Pile of Shame is a series where I attempt to wade through the endless amount of unfinished games in my library, as well as tackling classic games that I’ve never gotten around to. Each month I’ll be revising the 10 current titles I’ll be playing, with a post on each individual game sharing my thoughts and …
Another year, another (hugely late) halftime report on next year’s Grammy Awards. There’s one very obvious contender for just about every possible award, but something tells me that it won’t be another clean sweep for the current reigning ‘Queen of the Grammys’ Adele. I take a very early look at some of the biggest contenders.
Pile of Shame is a series where I attempt to wade through the endless amount of unfinished games in my library, as well as tackling classic games that I’ve never gotten around to. Each month I’ll be revising the 10 current titles I’ll be playing, with a post on each individual game sharing my thoughts and … Continue reading
It seems like everything I end up writing about on this blog is based on listening to albums, or playing games that I’ve never got around to before. There’s something so obviously thrilling about sharing your first thoughts of something that ‘everyone’ should experience. Like so many other people, after two decades of playing videogames, I’ve … Continue reading
25 – Adele – 2015 First listen?: No 227 days. That’s how long Adele’s 25 has been out up to the date this sales list was published on the Official Charts website. In that time it has managed to outsell the biggest of Coldplay and Take That’s albums, as well as the album that made her want to be … Continue reading
Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield – 1973 First listen?: Yes The last ‘new’ album for me to listen to in this whole series, Tubular Bells is unlike anything else, on this list or otherwise. An instrumental piece composed and performed almost single-handedly by a 19 year old Mike Oldfield there are no ‘tracks’, just a Pt1 and … Continue reading
The Man Who – Travis – 1999 First listen?: No I really don’t remember The Man Who being this dull. Maybe it’s because like so many albums on this list I’m used to hearing it blasting out from the dining room/kitchen downstairs as my mum is sat in the garden. Travis are one of those bands that … Continue reading
Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman – 1988 First listen?: Yes I really didn’t know what to expect going into my first listen of Tracy Chapman’s landmark debut album. Of course I had heard signature hit Fast Car, notably current again thanks to a certain terrible tropical house version from earlier in 2016, but my knowledge of Tracy Chapman … Continue reading
Parachutes – Coldplay – 2000 First listen?: No It’s very strange to think back to a time when Chris, Will, Guy and Johnny weren’t the monolithic music entity that they are in 2016, when they were just 4 university graduates who happened to find themselves on the radio with their breakthrough hit Yellow. Back at the turn of the millennium, … Continue reading
