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Comment on The Beatles – Please Please Me (1963): Review by Hackskeptic

Hackskeptic — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:07:28 +0000

Couldn’t agree more and thanks for the comment!!

Comment on The Beatles – Please Please Me (1963): Review by Adina Solomon

Adina Solomon — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:22:29 +0000

Please Please Me isn’t my favorite Beatles album, but it’s fun to listen to, and it has some great tracks. And you’re right — it really helped lay the groundwork that allowed the Beatles to make groundbreaking music a few years later.

Comment on Future Stars by Rich

Rich — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:32:46 +0000

King Crimson, Vrooom

Comment on Clor, Barringtone by connan

connan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:42:34 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Barringtone/32264789763?ref=ts&fref=ts

Barringtone are indeed alive and well. more releases to come…..ok, we’ve been quiet for a while. all will be revealed!!!

Comment on Foster The People – Torches (2011): Review by Hackskeptic

Hackskeptic — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:32:59 +0000

Spot on Josh! Couldn’t agree more!!!!! The greatest year in music? 1979 or 1980? I can’t decide

Comment on Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (2009): Review by Hackskeptic

Hackskeptic — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:28:18 +0000

To be honest I mostly agree with what you say and in reality they’re probably a band I wouldn’t normally like. I ventured into the album with no high expectations but what I did appreciate was the conviction, and compelling gusto they provide in every performance. So much folk is fey, wimpy and lacks bite. These guys bang it out with a carefree attitude that is at least refreshing.

Comment on Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (2009): Review by Josh Pritchard

Josh Pritchard — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:21:46 +0000

Ah, alas a band that I feel I could enjoy to a certain extent if not for their contrived ways throughout the band’s make-up. I mean, a bunch of London public-schoolboys trying to pull off heartland Irish-folk doesn’t quite wash with this observer! Maybe I’m too cynical for my own good, as when I have seen them on the television at festivals, it looks to be a good time, but are their fans listening to music of a similar ilk once the lights go up or once the (theoretical) needle bounces into the run-out grooves?

Comment on Foster The People – Torches (2011): Review by Josh Pritchard

Josh Pritchard — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:14:50 +0000

Having heard “Pumped Up Kicks” on the radio for the first time in a long while last week (Jan 2013), I too recall the warm fondness I felt for the first 60 seconds of this song, with – to their credit – the catchy “Beach Boy” style double-tracked guitar and bass riff and the soaring chorus. It evoked such pleasant memories that I was persuaded to part with 99p for the iTunes single. Needless and sadly to say, after listening to a couple of what can only be described as ordinary-at-best album fillers, I sunk back into my safety net of Rod Stewart & The Faces. I’m sure one day there will be a modern day band that I really enjoy, they just have to find me!

Comment on Hackskeptic’s 500 Greatest Songs: The Walker Brothers – No Regrets (1975) by Hackskeptic

Hackskeptic — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:47:26 +0000

Thanks for the info and posting the vid. It’s great to hear that he’s still playing live after all these years.

An example of the song being murdered
Midge Ure – No Regrets (1982)

Comment on Hackskeptic’s 500 Greatest Songs: The Walker Brothers – No Regrets (1975) by Dennis France

Dennis France — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:00:43 +0000

Thanks for gracious response. I certainly do have my biases since I have been enjoying Tom Rush’s music for a long time and he is still touring at age 70+. In the attached clip, he credits the Walker Brothers for “putting his first two kids through college, so he clearly was supportive of their promotion of the song…