Tag: YouTube
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David Hepworth and Mark Ellen Meet Every Record Tells A Story: Watch The Result Here…
Mark Ellen and David Hepworth defined the UK’s music papers from the eighties onwards, with the wonderful Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word. They presented The Old Grey Whistle Test and Live Aid – apparently because they and their Whistle Test producer were the only people “who knew how to put a thing like…
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You Can Help Make The Greatest Episode of Top of the Pops Ever!
It all started with a conversation on Twitter. Actually it was more of a musing. And it wasn’t my idea either. No, it was music writer Pete Paphides who proclaimed suddenly: What I’d really love @BBCFOUR to do one Friday night is just show a whole evening of ace, not-obvious music clips. Just one after…
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An Alternative Best of…Journey
Take A Midnight Train Going Anywhere With This Alternative Best of Playlist For AOR Kings: Journey… The idea that Journey might be pretty cool is clearly a difficult one to get your head around, but back in the eighties, Journey were the thinking AOR fan’s go-to band. REO Speedwagon and Kansas were too wimpy, Boston…
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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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Flared Cords And The Truth: The Black Crowes Hit Their Strides
In September 1991 Guns n Roses released their double-double album set “Use Your Illusion”. A week later Nirvana released Nevermind. As GnR peaked and fell into a squabbling decline, by January 1992 Cobain and co topped the US charts and in March had a second hit single with “Come As You Are”. Suddenly, guitar playing…
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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 have been made easier through the years, in particular relating to finding and listening to…
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Yeah Yeah Yeah by Bob Stanley: The Chapter-by-Chapter Spotify Playlists Page
I had a terrific reaction from Twitter to my article about Bob Stanley’s history of popular music, “Yeah Yeah Yeah” back in May 2014… Like a nervous boy asking out the prettiest girl in school to the disco, I enquired as to whether anyone would like to help set up a page of playlists to accompany each…
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The Best Records of 2014 So Far: The Horrors – So Now You Know
“So Now You Know” is the second track to be revealed from The Horrors’ fourth album “Luminous” which is out on May 5th. Whilst the first preview from the album “I See You” was a seven and a half minute epic awash with atmospheric synth work from Tom Cowan alongside singer Faris Badawan’s trademark vocals,…
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The Day I Appeared In An AC/DC Video
Ask a teenager now if they would stay up all night to watch TV on the off chance of seeing one of their favourite bands’ music videos and you’ll probably get as baffled a look as the one that Wayne Rooney might give you were you to ask him a tricky question such as “What…
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The Strypes – Live In London
The teenaged smart-suited boys onstage are tearing up the tiny stage with their maximum RnB sounds. Guitar, harmonica, bass, drums, no nonsense. Nods to the old blues masters and the crowd are dancing. The Rolling Stones in The Station Hotel, Richmond c1963? Dr Feelgood‘s pub rock at The Half Moon in Putney 1974? Nope. It’s…
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Look Out For… MGMT’s New Video: Your Life Is A Lie
MGMT has returned with a new song “Your Life Is A Lie” with an brilliant, brilliant accompanying video which features Flipper, Hall and Oates (kind of), a chorus of skeletons and – well I won’t ruin it for you… The first single from the new self titled album, “Your Life Is A Lie” appears to…
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The Flaming Lips Cancel Show In Possible Blow To My Dancing Onstage Dream
The Flaming Lips show at The Camden Roundhouse was cancelled last night due to an unspecified “illness”. However, according to the Roundhouse’s website, tonight’s show may still go ahead: “The second show on Tuesday 21 May is unaffected at present. However, should illness persist, the promoter may need to reschedule the second show too. More…
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The Bowie Bet part 6 – London’s Record Shops
The story so far: I have made a bet that I can buy a full set of Bowie‘s albums (in their original vinyl versions – and in excellent condition with all the inserts) from The Man Who Sold The World to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). That’s fourteen albums in fourteen days. Total budget: £100.…
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Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wizard of Oz
On 2 March 1973, Pink Floyd released ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ onto an unsuspecting world. The album spent 741 consecutive weeks in the US charts, just one week less than it took Wayne Rooney to learn how to spell ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘. The concept for ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ centred around…
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The Greatest Album Of All Time Revealed…
Danny Baker’s Great Album Showdown is looking to identify the Finest Album of All Time. Starting on 5th February and continuing over three episodes on BBC4 Danny and his team of experts will decide which were the best Rock, Pop and R&B albums ever made. This sounds to me like a Thoroughly Good Idea. I…
Every record tells a story 