Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
A semi-regular series in which a misanthropic music blogger gets drunk and plays lots of records, at least some of which may be new to the odd reader or two. And because the sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful and so are you, there’s also words, as well as a lashed together … Continue reading Playlist for Pop Tarts – and Other Tracks They Don’t Play on the Radio
In 2003, some people released some records. The reasons for such admittedly unorthodox behaviour remain vague and elusive; perhaps it was ritualistic – an offering to their heathen gods – although I’m rather taken with the theory that it was simply a phase, like that year we all got drunk and fell into the river. … Continue reading Jump-Starting Our Serotonin: The Most Significant Albums Of 2003, Part One
1999. A playlist shaped and sculpted by statements of familiarity. Albums by Arab Strap (Elephant Shoe). By The Auteurs (How I Learned To Love The Bootboys) and Belle And Sebastian (Tigermilk); acts this blog is forever banging on about. In my day job, I’m a spokesperson for The Dawn Of The Replicants Appreciation Society (Wrong … Continue reading From Sleazy To The Stratosphere: The Most Significant Albums Of 1999
Scotland. Funny old place. Rains rather frequently. Stunning topography – all glens and lochs and mountainsides – yet Jesus choose to populate such invigorating scenery with characters Irvine Welsh pulled from early drafts of Trainspotting for being too unrealistic. Silly Jesus. Oh, and they have bands, too. Wet Wet Wet – they were good. The … Continue reading The Sound Of Young Scotland: The Most Significant Albums Of 1998, Part Two
You know the drill by now. Words are thrown at the internet; some stick, and then the music. Tangents – it’s all those bloody tangents; I once witnessed Aidan Moffat conducting a game of musical chairs in the gap before The Phantom Band took to the stage, and found it to be one of the … Continue reading Moving Weirdness with Aidan Moffat
Lazer Guided Melody - Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records 