2024年12月23日 · If the reunion of Creation’s other battling brothers stole most of the headlines in 2024, the simmering entente between Jim and William Reid was the one that delivered the goods: a knockabout, argumentative memoir; and this equally spirited eighth album. Glasgow Eyes was a late JAMC classic of pop-culture snark (“Andrew Oldham’s on the phone”), gnarly self-mythologising (“The dark ...

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2024年7月9日 · 26. THINGS I MISS THE MOST (from Everything Must Go, 2003) More First World Problems from the poets of same. Post-divorce, Fagen’s jaded avatar itemises the good things that have walked out the door (“the talk, the sex, somebody to trust…”) segueing drolly into the material losses (“the Audi TT, the house on the Vineyard…”) – superlative songcraft chops suggesting Cole Porter ...

That year, Smith revealed he had recently lost his father, his mother and his older brother Richard, the latter instrumental in introducing him to Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart and his companion in an earlier musical venture, The Crawley Goat Band. Richard lived in Poland for years; harrowing SOALW song I Can Never Say Goodbye was first played on October 22, 2022, at Krakow’s Tauron Arena.

2024年11月12日 · 47. Old King (Harvest Moon, 1992)Twanging C&W hymns man’s best friend: “I told the dog about everything.” As selected by Swans’ Michael Gira. “When I think of Neil Young, this is the song that pops into my head: (sings) ‘My dog King wasn’t afraid to jump off the truck in high gear’ (laughs) and then it’s got the banjos.

29. Alone (from Songs Of A Lost World, 2024) After what seemed like an eternity The Cure finally made their long-promised comeback. Following a 16-year wait, Alone’s icy grandeur and ocean-deep melancholy finally heralded the arrival of The Cure’s fourteenth album.

2024年6月13日 · 46. Amazing Journey (from Tommy, 1969) The title has become shorthand for The Who’s own topsy-turvy narrative (it’s shared with Murray Lerner and Paul Crowder’s film doc of 2007) but the trek alluded to in the Tommy opera’s spiritual centrepiece is decidedly inner, as our sensually challenged hero encounters a bearded, godlike figure: “He …

17. Feel About You (from Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie, 2017) Recorded in the same LA studio the band had built to record Tusk four daces previously, 2017’s Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie was essentially a new Fleetwood Mac album minus Stevie Nicks.“Lindsey gets me, I love working with him,” McVie told MOJO of …

2024年2月6日 · THE BEACH BOYS redefined the possibilities of pop music, creating harmonies and experimenting with production in ways that had never been heard before and have rarely been rivalled since. Accordingly, their catalogue is one of the richest and most labyrinthine in popular music, encompassing flat-out rock’n’rollers and golden-age pop, bittersweet ruminations, and experimental harmonic ...

2024年7月30日 · With the possible exception of David Bowie, no other artist has created as singular, rich and dazzling a creative world as Kate Bush.From songs about being inside her mother’s womb, 42-minute explorations of nature to taking Emily Brontë to the top of the charts, no other oeuvre in pop music has quite so many surprises, uniquely brilliant ideas and breathtakingly beautiful music.