Tuesday Ten: 263: Tracks of the Month (June 1996)
Part five of my monthly rundown, across this year, of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.
Part five of my monthly rundown, across this year, of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.
Watching Frank Turner perform all of his (exceptional) album England Keep My Bones the other week – with a packed, young crowd bellowing along to every word – got me […]
Playlists: Spotify YouTube SoundCloud 2016 in Review: 257: Tracks (Apr) 254: Tracks (Mar) 251: Tracks (Feb) 248: Tracks (Jan) Nearly half way through the year, and the great new music […]
For a country with a population of 330,000 – and a total area of 102,000km2 (in comparison, England has a total area of 130,000km2 and a population of 54 million) […]
For the second of the double-bill today, back to the normal programming with the best tracks of the past month.
Already, we’re onto the third month of this run-down of 1996, and the avalanche of great new music that appeared that year.
Playing with yourself. Pleasuring oneself. Wanking. Jerk off. Whack off. Frigging. Self-abuse. Self-pollution. Spank the monkey. Flip the bean. Onanism. etc.
For the third month in a row, it’s twenty songs to wrap up the past month – the avalanche just keeps on coming.
This is part two of my look back at 1996, where I continue what I started in Tuesday Ten: 250 by looking at releases that were broadly in February/March of […]
It all started at one of the very first weddings we attended. Up in the hills west of Huddersfield, this wedding had an “alternative” soundtrack as befitted the bride and […]
There may be a decline in sales of new albums vs “catalogue” material, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t new music to discover if you know where to look.
So. Tuesday Ten 250 is quite a milestone to reach, I guess. As well as that, 2016 marks twenty years since I began writing about music, with my first review […]
Yesterday marked fifteen years since I began my career working in Mobile Telecoms. Back in February 2001, things were very different in my life. I was recovering from a nasty […]
After as usual a month or two off from this – new releases are thin on the ground at the end of the year anyway, and the end-of-year lists (start […]
Yeah, so I’ve kinda looked at this before (see box links), but I’ve never actually delved into songs about the city that is my home. And with it being six […]
We are hurtling at what seems like great speed to the end of the year already, and as such this is now the last tracks of the month roundup of […]
Thanks to doing some planning in advance for my DJ sets at the GVWI Hallowe’en Party on Saturday, the inspiration hit me quite quickly to consider a Ten based upon […]
There has been lots written in recent years about how band merchandise – particularly on-tour – is better for some bands that selling records. Not that it’s a new thing […]
Back to normal-ish after fun times in Chicago (full write-up yesterday), it’s another month…
This week’s Ten has been long-planned to have this subject, but how it was going to work was the bit I didn’t really know. So, I chose to open it […]