Every Record Tells A Story
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Sound of 2014 – Your New Favourite Bands
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Every Record Tells A Story Review of 2013
Christmas. We take time off work, only to be run ragged by excitable children. A time for reflection; to look back at the year just gone and…. “Mum! I’m hungry” “Dad! Can I have some more chocolate?” Ah, daily life might mean you might struggle to reflect on the year just gone, so why not…
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John Grant Live at Rough Trade East
John Grant played a short show at Rough Trade East in order to celebrate coming third in my albums of the year being granted the honour of being Rough Trade’s Album of the Year 2013 for Pale Green Ghosts. Grant’s album is a stunning record, and well deserving of the title bestowed upon it by…
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The Top Ten Greatest Double Live Albums
Bloated, over-indulgent and long winded. But that’s enough about (insert the name of your least favourite politician here), let’s talk about Double Live albums. When Noel Gallagher talked about double albums to Rolling Stone Magazine recently he was referring to studio albums, but he still made the colourful point that they tend to go on…
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The Top Ten Best Beatles Books
Want to know which are the best Beatles Books? With the release of the first part of Mark Lewisohn‘s trilogy of books on the Beatles “Tune In” I thought it might be worthwhile taking a look at the plethora of Beatles Books out there to try to make sense of it all. I have already…
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Poll Results Are In! Rock Is Sexist, The Videos Are Terrible, But We Love The Singers…
It’s Official: Heavy rock is found guilty of bad clothing, terrible videos and it’s definitely sexist – but they wrote their own songs, and we love the singers! For those poor, misguided regular readers of Every Record Tells A Story whose hearts no doubt sank when they saw me flogging the dead horse of the…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Best Albums of 2013
The votes are in *, the jury has sat **, and the die is cast ***. The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of the Year 2013 have been decided upon. And what a year it has been. Thanks to Spotify, I have been able to give insufficient thought, time and consideration to so many…
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Christmas Gifts For The Music Lover In Your Life
By now, you have probably seen all those other Christmas Gift lists on other sites, telling you that there’s a nice set of headphones for a couple of grand, or an iPod dock for £800. (Who are these people who spend that much at Christmas? And why don’t I know any of them?) It’s enough…
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Ray Gillen and Badlands: When Rock Bands Split Up In Front Of An Audience
Twenty years ago today rock lost one of its finest singers: Ray Gillen. In his all too short career Gillen had the distinction of recording an album with Black Sabbath – only for his vocals to be wiped and replaced by someone else’s, * and to sing with musical collective Phenomena II. In 1988 he…
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Has Hair Metal Stood The Test Of Time?
Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of, and give you the cases for and against. At the end of each debate, you will have the…
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Why Listen To Poison When You Can Listen To Husker Du?
Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of, and give you the cases for and against. At the end of each debate, you will have the…
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45 Years Ago Today – The Beatles White Album: But Is It Better As A Single LP?
Today is the 45th anniversary of the release of “The Beatles”, which was released on 22nd November 1968. Today’s news that a track listing has surfaced of The Beatles White Album as a single LP – drawn up collectively by the band in September 1968 – and found in a box of papers once belonging…
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40 Years Ago Today: Keith Moon Replaced By Fan From Crowd
Forty years ago today The Who played perhaps their most infamous show… On the 20th November 1973 The Who were playing the Cow Palace, a charmingly named venue near San Francisco in support of their Quadrophenia album. In the audience that evening was nineteen year old Scot Halpin who had just moved to San Francisco…
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Aimee Mann – Live at The Union Chapel
For troubled souls, into which category I occasionally find myself, where better than the sanctuary of a church? In this case, the hallowed ground of brilliant London venue The Union Chapel (they have an ice cream lady in the interval – what’s not to like?) where Aimee Mann performed her “doom folk and recession rock”…
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Heavy Rock On Trial: Why Is That Man Screaming So Much?
I’m putting heavy rock on trial! Have your say! Whatever Happened To My Rock n Roll Part 7 Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of,…
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