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Highlighting a few older posts

May 10, 2022

Hello - I’ve got some tight work deadlines this week in my actual day job, so rather than rush two entries, I’m going to highlight some older ones that newer subscribers may not have seen.

David Bowie’s ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ from 2016’s Blackstar

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Seeing more and feeling less

Before my children were born, my wife and I woke to the sound of BBC6 Music on a DAB radio. This alarm call was just before 7 am; we still had work offices to attend physically, back then. A few mornings had entertainment news breaking overnight, and I remember several of them clearly…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Mitchell Stirling

Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Can’t Make It Alone’ from 1969’s Dusty in Memphis

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Oh, Help Me

Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis sold poorly on the original release. Her recommendation during the recording session to bosses at Atlantic Records to sign John Paul Jones' new band, Led Zeppelin, is likely to have made her label more money in 1969 than her own record. It is one of those records that has grown immensely in stature over the last five…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Mitchell Stirling

U2’s ‘Love is Blindness from 1991’s Achtung Baby

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Thread is ripping The knot is slipping

During the recording session for Rattle and Hum in 1988, Bono started writing a song on the piano, not his regular songwriting mechanism. What was developed was a Jacques Brel-Esque torch song, the like that would be familiar to anyone who has heard the first couple of…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Mitchell Stirling

The finale to DJ Shadow’s 1996 album Entroducing…

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And why should we

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... is a one-man dissertation on hip-hop's history up to the mid-90s. At that point, only Paul's Boutique and 3ft. High and Rising had packed a similar punch. Since I Left You, J Dilla and Flying Lotus have investigated similar territory in the years that followed…

3 years ago · 2 likes · Mitchell Stirling

and ‘Garageland’ from The Clash’s 1977 s/t debut.

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We're a garage band

As this newsletter has seen some growth, not exactly at Omicon rates but growth nonetheless, I am reasonable confident that some readers may have a copy of this album which finishes on a different track number to the one I am looking at. To understand the genesis of the song we need to look at two events. The first is a review in The NME in 1976 and the…

3 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Mitchell Stirling

We will be back later in the week with Stevie Wonder, again!

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