Welcome to week 18 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far – the big mover this week is Scott, who emailed in a few weeks at once. Participant Week 17 Total Sheik Yerbouti 19 332 Tony…
Stewart Copeland, Sting, and Andy Summers were all veteran musicians when they formed The Police in London in 1977. Copeland had drummed for progressive rock band Curved Air, Sting had played in the jazz fusion band Last Exit, while Summers’…
Welcome to week 17 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far -congratulations to Geoff Stephen for a 20 on a tough quiz last week: Participant Week 16 Total Sheik Yerbouti 19 313 Tony 19 312 Geoff…
Three reviews of May releases – the pop/rock of Manchester’s The 1975, the synth-pop of Canada’s Carly Rae Jepsen, and the Americana of Alabama’s Jason Isbell. I’ve already a fan of all three artists, hence the quicker than usual turnaround.…
Chicago’s Jamila Woods is a writer and a recording artist, and as such she’s able to sing eloquently about racial issues. Her second album, 2019’s Legacy! Legacy!, was a neo-soul masterpiece, so recently I’ve gone back to her 2016 debut…
Welcome to week 16 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 15 Total Sheik Yerbouti 18 294 Tony 19 293 Geoff (1001) 17 281 jprobichaud 17 280 Rich Kamerman 17 278 John (2loud2old) 18…
Normally my method for finding new music is to read about it, add it to a playlist, and listen to it over until I enjoy it. Normally this works well – I enjoyed all of the 51 albums that I…
Welcome to week 15 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 14 Total Sheik Yerbouti 19 276 Tony 18 274 Geoff (1001) 18 264 jprobichaud 16 263 Rich Kamerman 17 261 Max (badfinger20) 17…
Writing about Dire Straits’ discography this week, I learned that 1985’s Brothers in Arms was one of ten albums nominated in 2010 for the title of best British album of the previous 30 years. I was especially intrigued by a…
There was a lot of great pop music in the 1960s, and Birmingham psychedelic rock band The Move are overlooked among the rush. They never made an impression in the US where the band they morphed into, Electric Light Orchestra,…
