/Countdown /2023 /Compilations and Re-issues
Welcome to /Countdown/2023 – this year’s wrap-up of the best new music that I’ve heard across the year, and the 20th anniversary of me starting to do such annual roundups […]
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/Tuesday Ten/491/When Will I Be Famous?
After what is these days a rare week off from /Tuesday Ten posts, I’m back this week with one looking at the pressures of fame.
/Tuesday Ten/474/Which Side Are You On?
For the first of my subject-based /Tuesday Ten posts in 2022, I’m picking up on a suggestion thread that I did in the weeks before Christmas, and had got me […]
/Countdown/2020/Albums
Onto the third and final week of /Countdown/2020 on amodelofcontrol.com, and this week I’m looking at the best albums of the year. As I’m sure I’ve explained before, I treat […]
/Welcome to the Future/141/Livestreams and new release round-up/04-Sep 2020
We keep going amid the lockdown. There are new releases, and still, new music coming through, and buying music right now is the only way we can help. The events […]
/Tuesday Ten/420/I Wanna Get High
There appear to be a lot of competing stories around how the numbers 420 got associated with smoking cannabis. But either way, the 420 number has stuck, and so, I […]
Tuesday Ten: 303: Tracks of the Month (July 2017)
Already back ’round to a new month, and we’re hurtling through summer. First Tuesday of the new month, then, so time for the best tracks, and there are a lot […]
Tuesday Ten: 260: Tracks of the Month (May 1996)
Part four of my monthly rundown this year of tracks from 1996 that broadly, I still love now.
Tuesday Ten: 170: Tracks of the Month (February 2013)
Another month, ten more new songs you should hear. New bands, old bands, returning bands. You can hear eight of the ten songs on the playlists below, but a little […]
/Tuesday Ten/142/Good Sex
So, last week I covered “Bad Sex”. This week, it is the better side. The songs that I actually see as being sexy.
/Countdown/1990s/Albums /20-01
So after a couple of weeks of work, here are my top twenty albums of the 90s. There is again a Spotify playlist accompaniment to it, which is this time […]
Tuesday Ten: 089: Better Covers
Firstly, further to last week, can I also suggest that following an advert for this seen at the weekend, that there is a seperate circle of hell reserved for it?
/Countdown/1990s/Tracks /100-81
Over halfway, and we’re into the Top 100.
Tuesday Ten: 064: Do You Remember The First Time?
As I said last week, I have suddenly had a short flush of inspiration for these Tuesday Tens at the moment. This one has taken me weeks to collate, gave […]
Tuesday Ten: 035: 90s I
A few weeks ago I covered ten of my favourite 80s albums. The 90s were the decade where I seriously got into music, and because of the disparate genres I […]