My Vitriol – one brilliant album in 2001, a collection of B-sides and rarities soon after, and then 15 years before another album. Since then, most of what they’ve released has been covers. I’m looking forward to […]

Calexico – Black Heart

@retropath2 Sea Kings gig was great, not rammed but pretty busy. And it was a matinee! I’d happily do more afternoon gigs…

All in Glasgow over the last month or so: Interpol at the Royal Concert Hall The Sea Kings album launch at the Hug & Pint Russian Circles at Slay Ferri and the Fevers album lauch at the Hug and Pint Public […]

A bit late to this thread, but there’s recently been almost a hundred DC Thomson adverts from the 50s and 60s added to the National Library of Scotland’s website – Dandy, Victor, and Hotspur among them. Here’s the […]

Oh, the first album I ever bought with my own money was on holiday in Yugoslavia. Club Classics vol 1 by Soul II Soul, so it must’ve been 1989.

Anyone remember britpop also-rans Octopus? Their debut (only?) album had a fold out board game and a sheet with cut out game pieces. Of course, I never used it and it’s all in pristine condition. I probably […]

Same, 4 of my top 5 were songs that my kids listen to, not me. That said, The Loud House Theme Song is a pop-punk banger. This was MY top song – Jeremiah by The Joy Hotel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBWglwLq1k

Sorry Martin, it all got skipped a couple of years ago…

Oh, I’m pretty sure I had some of those issues of M8 back then! And nice to see Flip getting a mention in the Eugenius piece!

The Hold Steady are happy to oblige – album one, track one: All the sniffling indie kids: hold steady And all you clustered-up clever kids: hold steady And I got bored when I didn’t have a band And so I […]

And it came with a second CD of remixes by the likes of Jesu, Four Tet and Eluvium that was almost as good as the main album. The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place is definitely my favourite album of theirs, but the […]

Cheers retro! I think both Newton Falkner and Ben Howard are people that I would’ve said I knew but didn’t like, must go digging. See also the Saw Doctors on Twang’s selection. All hail the power of the afterword cd swap!

I saw them a couple of times years ago (both times I was there to see someone else) and they were a two-piece then.

Eels started as a trio (live anyway: it was always E’s project) then gradually expanded over the years until they were playing with a string section before scaling it back for a tour as a duo with just E and The […]

Here we go! @twang @retropath2 1. The The – True Happiness This Way Lies: ‘the only true freedom is freedom from the heart’s desires, and the only true happiness this way lies’. Uncharacteristically acous […]

And now @twang 1. I think I knew that Bananarama’s version was a cover, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard this (I assume the original?) Great 60s psych-pop. 2. Big, anthemic pop-rock. A rough guess would be Ke […]

I came here to say Drown! The Lost Highway OST has a couple of crackers – Eye by Smashing Pumpkins and The Perfect Drug by Nine Inch Nails.

Cheers @twang, glad you enjoyed at least some it. I hadn’t realised quite how much I was leaning on the ‘lickle girl vocals’, although I did originally have 8 and 10 together and even I found that a bit much! Re: […]

First up for me, @retropath2 1. Twangy, finger-picking country. Pleasant enough start. 2. Lots going on here, fast paced 70s rock with a familiar sounding voice and a big chorus. Quite frantic in places, in a […]