Woah, this might cause some ruffles, SMM being often/usually/mostly a rap and hip-hop free zone, with the name above capable of causing reso...

So which Jones do you want? Mick , Mick(e)y, Mike or Michael ? And which do you expect? Let's be honest, Jones isn't such an unusu...

King Crimson : The Court of the Crimson King [ purchase In The Court of the Crimson King ] Fairport Convention : Time Will Show The W...

purchase [ Redbud Tree ] I like Mark Knopfler. I mean .. I don't know him to like him in that sense, but from back in the days o...

As in they coulda/woulda/shoulda, Trees were the band Fairport Convention could have been if Dave Swarbrick hadn't been knocking ab...

Happy The Man : Stumpy Meets The Firecracker In Stencil Forest [ purchase ] It has been a while since I’ve written about prog rock, an...

(It's extraordinary the things you discover in this job, one being the difference a space between 2 words can make. And the similarit...

(Merle Haggard version above) purchase [ Tom Jones ] <Green, Green Grass of Home> may well be the first Trees/Grass song tha...

purchase [ Martin, Bogan & Armstrong ] This one appears to be a classic in its own realm, but - judging from the fact that severa...

Belly : Feed The Tree [ purchase ] Belly was a band formed by Tanya Donnelly, who had been in Throwing Muses and The Breeders. They ...

I am never quite sure whether I prefer New Order as a sound or as an idea. If it is the former, it is definitely the spindly treble of the b...

purchase  [ Chavez Ravine ] File under: Songs that reference baseball Ryland P Cooder has always gone out of his way. Gone ou...

I have so long wanted to do this post, the bassline, or is it the baseline, of the Stranglers being such a glorious sound. For about 10 year...

purchase [ Creedence Run Through the Jungle ] I have generally worked with the assumption that most basic (pop) songs are based on th...

When I read the theme announcement the other day, I thought, how about writing something that discusses how overused the phrase "the ...

Well I made a right pig's ear of that , didn't I? Did all my jiggery-pokery and pressed send, only to realise buddies KKafa and J.Da...

purchase [ Stone Flower ] Maybe "Stones That Rock" instead of "Stones That Roll"? I mean .. get up and dance (w...

purchase [ Papa Was a Rolling Stone ] I guess it's no surprise that there are more versions of this song than you can shake a st...

It seems apt that in the week the new Richard Curtis/Danny Boyle film arrived, to continue this thread in the same vein. So, just as 'Ye...

Rolling Stones : Rocks Off [ purchase ] Of all of the Rolling Stones songs out there (and eventually, we had to get to them on this th...