Well, well. Exactly five years since the first real entry, I’m back where it all began – reviewing Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. The black sheep of Oasis albums, the one that is as marmite as they come, and the one that I actually have tried to re-review twice since the initial entry. IContinue reading “Entry #50 – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants – Revisited, re-evaluated, and rebuilt (a.k.a Coming full circle)”
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Entry #43 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire (a.k.a Bugger it, I should’ve called this Shrug of the Shoulders of Giants!)
Liam Gallagher and John Squire, despite being two of the best musicians of the modern age, have been victims of their own monumental success. Be Here Now and Standing on the Shoulder of Giants were slagged off for not matching the lofty heights of Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory. Second Coming was dismissed for notContinue reading “Entry #43 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire (a.k.a Bugger it, I should’ve called this Shrug of the Shoulders of Giants!)”
Entry #41 – The Ballad of Darren (a.k.a ‘Life’)
It’s fine. It’s a fine album. Nothing groundbreaking, no new Parklife or anything like that. But then again it doesn’t really need to be. Blur had already accomplished what they set out to do decades ago. Anything we get these days we should consider ourselves lucky for. And I’m glad we got them back justContinue reading “Entry #41 – The Ballad of Darren (a.k.a ‘Life’)”
Entry #39 – Be Here Now (a.k.a This review took 1000 days to publish, I kid ye not)
Hello from the past. I’m writing this at the same time I’m typing up the review for Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and normally I would just wait until I’ve done one before I move on to the other. Because the day I’m writing this is 21st August 2020, the 23rd anniversary of theContinue reading “Entry #39 – Be Here Now (a.k.a This review took 1000 days to publish, I kid ye not)”
Entry #36 – The Beatles (a.k.a Genre Whiplash)
While this isn’t the longest it has taken me to write a review (I’m still trying to finish Be Here Now), this entry about the White Album has taken a solid month for me to get through. I started writing it in the early hours of December 19th 2022. It is now mid-January and thisContinue reading “Entry #36 – The Beatles (a.k.a Genre Whiplash)”
A-Side Glance 