Yes, the endless trudging through the Steppes can be a tough sell to the lads, but the ones who haven’t left / lapsed into unconsciousness / confiscated the remote from me perk up for the raid on Vladimir and the […]

1 – Bonnie and Clyde – 1967
2 – Lamerica – 1994
3 – Heat – 1995
4 – Andrei Rublev – 1966
5 – Live Flesh / Carne Tremula – 1997
6 – Calvary – 2014
7 – Senna – 2010
8 – Three Colours: Red – 1994
9 – The […]

It’s a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World

An excellent list, with one exception. I went to a screening of “Life is Beautiful” at whatever London Film Festival it first showed at. Having endured Mr Benigni in “Johnny Stecchino”, I had intended to avoid him […]

Me too. I wish they would come up with some new material.

1 – If you Wait – London Grammar
2 – Lost in the Dream – The War on Drugs
3 – De-Loused in the Comatorium – The Mars Volta
4 – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
5 – The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
6 – Queen of […]

Baerwald’s 1990 album Bedtime Stories is also worth investigating, although the Larry Klein production is quite dated. With David Ricketts – the other David – he was heavily involved in Sheryl Crow’s breakthrough […]

1 – Grace – Jeff Buckley
2 – Boom Town – David and David
3 – Soro – Salif Keita
4 – The Colour of Spring – Talk Talk
5 – Maria McKee – Maria McKee
6 – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – Sarah McLachlan
7 – New Gold […]

28. The Scream, Siouxsie and the Banshees?

I thought it could be the Outlaws, but I still enjoy their first album. And I’ve always preferred “Green Grass and High Tides” over “Free Bird” in the niche category of “Southern rock songs with multiple lead […]

16. Cheap Trick
18. Gordon LIghtfoot?
22. The Allman Brothers?

Is number 3 “Metal Machine Music” by Lou Reed?

Is number 5 “Autobahn” by Kraftwerk?

Good point, although when I did this a few months ago it came up with something completely different!

Goggles loaning appeal, which I rather like. I may stand forlornly outside the local lido and see how I do.

Many years ago, while living in L.A., I dated a Chalice. She had a sister named Casel and a brother named Galen.

Damn! I paid full (Kindle) price. But it is worth it. One of the best coming of age (with music) books I’ve read in ages. Funny and moving too. I love his lack of awareness and he has pinpointed how it feels to […]

Until the lockdown started, I had been trying to do or experience something new every week and Trout Mask Replica was on my list*. Nope. Didn’t get it at all I’m afraid – and I like challenging music (Sunn O))), […]

Oh, and stick a lightbulb where the sun don’t shine (slight paraphrase). Whenever he hits a new low, he manages to sink even deeper. Appalling.

As the Civil Wars, Joy Williams and John Paul White were poised to become the Next Big Thing when they broke up a few years ago. By all rumours and hints the breakup was pretty acrimonious and – so far – there has […]