Tag Archives: The Beatles

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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Essential Listening: Special Herbs, The Box Set – Volumes 0-9 – MF Doom (2012)

There’s been a cluster of celebrity deaths in the last week or so; Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump’s political career (who said Jeffrey Epstein was all bad?). The death of Daniel Dumile, aka MF Doom, a few years … Continue reading

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Song Of The Day – The Best Songs Of 2023

Well, you made it through Christmas without getting food poisoning, or having a fist fight with a family member, right? If not, you can console yourself with the knowledge that you’ll laugh about it some day and I’ve got ten … Continue reading

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Charles Manson was a person too

It was fitting that he’d finally decide to go through with it right as the rambunctious crescendo of ‘Socialist Suicide’, with its violent imagery of scabs committing various forms of the act in the safe heavens of their homogenised suburban … Continue reading

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Essential Listening: What’s Going On [Deluxe Edition] – Marvin Gaye (2001)

On “What’s Going On” as you approach the end of ‘Right On’ you’re already in complete agreement with Marvin’s lament at society’s incremental dystopia caused by ideological factionism, and of his will not to be cowed into pessimism. You’ve been carried … Continue reading

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