Music Quiz: Hide Your B Albums
Last week we hid our A albums, this week it’s time to hide your B albums. I scored 24/24, although I had to guess between Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World at the end. I had 5:04 remaining – can…
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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 Music Reviews: The Hard Quartet and The Smile
It’s a 1990s revival week but with sneaky aliases. The leaders from two of the 1990s most beloved guitar bands are back. Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus has released an album with The Hard Quartet. Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke are…
Wind It Up by Gwen Stefani
From No Doubt to Rodgers and Hammerstein … Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani was already an established star before she went solo. She sang for California ska-punk band No Doubt, fronting hits like ‘Don’t Speak’ and ‘Just a Girl’. Her solo…
Music Quiz: Hide Your A Albums
I don’t know what we will do with our lives now that almost 50 rounds of compilations are done. But we could try linking albums to artists. Even if you don’t know the albums, you should be able to link…
Nuggets: Respect by The Vagrants
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the two-album set Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from 1965 to 1968 and was a major influence…
10 Best Curtis Mayfield Solo Songs
Curtis Lee Mayfield started his recording career in the 1950s. He was a member of The Impressions, whose first single, ‘For Your Precious Love’, was released in 1958. He emerged as a songwriter in the 1960s with hits like ‘People…
Music Quiz: Greatest Hits L
It’s the final quiz in the series. It’s dedicated entirely to Beatles compilations. It’s a weird quiz, with some gimmes like 1 and The Blue Album, but also some tricky ones. Even people who know every Beatles song probably don’t…
New Music Reviews: Soccer Mommy and The Cure
This week’s selection of albums is dark but enjoyable. Soccer Mommy confronts loss on Evergreen, while an ageing Robert Smith wrestles with mortality on The Cure’s fourteenth album. Soccer Mommy Evergreen 2024, 8.5/10Evergreen feels like a return to basics for…
Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
These two descendants of Motown founder Berry Gordy aren’t actually sorry for party rocking. LMFAO The two members of LMFAO are descended from musical royalty. Redfoo is the youngest son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. Sky Blu is Gordy’s grandson.…
Music Quiz: Greatest Hits XLIX
Welcome back to the final conventional week of this epic series. There’s a number 50, but it’s dedicated entirely to Beatles’ compilations. Does anyone know why 49 isn’t IL in Roman numerals? I scored 13/20 this week. I struggled…
