Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live Rust One of the more embarrassing moments of my musical growing up was deciding (at some point in the early 80s) that I’d rather own a copy of Kiss Alive II than Neil Young and Crazy Horse‘s Live Rust and so a savvy school mate exchanged his woeful [...]
Kate Bush, Hounds of Love I’d been a fan of Kate Bush pretty much since the beginning, but it was a fanaticism that I kept to myself…she was making music that was far removed from most of what I was listening to at the time. Kate Bush was an artist I admired on my own [...]
Today I woke up with Blondie’s Parallel Lines in my head. In my post from a couple of years ago where I picked out my favourite bands over time there were a few important acts that slipped through the woodwork. Blondie were one and, for a short time in 1978 and 1979, were just about [...]
cornershoporiginally uploaded by mediaeater My mum was Anglo-Indian, she grew up in Calcutta with an Indian mother and a British father and they had a huge family. Ten or eleven brothers and sisters and all the aunts, uncles, cousins and nephews that comes along with that. And a good chunk of that family lived in [...]
Belle & Sebastian‘s
Wonderstufforiginally uploaded by mark benney I can’t even imagine the point in my life when The Wonder Stuff fitted in. HUP was released in 1989, the same year that I first heard Galaxie 500 and the year after Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation” was released. And yet here it is in my record collection and I [...]
Buffalo Tomoriginally uploaded by mark benney Maybe this series name should be changed to “I just dreamed one up” because this morning I woke with another blast from the past rocking around in my head. There was a time when I really liked Buffalo Tom…for two or three years Stuart and I saw them a [...]
I often wake up with music in my head and no real understanding how it got there, more often than not it’ll be Bohemian Rhapsody or the theme from Terry and June. Today it was The Doors. I haven’t listened to The Doors for many MANY years. Part of stretching my musical awareness beyond what [...]
Many moons ago someone sent me a tape with a lot of Nord Express tracks on because anyone who loved Galaxie 500 would surely love Nord Express – it was true, I did love them – but it was a very careless love, and like so much stuff that I had on tape, it sort [...]
OK – it wasn’t an album I "just dug out" – I haven’t listened to an R.E.M. album for so very long, it is a bit frightening to think how much I listened to them from Reckoning to Document and then suddenly stopped. I kept buying the albums and giving them a chance up until [...]
