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Roll Of Honour

Category: Culture

Chariots Of Ire
Culture, Indie, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, The Fall, Vinyl

Chariots Of Ire

A proper Fall review for all of us maladjusted little monkeys. Continue reading Chariots Of Ire

Would You Keep It? Would You Eat It?
Culture, Indie, Lemonheads, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Would You Keep It? Would You Eat It?

An LP best eaten, or best kept? our hero deliberates. Continue reading Would You Keep It? Would You Eat It?

29 Year Itch
Circus of Power, Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

29 Year Itch

Our hero gets to satisfy 29 years worth of secret yearning in one go. Continue reading 29 Year Itch

Foux Du Fafa
Culture, Flight of the Conchords, Music, Self-indulgent nonsense

Foux Du Fafa

Monsieur mille cinq cent trente sept is back dans la maison MF’s! Continue reading Foux Du Fafa

Exile On Man Street
Culture, Indie, Liz Phair, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rolling Stones, Swearing, Vinyl

Exile On Man Street

Because Phair’s fair, innit? Continue reading Exile On Man Street

1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review (Slight Return)
Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Rolling Stones, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review (Slight Return)

Because he messed it up. Fool. Continue reading 1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review (Slight Return)

1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review
Culture, Humour, Lego, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Rolling Stones, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review

The full text from my 2014 paper – A Contextual Analysis of Contemporary Marxist Feminist Views on Exile On Main Street. Continue reading 1537 vs. Exile On Main Street: The Full Unabridged, Unexpurgated Review

Life Ain’t Nothing But Beaches And Money
Culture, Music, Neil Young, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Life Ain’t Nothing But Beaches And Money

What is a beach? When can one say one is truly on one? Neil knows. Continue reading Life Ain’t Nothing But Beaches And Money

2000 Brain Cells Ago
Culture, DC Basehead, Hip Hop, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

2000 Brain Cells Ago

‘Copacabana?! Oh baby, this is soul night!’ Continue reading 2000 Brain Cells Ago

The Sun Oslo Rises
Culture, Gluecifer, Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

The Sun Oslo Rises

Goats, Boats, shit and hash: Gluecifer, a fun day out for all the family. Continue reading The Sun Oslo Rises

Frequency Issues
Aerosmith, Culture, David Bowie, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

Frequency Issues

A load of self-indulgent nonsense. Go read a proper post. Continue reading Frequency Issues

Toe-tappin’, Twangin’, Pluckin’
Culture, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Toe-tappin’, Twangin’, Pluckin’

Warning: Post contains more twang than my knicker elastic. Fact. Continue reading Toe-tappin’, Twangin’, Pluckin’

I Haven’t Fucked Much With The Past, But I’ve Fucked Plenty With The Future
Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Patti Smith Group, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

I Haven’t Fucked Much With The Past, But I’ve Fucked Plenty With The Future

Spoiler Alert: our young hero writes about an LP he likes. Continue reading I Haven’t Fucked Much With The Past, But I’ve Fucked Plenty With The Future

Casual Brutality, Adversity, Disco Toms
Culture, Midnight Express, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Soundtrack, Vinyl

Casual Brutality, Adversity, Disco Toms

The triumph of indomitable will in the face of horrific adversity, with added disco toms. Continue reading Casual Brutality, Adversity, Disco Toms

Songs In The Donkey Of Life
African Music, Ali Farke Touré, Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Songs In The Donkey Of Life

This reissue is as special as the post title pun is awful. That’s a lot of specialness. Continue reading Songs In The Donkey Of Life

December 10, 1949
Culture, Culture, Fats Domino, Music, Record collecting, Rock & Roll, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

December 10, 1949

The date of the biggest and best eruption there has ever been? Continue reading December 10, 1949

Sublime+3*
Culture, Mark Lanegan, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Sublime+3*

In which our young hero gets very into restraint. Continue reading Sublime+3*

Lenin And McCarthy
Culture, Indie, McCarthy, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Lenin And McCarthy

Taxi for Mr Windsor? Taxi for Mr Windsor? Continue reading Lenin And McCarthy

More Than Zero
Culture, Hard Rock, Music, Record collecting, Starcrawler, Vinyl

More Than Zero

Mucky little tykes R us. Continue reading More Than Zero

Rock And Prole
Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Saxon, Vinyl

Rock And Prole

In which we discuss Biff Byford’s landing gear. Continue reading Rock And Prole

Dance To The Beat Of The Living Dead
Culture, Iggy Pop, Music, Punk, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

Dance To The Beat Of The Living Dead

I too am a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. Continue reading Dance To The Beat Of The Living Dead

Gig Tonight
Culture, Manic Street Preachers, Music, Punk, Rock, Self-indulgent nonsense

Gig Tonight

Rock? on a Tuesday evening?! You animal. Continue reading Gig Tonight

Horsey Takes Prawn
Culture, Electronic, Manuel Gottsching, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Horsey Takes Prawn

Göttsching if you want it! Continue reading Horsey Takes Prawn

The G12″ Summit
Culture, Dance, Disco, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

The G12″ Summit

The usual tenuously linked nonsense. Continue reading The G12″ Summit

One Of Life’s Great Uglies!
Brit rock, Culture, Gillan, Heavy Metal, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

One Of Life’s Great Uglies!

Time to drink until you’re unconcho Mr Gillan! Continue reading One Of Life’s Great Uglies!

1537 vs. RSD 2018
Culture, Music, Psych-Punk, Record collecting, Rock, Space Rock, Vinyl, White Hills

1537 vs. RSD 2018

The Boogaloo Guru says ‘drink me’. Continue reading 1537 vs. RSD 2018

Never Mind The Bucolics
Culture, Folk, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl, Wolf People

Never Mind The Bucolics

Folk like a beast with the Wolf People. Continue reading Never Mind The Bucolics

The 46th Best-Selling LP Of The 1970’s
Bad Company, Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Vinyl

The 46th Best-Selling LP Of The 1970’s

Bad Co? cojones no es el corazón! Continue reading The 46th Best-Selling LP Of The 1970’s

Snuffling NWOBHM Truffles
Brit rock, Culture, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Snuffling NWOBHM Truffles

Is it grindcore for grannies? Dubstep For dads? No, it’s Metal For Muthas II Continue reading Snuffling NWOBHM Truffles

Trees Are Good, Trees Are Good!
Culture, Fu Manchu, Hard Rock, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Stoner rock, Vinyl

Trees Are Good, Trees Are Good!

Fi Fi Fo Fum …anchu! Continue reading Trees Are Good, Trees Are Good!

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