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75 Tracks From 2015
Yeah, I know it’s a bit late, but here’s my regular overview of my favourite tracks from the last year, in a single easily-digestible post this time. MP3 download (1-19) MP3 download (20-41) MP3 download (42-60) MP3 download (61-75) Spotify … Continue reading
Britpop Nuggets Part Three: Long Live The UK Music Scene
Spotify Playlist (missing Mantaray, Pullover, Perfume, Laxton’s Superb, Gyres, Shiner, Ruth, Teen Anthems) Youtube Playlist (complete!) 1. The Divine Comedy – Something for the Weekend A lot of groups around this time used Britpop as a springboard to expand their … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, 1997, blur, britpop, britpop nuggets, catatonia, compilation, david devant and his spirit wife, divine comedy, earl brutus, helen love, laxton's superb, longpigs, mantaray, octopus, perfume, pullover, pulp, rialto, ruth, shiner, strangelove, teen anthems, the candyskins, the gyres
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Britpop Nuggets Part Two or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate Northern Uproar
Spotify Playlist (missing Delicatessen, Heavy Stereo, Elcka, Powder, Brassy, Telstarr) Youtube Playlist (complete, but some videos seem to be blocked in the UK) 1. Black Grape – Reverend Black Grape When Shaun Ryder parted ways with The Happy Mondays it … Continue reading
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Tagged 1995, 1996, 2011 tracks, black grape, brassy, britpop, britpop nuggets, cast, compilation, delicatessen, elcka, gene, heavy stereo, lush, mansun, marion, McAlmont and Butler, menswe@r, northern uproar, oasis, ocean colour scene, powder, smaller, super furry animals, telstarr, the bluetones
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Britpop Nuggets Part One: Some People are Born to Dance
Spotify Playlist (missing Whiteout, Thurman, 60ft Dolls) Youtube Playlist (complete) “Looking back, Britpop is almost unique among those musical trends which lasted half a decade or more, in that you couldn’t fill a Nuggets-type compilation with genuinely good tracks.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1993, 1994, 1995, 60ft dolls, ash, blur, britpop, britpop nuggets, compilation, denim, dodgy, echobelly, elastica, my life story, oasis, pulp, salad, shed seven, sleeper, suede, supergrass, the auteurs, the boo radleys, thurman, whiteout
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Tkay Maidza
Tkay Maidza is a 19-year-old Zimbabwean-Australian singer and rapper, and my favourite musical discovery of 2015 so far. Three videos to make her yours too. Other news; I’ll be in England next week, with Milan. !
50 songs from last year – #1 – Shamir – On The Regular
Downloading lists of songs without context (or even pictures) can lead to some odd things happening. I listened to this a good ten times on the subway and thought Shamir was (a) a girl and (b) English. It was only … Continue reading
50 songs from last year – #2 – QT – Hey QT
I wrote this on The Singles Jukebox about Hey QT: “Here’s what I love about “Hey QT”: the way that immense witch house drone has been cut and stretched into something that sounds almost like pop music, yet completely not. … Continue reading
50 songs from last year – #3 – Rustie ft. Danny Brown – Attak
“imo this should be danny browns song all rustie did was the music” <– Genuine Youtube comment
50 songs from last year – #4 – Mr Twin Sister – Blush
So, just to repeat – self-released post-Domino-records LP from the buzz band of five years ago, what right does every note of this have to be so good?
50 songs from last year – #5 – Hannah Diamond – Every Night
I think this one speaks for itself. Good piece in 20jazzfunkgreats on PC music here – would like to share the Wire piece but understandably it’s not online.
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