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Boo Radleys: Wake up Boo!
Whilst shoveling a thick heavy blanket of snow from the driveway this morning I got this song stuck in my head. Why!?! Because snow shoveling is so …. much … fun, isn’t it!? Especially when you know that the main road or sidewalks haven’t been plowed yet, which means by the time I [...]
Travis: Sing
Travis raged onto the UK music scene when their gritty debut album “Good Feeling” was released in 1997. Travis were previously named “Glass Onion”, after the Lennon/McCartney song on The Beatles White Album, but this was before lead singer and songwriter Fran Healy was a member. Healy joined the bad in 1991, [...]
Ocean Colour Scene: Hundred Mile High City
cean Colour Scene’s 1997 single is used in the opening sequence of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a 1998 Crime-Heist film directed by Guy Ritchie. The single was take from the band’s album Marchin’ Already – an an album that knocked Oasis “Be Here Now” off of the top of the charts and [...]
Chumbawamba: Tubthumping
“Bring back the 90’s”. That is one of my wife’s motto’s. Our local area lost the one true 90’s radio station, Nova 105.1, earlier this year, and the airwaves haven’t been the same since. I am content enough to listen to Classic Rock radio, but there is nowhere to turn to [...]
Oasis: Digsy’s Dinner
“What a life it would be
If you would come to mine for tea
I’ll pick you up at half past three
We’ll have lasagna”
In case you were wondering, it’s lasaaaaaaaaaagna. And, if I was serving lasagna and you weren’t invited round for dinner, you probably would be green with envy, because I make a pretty [...]
Ocean Colour Scene: Mechanical Wonder
Although the video focuses on the exploits of a Mechanical Goalkeeper, I have some album liner notes that have a different origin to the lyrics: [Steve Fowler, Lead Singer] I wrote this walking the dog on the Grand Union Canal and yearns for a time before the roar of the M40 [highway].
This is the life [...]
Blur: London Loves
I think this song will end my run of posts with ‘London’ lurking somewhere in the lyrics. ‘London Loves’ is taken off of Blur’s famed album “Parklife” – a collection of songs that defined the Britpop era of music in the 90’s. Two bands paved the way for British music in the [...]
