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… Read More ›
Eighties
Remember Smash Hits Magazine…?
Let’s compare Smash Hits to its modern day equivalent…… It’s very tempting to look at how things were with either misty-eyed nostalgia, or like one of the Four Yorkshiremen in that Monty Python sketch (“Luxury! Kids today don’t know they’re… Read More ›
Why Listening To Music In 1984 Was Worse Than 2014 (One Direction Notwithstanding…)
Even in 2014 life has its minor irritations: “Unexpected item in the bagging area”. “Incorrect username or password”. “Nick Grimshaw”. But it isn’t all bad news. A few days ago I wrote down a few examples of how our lives… Read More ›
Why Listening To Music Now Is So Much Better Than It Was 30 Years Ago
I was chatting recently with friends about listening habits… “It’s so much better and easier listening to music nowadays” I opined, expecting unanimous consent. None came. A piece of tumbleweed may have rolled across the bar. “I’m not so sure”… Read More ›
Movember: Rock’s Top Ten Greatest Moustaches of the Eighties
What are the Greatest Moustaches in Rock? November has become a slightly frightening time of year for men everywhere. A very worthy campaign has swept the nation in the last few years encouraging people to grow hair on the upper… Read More ›
Kerrang! Magazine – Heavy Metal Bible
Kerrang! Magazine is what distunguishes a heavy metal fan from the casual observer. Investing the not insignificant sum of 85p on Kerrang! was the moment I turned to the dark side- and entered the world of being a “proper” heavy… Read More ›
Home Taping is Killing Music Part 2: Top Ten Tips for Home Taping
Taping the charts off the radio has rather gone out of fashion… However, following the much publicised shutdown of Megaupload, keen file sharers may find it trickier to download music files (aside from using the hundred or so copycat sites… Read More ›
Every record tells a story 