This is pretty much the entire tick-list of what my favourite deep-dive music writing does. @djpunctum.bsky.socialnobilliards.blogspot.com/2024/08/geor...
With every album we've reissued on Needle Mythology, we've tried to make it the definitive, best-case-scenario, did-I-dream-that? version. This extensively annotated 3LP remaster of The Lilac Time's Astronauts is the apogee of that approach. 'Labour of love' scarcely covers it. See link below.
Sarcastic catherine wheel from my Apple watch for getting up off the sofa. Yes Freddie, this is the world we created.
Same. I’ve listened to more Lilac Time and solo SD than any other artist in my life. Astronauts in particular is the thing I will never go a week without, still. On cassette.
Well, quite. The Coral will have to try a lot harder than that to lose me.
Me neither. And now The Coral are dead to me.
Vinyl has reached peak zoetrope.
If you're interested, you can read the extensive interview I conducted with David Gilmour and Polly Samson ahead of the release of David's beautiful new album Luck And Strange. Link: medium.com/p/2f97df8c995f
Oh god yes! This pretty much ended me at the time. The Barlow impersonation to end all Barlow impersonations. And the little Macca nose-scratchy ooh-yeahs! Thanks for the reminder!
Just a reminder of the single greatest thing that happened during lockdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbM...
YouTube video by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons