Album Club – The (Overly Long) Recap
posted on Sun 28th Mar 2010My family and I all quite like music. A couple of months ago we realised that, although sharing similar musical tastes, we were all listening to different things. Things that we'd probably all enjoy but would never bother to listen to without some serious prompting. So we set up our family album club. The aim: to each nominate an album every Sunday that we would listen to and then review the following Sunday (well the original plan was to do it weekly, but we soon moved it to a fortnightly club when we realized we were all too busy/lazy to listen to four albums a week.) read more
Album Club: 18th April
posted on Tue 27th Apr 2010If you'll excuse my terrible lateness with this fortnight's (or, technically last fortnight's) album club write-up I'll just take a moment to explain that various events clearly conspired against me updating - such as family friends visiting meaning that we had to postpone chats. Still, here we go, two weeks late. Let's get on with the fun and games.
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Album Club: 9th May
posted on Sat 15th May 2010Again, just a tad late (this is getting to be more of a theme than the music) because last week featured some rather amazing birthday celebrations round mine, and none of us really felt up to a heavy music discussion. Anyway...
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Album Club: 30th May
posted on Fri 4th Jun 2010This week we reviewed:
• lostprophets - Start Something (2004) (Me)
• Simply Red - A New Flame (1989) (Mum)
• Hoobastank - The Reason (2003) (Brother)
• Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke (2008) (Dad) read moreAlbum Club: 20th June
posted on Sat 3rd Jul 2010Yeah...it's only 2 weeks late this time...
This week (cough) we reviewed:
• Marina and the Diamonds - The Family Jewels (2010) (Me)
• Paul Simon - Graceland (1986) (Mum)
• The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (2009) (Brother)
• Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980) (Dad) read moreAlbum Club: 4th July
posted on Sun 18th Jul 2010This week we reviewed:
• Depeche Mode - Violator (1990) (Me)
• Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life (1986) (Mum)
• The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (2009) (Brother)
• Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) (Dad) read moreAlbum Club: 25th July
posted on Sat 4th Sep 2010This week we (also - introducing a new commentator my Other Brother*) reviewed:
• Indochine - La république des meteors (2009) (Me)
• Bryan Adams - Reckless (1984) (Mum)
• Metric - Fantasies (2009) (Brother)
• Santana - Shaman (2002) (Dad) read moreAlbum Club: 22nd August
posted on Sat 4th Sep 2010This week we reviewed:
• Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) (Me)
• Coldplay - X & Y (2005) (Mum)
• Pendulum - Immersion (2010) (Brother)
• Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976) (Dad) read moreAlbum Club: 5th September
posted on Wed 8th Sep 2010This week we reviewed five albums (!) So get comfortable, because there's a lot to get through this week...:
• Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (2002) (Me)
• Keane - Hopes and Fears (2004) (Mum)
• Placebo - Battle for the Sun (2009 (Brother)
• AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It (1978) (Dad)
• The Chemical Brothers - Brotherhood CD1 (2008) (Other brother) read more