Another brief deviation from Springsteen.... having spent a couple of days out and about last week including a day revisiting Oxford, I thought it fitting to put together a few of my favourite songs from that city's most famous - though of course, not its only - bands: Radiohead. Having already pontificated about OK Computer…

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15.03.2025

Least and Most: Wrecking Ball | Mumbling About…

It must have been a strange time for the man they call The Boss as 2012's Wrecking Ball arrived. Entering into his fifth decade of releasing albums, two members of his E Street Band having passed, his albums still hitting the top spot on release but quickly dropping out of view of the charts. Meanwhile…

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21.03.2025

Least and Most: High Hopes | Mumbling About…

Reviewing High Hopes as a studio album feels unfair, but as Springsteen insisted on referring to this reheated plate of leftovers as just that - so be it. Arriving in the resurgence that followed Wrecking Ball and its tour, High Hopes is Springsteen's most scattershot album to date, there's no narrative, no theme, no intent…

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08.04.2025

Monday tunes: recovery mode | Mumbling About…

It's been a weird old couple of weeks. A long drive down to Cornwall - which I think is only ever a short drive from somewhere else in Cornwall - and back for work followed very quickly by the switch to BST knocked me a little for six. As I sit here recovered and with…

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We don’t want the loonies taking over – Five from Radiohead | Mumbling About…

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