Added on September 24, 2016
Lee Adcock
Crispy Ambulance , Editors , Joy Division , Preoccupations , Siouxsie And The Banshees , The Byrds , The Sound , The Who , U2 , Viet Cong
It’s my hope that, when death should come, I should embrace it. Indeed, of the scant “life goals” I’ve set for myself, that’s at the top – that I should reach a certain age where I can logically deduce (or that others can deduce for me, if my mind should crumble) that ceasing to exist […]
Added on January 29, 2015
Lee Adcock
2015 , album review , Beatles , Grease , Jim Croce , Kinks , Lee Adcock , Polyvinyl , Procol Harum , Sonny & The Sunsets , The Byrds , The Moody Blues , Unknown Mortal Orchestra
God damn it, Sonny. You’re a charming guy. I didn’t care for the first album, the slavishly 50s garage stomp one, and couldn’t see how anyone could choose you over, say, that dude from Unknown Mortal Orchestra as one to fall in love with. And I didn’t even bother with the one that everyone called […]
Added on July 3, 2014
Lee Adcock
album review , Cream , Derek and the Dominoes , Donovan , Eagulls , Fat White Family , Hurdy Gurdy Man , Led Zeppelin , Lee Adcock , Revolver , Ringo Starr , Tame Impala , The Byrds , The Grass Roots , The Lovin' Spoonful , Unknown Mortal Orchestra , White Fence
Yeah, I listened to that first Tame Impala record, front to back. And the entire time, I’m thinking, “OK, this is from Cream. This is from Revolver. And this one’s Derek and the Dominoes.” Ya think I remember any one of those tunes now? Ya think I ever listened to that Tame Impala LP again? […]
Added on November 14, 2011
Scott Creney
Authenticity , Bruce Springsteen , Courtney Love , Dave Clark Five , Elvis Costello , Fugazi , Hole , Joy Division , Kristin Stewart , Lana Del Rey , Madonna , Minor Threat , Nirvana , Scott Creney , sexism , The Byrds , the eagles , The Monkees
ALL music is fake. That’s why they call it a performance; that’s why they call it an act.
Added on July 21, 2011
Wallace Wylie
25th Anniversary Edition , album review , Automatic For The People , Capitol , criticism , Don Gehman , Fables Of The Reconstruction , Joe Boyd , John Mellencamp , Lifes Rich Pageant , Michael Stipe , R.E.M. , The Byrds , Tom Petty , Wallace Wylie
If you ever find me dying in the street don’t give me mouth to mouth (I don’t know where your filthy lips have been), just play me ”These Days’
Added on March 24, 2011
Wallace Wylie
808 State , A Guy Called Gerald , Acid House , Andy Weatherall , Aphex Twin , Arctic Monkeys , Blur , Bobby Gillespie , Bomb The Bass , Britpop , Cabaret Voltaire , Creation Records , Damon Albarn , Definitely Maybe , Depeche Mode , Derrick May , Fool's Gold , Frankie Knuckles , Gary Numan , Give Out But Don’t Give Up , Happy Mondays , Higher Than the Sun , House , Ian Brown , Jack Your Body , Jimmy Miller , Joy Division , Kula Shaker , Led Zeppelin , Let It Be , Loaded , Love , Massive Attack , Morrissey , New Order , Noel Gallagher , Oasis , Orange Juice , Orbital , Paul Weller , Pet Shop Boys , PiL , Primal Scream , Public Enemy , Sally Cinnamon , Screamadelica , Song Of The Day , Suede , Teenage Fanclub , The Associates , The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Black Crowes , The Boo Radleys , The Byrds , The Human League , The Jam , The KLF , The Libertines , The Orb , The Pastels , The Raincoats , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , The Slits , The Small Faces , The Smiths , The Soft Boys , The Stone Roses , The Strokes , The Wild Bunch , Uncle Tupelo , Vince Clarke , Visage , Wallace Wylie , We Call It Acieed , WFL , Yazoo
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.
