – I’ve been a fan of Wilco since the beginning, and I’ve never heard them described as dad-rock before – possibly because I prefer listening to music to reading about it in music mags…

No fan of Steely Dan […]

Interesting fact: Swedish poet/artist Evert Taube wrote a song based on that Burns poem, and it’s one of many classics still well known today. Although I’m not certain how much Taube the kids are taught today, but […]

Yes, the ten was from me…I think I must have this vote confused with the 80s one we did earlier, I know I saw someone else voting for Black Sea, but thinking about it I guess it must have been for that […]

Hmm…I’m pretty sure that Black Sea got more than one vote though…although I don’t remember its placement, so possibly a total of ten points…or am I hallucinating?

Edit: or am I misunderstanding the point […]

“Glad mittenårsdag” may be my new favourite Google Translate expression – I’ll use that one next year! 😀
(And Glad Midsommar to you as well… 🙂 )

His embarrassed look in the OP video kind of reminds me of Martin Freeman.

Not Zuckerberg, but some unknown woman emailed me writing in four different languages yesterday to tell me that I had won some extreme sum of money…I didn’t even bother reading to the end of the generous offer […]

PS In the poem the spear isn’t the event that is the turning-point however, the spear appears in year 11, and the absolute abandonment of all hope takes place in the beginning of year 24, or for some in the years […]

@moseleymoles – yes and yes. There is no hope for the passengers on Aniara, but the beauty of the poetry makes the grimness of the message sweeter; also it was written as a warning to humanity to act responsibly […]

@moseleymoles – I haven’t seen the film but the poem by Harry Martinsson is one of my absolute favourite books! The film IIRC got OK reviews but some critique for changes from the original that were seen as […]