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MY ONE TRACK MIND


(MOSTLY) MUSICAL MUSINGS


MY MUSICAL BFFS OF 2020: THE ALBUMS

I’ve said that certain albums have been ‘like a best friend’ in the past. In the
absence of physical friends over the past year, that wasn’t just a compliment,
it was an entry level requirement.  That’s probably why I spent so much time
with albums I already knew and loved. I devoured every inch and […]


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WHY SOLANGE’S A SEAT AT THE TABLE MADE MY GUILTY WHITE EYES CRY THIS WEEK

In the highly competitive battle for attention within my fickle wandering mind,
two things have completely overtaken my thoughts this week: The tragic, gruesome
and unjust death of a black man, George Floyd, at the knee of a white
Minneapolis police officer (and his colleagues by complicity). Solange’s A Seat
at the Table, an exquisite […]

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MY BIGGEST PLAYLIST EVER (REALLY)

if you wanna cut the crap and get straight to the playlist, you’re welcome
(Spotify or Apple Music). I love to delay bedtime. Normally for no good reason,
only bad ones. So on Wednesday night, I gave myself an incentive at 10pm – you
can stay up, if you make a sick ass playlist for […]

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21 FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2019 (PLUS PODCAST)

Here they are! Hope you find something you like … Podcast links here and the
list below. Apple Google Other 21. Empathy – Jean Deaux 20. The Highwomen – the
Highwomen 19. Eve – Rapsody 18. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? –
Billie Eilish 17. BUBBA – KAYTRANADA 16. Dedicated – […]

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MY 50 FAVOURITE TRACKS OF 2019

The criteria for my favourite songs exists somewhere, like an unwritten
constitution, or probably more like that emoji whose brain is scrambled. It’s a
little of how much I played and enjoyed them. It’s a lot about about how many
feels and thinks I had about them – and how much I felt compelled to […]

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THE LOOK AND THEIR ICONIC SOUND: A TRIBUTE TO ROXETTE

It’s hard to think of a musical act more universally beloved than Roxette.
Unlike many of their 80/90s pop contemporaries, this affection doesn’t come from
any cheesiness-fuelled irony. Roxette’s music was distinct and consistently
stellar. It felt like it was on another level, even if not consciously at the
time. In hindsight, it was timeless […]

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PODCAST: LATE NIGHT FEELINGS – MARK RONSON (AND THE SISTERHOOD)

I am LOVING this new collab between Mark Ronson and some of the strongest female
voices to join forces on an album. Here’s my run down on the what and the why.
https://anchor.fm/daniel-murphy/episodes/Mark-Ronsons-Late-Night-Feelings-and-all-my-big-time-feelings-about-it-e4fjjn
You can also find my podcast on your listening app of choice. Remember to
subscribe … and feel free to share

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PRIMAVERA SOUND 2019: THE NEW NORMAL

My third time at Primavera Sound music festival in Barcelona was special. It’s
been a favourite for years, but this year they committed – and delivered – to
having at least 50% of artists be female. They’ve committed to every year from
now too. It’s what they call the new normal. I call it god […]

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HOMECOMING – A FILM BY BEYONCÉ

I just went to church (I think)/ watched Beyoncé’s Netflix doco Homecoming. Mind
and soul totally blown. Watch it and then listen to my highly emotional take/ a
14 minute stream of consciousness fanboy review. You should (hopefully) be able
to find it on your podcast platform of choice here:
https://anchor.fm/daniel-murphy

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PODCAST #1: MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2018

Hola. Here it is … my very first podcast.  You can hear me talk through
favourite albums using one of the links below. Apple Google Anchor fm You can
also find some of the music mentioned in the podcast here: Spotify playlist
Apple Music playlist Here is the list of albums. Hope you find something […]

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MY FAVOURITE SONGS OF 2018

I was like basically pretty much sorta almost ready to go with this before the
NY kicked in. Then my holiday companions gave me a straight up grilling for
wanting to post these songs in no particular order. So revisit, I have. Ranked
them, I did. Torturous, it certainly was. It did give me a […]

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MY FAVOURITE ALBUM OF 2018: GOLDEN HOUR – KACEY MUSGRAVES

Two very big things happened last week in the world of Kacey Musgraves. First,
she was announced as a guest judge on next season’s Ru Paul’s Drag Race (All
Stars, no less). Later that same week, she was then awarded album of the year at
the American Country Music Awards for Golden Hour. I guess […]

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FIVE HOT TAKES ON … NICKI MINAJ’S QUEEN  

After ‘a few’ lengthy delays – leading the Guardian to crown her ‘the queen of
the chaotic album campaign’ – and an even longer list of controversies along the
way, Nicki Minaj’s fourth album Queen dropped (kinda) a week early on Friday.
The sceptic in me wondered if this was to avoid sharing the streaming […]

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THE ETERNAL SACREDNESS OF TRACY CHAPMAN’S FAST CAR

Last week, Nicki Minaj @’d Tracy Chapman. You read that right. This decade’s
most prominent (and spiky) female rapper used the internet’s trolliest
communication channel to make a public request to one of the last century’s
most-respected and dignified artists. Like everyone, my ‘unexpected news’
threshold is pretty high nowadays, yet this still threw me. […]

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THE PERSONAL PRICE OF STREAMING: IS IT CHANGING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSIC?

Buying music from an actual shop is one of my most favourite past times.
Probably my most favourite. It was like a continual rite of passage, ear-marking
moments of my life with musical memories to match. I was basically curating my
own soundtrack. The film itself is more slow-burning B-grade-dramedy than
blockbuster, but the soundtrack […]

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THE R&B PERFECTION OF ELLA MAI’S BOO’D UP

A few years ago, when Sunday sessions at the pub were still a core part of me
adulterating my weekend (definitely not to be confused with adulting), Big Call
Sunday was born. You know the scene. The talk got louder and looser, views
became flippantly more extreme and equally more carefree and confident. Some of
[…]

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A MINI MOTHER’S DAY SOUNDTRACK

In honour of Mother’s Day, today I got myself out of bed, I cooked my meals for
the week, washed all my clothes and even bathed myself. I now know up to 1
millionth of what an average day was like for my own Ma with five human shaped
adult-piglets to raise, clean and cater […]

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NOW PLAY(LISTING) – APRIL 2018

I heard your feedback – the March playlist was a little too heavy on hardness
and hip hop and a little light lush grooves. I’m not saying April completely
resolves that (I’m still me, after all) BUT I have aimed to expand through a
more eclectic mix of genres and sounds. And in those hip-hop […]

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NOW PLAY(LIST)ING – MARCH 2018

Looking for some new listenings but too lazy to read me? Don’t worry, I got you.
I’ve made a playlist of what I’ve been listening to over the last month. I’m
gonna ‘try’ to do one at the end of every month. It’s a mix of new and some old.
There’s even a version on […]

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‘TIL IT’S OVER – ANDERSON .PAAK

In 2015, Dr. Dre released the loooooong awaited follow-up to 2001, his classic
album from 1999. That’s a whopping 16 years, which in musical fandom world is
like a lifetime. The album was Compton, and it was inspired by Straight Outta
Compton, the excellent biopic about the trailblazing hip-hop group N.W.A., which
Dr Dre was […]

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MADONNA’S MOST SURPRISING LEGACY: RAY OF LIGHT TURNS 20:

Some of the biggest icons in history have totally rocked the single moniker.
Jesus, Bert – and Ernie, Vegemite … to name just a few. Aside from those equally
important categories of religion, Sesame Street and breakfast foods, the world
of popular music has been the most fertile breeding ground for one-name wonders
– they […]

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REVIEW: THE DAMN. TOUR – KENDRICK LAMAR (O2 ARENA), LDN

For the first time ever, 2017 was the year that hip-hop reigned supreme and
overtook rock (yes, that ageing stalwart is still kicking apparently) as the
most popular genre in US music. Take a bow, friends. Or get on board soon to be
even friendlier-friends. Some of my favourites have all been late influencers in
[…]

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MY FAVOURITE LATE(R) DISCOVERY OF 2017: NONAME’S TELEFONE

Although my official language is English, my preferred dialect is actually
pop-culture. So, being the Seinfeld-loving, hot-dog and hip-hop enthusiast I am,
the first time I stepped foot onto New York’s concrete soil I felt so culturally
fluent I wondered if this was the home that life had originally planned for me.
Maybe I got […]

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THE GRAMMYS – MY 2018 PRE-SHOW PRE-DICTIONS

It’s Grammy night 2018, y’all. After just landing back in the UK from sunny
California, I’m regretting that I didn’t stay in the US another night to watch
it live. I mean, where are my priorities at? Unless jet lag wakes me at 3am so I
can at least see the best album announced, it […]

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LINGER – THE CRANBERRIES (ODE TO DOLORES)

Everyone has those pivotal moments in their relationship with music. They might
feel totally transformational at the time and you are soaking it all in while
acknowledging the big deal taking place. Or it can be more subtle and it’s only
when you look back you realise the significance of ‘it’. For me, the Cranberries
[…]

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FILTHY – JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Most people think the turning point of Justin Timberlake’s career was his solo
debut, Justified. That is justified (soz), yet as significant and public as that
milestone was, it was the final transformation born of the seeds planted with
the making and release of Celebrity, *NSYNC’s third and final album. Celebrity
was the moment Justin […]

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JUST ANOTHER THING – MAREN MORRIS

If you want to hear my inaugural (aka test) of an audio version of this post,
you can press play via my Facebook page – click here. If not, read on now. At
that pivotal stage of high school that is year 9, we were introduced to a new
music teacher. I had a good […]

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LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO – TAYLOR SWIFT

Were you confused by Taylor Swift’s new song, Look What You Made Me Do? Or maybe
this first bite of her new album Reputation left a strange taste in your ears?
Don’t worry, you were in good company. Between the release of the song and its
accompanying video, I had what can only be described as a deeply superficial […]

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THE MUSIC MAKERS: MAX MARTIN (… AND SWEDEN)

There have been two countries that have most impressed and influenced my musical
sense and sensibilities over the years. The first, and arguably most
significant, is the US of A with all the hip-hop and R&B that my heart desired
and ultimately craved into borderline addiction. The other is Sweden, thanks to
their gigantic and […]

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FALLIN’ – ALICIA KEYS

Growing up in rural Australia, naturally Vegemite was my main spread. Less
expectedly however, it was R&B that was my main squeeze. Against all
environmental norms this music that originated in black America spoke more than
any other to a young white boy in the small-town of Seymour (population: 6,000
people). I think we can […]

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BLACK TO BLACK – AMY WINEHOUSE

  Amy. Oh, Amy. Her anniversary is always bittersweet. It’s a time the
world-at-large seems to revel in and truly acknowledge all of her talents, just
as she deserves. Yet, like other artists remembered after their time, it’s with
more respect and kindness from the masses (and media) than she was afforded
while she was […]

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REVIEW: LOVEBOX 2017 – VICTORIA PARK, LDN

I SWORE I would never return to Lovebox after last year. A logistical nightmare,
where more time was spent queueing to get in, and once in, it was followed by
more queueing for toilets and drinks than the consumption of the actual music.
It was only marginally better this year too. When I compare to […]

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PRAYING – KESHA

Let’s face it, ‘you-did-me-wrong-you-prick’ songs are fairly commonplace in pop
music. Sure, they’re mostly about bad boyfriends but that doesn’t mean they
should always be taken with a grain of salt/pinch of glitter. Absolutely not,
for there are some epic, brilliant ones. I’ve had very deep and meaningful
relationships with some over the years. Dare […]

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DO ANYTHING – NATURAL SELECTION

My relationship with music has always been a sentimental one. And seriously so.
Sure, sometimes that means my ‘emotions’ get the better of me. Like the time I
became so obsessed with Dixie Chick’s version of Landslide I had to put
my headphones in to listen to it … while out at a club with friends. There […]

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EX FACTOR – LAURYN HILL

Guilty pleasure (noun) Something, such as a film, television programme, or piece
of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high
regard. That’s according to everyone’s favourite recyclopaedia, Wikipedia. We’re
all bound to have them, if only because perceptions of ‘high regard’ are
relative to our own standards and […]

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TILTED – CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS

I am quite well known in certain uncertain circles for my love of rap – and my
love of rapping. I’m less well known for being loved for my rapping, a struggle
that has only made me more determined over the years. I’m word perfect on many a
Jay-Z or Q-Tip track. My other party […]

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THINKIN BOUT YOU – FRANK OCEAN

Unless you’re Amish – or embracing a similar radical lifestyle that includes no
social media – you no doubt saw the news and read the (face)books. The news that
Frank Ocean’s muuuuch looooong awaited second album, Boys Don’t Cry (his first
mixtape not technically counted as an album, for reasons I’ll explain another
time) was […]

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END OF TIME – BEYONCÉ

The list of muse-os on my concert bucket list expands annually, not unlike my
waistline – I wonder if the two are related? There’s some food for thought in
among my thoughts about food. Fiona Apple, Outkast and Aaliyah have each hovered
around the top three of that list for more than 10 years now. Sure, […]

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RUN AWAY WITH ME – CARLY RAE JEPSEN

By my ear-ssessment, there’s one truly great pop album every year. For full
disclosure I actually have about 52 truly favourite albums each year.
Still, among that crowd there is always one snap-crackling pop dynamo that
stands out as the queen bee among the wanna-bees. In 2013, that queen bee was
literally Queen Bey with her self titled gift from above. At […]

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