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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard. 'Mediocre blogger and a piously boring and unfunny writer'. Enthusiastic purveyor of the KLF sheep.

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Song Of The Day – Jingle Bells by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Posted on 23/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Christmas Album’ (1968)

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged 60's, Christmas Album, Happy Christmas everyone, Herp Albert, Jingle Bells, Merry Christmas everyone, Song Of The Day, Tijuana Brass, X-mas | Leave a comment

Song Of The Day – The New Black by Roll The Dice

Posted on 20/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Roll The Dice’ (2010)

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged Electro, Piano loops, Pulsations, Roll The Dice, Song Of The Day, Swedish, Synths, The New Black, Winter Darkness | Leave a comment

Syria – how can you decide on a strategy when the question is unclear?

Posted on 15/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

It was no surprise that a vote in the House of Commons for the UK to join the military action against Islamic State in Syria was passed. The more pertinent questions about military intervention have followed; whether this is how … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Airstrikes, Assad, Civil War, Do the right thing - but what is that?, Inaction or Action?, Iraq legacy, Islamic State, Labour, Politics, SNP, Syria, The right to abstain, Tories | Leave a comment

Song Of The Day – Inner City Blues by Gil Scott-Heron

Posted on 13/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Reflections’ (1981)

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 80's, Funk, Gil Scott-Heron, Inner City Blues, Jazz, Mark Essex, Marvin Gaye redux, Reflections, Song Of The Day, Soul, The Siege Of New Orleans, Yeah answer an ad in the paper about houses for sale and get treated like Charles Manson out on bail | Leave a comment