/Tuesday Ten/122/Dumped
Ok, so I did Bad Romance last year, but here’s another list for Valentines Day – this time dealing with being dumped. It’s been a good many years since it happened to me, and I really rather hope it stays that way.
Category: /Tuesday Ten
Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
Tuesday Ten: 121: Tracks of the Month (January 2011)
Playlists: Spotify Time for the first roundup of new music to recommend for 2011 – it’s my Tracks of the month January 2011.
/Tuesday Ten/120/Literature
The weird thing about writing these Tuesday Tens is that the ideas for some take a long time to come together. Others can have a whole load of suggestions come at once, particularly if an idea for a subject pops up while I’m in the pub, or out with my girlfriend (especially in the car, […]
/Tuesday Ten /119 /Also Featuring…
For my first Tuesday Ten proper in about two months, I’m looking at guest appearances. I thought I had covered this before, but somehow it appears that I haven’t. Anyway – guest appearances are either used a little cynically (to get the guest artist more exposure, or even to get the other artist more “credibility” […]
/Tuesday Ten/118/Advert
For this week’s Tuesday Ten, I’m going back to a list I’ve had on the back burner for bloody ages. That is, music on TV in the form of advertising. Always a contentious subject – there are probably just as many artists who flatly refuse to sell their music for use in this way as […]
Tuesday Ten: 117: Tracks of the Month (October 2010)
Rather later than originally intended – I had to push it back a week because of Whitby – here is my usual tracks of the month roundup.
Tuesday Ten: 116: Samples
The use of sampling in music has been around for some time now, and at points the use of it has approached levels of extraordinary musicality and ingenuity. At other points, of course, it’s been used in obvious, unsubtle ways – and as a result frequently becomes something of a monster hook. And why not? […]
Tuesday Ten: 115: Haven’t You Heard?
This week, my Tuesday Ten is a bit later than usual, but still on a Tuesday. It’s all about bands you probably haven’t heard of. Of course, there are some of you that have. Hence the probably. Then again, if you know me well enough, you might well have heard me carp on about a […]
Tuesday Ten: 114: Tracks of the Month (September 2010)
A day earlier than usual, here’s my usual roundup of tracks new and old that I really like right now:
Tuesday Ten: 113: Genres
The sub-sub-subgenre seems to be the desperate way to get a band recognised now, and as comments on a recent facebook post of mine clearly showed, it’s really kinda difficult to work out what is real and what is taking the p1ss. As a now longtime music critic (I’ve been doing this since 1996), using […]
/Tuesday Ten/112/Tracks of the Month/Aug-10
My usual roundup of tracks new and old that I really like right now.
/Tuesday Ten /111 /Betrayal
This week, I’m looking at being betrayed. It’s all thanks to one of these songs coming up on my iPod the other day and getting my mind thinking. It wasn’t hard to find ten songs, either.
/Tuesday Ten/110/2000 Ways of Getting Drunk
I seem to have been doing a lot of it this last few weeks – blame it on my birthday, in the main.
/Tuesday Ten/109/Atomic
Hearing one of these tracks (Nena, since you ask) at, of all places, a friend’s wedding reception, got me thinking about songs about nuclear war or nuclear weapons – and not to mention that the past week saw the 65th anniversary of the only two uses of such weapons in anger (over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, […]
Tuesday Ten: 108: Tracks of the Month (July 2010)
My usual monthly round-up of new stuff I think you should hear.
Tuesday Ten: 107: Stuck on Repeat
When I first thought about it, this was inspired by a seemingly never-ending parade of bands who seem to have come up with nothing new themselves that I keep hearing.
Tuesday Ten: 106: It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time
It’s pretty rare that I regret a purchase for too long. Frequently I buy something, listen to it once, put it on the shelf, and then return to it later, but still appreciate it all the same.
Tuesday Ten: 105: Tracks of the Month (June 2010)
Halfway through 2010, and it’s time for another roundup.
/Tuesday Ten/104/Intros
That first thirty-seconds-to-a-minute of a song can be vitally important, particularly if it’s the first thing I’ve heard of an artist. If they don’t grab me, it might be that is the last time I bother with an artist.
/Tuesday Ten/103/Animals
I’ve been concentrating on elephants a lot of late, thanks to the elephant parade in London and my attempts to get all 258 on camera, something that I completed on Monday – see my flickr set for more detail (click on Impossiphant).