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One Track Minded | Queen Bet On ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
“It was either going to be massive or it was going to be nothing”
- Roger Taylor, Queen
'Bohemian Rhapsody', one of the most celebrated songs in the history of music, is utterly unique. With the recent biopic bagging 4 awards at the…
One Track Minded | IDLES Confront Masculinity On ‘Samaritans’
There's a strong post-punk re-emergence happening all across the UK and Ireland. Bands like The Murder Capital and Fontaines DC are spearheading the latter - while Bristol-based IDLES lead the way. Post-punk was born from pure punk, but…
One Track Minded | Inside Carly Simon’s Broken Heart on You’re So Vain
"You gave away the things you loved, and of them was me.."
Listening to Carly Simon's colossal 1972 hit, ‘You’re So Vain’, you realise very quickly that whoever wounded this woman will be reminded for eternity. Every time they hear it…
One Track Minded | Etta James – ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’
Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. This time out, Justin McDaid delves deep on a blues and soul classic…
“I would rather go blind, boy/ Than to see you walk…
Making Sense of Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy
What happens when the whole world suddenly becomes one of post-facts and suddenly your post-irony persona starts to lose its magic? That’s the question that Josh Tillman seems to be asking himself throughout his surreal short film Pure…
One Track Minded | Ariel Pink played the long game quite wonderfully on ‘Round and…
Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. This time out, Mark Conroy gets lost in a modern pop masterpiece of epic proportions...
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg was perhaps just…
One Track Minded | Pavement took on a phony scene and desperate commercialism with ‘Cut Your…
If you consider yourself a music fan at all and spent any time on the Twittersphere last month, you’d have been hard pressed to have avoided the social media “fallout” that followed Johnny Borrell’s quite funny Noisey interview in which the…
One Track Minded | On ‘Ghost Town’, The Specials listened to the heartbeat of a troubled…
“I dread to think what the future will bring”
Top Of The Pops, August 1979: Coventry ska band The Specials have caused a minor stir in the charts with their first single, ‘Gangsters’, released on their own 2 Tone label and kicking off what…
One Track Minded | On ‘Pyramids’, Frank Ocean unveils poignant frustration through…
Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. Frank Ocean may well never release that almost mythical second album of his so here's Mark Conroy to wax lyrical on the 10-minute…
One Track Minded | ‘Fairytale of New York’ is a timeless classic
In One Track Minded, we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. 'Tis the season, so this week Mark Conroy talks all about the seasonal magnum opus, 'Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. …