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Sunday, April 16, 2023

72 Seasons to Be Cheerful

 


72 is an important number for Metallica. It’s the age of both frontman James Hetfield and sticksman Lars Ulrich and it’s also the number of years since they last produced a decent album. It feels that way at least. But joking aside, 72 Seasons is a 77-minute behemoth (why didn’t they cut out one of the songs and make it 72?) and it seems like they’re finally back on the right track.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Whatchu Tolkien 'bout?

It’s always good to discover new music, particularly when it belongs to a genre you don’t listen to that often. But wait, I might be getting ahead of myself a little here.

Saturday, December 31, 2022

My Top 22 Songs I Listened to in 2022 Based on Memory Alone

I used to often do one of those ‘My Top 20 Albums of the Year’ posts, but in recent years I’ve struggled to be inspired by any new releases and I actually don’t even keep on top of release dates anymore. I saw a post the other day where someone was sharing their Top 200 new albums of the year. How is that even possible? Firstly, they must have an incredibly varied taste in music and secondly, four new albums a week? How does anyone find enough time to even listen to that much new music?

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The Best of Metallica (part one)

 

I’ve seen a few articles online recently where an artist or band’s entire discography is ranked from worst to best. It is something that can lead to great discussion and argument because the writer is invariably “wrong”.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

The Fear of Thunder over London

 

This blog has been sadly neglected for a long time, so it’s time to blow the dust off it and crack on.

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Planets of the Damned

 

The other day I remembered an utter shit of a man I used to work for. I was a kind of odd job man for him, even though that wasn’t what I was really employed for, but that’s got nothing to do with this story. He would sit in his “office” which was actually his spare bedroom where there was just enough room for him to sit at his computer due to the piles of utter tat and rubbish he had piled up to the ceiling. He would play music very loudly through some quite decent speakers while I painted his stairwell or cleaned his bathroom or grouted some tiles or took the rubbish out to provide entertainment in between bouts of screaming at me for doing everything wrong.