Category: Music
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Rolling Stones’ Aftermath: More Sexist Than Benny Hill Singing Whitesnake’s Greatest Hits in a Male-only Golf Club
Or, part five of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl… Aftermath Aftermath was the most difficult album to find on vinyl at a decent price – most copies were on sale for £30-£40 upwards, so when I found a nice copy for £20 I snapped it up.…
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Why a Rolling Stones Record Sleeve Was Discussed in the Houses of Parliament…
…Five Reasons To Hear The Rolling Stones No 2… …and part three of a quest to discover whether it’s worth buying those early Stones albums on vinyl…(Part one is here) Whilst a mint copy of The Rolling Stones’ imaginatively titled second album “Rolling Stones No 2” is valued at £130 in the Rare Record…
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How To Tell If That Rolling Stones LP In Your Attic Is Worth £1,000…
My copy of The Rolling Stones’ debut album. The change of colour on the left is where the laminate has peeled away slightly. Well, it is over 50 years old…. Or, Five Reasons Why You Should Buy The Rolling Stones’ First Album on Vinyl… Or, part two of a quest to discover whether it’s worth…
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An Alternative Record Store Day at the Post Office That’s Also A Record Shop…
Life doesn’t always go to plan. Take Julius Caesar, for example. No sooner had he come up with that deathless couplet around borrowing the lugholes of various Friends, Romans and Countrymen, his best mate Brutus was rudely sticking a sharp knife in between his ribs and cackling over his dying frame. A similar Roman Tragedy…
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Everything You Need For Record Store Day 2015
Judging from the looks on the faces of most of my work colleagues when I mentioned Record Store Day to them this week (even more blank than normal. It would be uncharitable to say that for some this is no mean feat) there remains great swathes of the population who remain bafflingly untouched by the…
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Is He Having An Affair? Or Is It Just Record Store Day Anxiety…
There are a number of warning signs that you can look out for to see if your middle aged husband is having an affair….** These include: a) increased irritability, b) mind often elsewhere, c) regularly distracted, d) increased covert use of smart phone. However, be careful before you unleash hell and take his philandering record…
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The Brits 2015: A Fallen Madonna…as the Bland Leads The Bland
The Brit Awards, 25th February 2015. It was a big night. One that for twenty or so stars was the culmination of a lot of hard work, and an opportunity for talented performers to step into the big time. One that would end in triumph for some, and a setback for others. But that’s enough…
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Music’s Greatest Questions Answered!
It’s not an exaggeration to say that not everybody in Rock is the brightest spark, or the sharpest tool in the box. Rock is filled, even attracts, those who are one sandwich short of a picnic. Nothing wrong with that, mind you. If I want to hear some good rock n roll, I don’t want…
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The Grammys 2015: Isn’t Kanye A Lovely Unassuming Chap?
The Grammy Awards were on TV tonight in a prime time slot on national TV shoe-horned onto obscure digital-only channel 4Music. AC/DC kicked things off in style. In the UK, seeing a schoolboy next to an old man in a flat cap at a music industry event just brings unwelcome thoughts of certain radio 1…
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The Best Cover Versions of Beatles songs – Part 2
The recent tribute to Macca – The Art of McCartney – featured dozens of cover versions of Paul’s solo work as well as his Beatles work, and it is fair to say that unless you were a fan of the artist that bravely stepped in to perform, the results were less than electrifying. Indeed, you…
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What Are The Best Cover Versions of Beatles Songs?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that you have to be either brave, stupid, or both to try to better the arrangement that The Fab Four chose themselves. It seems that they considered every arrangement, and then found the best one before the rest of us had managed to even memorise the lyrics. The pop…
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Mix-tapes and Indie Points – A Users Guide
Good news. The mixtape is not dead….it’s just called a “playlist”… Where sensitive Belle and Sebastian-loving-indie-types once crafted cassette tapes filled with songs that told the prettiest girls in their class just how deep their feelings of love were through the medium of Morrissey, Aztec Camera or Napalm Death, now we have playlists compiled on…
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Three Years Old Today…
Do you remember what you were doing on this day in 2012? Here in the UK we were preparing for the London Olympics by grumbling about how much money it was going to cost and how we’d probably mess it up. The state of shock across the nation that we did a decent opening ceremony…
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Predictions for 2015: These Things Will Definitely Not Happen
1. Thom Yorke To Release Solo Album in Even Edgier Manner. In Branches of Sainsburys. Said Thom, “I thought I’d release the album only in branches of Sainsburys because that way it’ll be easier for my fans to buy a copy when the pick up their groceries rather than messing around on the Internet for…
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Every Record Tells A Story Photos of 2014
As the year draws to a close, it is nice to look back and reflect on the last twelve months. Did I really meet Johnny Rotten and was the one not wearing a tie? Was that really Metallica headlining Glastonbury, yet Dolly Parton was the one who drew the biggest crowd of the weekend? And…
Every record tells a story 