Playlist Grand Funk Railroad – Bosnia Various – Zunior Compilation 2010 v5:03 Alice Cooper – School’s Out Another 7:30 rise and, today, compiling a list of all artists by whom I have every original studio album released to date... There are 89... I’ve split them according to the decade in which their first album appeared... 1960’s 1963 The Beatles 11 1964 Simon &...
These days, anyone can make a game. Here's how to get started... Last week, I posted a feature on how indie gaming is reviving the spirit of eighties Britsoft . I hoped I might inspire a couple of readers to start creating their own games, or at least to mess about with some thing like Game Maker . If anyone did feel a twinge of creative enthusiasm, here are eight tips to getting started. I've kept...
Well, Bob Belvedere left a comment at my Bowie post from the other night, but if I've still got fence-sitters, this clip of " Moonage Daydream " should be decisive. I don't know exactly, but when I reached rock musical sophistication in my mid-20s, I just had a thing for David Bowie. He's British, for one thing. And Americans have always had a soft spot for at least a couple of British bands,...
I was out in the mist and rain and cold this morning doing my usual 6 mile plod around the sites and sounds of north Leeds. As so often happens I allow my mind to drift and found myself back in my parent's kitchen circa early 1975. I was about to leave primary school and start at big school. There would be new opportunities there, one of which was to learn a musical instrument. "What instrument...
On January the 1st 1970 Yorkshire folkie Michael Chapman released his second album Fully Qualified Survivor , a record that passed with few fanfares or fireworks (apart from John Peel crowning it 'Album of the Year'). Forty years on, the album pooling all the elements for the post sixties Bowie tone remains an overlooked obscurity.The Velvets, Iggy and Dylan may get the knowing nods for the rise of...
Playlist Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue Laura Pausini – Primavera in Anticipo Planet X - Quantum Haydn – The Paris Symphonies Pet Shop Boys - Pet Shop Boys Christmas Bloody hell, still freeeeeeeezing... Perhaps it’s the cold weather which is inflicting migraines on me – I had two today, my third and fourth in the last three days... Thankfully, I don’t suffer...
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'Travelogue' is the second full-length studio album released by the British synthpop band The Human League. Released in May 1980, the band had yet to achieve any degree of commercial success. For Travelogue, the band worked with a new producer, Richard Mainwaring, who went on to produce OMD's platinum selling Architecture & Morality the following year. Travelogue entered the UK album chart at number...
Interesting and alarming news from the Sceptered Isle: Over at yesterday's Telegraph , Brit writer Neil McCormick has picked out what he considers the top ten guitar solos in rock history. His list: 1. Moonage Daydream - Mick Ronson A sci-fi blowout: Ronson picks the song up and sends it spinning into outer space. 2. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix Evil blues from the greatest rock guitarist ever. 3. Since...
This week: It Ain't Easy When You Fall, Ian Hunter , from the lp Ian Hunter , released in 1975. Another legacy from my brother. He was lucky enough to see Mott the Hoople in NYC in 1974, when Queen opened for them, and we listened to a lot of Mott - and later, Ian Hunter's solo stuff - for many years after that. His first solo album began his long collaboration with Mick Ronson and this song shows...
Thinking about it, the third album was most likely to be the one where Charlotte Hatherley blossomed into her own milieu. If Grey Will Fade was her marking a path outside of Ash's then straight-up FM rock direction by the power of power pop and The Deep Blue her way of finding her own off-kilter feet, New Worlds finds Hatherley plotting a course between career paths. For the first time at least consistently...
Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker from Brixton—and so much to talk about, from the music itself to its art-world significance to his real-and-imagined sexual escapades and how he played the [...]
This week it is David Bowie's 1970 (released in early 1971 in the UK) album The Man Who Sold The World This album was where the blueprint for his later incarnation as Ziggy Stardust can first be seen, not least because it is where the nucleus of the Spiders From Mars first comes together. The album was a real departure from what had come before as far as Bowie's music is concerned. The sound is heavy,...
As I got into a lot of trouble the last time I did people I will tighten up the list rules a little. A person on the list has to either 1. Been born in Hull or 2. They lived in Hull and their achievement was linked to the city. 1. William Wilberforce - led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British empire. Also a founder member of the society for the prevention of cruelty...
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