Archive for '4AD'
1988 (1988):
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
1988 was where everything changed. In the second year of the sixth form, I had reached the point where I had to actually make an effort to get good grades. I decided not to bother and so coasted towards a set of mediocre A Levels (2 at Grade D, 2 at Grade [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 by Steve under 4AD, Annual, Me, Music.
Comments: 4
MP6: Pale Saints
As I may have mentioned way back when, the plan with this MP3 malarkey was to utilise the turntable and to rip some tracks that I don’t otherwise have on CD, working on the assumption that maybe they’re not that widely available. As you may imagine, that’s a bit tricky. It appears that everything is [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 by Steve under 4AD, England Made Me, Mixtape, Music, Pale Saints.
Comments: 5
MP5: Lush
The reason for the title is buried in the mists of time, but this compilation album from 1990 sees lots of popular indie bands (and some less popular ones) covering a selection of classic tracks (and some not so classic tracks). The album’s subtitle, ‘Anti Poll Tax Trax’ gives a clue to the cause, and [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2008 by Steve under 4AD, England Made Me, Him, Lush, Mixtape, Music.
Comments: 3
If I Were A Man, I’d Have A Gun
‘The Real Ramona’, the 1991 album from the Throwing Muses seems to me to represent a beachhead of sorts, a culmination of where the band had been headed, and a pointer to the divergent paths the members of the band would follow over the subsequent ten years.
From their early releases it was obvious that the [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2003 by Steve under 4AD, England Made Me, Music.
Comments: none