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The Twang: What’s the Deal? Seriously, I ask all… two of you that read this. That song of theirs isn’t bad at all. Not great, but not bad. But why is everybody going so bananas about them? Some fucking cretin writing in The Guide this week wibbled on about how ‘this sounds like it couldContinue reading

Twenty-six

Opeth – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner) I don’t really know where to start with this album. So perhaps I should start at the beginning, as they say. As you may or may not be aware (or care), I originally formulated the skeleton of my 2005 list in the halcyon days of, well, 2005. There is aContinue reading “Twenty-six”

Welcome (Back) to the Jungle

Apologies for interrupting the scheduled programming like this, and I know I don’t normally make news-based posts, but I am making an exception here. See, the new Guns N’ Roses song has ‘leaked’ and, being a big GNR fan, I have been listening to it. A lot. Let me preface this by saying I amContinue reading “Welcome (Back) to the Jungle”

Twenty-seven

LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (Rough Trade) A confession: I like to write about albums that do not get major press. This is partly due to a slightly obscurist tendency to which I will gladly cop, but also because what I write is unaffected by what others have written before me. Therefore when writing onContinue reading “Twenty-seven”