October 29th, 2012
Whilst listening to one of my favourite podcasts (The Nerdist), guest Tom Hanks made reference to The Bee Gees “Sgt Pepper” album selling more copies than The Beatles original. A horrible statistic but one which I can imagine being true. Unfortunately. I’d heard of the film, and knew it’s basic history but never actually heard [...]
November 29th, 2010
I think the “Album of the month” feature will take a break – after one appearance! There was me thinking I might need something to write about every day so introduced it. There’s so much I want to talk about, finding the time to commit it all to ‘paper’ is the hard part. Anyway… here [...]
November 26th, 2010
Which idiot suggested a 14 track album for album of the month? Oh yeah… me. Anyway, to ensure I feature all the tracks before the end of November, here’s a run down of tracks 7-10: “She Said She Said”, “Good day Sunshine”, “And your bird can sing” and “For No One.” It’s not such a [...]
November 23rd, 2010
“What do you mean we have to let Ringo sing one??” When asked if he was the best drummer of the 60s, John Lennon replied that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles. And I think it’s fair to say he was the fourth best singer. But if I’m going to feature every [...]
November 22nd, 2010
(I’d better get my skates on if I’m going to cover all 14 songs by the end of the month!) Right, it’s so sickly sweet that listening to it three times in a row could induce a diabetic coma but it is nice: “Here, There and Everywhere” is one of McCartney’s prettiest love songs. Even [...]
November 18th, 2010
Woah, dig George and his crazy sitar tunes… only track 4 and already George has got a second song on the album. (As an aside, I do have a theory that if he hadn’t joined The Beatles and – you know had to compete with one of the greatest songwriting partnerships of all time – [...]
November 16th, 2010
So, this graphic is currently adorning the Apple home page, as well as featuring prominently within the iTunes application. Any guesses? My money’s on a streaming service of some kind. Ever since Apple bought Lala, there’s been an expectation that iTunes would integrate its’ streaming technology. Maybe today’s the day it happens? Music? Movies? TV? [...]
November 10th, 2010
Last August, when Oasis imploded like they were always destined to do, most people focussed on what band leader and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher was going to do next. So far, not much. And it’s possibly quite telling that the rest of Oasis – Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock – didn’t [...]
November 7th, 2010
Right, nice song George, don’t call us Paul… time for Johnny boy to have a track. “I’m only sleeping” is about the joys of, well, staying in bed and having a snooze. The dreamlike state of the track is helped by Harrison’s guitar solo which he recorded backwards. Yes, not content with being a great [...]
November 5th, 2010
“Day 2, in the Revolver house… and Ross is creating a downbeat tone with the second track from this fantastic album.” Personally, I’m not a big fan of “Eleanor Rigby”. It’s just so, well, down. There’s nothing wrong with depressing music as such – I like The Smiths and Joy Division for example – but [...]