Even though it was nearly 20 years ago, my sister has still not entirely forgiven me for skipping some black rubbish bags that she left in the hall when we were clearing my late mum’s house after she died.
I […]

Classical is a composer-led genre and absolutely everything else is performer-led.
Classical is the only genre that needs it’s own section.
Apart from multi-artist compilations, which are a whole other […]

If you don’t own either the actual recording or the publishing rights, there’s very little you can do about whoever DOES own it exploiting it. I think you can block versions performed by you from being used, but […]

He’s done some interesting collaborations and released some good albums. Unfortunately I can’t abide Peter Hammill or VDGG, so that’s one I’ll be skipping.

His sexual politics were very much of his era. He WAS a misogynist, despite his constant denials. I expect he genuinely thought that he wasn’t one.
The vast majority of male US musicians of his time were too, as […]

For years I kept catching either the beginning or the end of Withnail & I on late-night TV. It was a long, long time before I saw it all the way through in a single sitting. Meanwhile just about everyone was […]

So.
50 Ways To File Your Albums.
I’m surprised HMHB haven’t written a song about it.

I have my own idiosyncratic system, but I’m not going to elaborate and have you all tell me how wrongitty-wrong it is, […]

“Classical” only applies and merits separate filing in my filing system, where the legend on the album cover is in the format Composer(s) – Title(s) of work(s) – Performer(s) and/or Conductor(s).
With exceptions, of course.

Townes is his middle name, like Paul is John Paul Jones’s middle name.

I feel for you. Such suffering. ;o)

He had the looks and the comic chops, but he was rather stiff and uncomfortable-looking when not doing the comic stuff, I thought.
Not a Natural as an actor, like Dudley Moore proved to be.

I expect they still do, but you never get to hear of them.
People now of that kind don’t get jobs with major broadcasters like the BBC or RTE and the UK folk scene, it seems to me, although very musically […]

Here we go:

1 – No Such Place – Jim White
2 – Felt Mountain – Goldfrapp
3 – No Deal – Melanie De Biasio
4 – Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5 – Sweet England – Jim Moray
6 – […]

..or quite possibly The Blues Brothers.

Zappa’s political views are certainly to the Right of mine but not so very bad. He was decidedly in favour of capitalism but his heart was in the right place. He seemingly despised Republicans but seemed pretty […]

I think I would go with Brazil.

Shuttle+ supposedly does support sort order, in the paid-for version, but the customer reviews for it don’t look particularly good to me.
The Windows app that supports them best is reputedly MusicBee, but the […]

In my pot-smoking days a very old friend who was a small-time dealer introduced me to a mid-level dealer with gangster connections that he sometimes did business with.
This guy used to, purely for his own […]

Wilco are quite a trend these days, for some reason. I quite like them but am not a fan.
I expect the publishers have done a bit of research and know that it’ll sell OK.

Smoakun tabzan drinkun beeyah.