http://grudnuk.com/records/ We pick records (amongst other things) and write about them. en-us 2003-03-30T01:14:54+10:00 2003-05-21T00:09:38+10:00 Well, I think this particular trip is over. I started it a couple of years ago because I felt I had to, and now I no longer feel I have... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001438.html Site News Graham Freeman 2003-03-30T01:14:54+10:00 I haven't been right down into a moshpit for years. The heat, the sweat, the elbows in the head, sitting under the nose of those on stage, the crushed feet.... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001374.html Gigs Andrew 2003-01-29T22:11:06+10:00 I'm still not sure what to do about the Top Records of 2002 thing, but I did see a lot of good gigs, so I'll do a Top Gigs of... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001334.html Lists acb 2002-12-29T04:32:39+10:00 I'm not *all* that keen on top ten lists, because you always have to leave a lot of great stuff off the list. Last year I fudged it by doing... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001323.html Lists Graham Freeman 2002-12-19T01:19:56+10:00 It's a cruel irony that, in the wake of Mary Hansen's tragic death earlier this week, Low-Fi, an early Stereolab EP which I had ordered a couple of months back,... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001315.html Singles and EPs Graham Freeman 2002-12-14T00:12:15+10:00 Time to get the lists going again. I seem to have spent most of 2002 getting back into old stuff and discovering last year's stuff six months late (e.g., Royksopp... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001314.html Lists rory 2002-12-13T00:06:15+10:00 I was having a look at Pitchfork's Top Albums of the 80s list. It's not a half bad selection, but the glaring omission of anything Australasian got me thinking about... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001290.html Site News Graham Freeman 2002-11-22T00:54:54+10:00 Who is Vince DiCola? Vince DiCola is the man responsible behind the composition and performance of the incidental music in the 1986 animated movie, "Transformers : The Movie". He also... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001275.html Albums Andrew 2002-11-08T20:47:57+10:00 Ninetynine are touring the British Isles; acb was in London when they rolled into town, and went to see them. Here is his account. http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001252.html Gigs acb 2002-11-01T13:41:32+10:00 Albury seems to be a favourite starting point for national tours when bands actually bother playing there, so on the downside, the bands may be a little out of form,... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001250.html Gigs Graham Freeman 2002-10-31T23:35:07+10:00 Remember 1995? There were those silly Britpop Wars between Oasis and Blur, which seemed to encourage A&R guys to sign a lot of bloody awful carny acts like Spacehog (who... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001240.html Albums Graham Freeman 2002-10-24T23:27:02+10:00 The Back To Mine series has been going for a number of years; if you haven't seen it, the basic idea is like this: for each release, the organisers select... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001234.html Compilations acb 2002-10-20T03:14:52+10:00 Ten years between drinks, not counting Ovo, is a long time. Now it's finally out, you sort of think that he might've put something like this out half a decade... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001233.html Albums Graham Freeman 2002-10-20T01:45:39+10:00 Back at the height of Britpop, the British press whipped itself into a frenzy about which new album released on the same day would debut the highest, What's the Story,... http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001232.html Albums rory 2002-10-19T02:37:12+10:00 With their fourth album, Melbourne indie quartet Ninetynine transcend the kids-with-Casios stereotype and deliver a work of intricacy and sophistication. http://grudnuk.com/records/arch/001192.html Albums acb 2002-09-16T17:09:55+10:00