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
![Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar) Preoccupations – Preoccupations (Jagjaguwar)](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2Fpreoccupations-cover.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
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 May 24, 2016
Caspar Jacobs
2016 , album review , Anohni , Arcade Fire , Beyonce , Big Joanie , Chance the Rapper , Courtney Barnett , Frankie Cosmos , Kurt Vile , Local Natives , Mumford & Sons , Pavement , Pitchfork , Red Hot Organization , Skating Polly , Stephen Malkmus , The Flaming Lips , The Goon Sax , The Grateful Dead , The National , the tuts , The War On Drugs , U2 , Wilco
![“This is the indie establishment”: Red Hot’s Day of the Dead “This is the indie establishment”: Red Hot’s Day of the Dead](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2FDOTD_-600x600.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Disclaimer: I’ve probably never heard a Grateful Dead song in my life. At least not knowingly. This is an unfortunate position for me to be in, considering I am reviewing an album containing 59 covers of songs by the Grateful Dead. Just so you know. In 2009, the Red Hot Organization, fighting AIDS through pop […]
Added on September 12, 2014
Everett True
Apple , cunts , marketing scam , spam , Twitter , U2
![That U2 Twitter rage in full That U2 Twitter rage in full](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F09%2Fego-is-equal-to-one-divided-by-knowledge.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Anyone fancy distributing this to half a billion people free of charge? Go on, you can have it. Honest. I don’t mind. ————————————————————————- Why did the U2 fan cross the road? Because it was free. How many U2 fans does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They just let it go dead and follow […]
Added on January 13, 2014
Everett True
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy , Everett True , Melody Maker , Nirvana , Philadelphia , U2 , U2 live
![One of the angriest reviews I ever wrote | U2, live in Philadelphia, 1992 One of the angriest reviews I ever wrote | U2, live in Philadelphia, 1992](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F01%2FU2-2011.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
I stand in the middle of a baseball stadium somewhere in America and feel totally lost, totally depressed, totally overwhelmed
Added on November 24, 2013
Everett True
10 Greatest Albums Ever Made , Classic Rock , Coldplay , David Stubbs , Dire Straits , John Lennon , Mumford & Sons , Queen , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , U2 , Wings
![THE TEN GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE | A RESPONSE THE TEN GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE | A RESPONSE](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2FWings-Over-America.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Nothing matters more than the all-conquering Top 10.
Added on November 20, 2013
collapseboard
10 Greatest Albums Ever Made , Classic Rock , Coldplay , David Stubbs , Dire Straits , John Lennon , Mumford & Sons , Queen , The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Sex Pistols , U2 , Wings
![THE TEN GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE THE TEN GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F10%2Fdire-straits-brothers-in-arms-album-cover-e1385001069371.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Right! I’ve thought long and hard about this, agonised and whittled down to final ten but here, at last, I think I’ve burned down to a list of solid gold excellence.
Added on October 24, 2013
Everett True
Bob Dylan , dad jokes , Everett True , Foo Fighters , humour , Miley Cyrus , Morrissey , Music criticism , Robin Thicke , U2
![John is a music critic. Write John, write! John is a music critic. Write John, write!](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F10%2FCalvin-And-Hobbes-academic-writing.gif&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
John is a music critic. Write John, write!
Added on June 25, 2013
Everett True
Bella Union , Best Coast , Everett True , Game Of Thrones , Pins , Savages , Song of the day , The White Stripes , U2
![Song of the day – 597: Pins Song of the day – 597: Pins](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F06%2FPins-band.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Music like Pins comes dressed in layers. It’s chilly out there: chilly and unwelcoming, and we all need some form of uniform against the furnace of cold and disinterest.
Added on May 8, 2013
Everett True
Bjorn Again , Collapse Board , Everett True , Nirvana , Savages , Scott Creney , Silence Yourself , Simple Minds , Siouxsie And The Banshees , The Bootleg Beatles , U2
![Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages](https://collapseboard.com/wp-content/themes/patterns/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcollapseboard.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F06%2FSavages.jpg&q=90&w=650&h=300&zc=1)
Ten misconceptions about Collapse Board and Savages. Number one: that we care if they’re manufactured.
Added on December 8, 2011
Everett True
Coldplay , John Cale , King Tubby , Miles Davis , Museum of Impossible Music , Pink Floyd , The Museum of Impossible Music , Thelonious Monk , U2
A choir of mutes singing in the Circular Song Annex, with Nero on fiddle.