You lot are very certain in your beliefs. For me the whole point of the exercise is to get me to listen properly to those albums I might have missed, and to re-assess those I liked earlier. Is the EBTG album one […]

Completely the opposite, love their earlier punkier material but can take or leave their later, more industrial sound. However agree it is a sad loss. Saw them at Oxford Poly around 84/85 – blistering live.

I would. Generally his writing got worse over time (sorry, IMHO) but he was able to sustain a better level in his M Banks work. Dead Air and Garbedale finished me off, and generally I regard his fiction now as a […]

Asimov kept the Foundation trilogy as exactly that. Increasingly I come to believe Iain M Banks wrote the only good things Banks wrote. The Wire is just four perfect series The Who called it a day after Who Are You

The Pogues quelle surprise have leant their name to a range of Irish whiskeys. I have had a bottle Of the single malt. Ok but no Dalwhinnie 15 yo.

Ooops do read to the bottom….

Cannot believe bearing in mind the OP title that this monster stomper that gave an entire genre its name has not been checked so far .1984. The basis of the Relax bass line as well.

I believe Cliff with Strings does not yet have a reviewer assigned.

Like Leone and Morricone, Preisner and Kieslowski are inseperable, each reinforcing the impact of the other:

And Wilhemina Fernandez really sang this in Diva – eat your hat Julie Andrews!

The ultimate Western movie theme for the ultimate Western – after this there was only revisionism, pastiche, reruns, reboots. A glorious full stop on an entire genre.

*cough* she may be appearing next spring at a venue I may have a little to do with. Glad you guys rate her.

We are continuing our lower league odyssey by checking out Gay Meadow for the first time – AKA the New Meadow now – and seeing Shrewsbury Town play Reading. Hoping to get to Edgeley Park for Stockport and to […]

Palace of names reversed! As MES would say

Good example of a non-titular manifesto song, lots of Devo in the lyrics.

11 minutes, three notes.

Above it my Van Can-on: Moondance, Tupelo Honey (only for the title track really but what a title track), Into The Music, Veedon Fleece. So yes I enjoy listening to it, but it’s not the holy grail for me.

Exhibit A m’lud. But it actually works I feel.

Rap a fertile area for self-titled songs, whether you or your rap persona:

Great find @dai – borrowing someone else’s song that turns into your manifesto is somehow even better than writing it in the first place.