Pfffft! He’s not even the richest drummer in The… Oh. Waitaminnit. 😳

Nice one DD! That Motown comp will be joining The Duke’s Aston “Family Man” Barrett CD in my Chrissie stocking..

Re: Sweetest Girl – it’s explicable insofar as that single broke their run off 20 odd consecutive top 20 hits..

Yeah, I really dug it. But it’s fair to say the tiny desk has been bringing awesomeness all year – Natalia Lafourcade, Big Daddy Kane and Mumu Fresh immediately spring to mind.
In fact, the only negative thing I […]

And, if not, why not?

T’would be odd, in a popularity contest between Lou and someone else, for the other guy to lose because he was “a bit of an arse”..

New albums? I’ve combed through hundreds to pick out the nits that make up my top 20.
Re-issues? I’ve got two:
The Staple Singers – For What It’s Worth: The Complete Epic Recordings 1964-1968
and
Bow Wow Wow – You […]

Well I, for one, have no wish to live in a world without purple pricks. Bending our bananas was one thing, but ending engorgement?!
I never realised “soft Brexit” was a reference to detumescence…

Change the batteries in yer hearing aids – he said “next week”.
HE SAID “NEXT WEEK”!!!!

Bit too skewed toward the early years to encompass “entire output”?
I mean, I’d prefer if could just do UB40 as King Ten Screaming, but the downward tug of gravity on my scrotum confirms that the last 35 years […]

I realise you’re a smidge out of touch (and, I gather, delighted to be so) DD, but The Quietus is not Smash Hits.
(And, as if it mattered, Cardi B’s album is already double platinum, boasting two int […]

Ah! Did not know his full name was Ryland – or that it was a name at all . Makes me rethink the title of one of my favourite songs of the year, as I assumed it referred to a place:

{I’m With Her – Ryland (Under T […]

It’s endearing the way they (and only they) have The Caretaker on there every year (unless he’s on their staff, in which case: not cool).
There are six albums on there I regard as mighty fine to bordering on gre […]

Read to the bottom of the page, yer lazy get!
(Signed, someone who is still traumatised from a childhood spent reading hundreds of pages of this stuff, and none of it on the subject of Gerry Anderson’s tv shows)

More considered answer to genuine question:
Unlike the Ritalin munchers elsewhere, most of the old buggers on this site like to keep their AOTY powder dry until after Santa arrives with the new […]

Is the entire NWOBHM (Maiden aside) totally outré now among classic rawkers?
Have Motörhead been swept away by the anti-NWOBHM tide?

There was a Beatles reissue this year?! Don’t recall seeing a reference to one – get your sh*t together Afterword!!

Iz U Mad? Or just trying to make I Mad?
Mad Not Mad is ace!

Ah! Those days when I used to moan about there being too much Bingo on the blog…
(*wipes away dust from the corner of eye*)

I remember one wag in the music papers describing the band Echobelly as “The Clash fronted by a Blue Peter presenter” – there certainly is a “type”, n’est-ce pas?