The Best Music Recommender in the World (G, Mega all-in version)
So, as you may have noticed, I wasn’t well last week. I wasn’t particularly ill. I just had a stinking headache. But I didn’t think it was fair to anyone
Birds from your window. Magpie.
Remember in the olden days, when magpies stole your jewellery and decided the sex of your unborn child and got super involved with all the witchcraft that was probably going
Ben’s Brilliant Best Albums of the 1990s. No. 65. Scarce – Dead Sexy
Everyone has got one of these. When you are sixteen or so, a band will arrive from nowhere and suddenly be everywhere. Then, record companies will find any band that
Birds from your window. Swallow.
Swallows, martins, swifts. The pointy birds. Vladimir Nabokov described them as ‘scissoring’ the sky and it is a beautiful idea, the thought of the birds cutting cleanly through the sky
Ben’s Brilliant Best Albums of the 1990s. No. 67. Lou Reed and John Cale – Songs for Drella
I don’t think I am being particularly controversial when I say that Lou Reed’s musical output over his fifty-year-ish career was varied in quality. The highs are pretty high, the
Ben’s Brilliant Best Albums of the 1990s. No. 68. The Geraldine Fibbers – Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home
The second track on Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home, The Small Song, features the single best vocal performance of the nineties. There. I said it. That power.
