Must-have music
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Never thought you would hear another track as good as Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’? At last, one has arrived. Lissie’s ‘In Sleep’ from her ‘Catching a Tiger’ album featured a coruscating yet agonisingly beautiful guitar run from Eric Sullivan. Listen and weep. A classic is born. Read more
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How a song by Ricky Gervais (Seona Dancing – More to Lose) helped me fall in love in 1984 – and sixteen other great love songs compiled here – http://wp.me/pCEKG-7t Read more
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‘You and me gonna be fine’. Exit hand in hand walking into the sunset. In love? This is your soundtrack. Vol 4 of the Greatest Indie Love Songs of all time. Read more
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You’ll have yours. I’ve got mine. Sixteen British Indie pop songs and one Swedish classic that changed the world. Inside my head at least. Some are deleted and impossible to find, one or two are recent and surprisingly capable of making a veteran Indie roller catch a little tear somewhere back in the throat. Geneva,… Read more
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We often get to a place of stasis or resignation in our lives. Stalemate is the endgame in Chess where the King is safe, but is cornered and trapped by his opponent’s pieces. It’s his turn to move but he is not permitted to move into a place of danger. When neither player is Read more
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When you’re sick and tired of everybody lying to you you just want to walk away….. walk right into better days if you can just stop wanting it….. it will come to you I know you try….. but don’t try too hard when I see you cry….. it breaks my heart I won’t stop loving you….. Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Top 25 Albums of 2009 1. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 2. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains 3. Grammatics – Grammatics 4. Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances 5. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter 6. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 7. The XX – The XX 8. Bombay Read more
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Roy Stannard’s Albums of the Decade Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes The Veils – The Runaway Found The Dears – No Cities Left Acorn – Hope Glory Mountain Wild Beasts – Two Dancers Grammatics – Grammatics Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why there are mountains Damien Rice – O British Sea Power – Do you like Read more
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These 70s and 80s songs have been rescued from the very depths of Stannard’s Library, converted digitally from their original vinyl state and lovingly brought to your attention. Some of these artists will never record again and have not been washed up on the beach of any long forgotten compilation. I humbly offer them here… Read more
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