purchase [Steve Hackett's Darktown ] I memorized the lyrics to Selling England and still have them in my head to this day. I love...

Well, clearly I had to sneak this in as the shutters pull down, ashtrays empty and lights go out. Prompted by J.David's last post , his ...

Semisonic : Closing Time [ purchase ] One reason that people love listening to music, particularly older music, is that songs, like sm...

Purchase: Goat's Head Soup , Highway to Hell , Purple Rain , Who's Next It's been a while since I've posted on SMM. N...

purchase [ Anthology I ,  Anthology II   ] I have done a post or two about the Beatles here , here and here before: one of my most fel...

Tautology, surely? Isn't air always open? Or, put another way, what is closed air? Apart from this being little more than contrived open...

Renaissance : Opening Out [ purchase ] It’s been a while since I’ve reached into my prog-rock bag, so let’s talk about Renaissance. I...

Late to the game as ever, here I am banging on about closing the honky-tonks, just as some sectors are begging for them to be opened up agai...