Tweet Ask Team SGTMT about the things we have found embarrassing and the list will be as long as your arm, and then some. Falling over in the snow, bad haircuts, awkward attempts to procure girls' phone numbers, calling the teacher ' Mum ', a long discussion with a group of chaps about the rock band Idlewild without realising the chaps we were talking to were in fact the rock band Idlewild; the list goes on. Most of these occurred in [...]
Tweet Photograph by Camilo Fuentealba Music for a winter wonderland. That's what we've been searching for all day. As dandruff from the skies settled afresh on the SGTMT lawns, we wrapped up warm and started work on the snowman to rule all snowmen - Kevin. Oh yes, Kevin the snowman now stands proud as the centerpiece of our gardens and will this evening, once the moon comes out, awake and stride forth to conquer the known universe. It's like Day of the [...]
Tweet The Bronx - Youth Wasted I am beginning to crack on a bit. My hair is greying, I have to walk my kids to school, occasionally I like to listen to FLeetwood Mac and I own an 8-track player. However my 16 year old self still owns a significant part of my psyche. It's the part of my psyche that controls my response to hearing music for the first time. We all make a snap decision on a song in the first 10-15 seconds and [...]
Tweet This morning SGTMT HQ is snowed in. Fortunately Tom's Girl Guide training is finally proving useful and he's knitting us new mittens and hats whilst we munch threw our winter provisions store. We always knew these 120 packs of digestive biscuits would come in useful. As you'd expect a winter lock-in requires a suitable soundtrack and with great glee we discovered that one of our most favouritest bands has currently let loose their new album as a FREE full album stream. [...]
Tweet Today has been a big day for Team SGTMT . It started as every day does; we sat down in the canteen for a communal team breakfast before joining hands and reciting The SGTMT Motivational Mantra . For a change, instead of getting straight down to work we decided we'd go for a run (our health kick survived Christmas and is still going strong). So, kitted up in our freshly laundered and pressed Team SGTMT official branded sportswear (coming soon to a stockist near you), [...]
Tweet At SGTMT HQ we've spent most of the evening trawling the great interweb portals of noise in a desperate search for new music. Sadly, at the conclusion of our search we can only report thus - 2013 blows. In moments like this, one option always remains. New music has failed us? Well, let's raid the collection and spin some old favourites. So, on went Jose Gonzalez and for a few minutes everything paused. Bliss. Then, in a [...]
Tweet SGTMT HQ is in uproar. Seriously people, a revolution is brewing on Acacia Road and only one thing can stop us going all 1917 / Chairman Mao. 'What happened?' I hear you holler. Well, it went like this; our venerable and widely respected new tunes hack Tom wrote this startling statement on the twitter: 'I haven't heard any good new music all year'. Now granted the year is just two weeks old but still, a music drought for Tom is bad news for us all. [...]
Tweet So, I was in conversation with a former chum this morning who happened to mention he'd recently been reading and listening to the good ship SGTMT . HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE. He then went on to say, deep breath (this may hurt some of our regular readers), that the experience left him a little sad due to the lack of 'upbeat' tunes. Tasteless fool. After spending the afternoon under the stairs crying into a discarded Radiohead t-shirt listening to The Smiths, I [...]
Tweet Two minutes and forty-two seconds, the perfect length for a pop song. I read that somewhere once. Maybe that was the length of Teenage Kicks by The Undertones, I'm not sure (if we were a proper music publication we'd research that fact, but we're not. So I won't. Ha). Regardless of the origins of the quote, it's basically impossible to prove. What would we do to test it? Transport a guitar through the CERN accelerator? Work out the cumulative total of every song in David [...]
Tweet So here we are, the first album we've had spinning on the review decks in 2013. We recently had a new belt fitted too, smooth. Though, if truth be told (which it must, IT MUST) we've only got this album at present via the medium of MP3 (nudge, nudge etc.) Where we were? Ah yes, nowhere, let's get somewhere. So here it is: Give In the debut album from the brilliant yank outfit ON AN ON . We've been big [...]
Tweet A plague of the like not seen before has swept through the echelons of power at SGTMT HQ. We've taken all manner of medication but sadly our new year has been blighted by frailness, disease and the foreboding gloom of imminent death. Yes, we've had man-flu. Horrific. Even now the tentacles of the evil infection still lingers and haunts our bodies. These once prime specimens of power and manliness have been brought low. But, fear is a worser evil and one [...]
Tweet Along with 48 other music blogs we took part in 'The Blog Sound of 20132 (complimentary to the BBC Sound of blah, blah). We wrote about it here . The original long-list has now been narrowed down to the 5 top acts with one winner. We thought we'd give a little insightful commentary on each one. 5. The Neighbourhood Good grief they are awful. 4. Pins Not convinced. [...]
Dec 27, 2012, 3:51pm
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Tweet We've been diligently writing about and slowly releasing the run-down of our Top Tracks of 2012 over the last week. We hope you were pleased by our selections. Now the eagerly awaited countdown is complete we thought we'd be all user friendly and provide a neat and tidy post of the 25 chosen ones. Plus we like this picture of a monkey playing a piano. We hope you do too. 1 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Call [...]
Dec 27, 2012, 3:35pm SGTMT
Tweet So here we are, we've been counting down our Top Tracks of 2012 . Good grief we've got good taste. Then, quite out of the blue something obscure happened, we picked something a bit, well, 'pop' as our No. 1. Are we being ironic? We're not actually sure. Perhaps that's the height of irony... We thought it best to try and explain ourselves and called upon esteemed SGTMT writer Tom: When Team SGTMT were boys, [...]
Dec 24, 2012, 6:02am SGTMT
Tweet Well we're approaching the end of our trek through the finer noises of 2012, also known as SGTMT's Top Tracks of 2012 . The four tracks below caused much debate about around the SGTMT jukebox. At the end of the day you just have to plug for those tunes which you just want to keep listening to again and again. The ones that get you hooked. The four below achieve that with ease. Enjoy. (We've kept the number 1 aside [...]
Dec 23, 2012, 7:56am SGTMT
Tweet So we're continuing our rundown of the Top Tracks of 2012 according to SGTMT . Today we've reached the top 10. This lot caused quite a stir at SGTMT HQ but not as much as our top 5, that will arrive shortly. Here we go: No. 10 - Bob Mould - The Descent We said : The tunes, the drums, [...]
Dec 22, 2012, 9:19am SGTMT
Tweet So, we're counting down our Top 25 Tracks of 2012 . This is part two. No. 17 - Sabre, Stray & Halogenix – Oblique / St Clair We said : Ready for a listen? On the A-side Oblique, featuring the heavyweight soul vocals of Frank Carter III, combines tight, simple but effective drums with sweet warm bass and light keys to create something which [...]
Dec 21, 2012, 5:43pm SGTMT
Tweet So, this is it. The list you've all been waiting for. The fan mail has been piling in for weeks now, a breathless stream of hyperventilated emails begging us to reveal the favourite tunes from the SGTMT HQ. We never let down our fans, so without any further ado we called an Executive Summit in the SGTMT tea room and got our heads together. And the result? 25 killer tunes, we'll do 25-18 today. So here we go. Brace yourselves: [...]
Dec 18, 2012, 4:18pm SGTMT
Tweet Back in the early 90s I'd get home from School, eat dinner (I recall plentiful portions of Shepherds Pie) and then sit down to watch Quantum Leap. That's what everyone did right? How would we have carried on without the weekly updates on the life and exploits of Sam Beckett? Is he still traveling time? Did he ever leap home? Crumbs, I'm getting all emotional just writing about it. Poor Sam. Anyways the first time I heard Hey Now by [...]
Dec 17, 2012, 5:16pm SGTMT
Tweet Fellow SGTMTer Tom got us started on Friday with 2012 Albums Of The Year - Part 1 . So I thought I'd continue the theme with, wait for it, 2012 Albums Of The Year - Part 2 . Didn't see that coming did you? HA. Fooled you, we win, you lose ALL bragging rights to team SGTMT. HA. Now Tom's a fine picker. Seriously, he knows his Clementines from his Satsumas. How could I top that list (duplication obviously isn't an [...]
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