Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #13

Let the rain fall on my tombstone and wash away my name, and let me lie in my unmarked grave in the earth revolving around the sun: unconscious, skinless, and at complete rest. Let the atoms that make up my bones dissipate and return to the earth; unconscious in rest returning to mother earth. Free

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #84 Tonight

Shocked to find out this morning that a local barber has been arrested for dealing drugs. I’ve been a customer of his for years and I had no idea he was a barber. Tonight were an English five piece new wave band, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England and were active from June 1977 to January 1979.

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #11

What on Earth are you doing, God?Is this some sort of joke you’re playing?Is it ’cause we didn’t pray? Well I can’t see the point of the word without the action. Are you just hot air, breathing over us and over all?Is it fun watching us all?Where’s your son? We want him again! And next

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #7

In part seven of my ongoing ‘the song title is the band’s name’ feature, you’ll be shocked to discover that five more acts beginning with the letter ‘A’ are in this post but only if you’ve not been paying any attention, (and from the looks of it, most of you haven’t). You can check the

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #6

Part six of my ongoing ‘the song title is the band’s name’ posts, features five more acts beginning with the letter ‘A’. You can check the Rate Your Music list below to see possible upcoming acts (if I can find a YouTube video), and leave a comment to suggest any songtitle/band that the list and

The Wonderful World of One Hit Wonders (WWOOHW) #72 The Vibrators

I saw two people hailing a taxi today and thought:“What strange religion do they belong to?” Vibrators were founded by Ian ‘Knox’ Carnochan, bassist Pat Collier, guitarist John Ellis, and drummer John ‘Eddie’ Edwards. They first came to public notice at the 100 Club when they backed Chris Spedding in 1976, and it was on

Artists With Self-titled Songs (AWSTS) #2

Finishing off the ‘numbered’ bands with self songs, this post will feature -(16)-, 24-Carat Black, 45 Grave, 100 Flowers, and The 1975. 6. -(16)- 16 (1996) An American sludge metal band that’s been around since 1992, 16, (stylized as -(16)-), has been cited, along with fellow pioneering acts such as Eyehategod, Crowbar and Acid Bath,

The Documentaries of Wolfgang Büld

Due to a combination of the nights fair drawing in, some slight (non-Covid) sniffles, and the rain lashing down so hard that a 600-year old man knocked on my door and asked if I had any spare gopher wood, Xmas at mi casa was an sedate, indoor affair. After filling up on so much sugary

Boris Johnson Is Still A Sausage Roll.

NB: the link below leads to a song with a very NSFW title and lyrics by a band that has a very NSFW name, I’m just using the SFW song title (and also I’m just here so I don’t get fined). Click the link below to find out how to send this timely ditty to

Too Slow, Too Long. (GDLIYWI) #48

It’s Alive is the first live album by the American punk rock band the Ramones, titled after the 1974 horror film of the same name. It was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on December 31, 1977, and released in April 1979 as a 2-LP set. The album draws material from the band’s first