Years ago, in the infancy of the mainstream internet, I used to be interested in the goings on over at the F***YouCrew. Essentially the F***YouCrew was a live journal community of musical elitists. To join the community, you needed to…
It’s a fair bet that Queen’s Brian May is the only person to have achieved a number one pop song and a PhD in Astrophysics. He combined these two skill-sets in ”39′, an album track from 1975’s A Night At…
Congratulations to all the competitors who scored full marks in last week’s quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to complete an epic countdown – make sure you have a spare ten minutes before starting. What can you score out…
I grew up in, and still live in, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a satellite city of the capital Wellington. Like your average satellite city, it can feel like a cultural vacuum, full of sprawling suburbia – if you want to…
Rickie Lee Jones is a one hit wonder in the eyes of the public; she charted with the jazzy, breezy ‘Chuck E.’s In Love’ from her 1979 debut album, which established her bohemian credentials, dating Tom Waits and wearing a beret.…
Congratulations to all of the contestants who scored full marks in last week’s dropped album quiz. This week’s challenge requires you to link the rain themed lyric to the classic rock song. I scored 14/16 – how did you…
By the mid 1980s, The Clash were in disarray – musical lynch-pin Mick Jones had been fired from the group, and impresario Bernard Rhodes was back pulling the strings. The resulting album, 1985’s Cut The Crap, was widely derided, and…
Congratulations to the plethora of contestants who scored full marks in last week’s Unfinished Albums quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to recognise 16 dropped albums. I scored 16/16 – can you join me on full marks? If you…
The Eagles emerged from California in the early 1970s, initially as Linda Ronstadt’s backing band for her album Silk Purse. They were massively successfully, with a string of chart-topping singles and albums. In particular, their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is one…
Written by guitarist Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, ‘Kashmir’ is one of Led Zeppelin’s most well known and best loved tracks. It’s from their sixth studio album, the sprawling double Physical Graffiti. As well as the Eastern scales than Page…
