Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
So… your favourite band turns up. It’s been sixteen, seventeen years since that last live experience (maths dictates that you’ve seen them sixteen, seventeen times, but not for many a year. Prolapse split at the turn of the millennium. They went off to do grown up things – like the rest of us). And because … Continue reading Review: Mogwai/Loop/Prolapse/Pye Corner Audio, Glasgow Barrowlands, 20 June
The 2014 Best Of. The relentless march of. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours, etc. Sleaford Mods at #10 in The Guardian’s year-ending; presumably the same Sleaford Mods who, when I announced that I preferred them when they were called Goldie Lookin’ Chain, spent the rest of weekend tweeting me … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums of 2014, #10 – #2
The votes are all in. A big slice of gratitude for taking part; 182 albums championed by not far off a hundred of you discerning types – eclecticism married to some fascinating selections; if there’s anything worthwhile to soliciting votes, then laboriously plotting on a spreadsheet like some Eurovision Song Contest without the … Continue reading Twitter’s Favourite Albums of 2014: The Results.
<<<<< This way for #50 to #41 (also for the arcane exclusion rules). A series in which I sit here growing steadily more inebriated whilst a conviction swells that I’ve got all the right records, but very much in the wrong order. Next episode out soon. #40 Wire / Pink Flag “Pink Flag was a fractured snapshot … Continue reading LGM’s 50 Favourite Début Albums Part Two: #40 to #31
Eighteen months or so ago a music blog not too far from this parish began digging through each year from 1980 onwards. Some attempt to tweeze out a list of horribly important albums (the particulars of which live here). Only, for reasons unfathomable and unexplained (I got drunk. I fell into a ditch. I accidentally … Continue reading Vinyl, And A Large Bottle Of Gin – The Most Significant Albums Of 2008
Truth be told I was thinking of avoiding the favourite albums piece this year. Because… well, this type of jape has become something of an industry. Ubiquitous; a parade of the same old records shuffled arbitrarily into position. And I’m old, and cranky, and desensitised by mid-November at the very latest as the earnest and … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 #10 – #2
For the past six months or so, we’ve been mooching in and about the Significant Albums released every year since 1980. And if we’ve learned anything at all, it’s that we really shouldn’t be changing light bulbs with wet hands. That young people are evil. And that, when you compare these release schedules side-by-side, there’s … Continue reading Nostalgia In A Different Hue, Or Two: The Most Significant Albums Of 2006
Below the words: no, not Mogwai’s ‘George Square Thatcher Death Party‘. As I type this waffle, there’s a half-written Significant Albums of 2005 piece I should probably be finishing off. And whilst the pull of further procrastination is a strong one (not to mention the vacuuming I promised to do, or the garbage that needs … Continue reading King Creosote Place-holder
When writing about music, there’s a tendency to summon the same stock phrases. Words such as nuance, reverberation, immediacy, bite. It’s the framework through which our sonic adventures function, I guess; snatches of inner monologue that basically translate as “ooh, that’s a gorgeous bass hook”. This use of template phraseology – apart from being demonstrative … Continue reading Feedback! Dissonance! Adjective! The Most Significant Albums Of 2003, Part Three
In part one of this, the vague consensus flapping about was that the record gods had their attentions elsewhere in 2001. That you could replace significant in the above title with the word difficult, and still retain the general tone. Albums as challenging constructs, vogues fleeting and inconsequential, or disparate and lacking in nutritional value. ‘The Night … Continue reading From Swamp Guitar To Synth-Pop Savvy: The Most Significant Albums Of 2001, Part Two
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
Should you be in the business of calibrating your time on this planet against adventures in audio, it becomes easy to grow excited when contemplating the release schedules of certain years. It’s something you could label as nostalgia if you’re feeling unkind, but in reality it’s an essence far more dynamic than that – a … Continue reading The Impact Of The Vinyl Stash: The Most Significant Albums Of 1997, Part One
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