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Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Year (so far)
So then, half way through the year already. Time to take stock and see what the first six months have delivered up in terms of new tunes and bands. We asked some of the regular MM contributors to pick...
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New Limited Edition Walkmen Single
Fat Possum Records has announced that The Walkmen are releasing a limited edition 7-inch single, featuring the previously unreleased tracks, Dance With Your Partner and Vermeer ’65. The release is...
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Guest Post: Big Sair’s TFI Friday (5th October)
Mrs Mackerel has decided to take a short sabbatical and invite some friends, relatives and countrywomen to takeover her Friday night post, a Friday routine as regular in this household as a G&T...
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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (2nd November)
Here we are again. Friday strikes again: half term is nearly over; would you believe the sun shone in Wales; Joe Sprat put in a star turn in goal at Coventry in conditions that would have hardened...
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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 1: 100 – 81
So the waiting is over, and here are the first twenty entries in our Top 100 of 2012, part of MM’s much expanded Best of the Year review. Over the next five days we will reveal our favourite songs and...
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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 2: 80-61
Here are tracks 80 – 61 in our countdown of Mad Mackerel’s 100 favourite tunes of the year. Don’t forget to check out numbers 100 – 81 in yesterday’s post here and check back tomorrow for numbers 61 –...
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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 3: 60 – 41
Today we reach the halfway mark of our favourite 100 songs of 2012. Here are numbers 60 – 41 for your listening pleasure. You can check out numbers 100 – 81 here and yesterday’s post of 80 – 61 here....
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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 4: 40-21
Today we countdown songs 40-21 in the Mad Mackerel Favourite 100 tunes of the year. You can check out the previous days entries here: 100-81, 80-61, 60-41. 40 ALABAMA SHAKES – HOLD ON Almost a...
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Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2012 Part 2: 15 – 1
The final post about our favourites of the year, here are numbers fifteen down to top spot of the albums we have most enjoyed in 2012. Don’t forget to check back for our 100 Favourite Tunes and the MM...
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The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 2)
Here is Part 2 of our countdown of our favourite songs from the past ten years… 180 Strand Of Oaks – Alex Kona (2010) “Alex Kona was twelve feet tall, his mother got killed by a bowling ball”. What...
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