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My Top 20 Albums of the Decade

By Tom Lennon ⋅ January 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005) Sufjan’s Prairie State I wish he did all fifty (Yes, I fell for it) 19. Jeffrey Lewis – It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That The Light Shines Through (2003) Anti-folk hero Serves comic stripped down delight Raw, honest and fun 18. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories [...]

My Top 10 Gigs of 2007

By Tom Lennon ⋅ December 31, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

Don’t you just hate those end of year countdown shows? Cheap, schedule-padding fodder consisting of cobbled together clips and witless pundits pontificating witlessly. I even wrote about me intense dislike for this pernicious genre here. Oh, how I hate them. Here’s a countdown of my favourite gigs of 2007: 10. Jeffrey Lewis & The Jitters, [...]

The National, Birmingham Irish Centre, 6th November 2007

By Tom Lennon ⋅ December 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“I wish that I believed in fate I wish I didn’t sleep so late I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders.” – The National: Mr November “Everything I can remember I remember wrong.” The National: Daughters of the SoHo Riots It’s been a long time since I last visited Birmingham’s Irish Centre. [...]

National Boxers

By Tom Lennon ⋅ August 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

[Originally published in my MySpace blog 18/08/2007] For the benefit of my new friend from Seattle with exquisite music taste [translation: "similar to mine"], the lyrics to The National’s sublime “Boxer” album have been unofficially transcribed HERE For the rest of you: if you haven’t listened to it yet, then what are you waiting for? [...]