If Music Could Talk

. I was quite surprised that more seemed to pick The Who over the Stones. I said I thought that might be one of those occasional differences in transatlantic taste, and that I couldn't imagine many British fans thinking that. Is it still the case that the Clash I more revered in the States than her...

I fit them into the same lot as a bunch of the late 80s, early 90s corporate "Alt-rock" bands. See also: James, 4 Non Blondes, Deep Blue Something, Toad and the Wet Sprocket, etc... The sort of shit that plays in the soundtrack of shitty romantic comedies. I was thinking today of what I would put i...

What do you guys think are the best books on the Stones? Is Bill Wyman's "Stone Alone" worth checking out? They say he goes into a lot of boring detail. but as it's based on his diaries of the time there must also be some fascinating details for fans as well. I liked Sean Egan's books, even though ...

A bit cheeky to ask for a re-up on my first post, but if you don't ask you don't get. I'm surprised some people here saying they didn't like "Gangsterville". I bought the "Gangsterville" and "Trash City" singles when they first came out and loved them so much I bought the albums. And I wasn't a Cla...

What do you guys think are the best books on the Stones? Is Bill Wyman's "Stone Alone" worth checking out? They say he goes into a lot of boring detail. but as it's based on his diaries of the time there must also be some fascinating details for fans as well. I liked Sean Egan's books, even though I...

As a nostalgia buff i keep all my old k tel and compilation pop albums and it's very striking how great the ones from around 78 onwards and how mediocre they start getting after around 83. The first 2 or 3 Now That's... were just about decent, after that not sure they're worth bothering about. So o...

These right-wingers aren't just stupid and incompetent, they're bloody lazy as well.

Not necessarily conspiratorial, but the amount of usually rational people I hear say something along the lines of "thank god for Big Pharma...theyre the ones taking the risks, they're saving the world and deserve their profits etc", this stuff really boils my piss tbh. All these vaccines were resea...

Both. Aladdin Sane/Transformer/New York Dolls/Billion Dollar Babies/Raw Power/Quadrophenia/Mott/The Harder They Come Just some of the great albums I love from '73. Yeah. I would have used a better example than 1973. Maybe 1975 or 1987. I think it's all about what we look for in music. And what we l...

If The Clash were not rock n roll fans I doubt London Calling would exist. That album owes more to the 50s than it does the 70s. It's that 20 year cycle thing. I don't go to many gigs, they're usually too loud for me lol But I went to a London pub/club in the early noughties and saw four rock bands...

It's easy to pick out years where things just click. 64-69, 77-82 and so on. But there's a shit ton of great music you would be denying yourself if you stuck to those years. Of course, but in the sense that there was a goddamned embarrassment of riches, where you think, "Christ, to have been caught...

So much is to do with age. This is partially true but I was 18 in 1987 and hated the music of that era, then and now. Whereas I was yet to be born in 1966/67 and love the music from that era. My favourite year is 1979 when I was 10 and a stupid little bastard into breaking windows and playing footb...

Not necessarily conspiratorial, but the amount of usually rational people I hear say something along the lines of "thank god for Big Pharma...theyre the ones taking the risks, they're saving the world and deserve their profits etc", this stuff really boils my piss tbh. All these vaccines were resea...

I'd agree with those statements but the golden age was 78-84 for me. The 80s definitely jumped the shark in 1985. 77–82 is the high point, in no small part because the music industry was in crisis and so let a whole lot of weird stuff past the sentries. Once the biz re-found its footing, the walls ...

I'd say with Eighties Pop the prime time was probably 1982 to 1986. Then it was ruined by ruined by Stock, Aitken and Waterman. I'd agree with those statements but the golden age was 78-84 for me. The 80s definitely jumped the shark in 1985. 77–82 is the high point, in no small part because the mus...