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Tag: Indie

Bound For Hell, But So Alive
80's, Bauhaus, Love And Rockets, Music, Reviews, Vinyl

Bound For Hell, But So Alive

Your legs are strong, and so, so long, And you don’t come from this town Continue reading Bound For Hell, But So Alive

For Fox Sake!
Culture, Indie, Music, Pop, Saint Etienne, Vinyl

For Fox Sake!

Dr Spooner in the house! Continue reading For Fox Sake!

Innersleeper
Culture, Indie, Music, Record collecting, Tame Impala, Vinyl

Innersleeper

Tame Impala, Same Impala, not Lame Impala Continue reading Innersleeper

Prole Art Treat?
Culture, Indie, Music, Record collecting, The Fall, Vinyl

Prole Art Treat?

Hos-Tile Roof-Tiles, reptile? Continue reading Prole Art Treat?

I Named My Raccoon After A Boxer
Beatles, Culture, Indie, Music, The Fall

I Named My Raccoon After A Boxer

In which our young hero sniggers at his own proctological joke. Continue reading I Named My Raccoon After A Boxer

Not Slaughter
Culture, Indie, Music, Razorlight, Record collecting

Not Slaughter

White bread, no roughage. Continue reading Not Slaughter

Guns ‘n’ Stones’s
Culture, Indie, Music, Record collecting, Rock, Stone Roses, Vinyl

Guns ‘n’ Stones’s

I am the resurrection and I am the light, the Stone Roses 2nd isn’t shite Continue reading Guns ‘n’ Stones’s

That’s One Big Cock
Culture, Indie, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Supergrass, Vinyl

That’s One Big Cock

Huge cock, sitting up straight and odd? Now there’s a 12″ for you. Continue reading That’s One Big Cock

Yes, The Good Ones
Culture, Indie, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Yes, The Good Ones

Once in a while you got to
Burn down your house keep your dreaming alive. Continue reading Yes, The Good Ones

It’s Not Really Kylie, Is It?
Auteurs, Brit Pop, Indie, Music, Record collecting

It’s Not Really Kylie, Is It?

The Auteurs hauteur prevented them from becoming haute couture. Continue reading It’s Not Really Kylie, Is It?

Gliding Through The Abattoir
Culture, Indie, Obsessive behaviour, Radiohead, Record collecting, Vinyl

Gliding Through The Abattoir

Once upon a time I would have awarded it a Kid C, now? Kid A Continue reading Gliding Through The Abattoir

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

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

Gospill Poppers
Culture, Indie, Music, Psych, Record collecting, Rock, Spacemen 3, Swearing, Vinyl

Gospill Poppers

In which our hero grapples with an LP with a very rude title. Don’t these chaps have any common decency? Continue reading Gospill Poppers

Going Out With God
Brit Pop, Culture, Indie, Kinky Machine, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Going Out With God

Kinky Machine Going Out With God.  I thought about this record for the first time in a light year today … Continue reading Going Out With God

Ballot Box Blues / Like A Sin Scraping Skin
Culture, Indie, Music, Record collecting, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Vinyl

Ballot Box Blues / Like A Sin Scraping Skin

Feels like something pumping through my veins I got the junk gun fever sinking to my brain Feels like God … Continue reading Ballot Box Blues / Like A Sin Scraping Skin

Ladygarden
Culture, Ladyhawk, Music, Vinyl

Ladygarden

Out getting high on the back porch I sing to the empties and cigarette butts And I know that the … Continue reading Ladygarden

Looking Forward
Music, Rock, Vinyl, XC-NN

Looking Forward

I remember the posters first.  I was stuck in a warehouse job after university, my degree qualified me perfectly for … Continue reading Looking Forward

Golden V
Indie, Kula Shaker, Music, Record collecting, Rock

Golden V

They came, they saw a gap for Indian inflected indie that was just the right side of rock, they conquered … Continue reading Golden V

All Art Is Quite Useless
A House, Indie, Music, Vinyl

All Art Is Quite Useless

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde Turner 1775 to 1851 Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901 Andy Warhol 1928 … Continue reading All Art Is Quite Useless

You Want Me, Chuckles? Well …
Indie, Music, Radiohead, Record collecting, Rock, Swearing, Vinyl

You Want Me, Chuckles? Well …

I have a slightly ambivalent relationship with Radiohead, I mean I like them, I really dig their attitude on a … Continue reading You Want Me, Chuckles? Well …

Sod ‘Em, What Do They Expect!
Baggy, Indie, James, Record collecting, Vinyl

Sod ‘Em, What Do They Expect!

Just a quickie tonight about a song I really rather like, James Sit Down.  Now I’m not cool enough to … Continue reading Sod ‘Em, What Do They Expect!

Didn’t Fight At All
Hüsker Dü, Indie, Sugar, Vinyl

Didn’t Fight At All

They went down to the river On a warm summer night The air was thick with the Smell of temptation … Continue reading Didn’t Fight At All

Uncompromising Wonky Sonic Odinist Atonal Garage Metal
Brain Donor, Indie, Julian Cope, Record collecting

Uncompromising Wonky Sonic Odinist Atonal Garage Metal

I have unilaterally declared November to be the ‘International Month For Records Beginning With B’ for 2013, or IMFRBWB for short.  … Continue reading Uncompromising Wonky Sonic Odinist Atonal Garage Metal

How Dare You Assume I Want To Parlez-Vous With You?
Indie, The Fall, Vinyl

How Dare You Assume I Want To Parlez-Vous With You?

Old fart that I am, I’m still shattered from my three nights out in five days* so I’ve chosen something … Continue reading How Dare You Assume I Want To Parlez-Vous With You?

2.1 Singles
Indie, Poetry, Rock, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Vinyl

2.1 Singles

Having spent my Saturday painstakingly fighting a wallpaper border, taking a hard-won victory inch by bloody inch, I’m more than … Continue reading 2.1 Singles

ALADATTYLAE
Die Cheerleader, Indie, Obsessive behaviour, Rock

ALADATTYLAE

Here you go, two random records plucked from my shelves just as I plucked them both from the shelves of … Continue reading ALADATTYLAE

Iron-Pyrite
Dance, Indie, Record collecting, Stone Roses, Vinyl

Iron-Pyrite

In the summer of 1989 a few of my metal chums decided that The Stone Roses would be the sound … Continue reading Iron-Pyrite

No Room At The Din
Curve, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

No Room At The Din

 I’ve come to crush your bones, I’ve come to make you feel old, I’ve come  to mess with your head, … Continue reading No Room At The Din

The X-axis
Indie, Music, Primal Scream, Record collecting, Vinyl

The X-axis

Oh dear, this is the first time here I’ve gone back to an LP and been really disappointed.  The culprit? … Continue reading The X-axis

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