Massive Attack (sheer perfection)
NaS (rap in general has never matched it, never mind NaS himself)
Wu-Tang Clan
Snoop Dogg
Supergrass
The Bluetones (well I really like it anyway!)
Tricky
Dizzee […]

Norah Jones? No way. The album she did with Danger Mouse, Little Broken Hearts, is way better than anything else she’s done.

I’ve had a brill idea how we can even get all the Brexiteers* to sign the petition. Let’s tell them that if they sign it we’ll give £350m to the NHS every week, and that immigration will stop immediately. Yes, a […]

Fab song, but then again she’s never done a bad one!

Actually, Nick Cave’s last one is my favourite too (not including his soundtrack work), so if he announces a shock retirement…

Well, at risk of annoying Tiggers, Abbey Road!

Otherwise I couldn’t really think of anybody else, unless Gary Numan, James Blake, J. Cole or Brother Ali don’t make any more records.

call me predictable…Low!

Right, I’ve only gone and bought the 1977 Subbuteo brochure/catalogue/poster that I had off eBay!! Last night it seemed like a great idea to frame it and shove it on the wall in the office or spare bedroom where I […]

Well when my aunt stood on my goalposts at least I could recreate the 1977 England-Scotland game.

My uncle had nailed my cousin’s pitch to a piece of plywood and they played with it on the kitchen table. Much k […]

Yep, as far as I’m aware it was every single thing. I think I’m only one withdrawn 7” away from a complete Stephen Duffy collection, with umpteen versions of some releases, and that took ages and a lot of money […]

I really miss record shopping. It doesn’t work now because I pretty much have everything I want and the few CDs that I do want are obscure underground hip hop CDs that I can only get by paying big bucks on A […]

Crafty! Glad I wasn’t playing against you.

Did any of you ever get the Subbuteo rugby set, with the weird plastic ball with the holes in for the scrum? I’m not a rugby fan and don’t really know the rules, so I […]

Already ordered them both, although I already have 5 different versions of the album on CD! I’ve been a Duffy collector since Kiss Me hit the charts and my Duffy collection is one of only two that I kept (the […]

I got a few accessories too. Basically, anything that popped up in the second hand shop my parents used to get my Subbuteo stuff from around the time of Christmas or my birthday. I loved the scoreboard, and I also […]

It has been said….

I was only telling my son the other day that whenever I wasn’t outdoors, as a kid, playing football, I was indoors playing Subbuteo. As my younger sister wasn’t interested, I used to play it myself, taking shots […]

Yep, I was in the Pet Shop Boys fan club until it closed a couple of years ago. The fan club magazines were great and were the reason I joined. I have a full set. They also sent out other goodies and at Christmas […]

There’s one live version of Cold Turkey that I like way more than any of the others. Haven’t listened to it for ages though, so without checking I can’t remember which it is. I think it’s the one on Live Peace i […]

Ah, not the German version though, just for that weird noise Ralf makes when he’s singing Das Model. But I think The Man-Machine is the only flawless album there’s been. There are a couple of dozen of albums I’d […]

I think you’ve both gone bonkers. Abbey Road is the Beatles album I have listened to the most over the past 10-15 years. I hear what you’re saying about the medley, but I don’t agree. I think it works perfe […]