Today is the turn of the letter ‘K’ in my A-Z retrospective of albums from the noughties. And that’s OK. Well part of OK anyway. And, like so many debut albums of the noughties, it’s another eponymous one. K is for Kasabian When Kasabian released their debut album in 2004, they were often touted as…
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James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 10: Jarvis
It’s time for ‘J’ in my A-Z of albums I liked from the noughties. I struggled with this letter for last year’s 90s retrospective but there were no such problems this year. Indeed I had a couple of potential choices but one album from 2006 had selected itself before I even started compiling my list.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 9: Is This It
It is time for ‘I’ in the 2021 A-Z Challenge. The letter ‘I’ often tends to lead to an intro full of pronoun fun when I do an A-Z Challenge. But I will not do that today. And neither will ‘I’. I is for Is This It The debut release from The Strokes was the…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 8: Hot Fuss
Day 8 of the 2021 A-Z Challenge and it already feels like this has been going on for far too long. I’m very much enjoying the ‘listening to music’ bit of the challenge, but the writing about it has become a tad repetitive and frankly I get better blogging stats for my stupid haikus. But…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 7: The Great Western
I have often wondered where we would be without the seventh letter of the alphabet. It wouldn’t be a good state of affairs. It might well be an ood state of affairs though. Who can say? But now it’s time to find out which album from the noughties made the cut for ‘G’. G is…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 6: Franz Ferdinand
It’s time for ‘F’ in the James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger. And there is no time to ‘F’ around, so let’s get on with it. F is for Franz Ferdinand The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria triggered a…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 5: Elephant
It’s day 5 of ‘James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger’ and it’s time to address the elephant in the room. Which is that in last year’s A-Z I had a distinctly British bias and managed to overlook most of the great US bands of the…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 4: Dig Out Your Soul
Due to the traditional omission of Sundays from the April A-Z Blogging challenge, we’re now out of synch between the date and the numerical position of the letter du jour. Today is, of course, the 5th day of April but we are only on the fourth letter of the alphabet. I’m sure we’ll all cope.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 3: Costello Music
It’s day 3 of the 2021 A-Z challenge and I can see the ‘C’. Because that is the third letter of the alphabet. So let’s ‘C’ what album of the 00’s is on offer today. C is for Costello Music 2006 was a bit of strange year in many respects. It was the year that…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 2: The Back Room
It’s the second day of April and not a fool is in sight. But the A-Z Blogging Challenge continues and so we must move on to ‘B’. And the band behind today’s album of choice, if they live up to their name, might also be able to help me improve the content of my blog.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Younger – Part 1: Amnesiac
It’s April! A month best known worldwide for being the one which hosts my birthday. It’s also a month which enjoys a dubious association with fools. Although really only for a half a day. Mainly though it is a month synonymous with alphabetical blogging, as April also plays host to the A-Z Blogging Challenge, an…
A Redundant Post To Announce My Return To Blogging After An All Too Brief Hiatus
Hello dear readers. After announcing that I would be having a break from blogging just over a week ago, I’m now announcing my return. This does presuppose that anyone cares, which is, perhaps, too great an assumption all things considered. On the other hand, if I didn’t announce my return then how would anyone know…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 26: Zeitgeist
And so we arrive at ‘Z’ in my shamelessly nostalgic A-Z of albums that I liked to listen to when I was young. Thanks to everyone who has chipped in with comments along the way, even if it’s to tell me that you’ve never heard of the bands I liked or that you completely disagree…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 25: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
It’s the penultimate day of the A-Z challenge 2020 and it’s time to ask ‘Y’. Specifically we must ask ‘Y’ to tell us what today’s album is. It wasn’t easy. I assumed a lot of album titles would begin with the word ‘you’. Or ‘yesterday’. But these were not popular choices in the nineties apparently.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 24: XTRMNTR
No A-Z would be complete without the letter ‘X’. Because ‘X’ is very much a part of the alphabet. But it’s not the most accommodating of letters and it’s pretty hard to do an A-Z of anything without cheating a bit on ‘X’. But I don’t think I’ve cheated too much today. The album I’ve…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 23: Wake Up!
Who, what, why, where and when are all words that begin with ‘W’. And so does today’s album. Because we’re on ‘W’ in my A-Z of albums. So it should begin with ‘W’. That is literally the only expectation we can reasonably have of this album. But it is also one of my all time…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 22: Version 2.0
As we near the end of this A-Z of albums that I liked when I was younger than I am now, and mostly still like today (except for some albums that frankly only made the cut because they began with the right letter) I feel I should acknowledge the heavy bias towards UK acts. This…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 21: Urban Hymns
We’re now at the part of the A-Z Challenge that is all about ‘U’. “About time,” ‘U’ must be saying. And I’m sorry I had to make ‘U’ wait. However, there are 20 letters that come before ‘U’ in the alphabet. But they’ve had their time and now we finally get to ‘U’. U is…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 20: Tellin’ Stories
We’ve finally got to the 20th letter of the alphabet, which means the end is in sight. But we’re not there yet. First we have to stop for ‘T’. I prefer mine with milk but no sugar. Cos I’m sweet enough (ah that office banter that we’re all missing out on because of the lock-down).…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 19: Spiders
If this were an A-S of albums I liked when I was young, then we’d already be at the end. But it’s an A-Z, so we aren’t at the end. Because ‘Z’ comes after ‘S’ in the alphabet. But if you look at ‘S’ in the mirror, it looks like a kind of curvy ‘Z’.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 18: Return To The Last Chance Saloon
If you’ve been looking forward to this A-Z getting to the eighteenth letter of the alphabet then here we ‘R’. But where exactly ‘R’ we? At the letter ‘R’ of course. I’d have thought that was abundantly clear from the way I just cleverly substituted the letter ‘R’ for the word ‘are’ above. And then…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 17: Quench
And so to ‘Q’ in my A-Z of albums I liked to listen to when I was young. ‘Q’ is always one of the more difficult letters in an A-Z challenge. And it was quite the conundrum in this challenge too. Not as difficult to solve as ‘X’ in the end but still quite tricky.…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 16: Pablo Honey
If only there were a way to get to the sixteenth letter of the alphabet without referencing the immortal Blockbusters joke, “I’ll have a ‘P’ please Bob” But there isn’t, so I did. Obviously the above reference may mean nothing to you, particularly if you didn’t watch the quiz show Blockbusters in the 80s and…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 15: On
And so to ‘O’ that most circular of letters. And when you think about the great albums of the nineties, there really could only be one choice for the letter ‘O’. So it’s almost beyond belief that I’ve gone with a different one. But I stand by today’s choice. It was an album that I…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 14: 1977
And so we are officially in the second half of what really is a self-indulgent set of posts about the music I liked when I was younger. If you’re just joining me, then welcome. Although you are going to have to work hard to keep up with the others. If you’ve been with me since…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 13: The Man Who
The halfway point of the alphabet lies somewhere between ‘M’ and ‘N’. Which is where we’ll be at the end of this post. For we are on ‘M’ today. I’m not sure if the fact that we’re almost halfway there is a source of comfort or distress really. M is for The Man Who Yesterday’s…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 12: Laid
And so we’re at the time of our A-Z journey through nineties music nostalgia when we ask, what the ‘L’? And ‘L’ is coming, make no mistake about that. But what fresh ‘L’ is this? L is for Laid I could hardly do a series nineties nostalgia posts predominantly about indie music without including a…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 11: K
We’re up to ‘K’ in the A-Z of albums that I listened to a lot in the nineties. I’m not sure if there’s anything more to say. I’ll throw in this sentence as a bit of ‘filler’ before we get to the ‘big reveal’. Although I always reveal the album in the title of the…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 10: Jollification
And so to ‘J’ in this self-indulgent amble down the memory lane of my music-loving youth. ‘J’ was a pretty hard one to select, because, frankly there wasn’t much to choose from. And I didn’t expect that to be the case, because while I anticipated ‘Q’ and ‘X’ to be problematic, I expect more of…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 9: I Should Coco
Day 9 of this A-Z malarkey and it is time for ‘I’. The letter ‘I’ obviously. Not me. If it was me I’d have said ‘it is time for me’. Because ‘me’ would be the correct pronoun to use in that sentence. That’s just basic grammar. But it’s not time for me, it’s time for…
James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Albums That He Liked To Listen To When He Was Young – Part 8: How To Make Friends And Influence People
It’s always been my personal belief that the eighth letter of the alphabet should be ‘H’. Which it is. I’m not saying I’m responsible for that fact. That’s not for me to say. If others wish to credit me then that’s up to them. But, which album has the honour of representing ‘H’ today? H…
