It Starts With a Birthstone...

  It's perfectly clear where Brooklyn trio Nation of Language are coming from in the opening notes of Tournament, the first track on the...

 

  There is no Glam without Mud!

 

  'Monstrously powerful lost classic.'

  Reports tell me that Ontario's Daniel Romano has already released nine records this year and apparently there are more in the pipeline...

 

 

 

  There are some moments when you start listening to a new album and realise within seconds that it is purpose built for you and your consti...

  I've documented the wonders of Native Harrow before. Just recently. Just loved their album of last year, Happier Now. They're back...

  Could easily just be loads of Bowie and Bolan here. But given the restrictions I set myself they get just two each. Here's the first B...

  'The high watermark of an extraordinary group.'

  'No record has ever expressed the bittersweet thrill of going out dancing like this.'

Brisbanite Peter Milton Welsh formed The Apartments in the late Seventies. Shortly afterwards he was asked to, and joined The Go Betweens. W...

You can't help wondering  what the be-whiskered playwright might have thought about this odd tribute from fellow Scandinavian Indigo Jef...

                                                                 Died fifty years ago today.

  Of course it's up for debate whether this is Glam. I consider it so. But not enough to argue the case and list it Top Five. A song tha...

  'The best album made about being a teenage boy.'

  'One of the most successful attempts to infiltrate mainstream pop with creepy art-house ideas.'

  Certainly a first for this blog. A rave review for the kind of record I don't generally document here but one that I loved instantly a...

 

 

Second Suzi could easily have been Devilgate Drive. Instead it's Can The Can.  

 

 

  The Pop Lib blog listed to the right hand side of this page get it right in describing this crunchy beast as Danielle Dax fronting Jesus ...

 On my mind for a couple of reasons posted away. My favourite Cure album. Re-posting this.It's almost October again. Originally from 201...

  Great name for a Pop Band. Great Pop Band.

  Snap!

  'A bitter sneer at the Kings Road set and the dying remnants of the swinging '60s'.

  Browsing round an HMV in Canterbury yesterday with The Cure's  17 Seconds wafting over the shop system it occurred to me how ubiquitou...

Neat classical piece for Posh Old School English pin up.

  A song with particular emotional resonance for me as it's probably the first Pop song I ever liked. Aged about seven, Here's what ...

  'The Fall's debut album is probably their best, if only because Mark E. Smith's bitterness is leavened by the thrill of being ...

 

It's not just Boy and Girl bands that can sound as if they've been put together like Airfix kits for public consumption. Listen to S...

    'And you're a prima ballerina on a spring afternoon. Change on into the wolfman, howlin' at the moon. Wowooo!'

'Their early records have slowly made them into British punk's most directly influential group.'

 

Lo Tom, made up of four players from Pedro The Lion, The Soft Drugs and Starflyer 69 keep things simple on second album LP2. They peddl...

Another quite unnecessary series to keep me occupied. Accessing the Best Ever Albums site which is a quite incredible resource. It catalogu...

Derek Jarman, the visionary English director, tended a famous garden on the shingle shore close to the Dungeness Nuclear Power Station. ...

About twenty years ago, in my mid-thirties, I spent a year working and living in Catania, Sicily, looking to find myself and some new d...

Not actually a single this one, but I make the rules so I can break them. One of Glam and Pop's strangest and saddest stories.