David Bowie – Five years
David Bowie | Five Years
27 March 2021
I donโt typically remember celebrity deaths, certainly not where I was or what cup of tea I was making. Michael Jackson was an anomaly only because I had a paper round back then and had to hand deliver his pigment-stricken death mask through letterboxes across my town courtesy of The Sun. Iโll never forgive them for that – a particularly harrowing image when accompanied by the rabid expulsions of whatever dog clawed behind the door. I did however remember one other death. David Bowie, outside of my university library in Bournemouth. We all remember the celebrity onslaught of 2016, well,
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Ween, an introduction into madness
Ween | Chocolate and Cheese
27 March 2021
The ween.net website defines the Boognish as follows: โA Demon God who has appeared thrice to the prophet brothers Dean and Gene Ween. It resides somewhere outside the orbital buffer. Tradition has it that this entity holds a sceptor in each hand: that of wealth and that of power.โ Iโm not a religious man but if I were in spiritual attendance to any higher power itโd be to the house of Ween. Not familiar? Approach with caution. Early albums may induce a bleeding of the brain, definitely not one to show the grandmother. Later works are high production, no less
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Radiohead’s Kid A, nostalgia of a different kind
Radiohead | Kid A
27 March 2021
To those who know, they know. If you ask a Radiohead fan to describe Kid A youโll probably get a different response every time. Serene, transcendent, manic, discordant, and well, just about every other word that attempts to describe the ineffable. Pretty broad and abstract I know. However, theyโll also probably agree on one thing, the album materialised in their life during some significant emotional shift – thus the frustration trying to articulate the immense impression it left on them, the words just donโt do it justice. For me, I was in my early twenties, and found myself studying on
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