Artist Of The Month...August 2008

Beck
Each month I will be looking back over my record collection (Can you still call it a record collection when nowadays it's all CD's and Mp3's? Well, record collection sounds cooler to me anyway) and choosing an artist to celebrate for the month. Beck has the honour of my first Artist of the Month accolade.

If you only buy one Beck album in your lifetime then Odelay, released in 1996 is the one. The others in order of greatness are:

1 - Odelay - 1996
2 - Mutations - 1998
3 - Modern Guilt - 2008
3 - Guero - 2005
4 - Sea Change - 2002
5 - Midnite Viltures - 1999
6 - The Information - 2006
7 - Mellow Gold - 1994

Watching...

The Wire - Season 5
Quite simply the greatest TV programme of all time. Genius. The fifth and final season of 'The Wire' centers on the media's role in addressing - or failing to address - the fundamental political, economic and social realities depicted over the course of the series, while also resolving storylines of the numerous characters woven throughout the narrative arc of the show.

Dexter - Season 2
Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) stars as a like-able Miami police forensics expert moonlighting as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. The 2nd Season hasn't gripped me as much as the 1st season, but still beats pretty much anything else on TV at the moment (excluding The Wire of course!). The last episode I watched starred Jaime Murray from BBC1's Hustle. Which was nice!

Reading...

A lovely tongue-in-cheek memoir...a wonderful antidote to all those tales of childhood woe pouring from the presses.

Five from the Pod

1. Northern Wale - The Good, The Bad and the Queen
2. We Haven't Turned Around - Gomez
3. Jism - Tindersticks
4. Slide Away - Oasis
5. It Was Supposed To Be So Easy - The Streets

Listening to...

Cracking new album from Beck. A real return to form and a contender for DJ's Album of the Year. A gift for my birthday along with the new Albert Hammond Jnr album - Coma Te Llama.

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