101 Songs

How do we decide if we like a film? It's both the easiest and the hardest question to answer. As you'll have probably guessed, I...

This has been my favourite year for music in a long time, if not ever. Good and very good albums have been released regularly throughout the...

I grew up in a nondescript terraced house in a nondescript little road in a nondescript part of a relatively nondescript borough. That's...

"In the final end, he won the war, after losing every battle ..." That certainly does not apply to Boardwalk Empire's main c...

Strangely, it's a slightly different question from What was the Best British Album of each year since 1992, and it's certainly a bit...

I don't know what compels me to keep writing about the Mercury Prize each year, as if it actually matters anymore than any other list of...

So that's the question and that's the tone for what I'm going to write. I'll try to keep anger and blame out of it, I...

I'd like to keep this blog going regularly with a little less structure, but I've found down the years that I need a structure and a...

It's rather worrying when the person in charge of the nation's music thinks this ... http://www.nme.com/news/radio-1/78327 My nat...

So, this is the last, alphabetically, of the series of 51 albums from 1963 to 2013. I didn't plan a big bang, but it's nice to e...