Normally my method for finding new music is to read about it, add it to a playlist, and listen to it over until I enjoy it. Normally this works well – I enjoyed all of the 51 albums that I…
Welcome to week 15 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 14 Total Sheik Yerbouti 19 276 Tony 18 274 Geoff (1001) 18 264 jprobichaud 16 263 Rich Kamerman 17 261 Max (badfinger20) 17…
Writing about Dire Straits’ discography this week, I learned that 1985’s Brothers in Arms was one of ten albums nominated in 2010 for the title of best British album of the previous 30 years. I was especially intrigued by a…
There was a lot of great pop music in the 1960s, and Birmingham psychedelic rock band The Move are overlooked among the rush. They never made an impression in the US where the band they morphed into, Electric Light Orchestra,…
Welcome to week 14 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 13 Total Sheik Yerbouti 20 257 Tony 20 256 jprobichaud 18 247 Geoff (1001) 19 246 Rich Kamerman 19 244 John (2loud2old) 19…
The lock-down album is something we’ll presumably see more of over the next few months. As far as I’m aware, the first 2020 lock-down record from a major artist is from English pop auteur Charli XCX. Charli, born Charlotte Aitchison,…
Welcome to week 13 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 12 Total Sheik Yerbouti 19 237 Tony 20 236 jprobichaud 19 229 Geoff (1001) 18 227 Scott 18 226 Rich Kamerman 18 225…
Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega emerged in the mid-1980s after serving an apprenticeship in folk music in New York’s Greenwich Village. Her introspective and gentle songs were immediately successful at a time when singer-songwriters weren’t popular. Her first two albums spawned hits…
Sometimes a record is so jammed with great songs that something worthy has to be shipped out to a b-side. Despite its huge success, Peter Gabriel’s So isn’t one of those records. Singles like ‘Red Rain’ and ‘Sledgehammer’ are terrific,…
Welcome to week 12 in the Sporcle Spotify challenge. Here are the results so far: Participant Week 11 Total Sheik Yerbouti 20 218 Tony 19 216 jprobichaud 19 210 Geoff (1001) 19 209 Scott 19 208 Rich Kamerman 19 207…
