Category: Throwback Thursday

Back in the day, living in Glasgow listening to The Downward Spiral on my little stereo in Kelvingrove Park, watching crows demolish a chick of some species and reading Edgar Allan Poe. It would be embarrassing if it wasn’t so cool.

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One upon a time, when torrents were a thing, SXSW used to publish a big fat bundle of music from bands that were playing and I used to download them and I reckon there’s still tracks on those lists I’ve never heard. Over 700 songs from 2005 alone. I *think* one of the bands I did listen to and liked enough to buy the album was Aficionado.

I’m making very slow progress converting our cassette tapes to digital, but in doing so discovered we had no Madness. At all. Despite both of us growing up with them. They are national treasures, and form a part of the ambient musical fabric of life, and as such I think I take their music for granted. I just assume it’s there.

I can’t remember how I heard of Saul Williams for the first time though I suspect it was through is association with Trent Reznor and Dresden Dolls.

Never cared for Metallica until this came out. Never cared much for them since.

Killing in The Name was a kick in the teeth when I first saw it performed live on The Word (one of many memorable performances on that car crash show) and the eponymous debut album of Rage Against The Machine was definitely a statement and did what it said on the tin…

Good grief this is a good album. First encountered Mowgli’s Road when it went a bit viral for being an interesting video but the song is so interesting I had to have more…

1997? I remember being a student in Glasgow and the posters going up for this and the first tracks coming out and it feeling like a good time to be alive for music…

I think my first encounter with Fiona Apple was hearing about her new album, Extraordinary Machine, which had been leaked onto teh internets alongside rumours that her vision was being squashed by evil record label executives who refused to release it, or something along those lines, so of course I had to download it from Napster or whatever was in vogue at the time and I loved it…