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Was 1977 the peak year for music?

I recently took part in a Twitter poll to vote for the best 5 albums of 1977. (Quick plug: these polls are run fortnightly for different years by Richard Shaw – @RichardS7370 – and are both fun and sometimes educational). Beyond the explosion of punk – which felt like a defining moment even at theContinue reading “Was 1977 the peak year for music?”

Why do we need to know what music you hate?

There’s an awful lot of awful things happening. War in Ukraine, emerging environmental catastrophe, democracy itself facing multiple threats in the era of post-truth politics. The horror of the global Covid pandemic has not gone away. We have so much on our plates. But perhaps what we really should be focusing on is why youContinue reading “Why do we need to know what music you hate?”