Category: Music
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Remembering Lemmy
I didn’t want the year to end before mentioning Lemmy, who sadly died on Boxing Day. Motorhead’s Facebook page has encouraged us to share our memories. They say “We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren’t words. We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please…play Motörhead loud, play…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of 2015
It’s nearly Christmas, so what better time to take a look back at all the great albums released in the year? (Rhetorical question). Christmas may bring with it traditions such as hangovers, bad office parties and over-priced Christmas menus in restaurants, but it also brings the tradition of end-of-year album lists for us all to…
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A Degree in Record Collecting? Could you pass the qualifying paper?
News reaches Every Record Tells A Story today that Stax University is to offer a three year degree course in Record Collecting. According to their website, the degree will examine pupils understanding of grading the condition of records, why some records are more valuable than others, matrix numbers, stampings, the manufacturing process, mastering…
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What If Bowie Had Written Novels Instead of Songs?
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if your favourite singers and bands had become writers rather than musicians? At first glance, the idea of a Harley-in-a-hotel-riding-hell-raising rock star even reading a good book, never mind writing one, is a bit like expecting Joey Essex to know what would happen if he put his…
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Half Year Report: The Best Albums of 2015 So Far part 2
…and another release from 2014 that I missed first time around. Whilst I know that many regular readers of Every Record Tells A Story are inexplicably somehow content to suffer through the odd turgid story of trawling record fairs, or hearing about bands that recorded their last meaningful record four decades ago, there is still…
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Half Year Report: The Best Albums of 2015 So Far Part 1
…and a couple of releases from 2014 that I missed first time around. Do you remember how you felt when you had to take your school report home to your parents? Would they pick up on Mrs McHugh’s scathing sarcasm about your general inattentiveness, or Mr Hepworth’s comment around feeling there was “more to come”…
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Thirty Years Ago Today: Live Aid
They were stricken, desperate and no one could save them. We had never before seen such desperation on our TV screens. But that’s enough about Led Zeppelin’s performance at Live Aid, let’s talk about the day itself. It was the day that a scruffy, sweary Irishman entered our homes and demanded money, something that many…
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Stop The World: It’s #NewMusicFriday
Today, Friday, July 10 marks the start of a major “paradigm shift” in the global release schedule for new albums. Probably. That’s right, the music world has been rocked on its axis by the Earth-shattering news that records, CDs and downloads will now be released on a Friday instead of a Monday in the UK.…
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson: A New Film By Julien Temple
“We were on the up and up…. …and then…. ….Cancer. “ Wilko Johnson, at last night’s premiere of “The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson” “The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson” is a new documentary, directed by Julien Temple, which tells the extraordinary story of the last three years in the life of former Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko…
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How To Recreate That Glastonbury Feeling Without Actually Going To Glastonbury:
Stretched out over acres, and often difficult to navigate your way across, the Media Coverage of Glastonbury is one of a handful of man-made objects that can be seen from space, alongside The Great Wall of China and the mass graves of Mariah Carey’s former personal assistants.* It’s great that we can share the experience…
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Fashion Special: How To Dress Like A Seventies Rock Star.
As we have seen recently, a lot of bad things happened in the seventies, and all too often people say “it’s just how it was then”. They try to excuse some appalling behaviour. “Don’t judge people by today’s standards” they say. I am of course talking about the fashion sense of the world’s rock stars.…
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Things To Do If You’re At A Gig On Your Own
If there’s a show on in town, it’s always worth searching the hashtag on the band on Twitter. Invariably there will be a few poor souls offering tickets to the show at face value, due to the last minute drop outs of their gig-going friends. On the other hand this is great news for people…
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You Left The Water Running: Why This Otis Redding Track Went Unheard For A Decade…
A “vertical tasting” of R&B classic “You Left The Water Running” “You Left The Water Running” is a song with some great mythology around it. It appears in Nick Hornby’s classic tale of record collecting (oh, well, I suppose there were one or two parts about relationships and stuff as well) Hi-Fidelity. You’ll remember the…
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How To Deep Clean Your Vinyl Records With Wood Glue… And Ten Things That You Shouldn’t Use To Clean Your LPs
How To Deep Clean Your Vinyl Records With Wood Glue… …And Ten Things That You Shouldn’t Use To Clean Your LPs There are a number of ways to clean and maintain your record collection in pristine condition. An occasional wipe with vinyl friendly cleaning solution (I use “Into The Groove”) using a microfibre cloth (£1…
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How The Rolling Stones Persuaded The Police To Play On “Let’s Spend The Night Together”
…why side two of Between The Buttons is a classic… Or, part six of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… (…read part one here to make more sense of what is to follow) Between the Buttons As King Minos of Crete discovered when his daughter Ariadne…
Every record tells a story 