I really enjoyed Beulah and although this one is not quite as impressive, it’s a pretty good album and I’ll continue to follow his career. Whereas Beulah was fuelled by the breakup of the Civil Wars – and several […]

You took the words right out of my mouth. (Also not the correct answer).

Might it be from “Being Dead” by Jim Crace? I read it when it came out and this passage did ring a vague bell.

Quite. I reckon Tilt is one of the greatest albums ever made, BUT it only really seems to make sense at around 4.00AM, when you’ve had too much red wine and you’re flat out on the floor (albeit conscious). Quite a […]

I co-concur. Extremely disappointing whereas “12 Stops..”. was a constant in the car CD player for a year or so.

Not a band, but Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert is a peak in a long career of astonishing music.

I reckon Ommadawn is better than Tubular Bells. It’s more of a whole, whereas only the first side of Tubular Bells is truly great.

Except it isn’t.

(Stranded is. Or to be more polite, I reckon Stranded is their masterpiece and one of the great records of the 70s).

Brilliant. Literally brilliant. Err…

I think that particular crime is committed by people who write on social media but read nothing but social media.

“Eclectic” when people really mean “catholic”. And “literally” literally everywhere. And literally incorrect everywhere.

Definitely. I reckon Andrei Rublev just might be the greatest film ever made (it does have quite a few boring sequences, but the key parts are stunning and moving).

Very sad news. For years I hoped that I’d get to see him and/or Talk Talk live and that there might even be some new material. I last played all of the albums and his solo album back to back a year or so ago. It […]

I do, even if it may not be a part of the canon! Haven’t heard it in many years, so I may even have to revise that statement. Buggles rock?!

It is a bit of a stretch…. Incidentally, I met Trevor Horn on several occasions when the Buggles project was getting started. It was very hush hush, but even the early demo versions of the various tracks had […]

Absolutely nothing! But I sometimes get the feeling that the world of the Afterword ended sometime in the late (19)80s. Much as I love threads like this one, they can give the impression that very few classics […]

I might pay not to watch that…

Meanwhile, over here in the 21st century:

The Unbelievable Truth – Almost Here
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium

and from the last century:

The Band – The […]

Recanting is a very former Communist thing to do, isn’t it? Many, many years ago I found Julie Burchill’s contrariness thought-provoking and her essays in The Face really made me think about certain established […]

I have the Fidelia app from Audiofile Engineering on my MacBook Pro. It makes a huge and obvious improvement to music stored on iTunes. I think I made a one-off payment of £20 or £30 for it several years ago. C […]