No Cultural Authority

02/11/2023

I forgot how much I loved Gram Parsons

21/04/2023

I understand I'm in the minority here but Aladdin Sane is still a Top 3 David Bowie album for me.

13/11/2022

Obviously there have been no new episodes in a really long time.

I was working on something.

If you like the Beatles, check it out.

But, especially, if you hate the Beatles, check it out.

Popular music in the UK and the United States was a bunch of disparate genres, performed by amateurs, often to audiences of teenagers – or adults who weren't exactly discerning, in the case of folk music and mainstream American pop music – and whose musicians didn't have much to do with each oth...

18/08/2022

Star Wars is the best Wilco album of the teens and it's not really close

16/08/2022

Apparently all this time my favourite Wilco album is A Ghost is Born.

21/04/2022

Whenever it goes full doo w*p, Freak Out! is basically bizarro Pet Sounds

05/01/2022

I'm a Hail to the Thief truther

30/12/2021

One reason I love Aladdin Sane is that it is such a showcase for both Mike Garson and Mick Ronson. I'm not sure Ronson has ever sounded better

24/12/2021

23/12/2021

Everyone who does not know how great Brian Eno was in the mid '70s is really missing out. Some of my favourite music of the entire decade.

22/12/2021

To me, The Wall is very clearly a prog rock album. But some say it's art rock.

What say you?

29/10/2021

"A Certain Kind" by The Soft Machine is one of my favourite ballads of all time, in part because of how it subverts our expectations that the big chorus is coming and just f***s with us for like 15 seconds

01/10/2021

45th Anniversary of
Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer
Small Change by Tom Waits
Spirit by Earth, Wind & Fire

40th Anniversary of

Private Eyes by Hall & Oates
Abacab by Genesis
Happy Birthday by Altered Images
Wanna Be a Star by Chillwack
Penthouse and Pavement by Heaven 17
Mark of the Mole by The Residents

35th Anniversary of

Word Up! by Cameo
Blood & Chocolate by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Express by Love and Rockets
Duotones by Kenny G
The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word by Felt
Throwing Muses

September 1971, 1976, 1981 and 1986 Anniversaries

10/09/2021

25th Anniversary of

Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle by The Olivia Tremor Control
The Curtain Hits the Cast by Low
Harmacy by Sebadoh
One in a Million by Aaliyah
ATLiens by Outkast
No Code by Pearl Jam

20th Anniversary of

In Search of... by N.E.R.D.
8701 by Usher
The Spirit room by Michelle Branch
Vespertine by Bjork
All Is Dream by Mercury Rev
No More Drama by Mary J. Blige
Come Clean by Puddle of Mudd
It's a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse

Album Anniversaries from August 1996 and August 2001

17/08/2021

Our latest episode featuring

65th Anniversary of Bluejean Bop! by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps

55th Anniversary of The Exciting Wilson Pickett

50th Anniversary of Shaft by Isaac Hayes

45th Anniversary of Amigo by Arlo Guthrie

40th Anniversary of
- Never Too Much by Luther Vandross
- Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones
- Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash by The Replacements
- A Taste of DNA

35th Anniversary of
- Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi
- Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. by Dwight Yoakam

30th Anniversary of
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Black Sheep
- Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience by P.M. Dawn
- Mental Vortex by Coroner
- Cypress Hill
- Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors
- The Comfort Zone by Vanessa Williams
- Unquestionable Presence by Atheist

Albums which were released in August 1956, August 1966, August 1971, August 1976, August 1981, August 1986 and August 1991

05/08/2021

"U Mean I'm Not" by Black Sheep is exactly how I feel about Gangsta Rap

04/08/2021

25th Anniversary of
It was Written by Nas
Sublime
Beats, Rhymes and Life A Tribe Called Quest

20th Anniversary of
White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Aaliyah
The Director's Cut by Fantomas
Hot Shots II by The Beta Band
Rings Around the World by Super Furry Animals
Celebrity by NSYNC
1st Born Secon by Bilal
Is This It by The Strokes
Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch

July 1996 and July 2001 Anniversaries including Nas, Sublime, A Tribe Called Quest, White Stripes, Aaliyah, Fantomas, Beta Band, Super Fury Animals, NSYNC, Bilal, Strokes, Gillian Welch

24/07/2021

55th Anniversary of Tim Hardin 1

50th Anniversary of

At Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers Band
The Silver-Tongued Devil and I by Kris Kristofferson

40th Anniversary of

4 by Foreigner
Beauty and the Beat by the Go-Go's
Dreamtime by Tom Verlaine

35th Anniversary of Especially for You by The Smithereens

30th Anniversary of

Woodface by Crowded Face
A Future Without a Past...by Leaders of the New School
Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Trisha Yearwood
We Can't Be Stopped by Geto Boys

Album anniversaries from July 1966, July 1971, July 1981, July 1986, July 1991

21/07/2021

People go on and on about how Television are a "post punk" band.

They formed in 1973. The Ramones hadn't even formed yet and wouldn't release their debut album until March or April 1976.

Marquee Moon came out in February 1977. You know what hadn't come out yet in February 1977? The Clash's self titled debut and Never Mind the Bo****ks (among many other UK punk albums).

How can a band that was around at the birth of punk and releasing music during the height of punk - music that sonically doesn't fit what we usually define as "post punk" - be "post" punk?

20/07/2021

Why do I know all the hits from Woodface?

Only one of them was a Top 10 hit in Canada. I was 9 when the album came out.

15/07/2021

Do the Geto Boys just sound slowed down? Or is there something wrong with the rip?

13/07/2021

Pete Townshend should sue Sigue Sigue Sputnik over "Atari Baby"

13/07/2021

25th Anniversary of
Load by Metallica
Swansong by Carcass
One Chord to Another by Sloan
Upgrade & Afterlife by Gastr del Sol
Secrets by Toni Braxton
Morningrise by Opeth
Reasonable Doubt by Jay Z

20th Anniversary of
Amnesiac by Radiohead
Bodily Functions by Herbert
Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys
Room for Squares by John Mayer
Poses by Rufus Wainwright
Essence by Lucinda Williams
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket by Blink-182
Document #8 by Pg. 99
The Tyranny of Distance by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
Rooty by Basement Jaxx

June 1996 Anniversaries and June 2001 album Anniversaries

12/07/2021

There are some people who think Kris Kristofferson is the Greatest (English-language) Songwriter of All Time. (The GSOAT?)

I think that's a bit of a terrible take, but I do think they could do worse. He's certainly a very good songwriter and perhaps among the best of his age.

But his producer and the industry were not doing him ANY favours when he first recorded. Much like with Townes Van Zandt, his early solo recordings have a preposterous number of instruments on them.

Nashville is a stupid, stupid place.

29/06/2021

55th Anniversary of Gettin' Ready by The Temptations

45th Anniversary of
All Things in Time by Lou Rawls
A Night on the Town by Rod Stewart
Hot on the Tracks by Commodores
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Legalize It by Peter Tosh

40th Anniversary
Talk Talk Talk by the Psychedelic Furs
Duran Duran
Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places by Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Minor Threat [EP]

35th Anniversary of
Invisible Touch by Genesis
Epicus Doomicus Meallicus by Candlemass
True Blue by Madonna
Back in the High Life by Steve Winwood

30th Anniversary of
Slave to the Grind by Skid Row
Slow, Deep and Hard by Type O Negative
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge by Van Halen
Solace by Sarah McLachlan

Albums released in June 1966, June 1976, June 1981, June 1986 and June 1991

28/06/2021

I don't know Muse.

But that lead singer sure wishes he was Thom Yorke on their debut album.

28/06/2021

How is it possible that there is a Gil Scott-Heron and a Guillermo Scott Herren and both are musicians?

23/06/2021

How is Robert Miles not just new wage with techno beats?

22/06/2021

Load...sucks