Walk On By – Isaac Hayes
My walk to work this week has been different than usual. Can any of my perceptive readers guess which city I’ve been working in? This clue is a red herring, as I haven’t actually been working in Liverpool: I had…
Aphoristical
Graham Fyfe has been writing this website since his late teens. Now in his forties, he's been obsessively listening to albums for years. He works as a web editor and plays the piano.
Music Quiz: Lego
Congratulations to Music Enthusiast Jim, who successfully named 35 of the 37 women in the rock and roll hall of fame. This week’s quiz requires you to name the musical acts from their Lego representations. I scored 20/20, and…
The French Inhaler by Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon was an industry veteran by the time he made his major-label debut in 1976. He’d toured with the Everly Brothers as their band leader, and was rooming with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1975. Jackson Browne had…
Music Quiz: Women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Tony, who smoked the rest of the field in the tricky song title quiz last week. This week’s quiz requires you to guess the women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with song hints. Remember that…
Radiohead Albums: Ranked from Worst to Best
The members of Radiohead formed the band at high school – they were originally named On A Friday, reflecting their practice regime at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire. It took them an album to find their feet – debut Pablo Honey contained…
Screwed by Janelle Monáe featuring Zoe Kravitz
Up until this year’s Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe’s entire musical career has consisted of Afro-Futurist concept albums, based around her alter-ego Cindi Mayweather. But with Dirty Computer, Monáe’s created a much more personal album, expressing her political and sexual concerns; she.…
Music Quiz: Song Title Not In Lyrics
Congratulations to 1001 Albums Geoff, who won the music quiz for a second straight week, scoring 42/90 in joining the bands name. This week’s quiz requires you to guess the song title from some lyrics – all these songs have…
Hit Me Like You Did The First Time by The Flaming Lips
With all the success The Flaming Lips enjoyed with their layered, emotional Pet Sounds-inspired albums like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, it’s easy to forget that they started back in the 1990s, as a raw, psychedelic guitar band. This song,…
Music Quiz: Make the Band Name
Congratulations to 1001 Albums Geoff, who scored full marks in last week’s tough singer geography quiz. This week you need to put together 9 letter band names. Normally I don’t find time a problem, but this week I really…
Mark Prindle’s Greatest Hits
Between 1996 and 2011, Mark Prindle wrote thousands of album reviews for his website, www.markprindle.com. His reviews were often focused just as much on humour as they were on music, as his stream of consciousness style was over the top…
