‘When pop music was a bit edgy and edgy music was a bit pop’ – always fun @salwarpe

Thanks a lot @Salwarpe. I’ve now added these to my Mega 2025 playlist. That’s a pretty impressive list of Also Rans. Cara Dillon, Ray Montagne, Hanging Star and Four Tet are all top notch artists. And how can I […]

Many thanks @paul-hewston & @salwarpe for the great work. During the initially polling, I suspected that The Smile would suffer from a split vote across their two releases and from these results, it would […]

This a great read. Many thanks to you @paul-hewston & @salwarpe for all of the hard work on this. I am excited to investigate some of the albums I have not heard of as I know that this parish has impeccable taste. […]

Thanks@paul-hewston and @salwarpe for putting this together. 10 of my 20 actually appear in this thread, what dizzy heights indeed!

Cheers @paul-hewston and @salwarpe for the scores on the doors. What have we learned? That I own none of the Top 10 and will be visiting Spotify very quickly to see what I missed

That is a very good question indeed @salwarpe and one that has troubled the great philosophers and thinkers of the 20th and 21st century. Today I’d go for Dr Mabuse. Though I adore P-Machinery so I’ll go for […]

Oopsie! A chance reading of today’s Guardian reveals my error in titling Bashy’s album as The London Borough Of Brent instead of Being Poor Is Expensive. I’m suprised the eagle-eyed @salwarpe didn’t pick me up o […]

Apologies @salwarpe & thank you for checking on this one. I must have got this record in 2024 which is how I have got muddled up. Could I add in Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow as it’s replacement?

Oops you’re quite right @salwarpe so can I move Elephant 9 down to 18 and insert Nduduzo Makhathini – Unomkhubulwane in at number 10 please. Sorry for the hassle and diolch.

Thanks, @salwarpe . So, yes seems to be the answer.

Thought I did that poll @salwarpe No help and several mistakes were discovered 😉

Great shout, @salwarpe! Mannequin Pussy are magnificently bonkers! “Would I want the Afterword to be (just) comfortable Americana/alt country?” Hell no!

That new Arabic albums list looks very promising @salwarpe. Putting some excellent new artists on the map for me.

Naturally, I want to listen to the Philharmonie! @Salwarpe Sadly they don’t seem to have recorded anything. But they do play magnificently.

I’m not sure Grade 4 O-Level is sufficient Latin to achieve such lofty legal heights, @salwarpe.

@salwarpe Select your favourite new releases of 2024 (which can include “ancient recordings” as long as they have never seen the light of day until now ie remixes etc don’t count). Your No1 gets 20 points, […]

Lovely to see @salwarpe but it does look to be a bit of a chore to add them all. I’m not sure I have the patience.

@salwarpe Fascinating evening it was not unlike a TED talk with music. Highly recommended.