Monday, July 26, 2021

Long Players: Writers on Albums That Shaped Them # 33 Neel Mukherjee - Mozart - Piano Conceros in D Minor & A Major, Performed by Clara Haskil

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  'The past is not for living in.'

Best Ever Albums - Top 1,000 Albums - 933 Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra

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  Proper Krautrock.

This is Uncool - The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk & Disco # 355 Digital Underground

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Song of the Day # 2,738 The War On Drugs

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  I've never really listened to The War On Drugs for some reason. But this, a taster for their forthcoming album sounds like an instant ...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Albums of the Year 1996

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  1. Weezer - Pinkerton 2. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 3. DJ Shadow - Entroducing 4. Tool - Aenima 5. Beck - Odel...

Will Sergeant - Bunnyman # 10 Pere Ubu

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  The Bunnymen come together and play their first gigs.

Best Ever Albums - Top 1,000 Albums - 934 Cloud Nothings

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This is Uncool - The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk & Disco # 354 Nick Cave

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  'the first great Nick Cave love song...'

Song of the Day # 2,737 Cameron Knowler

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Saturday, July 24, 2021

Albums of the Year - 1995

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Here's the Best Ever Albums list for 1995. 1. Radiohead - The Bends 2. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory   3. Smashing Pumpki...

Will Sergeant - Bunnyman # 9 The Fall

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  The Eric's memories come thick and fast. The cast of characters who gather there start to plot and form bands. In one of the best pass...

Long Players: Writers on Albums That Shaped Them # 32 Olivia Laing - R.E.M - Automatic For The People

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  'It was released just before I went to sixth form college... The sadness of Michael Stipe's voice seeped under my skin, creating a...

Best Ever Albums - Top 1,000 Albums - 935 Aerosmith - Rocks

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  Aerosmith do what Aerosmith back in 1976. And though for the most part it's second hand Stones, there are pleasures to be had here. I ...

This is Uncool - The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk & Disco # 353 Primal Scream

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  'shatteringly sexy fusion of the Stones, Soul II Soul, wild biker B-Movies and somewhere underneath it all, a wee smidgin of an actual...

Song of the Day # 2,737 Disguise

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  The lone single from Disguise released on Chiswick Records in 1978. Simple Power Pop that draws on The Ramones, but mostly on The Sixties....
Friday, July 23, 2021

The Beatles

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Albums of the Year 1994

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Here's the Best Ever Albums Top Ten from this year. 1. Jeff Buckley - Grace 2. Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) 3. Nas - Illmatic 4. Po...

Will Sergeant - Bunnyman # 8 Television

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  Quite wonderfully written passages in the book where Will describes how he found his people at Eric's.

Long Players: Writers on Albums That Shaped Them # 31 Ben Okri - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

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  'There are some rare albums that seem to lift from their physical condition and become part of the decor and mood of a life.'

Best Ever Albums - Top 1,000 Albums - 936 David Bowie - The Next Day

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  Listened to this on a very memorable Record Player experience on a Friday night when it was released. Then woke up on the following Monday...

This is Uncool - The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk & Disco # 352 Public Enemy

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  'rivalled Pil and Happy Mondays for Top 20 sonic subversion.'

Song of the Day # 2,736 L'Rain

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  Brooklyn atmospherics.
Thursday, July 22, 2021

McCarthy

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Albums of the Year 1993

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The  Best Ever Album's Top Ten 1. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 2. Nirvana - In Utero 3. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Ch...