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  • Roy Stannards Top 25 Albums of 2009

    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

  • Roy Stannard’s 35 Albums of the Decade

    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

  • Roy Stannard’s Top 150 Albums of all time

    Grace by Jeff Buckley – Arguably, the best album of all time. OK you asked for it. I don’t expect you to agree with me, but here they are – some of the best music ever produced on the windblown terraces of God’s own earth – Roy Stannard’s Top 150 Albums of all time. 1.         … Read more

  • Excavating the Eighties Pt 2 – more rare 12″ vinyl

    Won Ton Ton’s singer Bea Van Der Maat  is probably the reason to explore this Belgian Eighties outfit. After Chow-Chow, the forerunner to Won Ton Ton split,  Bea started a career on television and sang in the LSP Band. Her popularity got the group a record contract. In 1987 the group reformed – under the name Won… Read more

  • The best undiscovered guitar album in the world, ever?

    A Celebration of one of the lost classics of the 80s Rock genre, Adorable’s ‘Against Perfection’ and the band’s inspired lead guitarist and singer Piotr Fijalkowski – with a downloadable file. Read more