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What I Listened To In A Year Part 10
I found a glove while walking the dog today, I picked it up and stuck it onto a spike of the fence surrounding the park and a line from a song came charging to me from out of nowhere – “What good is one glove without the other?” – Pretty apt, but given I have — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 9
1998 was the worst year of my life. 1998 was the worst year of my life so far. My very first actual girlfriend was pregnant, swore me to secrecy and then dumped me. I wasn’t there for the birth as I was in bed with another girl. I didn’t see my daughter until she was — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 8
It’s no secret to anyone that I’m struggling at the moment. Everything feels too much, it’s all too fast and too loud. I’m constantly overwhelmed or right on the verge of being so. I almost miss being underwhelmed and to be honest I’d quite like to just have an adequate amount of whelms about me — read more
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What I listened To In A Year Part 7
Is perfection truly attainable? I can find fault in pretty much anything if I want to. In myself I see little other than my numerous flaws. My smile is crooked. I try too hard to be a good person rather than just being a good person. I’m sarcastic. I’ll make a joke of things rather — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 6
I remember the first time I saw her. It was early September in 1995, I was a spotty, stick thin, awkward, gawky kid who liked music and basketball and very little else. She was beautiful. Maybe not conventionally beautiful but to me she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen in my life. — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 5
Supergroups are an odd thing. I went to school with, and then worked opposite shifts to, a lad who got “Audioslave” tattooed across his midriff before the debut album even came out. It was done off the back of Cochise alone. I spend far too much time thinking about that to be honest, certainly more — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 4
By the time Everything Must Go came around in 1996 I was fully in my teenage angst heavy metal phase. I liked my music loud. I liked my music fast. I liked my music angry. So when it was announced that Manic Street Preachers were coming back after a year and the loss of Richie — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 3
I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. Picture the scene. You’re an awkward teen growing up in a dead end dying market town in the mid 90s. A friend’s older brother is drip feeding you bootlegged tapes of the sixth form staples Faith No More and — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 2
No band has had a three album run as good as Manic Street Preachers. You could possibly argue four but Generation Terrorists is over long, over blown and over produced and that is what makes it everything that it is and everything that it needed and promised to be. It is always, always, worth remembering — read more
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What I Listened To In A Year Part 1
I’m not going to do any of that new year new me bullshit. I am instead going to plough on being the same me I think I am or the me I want to be at the very least. Things on here are going to change a little but nothing drastically as I am very — read more
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