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This page last updated
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THE CLASH: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THEIR MUSIC
by TONY FLETCHER
PUBLISHED APRIL 8 2005
A CHRONOLOGICAL SONG-BY-SONG ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE ENTIRE CLASH CATALOGUE. WITH ADDITIONAL SECTIONS ON COMPILATIONS, FILMS, DVDs AND SOLO CAREERS. Available online through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and at all good bookstores.
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HEDONISM Tony Fletcher's debut novel is available mail order in the USA from Barnes&Noble.com. It's available mail order in the UK from amazon.co.uk or musicroom.com.
More info on Hedonism here.
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 REMARKS REMADE The first ever R.E.M. biography fully updated with ten new chapters covering Reveal and beyond. Available at UK bookstores, amazon.co.uk and musicroom. Available at select stores in the States and through BN.com. More info here
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MOON The American edition of the Keith Moon biography is available in paperback at book stores, amazon.com, bn.com and amazon co.uk. More info here
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DEAR BOY The British edition of the Keith Moon biography is available in paperback at book stores, amazon.com and amazon co.uk. More info here.
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Limited hardback editions of Dear Boy/Moon remain available through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and barnes&noble.com.
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Never Stop: The Echo & The Bunnyment Story is out of print.
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HOME
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iJAMMING! MUSIC
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When I started this site, I used the Music Section to post full manuscripts of interviews I'd conducted for other outlets, to write about new releases of interest that I wasn't covering for magazines, to interview people or highlight new acts especially for the site, and to post some morning-after observations about shows I attended.
As iJamming! has grown and built, I've found myself placing most of my observations about music - including concert reviews - under my Daily Musings, which I post on the front page of the site. (The front page also lists the most recent additions in other areas of the site.) Please browse the Daily Musings Archives to see if I've written about a musical act that interests you - or use the search engine at left. I'm still conducting the occasional interview specifically for iJamming!, and I'm certainly posting a near-monthly Hitlist with many a featured album review that I encourage you to check out. Other than that, this page essentially operates as an archive and index to help you navigate your way through the music section of the site. Happy surfing.
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THE MONTHLY HITLISTS:
reviews and recommendations
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JUNE 2005: Albums, Books, Movies
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| SPRING CLEANING 2005: Cassettes from Yesteryear |
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SPRING 2005: Singles,Albums, Book, Film, Food, Experience
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| MARCH 2005: 15 ALBUMS |
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FEBRUARY 2005: Week of the Year already?
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JANUARY 2005: "They almost got away"
The best of the rest of 2004
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DECEMBER 2004: 10 Albums
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OCTOBER 2004: 9 Albums
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SEPTEMBER 2004: 10 New New York Albums
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SUMMER 2004: More culture than makes sense
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JUNE 2004: The Mid-Year Round-Up
A dozen featured albums, 15 more in rotation, some 12"s & books.
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APRIL 2004: Albums, Singles, Books, Films, TV, Beer, Wine & Juice
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MARCH 2004: Reissues revisited
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FEBRUARY 2004: Ten That Got Away
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DECEMBER 2003 Pt. 4: Solo Stars
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DECEMBER 2003 Pt. 3: Global Techtronica:
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DECEMBER 2003 Pt. 2 Tripped Out Brits
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DECEMBER 2003 Pt. 1 British Dance Music - Down But Not Out
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OCTOBER 2003 24 Albums
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AUGUST 2003 8 CDs, 8 12"s, 6 books and 12 magazines from Britain
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JULY 2003 10 new New York albums
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JUNE 2003 15 new albums, 10 old albums, 5 movies
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MAY 2003 20 albums, 1 online essential, 3 new magazines
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MARCH 2003 20 albums, 5 ep's, 5 best-of's
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FEBRUARY 2003 25 albums
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DECEMBER 2002 5 x albums, eps, mix cds, best-of's and songs
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NOVEMBER 2002 30 albums, 10 songs
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OCTOBER 2002 30 albums, 10 songs
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AUGUST 2002 28 albums
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JULY 2002 30 Albums, 5 Songs, 5 books and a handful of movies.
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JUNE 2002 30 Albums, 5 Songs, 5 books and a handful of movies.
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BEST OF 2003: 10 Albums and 10 Singles
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BEST OF 2002: 10 Albums and 10 Singles
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BEST OF 2001: Albums, Concerts, Books and more
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THE iJAMMING! INTERVIEWS
Click on artist name to link to interview
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MICK JONES
on Joe Strummer, October 2004
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TIM BOOTH
January 2005:
"My unconscious writes the best lyrics I write, and I have a weird relation with it where I feel I have a duty to be as truthful and as accurate as possible. And feeling that if I betrayed that, I would lose that communication."
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WAYNE KRAMER
(The MC5)
on Pete Townshend, November 2004
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MATT FRIEDBERGER (TheFiery Furnaces)
on Pete Townshend,Nov 2004
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2 MANY DJ's
David and Stephen Dewaele, aka Soulwax, spring 2003
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UNDERWORLD
Karl Hyde, summer 2002
"I'd done a pact with myself where I felt I was very ordinary, very middle of the road, and the only way I could contribute anything that was extreme enough was if I got ranging drunk, wrote everything down and handed it over to the recovering one in the morning. And he put that on the records."
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CARL COX
December 2001
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LAPTOP
Jesse Hartman, May 2001
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PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Richard Butler, summer 2001
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TRAVIS
Fran Healy, April 2000
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MARK PERRY
January 2001
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DAVID SYLVIAN
December 2000
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BOY GEORGE
December 2000
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SALLY TAYLOR
July 2000
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TIMO MAAS
iJamming! Wine Muso 1, Sep 2000
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JOHN ACQUAVIVA
iJamming! Wine Muso 2, Sep 2001
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FEATURED ALBUMS
The album reviews on this site have been an ever-morphing process, as follows.
There were daily postings in December 2000 to publicize some records that had slipped through the cracks that year: you can read the first part of those reviews HERE and the second part HERE.
Come 2001, I started cross-referencing occasional album reviews with occasional wine reviews - a process that is great fun and yet entirely serious. One section of those 2001 reviews are archived HERE and another section HERE.
I then wrote about four new albums that took on a different meaning after September 11. They can be found HERE.
In 2002, the music and wine cross-reviews got better organized; they averaged one a month as follows: Ballboy, Doleful Lions, Little Axe, the Me Without You soundtrack and Luke Slater are all HERE; Kevin Tihista, Felix da Housecat, Totally Blind Drunk Drivers, Laba Baby are HERE. I then wrote about The Half Man Half Biscuit catalogue and the Banco de Gaia/BT restrospectives HERE, and featured Tom Petty/Heartbreakers The Last DJ on its own page HERE. By the end of all that, I'd got the Monthly Hitlists going, which is where you will find most album reviews now archived.
In 2001, I started posting separate pages of reviews for MIX CDs: WHO, WHAT and WHY YOU SHOULD BOTHER. They're all cross-referenced with wine reviews.
Mix CDs from Ben Watt, Mr. C, Little Louie Vega and Eric Morillo, Jack Dangers and Afrika Bambaataa are reviewed on this page.
Mix CDs from Renegade Soundwave, Jody, DB, Bad Boy Bill, and Spooky are reviewed on this page.
From 2002, mix CDs from New Order, Carl Cox, 2 Many DJ's and Grandmaster Flash are reviewed on this page.
And from 2003, a mix CD by Tiga is reviewed here.
Once again, the best way to see if I wrote about an artist you're interested in is simply to use the search engine at the top left of the page.
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iJamming! Site Copyright Tony Fletcher 2000-2004
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