Oh boy, nearly five months? Really? No wonder I can hardly remember how to type and where to find all the Blogger's features. Well, what can I say... There were things to do, money to be earned, offspring to be looked after. Which, thankfully, only turned into a gap but by no means an end. So here I am, resurrected in the spring, with all the little antsies, beesies and flowersies to bring some more happy, jolly and uplifting music. This time I've decided to roll the remaining years into one post, there are not that many of them left to give them separate entries. And here they are:
simply the 50
Friday 20 April 2012
Thursday 19 January 2012
Better late than never? The Final Quarter
1998
Eels - Cancer For The Cure
Better late than never? Part Three...
1995
Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Better late than never? Part II (Now with centralised videos, ooh, la di da)
1993
Pearl Jam - Animal
Top 50 - 1990's - Better late than never?
Since chronology seems to be the order of things...
1990
Pixies - Velouria
Saturday 8 October 2011
Jonathan's 1992
1992 – By this time puberty had fully kicked in and I was probably going through my most ginger phase. I spent Saturdays going to see Sheffield Wednesday with my dad and camped out at the local field with friends, drinking and causing havoc (intermittently). Note to editor, as Michael Jackson would say, if he weren’t dead and was performing one of (s)hits...You Are Not Alone, I’m writing with you!
Sonic Youth – Wish Fulfilment
Sonic Youth are yet another group introduced to me by my elder brother, following his musical ventures at university. I saw them live at Reading, ’96 I think it was but I wasn’t impressed; too much arsing about making noise than actually getting on with playing some music. I don’t like DIY, so a drill-fuelled guitar solo lasting 15 minutes gets me about as excited as putting up a shelf on a Friday night. However, there are some Sonic Youth moments when they got that balance right between noise and music. Wish Fulfilment is the stand-out track for me on one of their most consistent albums. It’s by far my favourite SY song, though there are plenty of others I really like. It’s the track I always put on compilations, however, that was a bit unfair of me because it does not really represent SY. I never get tired of those noisy explosions and I love the lyrics. A lot of my favourite songs follow a quiet, loud, quiet formula and this never deviates from that path. Sonic Youth are definitely not one of my favourite bands, but Wish Fulfilment is a favourite song of mine.
Sugar – A Good Idea
Friday 7 October 2011
Coleman's 1990's; Part six - 1995
Wow. Two months? Really? And a half? And it only feels like three...
Lame jokes aside, the summer break (not that there was supposed to be any summer break) is over and more than ever it feels that I'm just left on my own on this project. Which beats the point in a way but I'm reluctant somehow to switch off the lights just yet. Who knows, maybe the prospects of fame, money and occasional pint of gratitude are not completely lost yet. Besides, it's only 1995, can't give up before the end of the decade!
Of which '95 was just another year full of fantastic music. Something, you should be well used to by now... Have a little look then.
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