It’s been an interesting month for 1970s band reunions – first we had Fleetwood Mac drop Lindsey Buckingham, effectively becoming Fleetwood House and a Heartbreaker. And now ABBA have announced their first new music for 35 years, along with a…
Congratulations to Boppins and Tony, who scored the only 15/15s in last week’s quiz. This week’s quiz concerns duets. Pick the pair of artists responsible for each song at I’m not a big fan of all of the featured songs,…
My wife and I are away on our tenth wedding anniversary holiday this weekend. I wanted to post a song befitting the landmark, but I struggled to find anything appropriate. Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ten Years Gone ‘ has always felt autumnal…
We had lots of full scores in last week’s relatively easy quiz – congrats to Rich, Tony, jprobichaud, Chris, J., Bruce, introgroove, Geoff, and 2loud2oldmusic, who all scored 20/20 last week. This week’s quiz requires you to identify album covers…
After success with Th’ Dudes and DD Smash, Dave Dobbyn’s reputation took a hit with his involvement in the Queen Street riot. He rehabilitated his reputation with this classic song from an animated movie. Every country has a musical act…
Congratulations to Tony () who scored 19/20 in last week’s quiz. This week’s is a bit easier – it requires you to complete the band name by clicking on a picture. I scored 20/20, and I think there’ll be…
I’ve been recently reading about Rockism and Poptimism, two different schools of music criticism. It’s been interesting for me, both to understand my own personal biases and the biases behind other people’s music writing. The term Rockism was coined in…
The most interesting news story to emerge from New Zealand this weekend was an attempted monkey burglary at Wellington Zoo. Thieves broke into the squirrel monkey enclosure with bolt cutters, but were fought off by the small primates. Despite only…
I think last week’s Beatles quiz had a record number of entirely correct entries – well done Chris, introgroove, Geoff, Rich, Jim, and Bruce who all scored 100%. I for one found this week’s quiz a lot tougher – it’s…
It’s already Easter Sunday in New Zealand today, so it seems appropriate to cover a piece of music that I associate with Church. As soon as Church is over each Sunday, the vicar likes to hook his phone up to…
