Well, this is a first, as I have never knowingly sat and listened to anything by this venerable institution of a band, finding the pictures ...

purchase[ the album ] The first records for Star Maker Machine in the Wayback Machine date back to 2008. That's less than the ...

Magazine : Twenty Years Ago [ purchase ] I’m pretty sure that I first started paying attention to the band Magazine in 1981, when thei...

OK, OK, a bit obvious, but I can think of a dozen and two thirds reasons why it has legs aplenty, perhaps even enough for two crabs. Plus, a...

Tony Glover is one of those who influence behind the scenes- not a name that most people have heard. However, people in the music busi...

It is the early to mid '70s, an awkward time for the awkward young men with a penchant for the music of the day and earlier. Probably a ...

Fats Domino : The Fat Man [ purchase ] Despite Nashville’s self-proclaimed title as Music City, I think that New Orleans might have a ...

A deceptively simple song, with a picked acoustic guitar and a rudimentary organ, a repetitive whisper, barely crooning over the top, yet...

purchase [ Goats Head Soup] My memory told me that <Goats Head Soup> followed <Exile on Main Street>. Must have been one o...

purchase [ Stadium Arcadium ] And here I thought this song was all about winter conditions. It was my son who introduced me to the R...

We interrupt the Ice & Snow theme for our fifth annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually)...

Quite a metaphor, that, uncertain which is the dominant force, whether it is sugar sweetening the destructive power of an iceberg, or a the...

Hüsker Dü : Ice Cold Ice [ purchase ] There are many truisms in the world of music fandom, and one of them is that when a “punk” band s...

When I think of snow and ice, I think of Scotland. And when I think of Scotland, I think of Jackie Leven. Yes, I have mentioned him before ...

Rockpile : A Knife and Fork [ purchase ] I took some time off from this blog over the summer, so for the Leftovers theme I’m trying ...

I initially thought I wouldn't make it to this party, my macbook's hard disk seeming to be in dire need of  palliative care, the ici...

purchase [ the song ] So... I get the first  slot: a mix of Family and Leftovers. Since the <family> theme is officially over ...

OK, just a quick one, mainly because I cannot believe we have got this far in a thread themed 'Family' with no mention of Leicest...

The Ramones : We’re A Happy Family [ purchase ] After a few prog-related posts in a row, we need a little punk palate cleanser, righ...