Brian – Planes Stacking Up – tweeting birds (no video for this one – maybe I should make one) The Sweet – Blockbuster – an air raid siren XTC – Senses Working Overtime – I love crows! Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister – playground (no video) Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath – [...]
My top 6…
Jul 032009
McCarthy and Ballboy pretty much own this list I could have filled it up with either of them… And Tomorrow the Stock Exchange Will Be the Human Race – (54 characters) – McCarthy I Don’t Have Time to Stand Here With You Fighting About the Size of My Dick – (75 characters) – Ballboy Stars [...]
Apr 022009
Here are my submissions to Cover Me, Volume 17 of Splotchy’s Green Monkey Music Project (visit the link to download the two 36 track compilations the first one has the selected cover versions, while the second has the original versions of the same songs). Your selections should all be songs which are not the original [...]
Dec 162008
Tagged a while back by maurinsky (via Hazel) This is tricky, mostly tricky because of all I’ve had to leave out (two Galaxie 500 albums for starters). On Fire – Galaxie 500 (1989)Best album ever. Nothing more to say (except that its appearance in this list also represents the band’s entire output and that of [...]
Jun 132008
As the proprietor of a fan site I’ve always had an interest in what fans are doing on the web, a year or so ago I posted ruminating on the fan site and whether it had a place in the brave new 2.0 world… Whatever the reason it seems the days of the fan site [...]
Jan 182008
Not really a “Top” 6 but just some gigs that are popping into my head as I write…I’ll try and avoid the obvious Galaxie 500 (and related) gigs here and pick out ones that were memorable not necessarily for the obvious reason of being utterly brilliant… Terry Bickersuploaded by BuriedBones Levitation @ The Tufnell Park [...]
Dec 252007
…in no particular order… Low – If You Were Born Today I remember sitting my car in a supermarket car park unable to move while this song was on the radio when it first came out on a 7″ single. It is just stunningly moving – even for an atheist! Low’s Christmas album is one [...]
Oct 032007
(originally uploaded by the_moog) Between acts at the Albert Hall last week I started looking around the venue thinking of all the different places I’d sat and I suddenly realised that I’d been to quite a few shows so here’s a top 6 (but aside from the first one they’re not really in any order)… [...]
We just spent an exhausting week in Scotland visiting family so I loaded up my MuVo with as much as it could take and these were the six songs that I kept on coming back to over the course of the week… Petra Haden – God Only Knows As far as I can tell this [...]
(OK reading this back it sounds like the smug ramblings of a backstage ligger – but having written them out I may as well publish!) Over the 12 years of the Galaxie 500 Mailing List I have trotted out the same old memories time and time again so I thought I’d use my last.fm journal [...]
