Sponsored Linx (Free subscription) | yesterday
B elow is a list of the top albums of the noughties (as rated by The Times ), how many do you have? and are there any you think should be included? The albums are detailed fully in the above link I've colour coded the records I have and the records I want to hear, but haven't as yet. 100. 12 Songs - Neil Diamond (SonyBMG, 2005) 99. Surprise - Paul Simon (Warner, 2006) 98. By the Way - Red Hot Chili...
{ feuilleton } (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Poster by Barney Bubbles for Elvis Costello’s Get Happy!! (1980). Adelita, the publishers of Reasons To Be Cheerful: the life and work of Barney Bubbles, announced this week that Paul Gorman’s essential collection of BB graphics has been named Book of the Year in Mojo magazine: Reasons To Be Cheerful – the acclaimed study of the life [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Can any Word reader recall any seminal bands that have spawned equally essential or even greater solo artists? No? Thought so. A few examples of the "Great Solo Folly": the Stones - the world didn't exactly hold it's breath for those solo Keef or Mick efforts did it'; The Who (don't even start); ditto Dexy's (Kevin Rowland); Pink Floyd (name five solo Floyd albums'); Television (solo Verlaine/Lloyd...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As always, it comes down to the tunes. Sure, Clane trio Planet Parade could have picked a better name to toil under, one which we don’t keep forgetting or mixing up with someone else’s moniker, but they’re stuck with it now. At least they didn’t take solace in a few profanities or misplaced punctuation marks.
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Barry Murphy returns once more to trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to), finding anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The American Soybean Association (ASA) has unveiled its new online Advocacy Training Center that teaches basic skills and protocols for advocating farmer-friendly policy to elected officials.
mattrutherford.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The third in my occasional series of recommendations for building your music library – not the new shiny releases in the press, but the older stuff that you need to get a good rounded collection on the go. If you are just buying your MP3 player, these are the artists you need to look [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: News , UK The Strokes ' 'Is This it?' has been chosen as the A lbum of the Decade by NME. The 2001 debut by the tight-jeaned five-piece from the Lower East Side, the album beat the likes of the Libertines , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , the Streets , Radiohead , and Arcade Fire to take the magazine's award. The winning album was chosen by a panel of more than 100 music industry figures, including...
fuk.co.uk blogs (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
This album came out on November 9 2009. I tried 3 independent record shops in Soho to get a copy last week, but they didn't have it. I managed to buy two copies from the HMV on Oxford Street. read more
THE VINYL VILLAIN (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
It's been a wee while since I threw some interesting cover versions your way. So much so, I feel it needs to be a quartet today - all of them covers of classics:- mp3 : British Sea Power - A Forest This is such a difficult song to cover. I've always felt that with this 1980 single The Cure created one of the all time classic goth anthems. Almost 30 years on the original hasn't dated one bit - it still...
Water Dissolves Water (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
On an emotionally dark and dreadful day in 1987, one what was then quite possibly the worst day so far in my life, certainly in my personal Top 10 list of bad days now, as my car slowly descended the winding roads out of the mountains and the tears were still drying on my cheeks, my attention was unexpectedly caught by a song that seemed to suddenly come bursting out of the car speakers. Buoyed by...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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Too Much Apple Pie (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A Dee C. Lee post on this blog? I never thought I'd see the day. *chortle* Dee C. Lee - Come Hell Or Waters High mp3 Dee C. Lee - The Paris Match mp3 Mildly Interesting Pop Fact 1 : Although the above two songs are cover versions - written by Judie Tzuke and Paul Weller respectively - Dee C. Lee wrote the song for which she's most famous herself. Which must have been some kind of consolation, royalties-wise,...
forallouryesterdays blog spot (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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Grantbridge Street & other misadventures (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Cheer up, you po'-faced, bonkers-haired, stripey-trousered-wearing twat.
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