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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2025

Posted on 21/12/2025 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’m not sure what’s more concerning, that, without checking, I can’t remember all the albums which made my Best Releases Of 2024 list, or that it seems only yesterday that I was writing that column. From now on, instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 2025, 808 State, Akira, Alex James cosplaying a country Tory, Avocados costing £2.50 each, Björk, Blade Runner, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Boomkat, Brainwashing, Brexit, Canadian Loon, Christmas, Colombian, David Rawlings, Decius, DJ Sprinkles, Do You Radio, Ducktails, Duval Timothy, Erasure, Essential Listening, Factory Floor, Fat White Family, Gillian Welch, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Goldie, Hugh B, I Care Because I Do, Iceland, Japanese, KiF Productions, Lias Saoudi, Live From 71, Los Pirañas, Múm, New Year, Nostalgia, Oasis, Pigs, Queerification & Ruins; Collected Remixes (Expanded Edition), Reissue, Richard D. James, Richard D. James Album, Robert Wyatt, Shrinking Twix, Simon Fisher Turner, Sochi Terada, Soft Cell, Stereolab, Still Out, Terre Thaemlitz, The Modern Pop Ensemble, Timeless, Tiny Desk Concert, TV Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993, Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida, Vinyl snobs, Vol II (Splendour & Obedience), Warm Leatherette, Will Long, Wishful Thinking, Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK, You Go To The Middle Of Nothing | Leave a comment

So, in almost eight years of blogging, what’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve written?

Posted on 31/03/2021 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

The older I get the more I hurry when doing mundane tasks. Often I attempt to do three things at once and in a fragmented mess fail to conclude any of them, that or I carry a general anxiety that … Continue reading →

Posted in Odds & Ends, Politics | Tagged Alex Salmond, Blogging, Cancel culture wankers, Ched Evans, Dog Turd, Doing a Peter Sutcliffe in GTA V, Glasgow windaes, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Jürgen Klopp, Kevin Spacey, Madelaine McCann syndrome, Michael Jackson, Off The Wall, SNP inertia, The Usual Suspects, Thriller, WLWASIOH | Leave a comment

Tired of politics? #Me too

Posted on 30/09/2019 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

My political engagement has waned in recent times. Is my assimilation into the capitalist matrix complete and was it always inevitable? Clearly cynical concerns have asserted prominence at the expense of altruistic diligence; be it training to (hopefully) improve my … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged #I quit, #Me Too - but yeah not you, Alec Baldwin, Attention. Interest. Decision. Action., B&Q have nothing in stock, Brexit is intractable, daft sub-Reddit, Danny Dyer Header? #Er what?, David Icke can see George Soros is a lizard, Did I get the right Baldwin?, George Soros is a lizard, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Goldie Looking Chain, Goldie Looking Chain groupthink, It was either Danny Dyer or David Icke. Icke might have been funnier., Knuckle duster yerself, New Stateman's erudite Champagne Socialist columnists with their Firsts from Oxford are a waste of skin, Nigel Farage, Nye Bevan, Politics, Soundbar audio-return-channel specifications are...something?, The Paul Pogba epiphany, This piece is really crap - sorry, Tired of Brexit, Why did shagpile go out of fashion? Maybe Brexit will save us all and bring it back? | Leave a comment