Vauxhall
Quarry
Viva
LIHS
World Peace
Your Arsenal
Years..
Uncle
Ringleader
Not placed:
Maladjusted (but shave 2/3 and you’d have a terrific EP)
Southpaw
All of their albums are worth a listen. Don’t Stand Me Down is Kevin’s masterpiece and One Day I’m Going To Soar isn’t far behind. Let The Record Show is patchier but their version of Curragh of Kildare is a work of utterly batshit genius.
Suedehead sounds to me as though it refers to a one night stand which the narrator has grown to regret-“Still, it was a good lay.”. I Started Something... seems to relate to a more sustained dalliance-not necessarily romantic-which has inspired ambivalence in both parties.
Starts well but the momentum isn’t sustained. There’s enough for a good EP and a few strong B sides, but it’s not much of an album. And I like King Leer.
Joy Division/New Order are from Salford/Macclesfield
Elbow are from Bury
Buzzcocks are from Bolton (and Howard Devoto is from Scunthorpe)
Happy Mondays are from Little Hulton which is effectively a Salfordian exclave in Bolton
Charlatans are from Northwich/Wolverhampton
The singer from the...
One of the things I like about Paul Draper’s music is the feeling it provokes that the whole thing’s about to collapse under the weight of its own pretensions. It’s probably not an intended reaction but it’s one of the reasons why I rate this album so highly. Obviously, the killer tunes don’t hurt.
That’s a great interview, with RD coming across almost exactly as I expected him to, and a timely reminder that I need to explore more of his stuff. Thanks for sharing it.
Mostly, I like the music-in fact, I’d say it’s probably his third or fourth best solo album. His voice is better than ever and there are some terrific arrangements on here. The lyrics aren’t top drawer Morrissey but I don’t think they're shockingly bad or even appreciably worse than anything...
Maybe it’s the sweet corn in my ears, but I’m not hearing it. On closer listening, there is what sounds like a flugelhorn in the background, but it’s so subtle as to be almost unnoticeable. To be honest, I suspect Moz just laid it on as, good vegan that he is, he wanted some entertainment for...
Not a lie as such but if you read most of the reviews without checking the ratings, you’d think they were talking about a four star album (fwiw I’d give ***, now I’ve had time to digest it and the peaks and troughs have coalesced into a homogeneous whole). It does feel as though they liked the...
The actual biggest lie is usually the star rating. The text of most of the reviews is very positive, but they’re invariably topped off by a **/*** rating which is belied by the content.
Pleased to be of service re: Spooky Action. It’s not in the same league as Six, but it is a very good record from an artist who never really got his due. One track’s a Dominic Chad co-write, too, which gives hope for the future.
In terms of my top 2, Peasant is one of the strangest and most...
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