Every Record Tells A Story
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How To Guarantee You Buy The Clear Vinyl Version of ChangesOneBowie
The recent 180g reissue of the David Bowie hits collection ChangesOneBowie came with an unusual feature. Half of the reissues came in black vinyl and the other half in a lovely new clear vinyl. For those of us who already own an original copy of the album, or indeed for anyone who is savvy enough…
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Welcome To The (Franking) Machine: Pink Floyd’s Postage Stamps
What Could Be More Rock n Roll Than Stamp Collecting? Well, there’s doing your tax return, tidying the garden, and writing a letter to Points of View, for a start. Yet ever since The Marvellettes sang “Please Mr Postman” surely rock and roll has been hand in white glove with… er, stamp collecting? Hmmm. No,…
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In The Audience of Later…with Jools Holland: The Iggy Pop Episode
Iggy Pop was a force of nature on Later… with Jools Holland on Tuesday night, and I was fortunate enough to be there in the studio audience to witness Iggy lay waste to the cozy, boogie-woogie-piano-infested waters of Maidstone, Kent – where the show is filmed. It was an evening of surprises. With Josh…
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Iggy Pop Live at the Royal Albert Hall: Review of Pop’s Last Stand
Iggy Pop and Josh Homme at the Royal Albert Hall was a top-five-of-all-time kind of gig, and I’m struggling to think of the other four. The merger of Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme with Iggy Pop has produced a result better than anyone might have predicted. In 1995 Josh Homme’s first band, Kyuss,…
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How To Instantly Download and Listen To Radiohead’s New Album in Just 42 Easy To Follow Steps
As Radiohead releases their new album, “A Moon Shaped Pool”, Every Record Tells A Story seeks to provide a public service. We shouldn’t mock, but there are readers out there who aren’t as technically savvy as everybody else. Not everyone is proficient with technology. Some people don’t know their MP3s from their er, woofers…
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Not Good Enough or Not Pretty Enough? Why David Coverdale Sacked His Band…
Extra bonus within!: A Playlist of Whitesnake songs that aren’t sexist! It’s 1979. Tonight, Whitesnake’s new drummer Ian Paice is making his debut at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Lead singer David Coverdale is onstage, slaying the audience with a typically pelvis-thrusting performance. It’s a sexually charged, entendre-filled, microphone-extending act. But something is wrong. The two…
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Share Your Memories of Your Favourite Pop Music Here…
The Peoples’ History of Pop Popular Music has often attracted tribes. Punks, hippies, soul boys, mods, rockers, ravers, People Who Like Chris Rea. One of pop music’s most interesting aspects is that everybody’s journey of discovery is different and thus we all have an alternative history of events. St Etienne’s Bob Stanley has written at…
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Axl/DC?: Five Reasons Why Axl Rose Fronting AC/DC is Great News For Fans
Axl Rose is to replace Brian Johnston as AC/DC’s chief shouter in a move that has caused the sort of Earth-shattering consternation amongst the chattering classes not witnessed since the producers of “Call The Midwife” controversially staged a scene where someone was slightly rude to someone else. There’s no truth to the rumours that…
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Ten Highlights of Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones at Saatchi Gallery
After Londoners were treated to the wonders of such rock n roll ephemera as a cocaine spoon and the Eno suitcase synth on display at the Bowie V&A exhibition a few years ago, the Rolling Stones had a challenge on their hands. What would this new Rolling Stones Exhibition – entitled “Exhibitionism” reveal? …
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project Part 5: More Records
The Project: Is it possible to make a “Deluxe” Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young albums from the original vinyl rather than spending lots of money on re-issues? I am trying to find out… The Story So Far: I have Zuma and Time Fades Away, but need two more albums to replicate the official…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Part 4
IV: The “Deluxe” Extras The Project: Is it possible to make a “Deluxe” Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young albums from the original vinyl rather than spending lots of money on re-issues? The Story So Far: We have the box, but no records. Confused? Click these links for Part one, part two, and part…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Putting The “Box” Into “Box Set”
The Project: To bring luxury to the masses. The plan is to make a Luxury Neil Young Box Set: DIY Edition from second hand albums and bits of string and sell it to the public. The Story So Far: A visit to local record shops has been entirely fruitless. Click here for part one…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project: Part 2: the records
The Project: Is it possible to make your own Deluxe Vinyl Box Set of Neil Young Records? The first part of this short series is here… The most important part of any box set, aside from the fake gimmicky memorabilia padding it out, is the music. It was therefore important to find really good…
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The Neil Young Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Project
Part 1: The Idea Robin Williams famously said cocaine was God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. He might just as easily been referring to vinyl box sets, which are unashamedly a luxury item. The last U2 box set was priced so highly even Bono couldn’t afford it. Box sets…
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The Raveonettes: Live at The Oval Space
Sometimes it’s hard to know whether you have just witnessed a disappointing performance or a great one… One one hand, last night The Raveonettes played a set consisting solely of songs from their first four (and most successful) albums including “My Tornado” and “Beat City” from their debut release plus a couple of real…
Every record tells a story 