It’s relatively easy to take a view on the influence and development of Black British music as directly beginning with … More
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Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #69 13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
Released: 1966 Most of the time the myth and the hype never quite fulfill each other, a lack of payoff … More
100 Best songs of the 60’s #70 Canned Heat – On The Road Again
Released: 1968 According to such luminaries as John Fahey and Pete Townshend, no other band than Canned Heat has done … More
Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band – Loophole review
Not many a musician’s autobiographies come with its own soundtrack, but as the saying goes, Mick Head isn’t many musicians. … More
Arab Strap – I’m Totally Fine With it…review
Aidan Moffatt feels like the guy you meet at a party who’s so intense in conversation that desperately the host … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #71 The Easybeats – Friday On My Mind
Released: 1967 The sixties might’ve seen a British invasion and an American reprisal like some sort of tit-for-tat musical boxing … More
LYLO – Thoughts of Never review
If the three horsemen of career apocalypse go something like take a long hiatus, change your sound and make a … More
Jessica Pratt – Here In The Pitch review
If you subscribe to the argument that not many people came out of the pandemic’s other side without experiencing change, … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #72 Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Released: 1967 There’s definitley an article written somewhere about hard luck stories and the noose of diminishing returns; many careers … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #73 Booker T & The M.G.’s – Green Onions
Released: 1962 It seemed that every 20th century generation had their instrumental, from Apache to Blue Monday and beyond, but … More
The Voice Of Unreason 