Music today has been bitty again but I finally settled on The Kinks‘ Ultimate Collection (2002). Great songs, some dodgy production on the later songs and some fantastic production on the early songs. If you listen to Don’t Forget To Dance and hear the damn drum machine ruining a good song and compare it to […]
Music today was all bits but I did finally land on Robert Wyatt’s Comicopera (2007). It’s Robert Wyatt’s official last solo album with him retiring from music in 2015. Always some humour mixed with experimentation, lovely singing, and captivating songs. One song on there is called Pastafari. I followed this with Amon Düül II‘s Hijack […]
Music today has been all over the place as usual with Greta Van Fleet’s new album The Battle At Garden’s Gate (2021), tearing it up for Zep and seventies rock fans where at the other end of the scale (sort of), Q readers are smoothly listening to London Grammar’s new album, Californian Soil (2021). In […]
Music today came from the latest so hip nothing can go wrong four-piece Dry Cleaning and their debut album New Long Leg (2021). A band playing instrumentals with a girl talking over the top, sounds uninspiring but you know, it’s the attitude that works. Deadpan delivery, observational, philosophical, and mildly amusing despair. Followed by Lucinda […]
Music today was oddly Mike Oldfield‘s Tubular Bells (1973), Tubular Bells II (1992), and Tubular Bells III (1998). It’s that old thing of if you’ve got a name, something recognisable, people tend to gravitate towards it. Tried and tested, familiarity, nostalgia, all these things keep people coming back, safe and sound, reliable, but what happens […]
Music today was on random on the kitchen iPod and I heard Mott The Hoople, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Moody Blues, Porcupine Tree, Uriah Heep, Badfinger, Amon Düül, U2, Guns N’ Roses, Genesis, Family, The Zombies, Love And Rockets and UFO which seems to be the rock iPod that was last added to about 15 years […]