Category Archives: Essential Listening
Essential Listening: White Light/White Heat – The Velvet Underground (1968)
All the peaks of legendary acts from the sixties and seventies that you could mention – The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin – constituted a succession of flawless albums in short order. For the Beatles their … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Altamont 1969, Andy Warhol, Beggars Banquet, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Coney Island Baby, Essential Listening, Exile On Main St., Extremadura, Gen Z, Greenwich Village, Highway 61 Revisited, I Heard Her Call My Name, JFK, John Cale, John Wesley Harding, Lady Govina’s Operation, Led Zeppelin, Let It Be, Let It Bleed, Lord Lucan, Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Millennials, New York, No fifth VU album exists - got that?, Punk, Robert Shelton, Rubber Soul, Sandwich album, Serrano Ham, Sister Ray, Socialism, Songs for Drella, Sourdough, Sterling Morrison, Sticky Fingers, The Beatles, The Gift, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Transformer, Tupac, Wales, White Light/White Heat, William S. Burroughs
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Essential Listening: The Plateau Phase – Crispy Ambulance (1982)
Snobbery and decay, when it comes to music consumption preferences, for some this is the only way. Adopting such a tribalistic paradigm becomes ridiculous when taken to the extreme – because Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell aren’t Bob Dylan to … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Alan Hempsall, Are You Ready, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Comsat Angels, Concorde Square, Crispy Ambulance, Death from Above, Essential Listening, Federation, George Michael, Grosse Point Blank, Ian Curtis, Jobs for music snobs, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Mark E. Smith, Morrissey, New Order, Post Punk, Scott Walker, Simon’s Ghost, The Cure, The Fall, The Plateau Phase, The Presence, The taste police, Tony Wilson, Transmission, Travel Time, White Music, Wind Season, XTC
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Essential Listening: Brown Sugar – D’Angelo (1995)
Most folk only truly start to worry about their own mortality when people in their age cohort start to die. And it may be that the first one doesn’t set off the dread and fatalistic thoughts. For the obstinate hedonists … Continue reading
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Tagged 90's, Al Green, Black Messiah, Blackstar, Blackstreet, Bob Dylan, Brand Nubian, Brown Sugar, Charlie “The Machine” Sheen, D'Angelo, David Bowie, De La Soul, Donny Hathaway, Erykah Badu, Essential Listening, G-Funk and Death Row Records, Gangstarr, Gold Experience, Marvin Gaye, Michael Eugene Archer, Missy Elliott, Mobb Deep, Narcissism, New Jack Swing, Ohio Players, Outkast, Prince Rogers Nelson, Rest In Power, Sign 'O' The Times, Steve Irwin, The Beatles, The days before Sean Combs and R Kelly went all Jeff Epstein, The Rolling Stones, TLC, Tribe Called Quest, Voodoo, Wu-Tang
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