The Jam | COLLAPSE BOARD
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Segregation Under a Groove: Pop Music’s Unspoken Colour Lines
Many years ago, a great schism occurred in the history of popular music. As amps got louder and concerts got bigger, new groups responded by creating a heavier kind of music that relied on sheer sonic power as opposed to the lighter sounds of early sixties pop. Rock music broke away from pop and in […]
Added on November 18, 2014 Everett True 1980 , best singles of 1980 , Everett True , Joy Division , The Jam
Everett True’s Favourite Singles of 1980
It seems the obvious follow-up to yesterday’s post, Everett True’s Favourite Albums of 1980. I have all the information contained within this slim blue hardback diary in front of me. I’d imagine these charts are based on actual plays of my Dansette. Much more variable, this chart – and showing a heavy Factory Records bias, […]
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The return of Everett True | 62. The UV Race
Let me quote The Jam at you. “Life is timeless, days are long when you’re young/You used to fall in love with anyone/Any guitar and any bass drum.” That’s how it works, right? You see a band, you fall in love for a minute, an hour, a week, a year… whatever it takes. It’s even […]
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Music for politicians (spot the odd one out)
I think if I was in a band and David Cameron said he liked my band’s music, I’d have a long hard look at my band’s music.
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Song of the day – 461: Shellshag (+ bonus album review)
I want to fuck the world and make love to its remains. Always.
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excerpted from ‘Paul Weller – The Changing Man’ (Paolo Hewitt, 2011)
In later years, Everett True at Melody Maker would regularly review Paul’s records with just one word: wanker.
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Everett True’s 10 favourite albums of all time* … and one that changed his life
Who couldn’t relate to a stiff upper lyric like that?
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We Don’t Have To Breed – Nirvana’s Nevermind and masculinity
Stuck with powerful sexual impulses, I convinced myself that to act on them was disrespectful and cheap.
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Nirvana’s Nevermind, 20 Years Ago
It’s taken me nearly two decades to admit to liking Nevermind in public again. In celebration, I’ve decided to reprint my original review.
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Death Rattle – The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and the travesty of British Alternative Rock in the 90s
Large elements of the UK alternative press seemed to be waiting for the right guitar band to get behind, the right guitar band to believe in. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Stone Roses.