Tag: Rock music
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Kid A at 20
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Radiohead’s Kid A, released 20 years ago today, is my favourite album. There are two reasons why.
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Treefingers (Extended Version) — Radiohead
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Radiohead there, just casually adding an extra minute to a legendary 20-year-old track. They may have declared that they are taking a “year away” from music, but they still manage to find ways of keeping fans going. The recent launch of the Radiohead Public Library generously provides free access to a vast amount of archive […]
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Ágætis byrjun — Sigur Rós
Music was one of the jobs I was put in charge of for our wedding. Alex isn’t particularly interested in music. We don’t have any shared musical memories. We don’t have “our song”. So that made some aspects of the wedding planning tricky. For instance, there were no obvious candidates — or, indeed, any candidates […]
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Jogging — Richard Dawson
A song I heard on the radio this week that made my ears prick up. I wasn’t previously aware of Richard Dawson. But this is a brilliant song — dark, funny, meaningful, relatable, of our time. Once again I’m beginning to think that the most interesting music is actually coming from rock music for a […]
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Close to the Edge — Yes
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Prog rock has a bad name. Prog rock by Yes perhaps has a particularly bad name. But sometimes, a 19 minute long wig out is what you need. It accompanied a lunchtime for me last week, and my afternoon felt better than my morning. What a song.
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Scott Walker
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Every so often I hear a piece of music that turns my understanding of music upside down. Scott Walker made one of those tracks. I knew I had to investigate further.
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Samaritans — Idles
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I’ve become obsessed with this song. It contains an important message that is beginning to be heard, but still needs to be heard more widely. This is a song for now. Discovering Idles has felt a bit like discovering Pulp when they released Common People. Although 9-year-old me didn’t really understand what appealed to me […]
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Music 2012: Some of my highlights
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Some musical highlights of 2012 that I did not include in my top ten.