Twenty Songs, 18 March 2007A good Twenty this week, albeit a slightly late one again. Went to Newcastle last week and saw Uffie and then spent the entire next day doing absolutely nothing but eating sandwiches and sweets, listening to music. This week, so far, there's been less scope for music but at least we know the tunes are there ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 4 March 2007This week's Twenty, which now, clearly, is running behind quite a bit - dunno why, actually - was a bit of a light weight one. We got a whole load of new music but, well, never really got into much of it. There was a Yuksek single which didn't impact, Riot In Belgium was average and the Adam Sky remix was as piano house as ( Read more... )

It's such a good job some nice people at a record company sent me out The Longcut's album. It's a really nice album but we're on track four and we haven't encountered a song we don't already own. At the cost of a tenner in HMV this album would've been ten tracks long with seven being ones we already have. Vitamin C, A Quiet Life and Transition were ( Read more... )

In keeping with the tradition of search engines as we are here, we've set one up for our Twenty. So now you and your band can see how many times we've showered love over you and your inbred bunch of knuckle-draggers. Out in front at the moment seem to be This Et Al, somewhat unsurprisingly, with 26, followed by ¡Forward, Russia! with a similarly ( Read more... )

I swing between liking and disliking Artrocker. It's such a rampantly self-involved magazine. It's named after a loose genre it sort of created and now it uses the name like a waved flag to describe everything within its pages. This week, though, Remix Week, it has further annoyed us by limp wristedly writing off remixes. "Paul Artrocker", the ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 30th July 2006Wow. How late is this. Bah. I'm also doing this write up on the back of a wash out night. With early shift hours to blame I totally missed the Marquis Cha Cha night last night at the Thursday regular. My dancing partner and I were supposed to be arriving en mask (ho ho ho) but instead I slept on the sofa in front of ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 16th July 2006This week has been a strange one. For some reason there's not been much music listened to but at the same time we did bring together the old team to do some Unlixes Plays Records (for all of half an hour) in a dingy basement somewhere. Plus we're starting to get a few more promos through the door which gives us something ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 9th July 2006It's been a deceptive week, really. By about Wednesday we didn't think we'd have enough to form a list from but then a few reviews later we were pretty much done. It's mostly new stuff and the odd not unusual revisit but we thought this week's number one was straight out of left field. Nobody saw it coming ( Read more... )

People who know me - hi - will know I'm a stickler for details, practices and rules. I like them, I enjoy them. One of my rules is never reading lyric sheets in albums. It's not the hardest or fastest rule in my collection but I tend to stick to it. The only time I really break it is when we're putting lyrics on the site. I like to not read lyric ( Read more... )

Twenty Songs, 21st May 2006Great. Windows Media Player has just hung on me, meaning I can't actually listen to any of the songs while talking about them. Well, no, I can, except I can only listen to the number one in the chart which is a bit pointless since I tend to go from bottom to top. However, it is a good, well compiled chart this week so I'm ( Read more... )