Tag Archives: Bob Dylan
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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Essential Listening: Best of Jan Jelinek
It all started with a Secret Thirteen mix in 2014. Before this I’d never heard of Jan Jelinek, and truthfully, the only reason I even gave it a chance was superficial – the disparate track list, and that I recognized … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 was eleven years ago - FML, Bandcamp, Basic Channel, Bernard Parmegiani, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Butlins, Coil, Damien Hirst, Dean Blunt, DJ Sprinkles, Do you know Otahiti, Essential Listening, Farben, Frank Zappa, Germany, Improvisation and Edits Tokyo, Jan Jelinek, Japan, Jazz fragments, Jimi Hendrix, Kompakt, Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, LSD music, Muslimgauze, Oval, Pitchfork, Richard D. James, Secret Thirteen, Shat on by a seagull at Butlins, Soulseek, Soundcloud, Subbuteo, Textstar+, The Orb
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Essential Listening: Voices Of Freedom – Bob Dylan, Ron Wood & Keith Richards (1985)
I’ve been meaning to focus on this one for a while. It’s been prompted by reading the illustrated edition of Robert Shelton’s Bob Dylan – No Direction Home, which I got from my aunt at Christmas. You can buy it … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Careless Ethiopians, David Essex, Essential Listening, Fine Young Cannibals, Fleetwood Mac, Get Back, Judas Priest, Keith Richards, Live Aid, London, Michael Hedges, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Philadelphia, Robert Shelton, Ronnie Wood, Soulseek, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, Voices Of Freedom, YouTube
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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