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Monday, 1 December 2025

Here we go again

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No musical advent calendars this year - too much work, too little reward. But there's always this, from Aidan Moffat: the perfect metaph...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

Blue Friday: You Got Me Wonderin' Now

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Not all Blue Friday tunes sound maudlin on first listen - they're not all minor key, slow contemplative spirals. Take today's: You G...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Lost lyrics II - the answers

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Without further ado, here are the answers last week's lyrics quiz . These are the lyrics as I hear them, so if they're wrong, sorry,...
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Monday, 24 November 2025

Monday long song: We Haven't Turned Around

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Forgotten how good this is, especially in its long-form, unexpurgated version. Also that it was used in the soundtrack of American Beauty , ...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

Your powers are weak, old man

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I've been writting this in my head for a while, and Rol's recent Embarrassing Dad Songs theme gave me the kick I needed to turn tha...
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Thursday, 20 November 2025

Sometimes overlooked, never overshadowed

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At the time there were a lot of column inches about Squire's guitar heroics and the quality (or otherwise) of Brown's singing, but t...

Petty Salted

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Terrorvision were/are a funny one. Even in their heyday, I can't say I was much of a fan. Easy to forget, now, that they were a heavy ro...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Lost lyrics II

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I'm all out of posts, so am recycling something I did once before that was semi-popular (for me, at least - all things are relative). ...
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Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Music Assembly: Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83: II. Adagio assai

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In which I continue to haemorrhage readers... I don't know much about Maurice Ravel, to be honest, aside from the one thing everyone my...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

New to NA: The Royston Club

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The Royston Club are not from the Hertfordshire market town of the same name. In fact, the four-piece are from Wrexham, and have been plying...
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