Less on, more been, my excuse is down to the scourge of IT. (Others may vary.) As far as I’m concerned, the IT superhighway can go take one....

Television : Little Johnny Jewel [ purchase ]  I scanned my list of potential subjects for this theme (read my last post if you don’t kn...

Jon Hassell/Brian Eno : Chemistry [ purchase ]  Kansas : Cheyenne Anthem [ purchase ] Brand X : Nuclear Burn [ purchase ]  Part of it, ...

Duty bound to prop up this side of the atlantic, with candy, like movies and garbage, an americanism that has crept in and gained an increas...

  purchase [ Talking Heads:77 ] It hasn't been easy finding a Talking Heads song that has not appeared on SMM before. A veritable Who...

Have you ever realised how many Jones's there are in music. And I don't mean performers, I mean in the material. Is it the commonest...

Concrete Blonde : Joey [ purchase ]  One of the things that made Joe Biden a compelling candidate (other than the fact that most people l...

Talking Heads : Don’t Worry About The Government [ purchase ]  I am sooooooo worried about the government.  Four years ago, relying on pr...

Human Sexual Response : 12345678910   [ purchase ]  Did I ever see Human Sexual Response live? Did I interview them at WPRB? I have no mem...

purchase [ Speaking in Tongues ] It seemed such a no-brainer to include Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues that I feared it had alread...

Adrian Belew : The Ideal Woman [ purchase ] To some extent, this is a tricky theme for a blog that currently appears to have only ma...

  Sting : Shadows In The Rain (studio version) [ purchase ] For those who remember 2012, I mentioned in a post that one of the first...

Talking Heads (from Stop Making Sense) : Girlfriend is Better [ purchase CD ] [ purchase DVD ] Director Jonathan Demme died last w...

In a year in which we lost David Bowie, Prince, Merle Haggard, two thirds of ELP, Paul Kantner, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Maurice W...

Anyone who reads my stuff would probably have bet on an In Memoriam post about the late Daevid Allen, of Soft Machine and Gong, who died ...

purchase [ Once In A Lifetime ] The Element: Water redux I really thought Retropath was headed down the right path when he started ...

Brian Eno : King’s Lead Hat [ purchase ] If you only think of Brian Eno as the guy who does those long, ambient pieces, let me introdu...

David Byrne: Eyes Wide Open [ purchase ] Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love [ purchase ] Jerry Harrison: Slink [ purchase ] Wh...

[Purchase] In the 1980's most indie rockers didn't dwell on love songs. To truly provide an alternative to the crap on ma...

!!!: " The Step " [ Purchase ] When it comes to punctuation in music, it doesn't get any more, uh, punctuated, than the ...