Tag: The Stone Roses

Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club @jonfratelli @LouHickey

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Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club Brief derail before I actually start: I think Codeine Velvet Club sounds like the kind of place where you would expect Andy Warhol and Lou Reed to be smoking a joint and laughing at people while they simultaneously had an intellectual conversation about the minutia of detail in the art design of various modern day bubble gum wrappers. OK, but seriously, let’s try this again… Best Albums You’ve Never Heard Of: Codeine Velvet Club I have never stated as such on my…

Twenty Tunes Terrific for Tuesday – Vol. 7 #120Minutes #TTTT #Bonus

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  I watched a lot of TV in the late 80s and early 90s, but perhaps none more religiously than the MTV late night video series: 120 Minutes. Created by Dave Kendall, 120 Minutes was a 2 hour show that was designed to showcase alternative music at a time when many of the artists featured were struggling to find an audience. Whereas mainline MTV was showing mostly top 40 pop hit music videos (yes there exists a time in history when MTV actually showed music videos the majority of the day),…