Music Quiz: History in Song
Congratulations to Rich and Tony who both scored 25/25 in last week’s music video quiz. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the song based on the historical event that it profiles. I scored 19 The first few clues…
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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.
New Mistake by Jellyfish
There’s recently been a study released, based on streaming data from Spotify, that indicates that most people gravitate towards music that was released in their early teens. Females favour music that they first heard at the age of 13, and…
Music Quiz: 1980s Music Videos
Congratulations to everyone who scored 100% last week – Rich, Chris, J, Geoff, 2loud2old, and Tony. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the 1980s music video by the still. I scored 21/25, which was actually below the Sporcle…
Five Musicians who look like Librarians
There’s a stereotype in popular music of youth and charisma, but not everyone fits the mould. Here are five very talented individuals whose personal style choices are more suited to the public library than to the pop charts. Lisa Loeb…
Night So Long by HAIM
I’ve already discussed HAIM recently on this blog, and I still find their sunny harmonies like musical comfort food, but I had a startling epiphany about them during the week that I wanted to share. Here’s the cover of the…
Music Quiz – Dropped Albums
Congratulations to Aaron from who scored a perfect 20 in last week’s quiz. I think this week’s quiz will see a few full marks, but I wanted to feature it because it was so pretty. All you need to…
Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega
We’ve recently been away on a family road trip. My six year old is tolerant of different music, only once politely remarking that Steve Reich was “a bit boring”. But my three year old is fixated on children’s music and…
Music Quiz – Greatest Hits
Congratulations to Tony and to 2Loud2OldMusic, who both scored full marks in last week’s debut album quiz. This week we’re looking at the other end of artists’ careers – the compilation. Can you name the artists that released iconically titled…
Restoration Day by Deborah Makarios – Book Feature
Usually this blog focuses on music, but my sister-in-law, who’s a full time writer, just self-published her first novel. Deborah Makarios grew up in Papua New Guinea. After completing University, she gave up her burgeoning career in imports and exports…
The Classical by The Fall
Over the last fortnight, while on holiday, I’ve been reading an oral history of Rough Trade Records, who boasted acts like The Smiths, The Fall, The Strokes, and The Libertines. While on holiday, I also heard of the passing of…
