If you extend the remit to “remix” rather than strictly dub, there does seem to be a lot of this thing going on at the moment, with Jane Weaver and Teleman, for example, issuing reworkings of their most recent alb […]

But are the pictures as good as Luke Cage: Power Man?

The rest of us see a record we don’t care for strolling to victory in Arthur’s AW best albums poll and we mutter under our breath about our site mates.
But Tiggs’ Ahab-like obsession with tearing down the – in hi […]

As Octopussy was already a single entendre, does that make your filthy song title a demi entendre?

Pieces Of The Sky – can’t remember who picked it, but I should take this opportunity tip my titfer to them..

Waaaay too much thinking going on here. This thread is valuable because
1. The AW list pickers get to exercise their list picking thumbs.
2. Arthur gets more material for his nefarious research into the […]

Yeah, there’s always been the group for whom music really isn’t that important, who are happy to be spoon fed by the industry and the too-cool-for-school types who adopt a Stalinist-like position, refusing to cou […]

Dude, everyone’s heard it!
Mind, we never did touch on the subject of this record being excluded from the country charts on this blog (and the subsequent need for a Billy Ray Cyrus alternative take before Miley b […]

It’s a mighty record indeed, Mr Wad. I declared 91 as having no clear winner but, in truth, most years were a photo finish, the exceptions being 1988, 1994 and 2001 which were a formality..

Okay, I’ll play, but only the solid ground of 80s and 90s (approx) as, like Black Celebration, I don’t feel qualified to do earlier and I know I’ll forget loads from this millennium.

80: Searching For The Y […]

Yep, it’s the “irresistible force/immovable object” of cliché brought to life. Bale’s wish to cling on to his wages and injury record rule him out in Europe, while the irresistible force is Zidane’s certainty […]

Whatever the weather, I always find it unpleasantly sticky*
You people need cooling down

(*born out-of-time comedy writer yearns for the early 70s)

Loveless came out in 1991. Although that may not help either – certainly one of the most competitive years in ‘Botworld, what with Peggy Suicide, Blue Lines, I Am The Greatest, Shift Work and Electronic as well a […]

I’ve been revisiting the 80s this year and one of my more pleasant surprises was the realisation that I like Soft Cell’s debut much more now than I remember doing at the time…

S’funny looking at the lists how many start with “Mount Rushmore” acts before going through the quite familiar and generally esteemed, before becoming pleasingly idiosyncratic from about the mid-nineties on…

I made the mistake of watching that one on my own one evening as darkness was descending. A stiff drink (or two) followed swiftly..
Some people depart to gad around Elysian Fields or chill in a version of “The G […]

Ah yes! student humour – swinging a plastic sword around, then declaring “I also do circumcision”. Never got old – until we did…

Doffing my hat to a recentish thread, Alien/Aliens are the Unknown Pleasures/Closer of cinema – despite employing so many of the same ingredients, the latter work is a completely different confection, but each is […]

Wooooh! Yesterday sequel pitch…

Damn straight – when I was buying records in 1980 I was using ALL my disposable income.
If I pop into the store nowadays to pick up the new Stealing Sheep and, seeing no sticker, I enquire about the price, the […]