1979 was one of those amazing years in music that just makes the jaw hit the floor. When it comes to albums the year was chock full of stone cold classics. At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and [...]
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Music: Flashback – The Best Songs of 1979
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and especially the nineties – punk, funk, disco, pop all rubbed shoulders along with the first stirrings of hip-hop. It’s also the year Sony’s Walkman would hit the market, revolutionizing the way [...]
Music Flashback! The Best Albums of 1969
Sunday, April 5, 2009
For our latest flashback we take you on a trip back to 1969 – the year of Woodstock and Altamont when peace and love co-existed with the fallout of the turbulence of the previous year’s wave of assassinations, the election of Richard Nixon, and the continuing trauma of the Vietnam War.
It was a rich year [...]
Music: Franz Ferdinand Finds Their Bottom (End)
Friday, February 20, 2009
My initial response to Franz Ferdinand’s third album, titled perversely (for a non-live album) Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was tempered by the pre-release press and band statements that suggested a major sea-change for the band.
Lo and behold, on first listen there are some departures but this is very recognizably the work of the Scotsmen who gave [...]
Music: The Best Albums of the 00s 25- 1
Thursday, December 23, 1999
25.Black Francis – Bluefinger
Reviving the Pixies seemed to re-spark a hunger for Black Francis (aka Frank Black) so much so that he reverted to his previous moniker and dropped a blazing solo record that was the equal of his best work solo or otherwise. This is no Pixies self-imitation though – Black uses all the [...]