Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
<<<<< #50 to #41 <<<<< #40 to #31 <<<<< #30 to #21 <<<<< #20 to #11 The business end of this proposition. It’s all a wee bit personal; records lived to, loved to, cried along with (although I’m not admitting to the latter). It’s actually difficult to write about much of the below (or at … Continue reading LGM’s 50 Favourite Début Albums Part Five: #10 to #1
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
#41: Dawn Of The Replicants – Ten Sea Birds (1997) The majority of tracks on this list – records hauled from the ether like that fairground stall where we’re all grim-faced children attempting to snare a rubber duck with a hook on a stick – are singles. Because singles – 7” vinyl spun on your … Continue reading FuckedUpFestiveFifty #41: Dawn Of The Replicants
You navigate the streets with all the unconcern that familiarity musters. Here you are, walking past the burnished railings of the cemetery, absently brushing against the small groups of whoevers that congregate at the street corners – Morlocks from an H.G. Wells novel, maybe, or the rump of a heavily-routed army. Severed strings of discoloured … Continue reading Science Fiction Freak
Lazer Guided Melody - Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records 