White Man in Hammersmith Palais

Or…

Suede’s Stay Together

Or….

Paperback Writer

This is non album singles??

Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible & Rewind The Film

The Smiths – The Queen is Dead & Strangeways

Iron Maiden – Powerslave & Dance of Death

Suede – dogmanstar & Bloodsports

Ziggy Greaves (token Scouser in TV’s Grange Hill, mid-late 80’s) came by his monickered nickname via his older brothers due to his love of playing with Spiders.

Completely flew over my head at the time. Cracking!

Lovesong?

Adele covered it on ‘21’

Yep. Sean Dickson. Legendary volte face

All the songs were stretched out too long on the original release and arguably some of the intros on the parent tracks on Disintegration were too long too. What the hell are they putting on three CD’s??

This […]

I was disappointed.

Didn’t reach the heights of Rewind the Film but significantly more focussed and driven than Postcards.

All very mid range but without the high points you had in KYE or Lifeblood.

I […]

This one was pretty good

I live my life in the city
There’s no easy way out
The day’s moving just too fast for me

Welcome to the jungle, we’ve got fun and games

You can split Creation output into pre and post Loaded with their Keeping the Faith dance comp as almost the meridian line.

House of Love’s Christine pre and Primal Scream’s Accelerator as post. Possibly my […]

When I think of Stiff Records, my mind always auto populates with a Madness track. Usually Shut Up.

No idea why

I’d say the definition of Hip Hop is Run DMC’s ‘It’s Like That’ – Rappers Delight was first but the cut and paste of the samples is just a bit too rough IMO to be genre defining

The Stone Roses – John Leckie

Arguably gave them a career, a legacy and a lucrative run at the global mega stadia nostalgia circuit. Listening to the difference between the same songs on Garage Flower to the […]

And the late great Clarence Clemons too

And David Lee Roth.

Uncle Ju’s card school had the big fish

Trampolene – From Swansea to Hornsey
Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band – Adios Senor Pussycat
Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
St Vincent – Masseduction
Little Steven – Soulfire
The Charlatans – Different […]

Always have a nagging doubt that Saint Ettienne were a triumph of style over substance.

A studied, almost detached, experiment of 50’s mod cool and clothes before getting down to writing tunes ( though I can’t […]

It’s up there, it’s up there….

Doesn’t quite hit the heights of The Blues Brothers (current title holder), Life of Brian or Spinal Tap for me.

Remember going to see Airplane II at the pictures. ABC at […]

Superb, well proportioned rant.

I fully concur.

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Ah Bodies.

One of the few tracks I still have to skip if the mother in law or kids are in the car (Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ is another)

Opening the first reunion show with Bodies at Finsbury Park was a maste […]