“The playlist will be a doozy.” You are Ned Ryerson and I claim my life insurance policy and a soaking wet right leg.

At work there was one computer in the library with an internet connection. In my lunchbreak one day, after the screech-chug of the modem connecting, I typed in the URL for Mixmaster Morris’s website. It took about […]

Amm breathe a sigh of relief that their experimental free jazz stylings escape censure thanks to the additional ‘M’.

Extraordinary! That’s right. I’ll never know how you knew.

No Joey BeltRAM or GRAM Parsons, then?

Prove it!

Their second and third albums I still have a lot of time for. They got bloated and self-indulgent and pompous after that.

Well I liked them because they were cool. It was a time of Subway, Betty Blue, Rumblefish, Maxell tape adverts, The Face – style over substance, or possibly substance with style (as that New Order best of […]

On the politics theme, one group actve in the 80s who still sounds authentic and powerful today would be Sweet Honey In The Rock. Protest matches would be amazing if everyone could chant along so musically to […]

Were you right?

1989 – the year I got to know Neil Young, much more of that in the nineties. The end of the decade – fun to revisit, if indulgent. It has to be Eat – Sell Me A God as the favourite. I loved the music, […]

1988 the year I went to university and my musical horizons widened significantly with the tastes of friends I still have today making an imprint on my pop goth tendencies, not least Laughing Len could be the best […]

1987 was a year of some of my favourite acts going big and going pop. It’s a clear win for Substance here – such a mighty canon of beautiful uplifting music – peerless. 1988 Leonard Cohen – I’m Your […]

“The Afterword – a small service with limited functionality” I think the type of content posted, and the light touch moderation kindly supplied mean this site probably is not likely to be targeted by those […]

I’m ambivalent about Modern Times. On one hand I played it so much I can still remember all the tracks and quite a few of the lyrics. On the other, it was so right on, it seemed puritanical, and judgemental […]

Or not, as it’s the worst track on Low-life by some margin.

1986 feels like a breather after the excellence that was 1985. A lot of ambience and noise as I look back at my choices. If I could have the extended version with True Faith, Bacon Lettuce & Tomato, 1963 […]

New Order’s best ‘song’ IMHO would be All Day Long. Or maybe Every Little Counts.

Let The Music Play – one of the greatest tracks ever, completely wonderful.

A Collection of Great Dance Songs = A Collection of Beatles Oldies