Archive for the 'Music' Category
Selectadisc To Close Down
This is terrible news.
I grew up in Nottingham and bought my very first records in Selectadisc many years ago. It all started with ACDC when I was 11, but by the time I was 14, I started buying New Order, the Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen and Talking Heads records. With my limited pocket money, [...]
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2008 Playlist
Here it is: the eagerly awaited eberlin playlist for 2008:
Standing Next To Me – Last Shadow Puppets
Olympic Airways – Foals
Your Protector – Fleet Foxes
The Rip – Portishead
Lump Sum – Bon Iver
Supernatural Superstitious – REM
Uh – Fujiya & Myagi
Heavyweight Champion of the World – Reverend and The Makers
Always The Quiet One – Wedding Present
No Need To [...]
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Tags: Music, playlist 2008
In no particular order:
Antidotes – Foals
For Emma, Forever – Bon Iver
The Age of Understatement – The Last Shadow Puppets
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Lightbulbs – Fujiya & Miyagi
The Seldom Seen Kid – Elbow
Do You Like Rock Music? – British Sea Power
Missiles – The Dears
Intimacy – Bloc Party
Wilderness – Brett Anderson
I Want You To Know That There [...]
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Tags: albums of the year, Music, top albums 2009
A Walk Around Britain
This article from the Guardian about three chaps walking around Britain with no money and nothing but an English folk song in their hearts is inspiring.
People walk less and less, cycle less and less, and get in their car for the most trifling of journeys. Yet these three walk the length and breadth of our land, [...]
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Fujiya and Miyagi
Discovered via a Word review and sampled on eMusic. I have downloaded their first two albums and have barely stopped playing them.
Their music has been compared to the Krautrock bands of a couple of decades ago. It is laid back, rhythmic, hypnotic (particularly Simeone Slides which I am listening to now) and good to tap [...]
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Elbow
I like this quote from today’s Guardian piece on Elbow winning the Mercury Music Prize
“Garvey has a voice like the shipping forecast: moderate or rough; occasional rain; becoming cyclonic.”
An interesting fact form the article: since 1992, there has been only four times that the Award has not gone to a debut album (Primal Scream, M [...]
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Albums I Like Today
The fashion of artists offering downloads ahead of an official release gathers pace as each new morning dawns. We all know about Radiohead, and then the Charlatans, and then NIN.
This month has seen David Byrne & Brian Eno, and Bloc Party release download albums for a very reasonable £5 or less,
It is official, Bloc Party [...]
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Tags: bloc party, brett anderson, brian eno, david byrne, downloads, Music
David Byrne and Brian Eno
It is many years since they last collaborated to such great benefit to humankind. ‘Remain in Light’ is one of my favourite albums in the Whole Wide World.
So, it is with great delight that they are releasing an album soon and they are giving a song away called ‘Strange Overtones’ which I like very much [...]
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A Running High
One of the great things about running is the occasional high one gets. The feeling of elation and the feeling of it being great to be alive.
It is when three things merge together in perfect harmony: the scenery, the music and the level of fitness.
It happened yesterday. I was running across Avoncliffe Aquaduct looking over [...]
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Songs in A & E
I like the Spiritualized website.
I like Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space very much. I am listening to it now. “Come Together” has just seeped into “I think I’m in Love.” N gave it to me for my 30th Birthday over 10 years ago. We stayed at Grove Lodge on our frequent forays [...]
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