What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning

[Oxford]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[M j M]

Radio 2 listeners may have just thought this was a jingle but it's a fine piece of music in its own right.

 

[Leeds Wire]

As our glorious leader Johnson announces, in typically chaotic fashion, the return of the great sport of cricket, I need to remind you of this tune

 

[Derwent]

 

[Leeds Wire]

 

[Trevorkfevfan]

I do  rather like this one!

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by Trevorkfevfan

[Oxford]

clapping is reward enough apparently

 

 

 

 

[Leeds Wire]

Colin Meloy, leader of The Decemberists playing solo on Instagram. Borderline genius.

 

[Oxford]

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."  Tallulah Bankhead

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2020 by Oxford

[Oxford]

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2020 by Oxford

[Angelic Upstart]

Just stumbled across this fella. Brilliant!

 

[John Drake]

New album time. Unfollow the Rules by Rufus Wainwright. One of the few artists whose work I still buy on CD rather than just downloading, and listen from start to finish in the order the songs are presented, no shuffling. Enjoying it very much. Had tickets for a concert in York in October n'all, now punted into mid-2021 for obvious reasons.

[Futtocks]

After Tweeting him (and getting speedy and helpful reply), I recently found out that the BBC cricket correspondent Henry Moeran is indirectly related to this very fine and underrated composer.

 

Edited July 14, 2020 by Futtocks

[distantdog]

Harmonies to die for! Better than the original by some way.

[Futtocks]

This artist first made her name in a non-musical way in 1989. Remember her?

 

[Leeds Wire]

22 hours ago, distantdog said:

Harmonies to die for! Better than the original by some way.

That's a shame, I thought it was going to be a cover of You're the One by The Men They Couldn't Hang 

 

[Leeds Wire]

I love the lyrics. 'Pure Gedge', as John Peel would have said.

Edited July 18, 2020 by Leeds Wire

[Mumby Magic]

Newsted Soldierhead

Soundgarden Spoonman

[John Drake]

Not a song, but indirectly relevant to this thread, as one of the great music publications bites the dust after 34 years. I've been reading it since buying the first issue in 1986. Sad day.

I have some bad news about @QMagazine. The issue that comes out on July 28 will be our last. The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that. I have attached our final cover and my editor’s letter for context.
On the plus side, we’re all available for work. pic.twitter.com/rm8qOcUBtB

— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) July 20, 2020

[Futtocks]

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

Not a song, but indirectly relevant to this thread, as one of the great music publications bites the dust after 34 years. I've been reading it since buying the first issue in 1986. Sad day.

I used to get Q every month, because nobody else was doing so many reviews of so much music. I even stuck with it through their embarrassingly middle-aged crush on Michael Stipe, who seemed to feature in every single issue for a while.

I discovered a ton of artists I'd never have heard of without their good work. Unlike some other music publications, it usually felt like the reviewers had actually listened to the music before writing about it.

[John Drake]

4 hours ago, Futtocks said:

I used to get Q every month, because nobody else was doing so many reviews of so much music. I even stuck with it through their embarrassingly middle-aged crush on Michael Stipe, who seemed to feature in every single issue for a while.

I discovered a ton of artists I'd never have heard of without their good work. Unlike some other music publications, it usually felt like the reviewers had actually listened to the music before writing about it.

I'm a fan of R.E.M. so I didn't mind the Stipe crush. It was their Nu-Metal phase I struggled with. 

I used to buy Word Magazine too, when Q founders David Hepworth and Mark Ellen went off to start something new. That was a great mag, but it didn't last a fraction of the length of time Q has managed.

There's nothing online to match or replace either of them.

[Futtocks]

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

I'm a fan of R.E.M. so I didn't mind the Stipe crush. It was their Nu-Metal phase I struggled with. 

I used to buy Word Magazine too, when Q founders David Hepworth and Mark Ellen went off to start something new. That was a great mag, but it didn't last a fraction of the length of time Q has managed.

There's nothing online to match or replace either of them.

I don't mind R.E.M., but Q did go a bit evangelical about Stipe's every utterance for a bit.

I moved on to Mojo, but after a few very good years, I saw the range of faces on the covers narrow more and more. Ooh look, the Beatles/Stones/Dylan again! The more adventurous Word and Uncut followed (some great cover CDs), then I gradually stopped buying magazines in general.

Q under Hepworth & Ellen was great, because they didn't see popular music as something to be po-faced, overthought and humourless about. They had regular updates on the progress being made by a made-up band (Comfort of Strangers, maybe?), entirely worded in PR cliches, and their small ads for tickets had a cartoon of a hand holding a ticket with "Dumpy: admit one" on it. 

[gingerjon]

On 20/07/2020 at 22:15, John Drake said:

I'm a fan of R.E.M. so I didn't mind the Stipe crush. It was their Nu-Metal phase I struggled with. 

I used to buy Word Magazine too, when Q founders David Hepworth and Mark Ellen went off to start something new. That was a great mag, but it didn't last a fraction of the length of time Q has managed.

There's nothing online to match or replace either of them.

The Quietus isn't bad.

Word was brilliant. And seemed to have a decent readership. I think I realised once that went then there wasn't much chance for any 'new' magazine.

[gingerjon]

Today, I have been mostly listening to this:

 

[Niels]

On 20/07/2020 at 15:07, John Drake said:

Not a song, but indirectly relevant to this thread, as one of the great music publications bites the dust after 34 years. I've been reading it since buying the first issue in 1986. Sad day.

I am glad you mentioned this John. I bought it at the beginning though I thought it became too modern and mainstream. The layout as much as the content. 

I like Shindig, Prog magazine and classic rock. I read Mojo and Uncut too.