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Top 10 Live Albums
A Top 10 of live albums prompted by the realisation that I bought Rank by The Smiths 37 years ago this week. Taking in: the reasons why live albums are released, The Fall supporting Talk Talk in 1986, Galaxie 500 and Luna, the 5-piece Smiths, Van Morrison, bootleg live albums, John Cale in Vicar Street, Manu Chao in the Ambassador, 16 Horsepower in Whelan’s and a whole lot more.
Top 10 Movie 7” Singles
A Top 10 of movie 7” singles taking in: Irish pressings, Czechoslovakian New Wave cinema, film noir, folk horror, a flea market in Brussels, Venice’s side streets, Doris Day, Sly Stone, Brian Wilson and “the worst song ever written”.
Songs to Learn and Sing: EP 1000 - the final episode
A few words on Episode 1000 of Songs to Learn and Sing taking in: Cork Campus Radio, West Dublin Access Radio, Dublin City FM, 30 years of community radio, Echo & the Bunnymen, and more.
Bill Drummond’s The Man
A few words on Bill Drummond’s The Man, taking in Big in Japan, Zoo Records, The Timelords, The KLF, The Triffids, Bar/None Records, The Wild Swans and Herbert James Draper’s 1898 painting ‘The Lament for Icarus’. In a recent post about Kathy McCarty’s Dead Dogs Eyeball (Songs of Daniel Johnston) I mentioned that in 1994 at the time of its release the only Bar/None records in my collection were They Might Be Giant’s self-titled debut and Bill Drummond’s The Man.