"I mean, really, the very idea of a Morrissey top ten song list. Morrissey devotees will have their own firmly fixed notions. Those for whom the very thought of Morrissey music is a matter of supreme indifference won’t care" READ ON
I wondered if she’d somehow slipped through a hole in time and encountered the infant Kate Bush. Kate would, of course, get round to sharing the songs about snow with us eventually... READ ON
"a superbly skilled guitarist with a delicacy of touch and a mastery of tone which only the very best of his contemporaries could match..." READ ON
The Auteurs
"Should you chance upon a moustachioed, top-hatted silhouette tying some fair maiden to the railway tracks, you’re not going to have to search far and wide for a culprit. Luke Haines did it. And he isn’t about to apologise."One of our most clicked posts this month
Broken Links
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Just some of the artists
we'd like to see on here
who haven't appeared yet...!
Muddy Waters | Squeeze | Woody Guthrie | R.E.M. | Lester Young | Joe Cocker | Kirsty MacColl | Robert Wyatt | The Zombies | Augustus Pablo | Laura Cantrell | Mercury Rev | Sandy Denny | Pulp | Happy Mondays | Patti Smith | Sarah Vaughan | Porcupine Tree | Television | The Coral | Dizzy Gillespie | Roberta Flack | Hank Williams | Lynyrd Skynyrd | New York Dolls | Amy Winehouse | Flaming Lips | Jacques Brel | Jelly Roll Morton ...
Coming soon
Natalie Merchant, Galley Beggar, Lene Lovich, Beck, Nils Frahm, Serge Gainsbourg, Black Box Recorder, Little Milton, Electric Light Orchestra, James Yorkston, The Cribs, Talking Heads, Bill Nelson, Neil Diamond, Luke Haines, Manic Street Preachers, Kirsty MacColl, Chameleons, Stealers Wheel, Swell Maps ...
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