Got me yet another plugin - this time, WP-scrobbler, which displays my recently played tracks, as listed at Audioscrobbler / lastfm. This place is starting to look a little cluttered now… time for a rejig of where all these natty little infobuckets should appear, methinks!
Music archive
According to iTunes, I currently have nearly 30Gb of music that I’ve never listened to…
In this Saturday’s Guardian entertainment supplement, The guide, Jonathan Leggett berated the soulless peril that is eBay, which he feels is taking the graft out of record-collecting. Here’s why he’s got it all wrong.
Coldplay. Why?
It’s a question that many people are asking, now more than ever. I don’t have the answer, but if you’re suffering from Coldplay, I can help. With my 5-step plan, you too can enjoy a better, brighter, Coldplay-free tomorrow.
Inspired by my ongoing attempt to compile a compilation of classic indie tracks, this evening I dug out the first CD I ever bought.
Released in 1990, I’m pretty sure The Charlatans debut album went to #1, which is not bad for a bunch of floppy haired Mancs treading quite heavily in the footsteps of The Stone Roses. But take that baggy sound, add a bit of organ, Inspiral Carpets style, lyric sheets straight off the Meaningless Indie Lyric auto-generator, the occasional nod towards classic English song-writing traditions (think simple 60s pop updated for the post-80s generation), and you have what still sounds to these ears like a damn fine album 15 years on.
But then I still listen to Slowdive and The Boo Radleys…
I’m normally not one for these 2CD compilations that you can now get, covering everything from this year’s best indie anthems to this year’s most popular classic tunes featured in toothpaste adverts, but I couldn’t resist picking up a copy of Acoustic 04 on a recent visit to Fopp. Well, £7 for 40 tracks is good value in anyone’s money, even if you probably already own most of the good tracks.
A few listens later, and feeling a little underwhelmed - apart from the wonderful Trouble by Ray LaMontagne, and All Years Leaving by The Stands, nothing particularly stood out for me, except tracks I already knew - and shocked that Fake Plastic Trees is still making it onto compilations, I set about putting together a tracklist for what I’d love to see Acoustic 05 sound like.