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What I Listened To In A Year Part 5
Supergroups are an odd thing. I went to school with, and then worked opposite shifts to, a lad who got “Audioslave” tattooed across his midriff before the debut album even came out. It was done off the back of Cochise alone. I spend far too much time thinking about that to be honest, certainly more — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 4
By the time Everything Must Go came around in 1996 I was fully in my teenage angst heavy metal phase. I liked my music loud. I liked my music fast. I liked my music angry. So when it was announced that Manic Street Preachers were coming back after a year and the loss of Richie — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 3
I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. Picture the scene. You’re an awkward teen growing up in a dead end dying market town in the mid 90s. A friend’s older brother is drip feeding you bootlegged tapes of the sixth form staples Faith No More and — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 2
No band has had a three album run as good as Manic Street Preachers. You could possibly argue four but Generation Terrorists is over long, over blown and over produced and that is what makes it everything that it is and everything that it needed and promised to be. It is always, always, worth remembering — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 1
I’m not going to do any of that new year new me bullshit. I am instead going to plough on being the same me I think I am or the me I want to be at the very least. Things on here are going to change a little but nothing drastically as I am very — read more
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That Was The Year That Was
So here we are at the ass end of 2025 and it’s not one I’m going to miss. There has been death, injury and depression. So, so much depression. I have lost family, a friend that I counted as family and found a whole new level of loneliness I didn’t even know was possible. At — read more
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Album Of The Year #1 Lambrini Girls Who Let The Dogs Out
So this is the least surprising thing to happen since my ex told me we didn’t need condoms and then got pregnant, but yes Lambrini Girls had my album of the year. They had my song of the year with Love (the only song to appear twice on THE LIST) AND they were also my — read more
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Album Of The Year #2 Deftones Private Music
If you’re lucky there is a moment at a gig, just right before the headliners come on where the audience will briefly hush and there will be a buzz from the walls of amplifiers that are waiting to assault you. It’s a rare occurrence but the feeling of electricity and anticipation of what is to — read more
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Album Of The Year #3 Tom Williams Out Of Nowhere
It’s my son’s birthday today, he’s 24 and now at the age I was when I left his mum for the final time. I’m a different person to the man I was back then and different again to the one who saw him last. We wouldn’t recognise each other on many different levels. I don’t — read more
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Album Of The Year #4 Brutalligators Still Here
It’s been an odd year, I have been unwell both physically and mentally for most if not all of it and I’m just so, so tired at this point. As previous trauma dumping posts tell you I don’t have a lot of family around me and as a result I have made one for myself — read more
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