Every Record Tells A Story
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Listen Now: Nevermind The Grunge, It’s The Nineties! An Alternative Nineties Rock Mix
Damon Albarn: “If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I’m about getting rid of grunge. It’s the same sort of feeling: people should smarten up, be a little bit more energetic. They’re walking around like hippies again – they’re stooped, they’ve got greasy hair, there’s no difference. Whether they like it or not,…
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Listen Here: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow – Dad Rock in the Eighties.
Every Record Tells A Story Presents: A Blog You Can Listen To: Click the Mixcloud player link above to hear the music, and read the liner notes below…. If the link above isn’t showing you can click here to access all the music via Mixcloud With racial tensions, recession and mass unemployment affecting entire communities…
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Listen Here: When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth: Dad Rock in the 1970s
Every Record Tells A Story presents: A Blog You Can Listen To… You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post via the Mixcloud player above, or if that isn’t working click on this link and the Mixcloud player will open in a new tab. Click the Mixcloud player link above, and read…
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Hear The Spirit Of Talk Talk’s Lockdown Charity Recordings
We are now 61 days into lockdown, which, for context is still less than how long a series of Big Brother lasts. Life feels a bit like Big Brother, mind you, except you can’t be evicted and go outside, unless you’re an advisor to the government when you can do whatever you like. And all…
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I’ll Be Alright Without You: An Appreciation.
Journey. Known in the UK almost exclusively for “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a song about a girl and a boy from a place – South Detroit – that weirdly doesn’t exist. A song recorded in 1981 that didn’t make the UK charts until 2009 following its appearance in an episode of X-Factor, (even its appearance…
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Lockdown Playlists: #1: A Doris Troy Special
As we enter the fifth week of confinement in the Great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020, social pressures come to bear. Neighbourhood net curtains twitch suspiciously should anyone leave their house. Such is the fear instilled by those Moral Guardians lurking in Facebook Resident’s Pages, if you do leave the house you feel obligated to either…
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Asylums: One Band’s Story Of Coping With Coronavirus Lock-Down
What has been the impact of the Covid-19 lock-down on musicians? Coronavirus has taken away loved ones, jobs, incomes, stretched medical resources, and prevented people seeing people they care about in person. For other, more fortunate people, the worst impact of coronavirus is merely spending an extended period of time working from home in their…
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Your Guide To Selling Vinyl On eBay, and More About The Discogs Median Price Myth
Part 3 of a real-life test to see whether you can make decent money from selling vinyl. (Here’s part 1) Ah, eBay. Perhaps only Sergio Aguero, as he scored with 93:20 on the clock to win Manchester City’s first league title for 44 years has ever experienced a high as euphoric as the feeling you…
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The Discogs “Median Price” Myth
Are records really worth the “Median price” on the world’s biggest record selling platform: Discogs? Based purely on the stories they tell, most record collectors sit firmly in the world’s five or so leading experts in the field. We all have tales of finding things at half their real value, and most collectors will swear…
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Can You Make Decent Money From Selling Vinyl Records Online? A Challenge…
It’s now difficult even to imagine, but before the world locked down and self-isolated and you could still meet up with other people (ah, remember those halcyon days?), priorities went beyond ensuring we had enough toilet roll and pasta. We would talk about buying luxury items such as chocolate and toothpaste, would think about whether…
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Five Music Books To Self-Isolate Yourself With…
You have stocked up, having flung a greedy arm against the nose of a grasping pensioner at the supermarket to get that final roll of toilet paper. You have enough tinned carrots and potatoes to last several months despite never having actually eaten tinned vegetables since you were at school, and you are now frantically…
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Warped record? Here’s how to get it fixed!
Picture the scene. You find a rare record you really like, which is inexplicably low-priced and as yet undiscovered. And then you find out why. It’s warped. One of the most difficult problems in the record collecting world to fix. Yuri Geller had it right. Far easier to bend things than to straighten them. It…
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Hard Times To Good Times: How Nile Rodgers and Chic Won Their Stripes
In 2020, we appreciate musical legends like Luther Vandross, Nile Rodgers and Roberta Flack. The internet, along with time and perspective, has allowed us to recognise and understand the impact of so many artists that might, at some points in their career, have been wildly unappreciated. In the 1980s, Roberta Flack isn’t knocking out classics…
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The Oldest Teenagers In Town: Ash Celebrate 25 Years
In which we discover how Ash went from being a twelve year old Iron Maiden tribute act to world domination, well, almost.
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2019: Cats, Grime and Lil Nas X: The Year In Music
2019 was a great year in music, perhaps the greatest since 2018, which, if we all remember was probably up there with 2017. Here’s a round up: First some sad news: Spandau Ballet split up in 2019, which will come as shocking news to most of us who hadn’t realised they had got back together.…
Every record tells a story 