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Wild Mercury Sound 2012: The Top 25

John Mulvey Thu, 13/12/2012 - 12:06pm

The last 25, then. A few of you have asked for some help as to what these records sound like. I’ll try and put some links into these lists over the next few days, and also a blog of favourite track clips that might help a bit. See you what you think, anyhow…

Wild Mercury Sound 112 from 2012: 50 to 26

John Mulvey Wed, 12/12/2012 - 11:11am

Nearly there now: the third instalment of my personal favourite albums of the year…

Previously: 112-76

Previously: 75-51

The Allah-Las, London Shackleworth Arms, December 11, 2012

Allan Jones Tue, 11/12/2012 - 5:46pm

The Allah-Las make their UK debut in the back room of a north London pub on a freezing December night, the inhospitable weather not something familiar to in their native Los Angeles, where it probably only gets this cold in disaster movies, palm trees turning brittle with frost, the ocean becoming ice, CGI snow drifts on Sunset Strip and Denis Quaid in a parka and Bermuda shorts standing square-jawed and wrinkled-kneed against the elements.

Wild Mercury Sound 112 from 2012: 75 to 51

John Mulvey Tue, 11/12/2012 - 10:56am

OK, here’s the second part of my 2012 albums list…

Previously: 112-76

Wild Mercury Sound 112 from 2012: 112 to 76

John Mulvey Mon, 10/12/2012 - 3:55pm

Preamble: I’m going to start rolling out this list over the next couple of days whenever I get a chance to post. Apologies, first, for the weird number…

Neil Young Journeys

Michael Bonner Mon, 10/12/2012 - 11:31am

In May 2011, Jonathan Demme filmed Neil Young on the three hour drive from the singer’s hometown of Omemee to Toronto’s Massey Hall, where he was scheduled to play the final shows of his Le Noise tour.

The 49th Uncut Playlist Of 2012 (watch Low, Nick Cave, Neil Young, Spacin')

John Mulvey Thu, 06/12/2012 - 1:51pm

One of those rushed weeks, I’m afraid – it looks like I won’t be able to construct a Wild Mercury Sound 2012 chart ‘til next week now, if you can bear the agonising wait. Lots of links and clips to be getting on with here, though: please make sure you have a listen to the new Sun Kil Moon and Plush tracks, and check the clip that Neil Young scholars are claiming shows the first time he’s collapsed onto the floor and wiggled his legs in the air mid-solo.

More thoughts on The Rolling Stones. . .

Allan Jones Tue, 04/12/2012 - 5:37pm

On my way home last week from The Rolling Stones at the O2, still a-buzz with excitement, I ended up chatting to a group of similarly exhilarated fans, who between them didn’t have enough fingers to count the number of Stones shows they’d been to, Brian Jones still a Stone the first time a couple of them had seen them.

Some notes on Uncut's Top 75 of 2012

John Mulvey Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:57pm

As many of you will have seen by now, the current issue of Uncut features our Top 75 albums of 2012 and, as usual, there’s been a fair amount of comment online about the list. I’m going to try not to be too defensive about this, but as the person who compiled the list, I thought it might be useful to post a few notes that’ll hopefully clarify one or two issues that have been raised.

The Rolling Stones, London 02, November 29, 2012

Allan Jones Fri, 30/11/2012 - 5:26pm

After all the hoo-ha, huff, hysteria and hot air, here, finally, are The Rolling Stones doing what they do even better than raising the collective temperature with impertinent ticket prices, something they seem to have been doing at least since their 1969 American tour, nothing new in the Stones being accused of commercial banditry and the cynical exploitation of their fans, on whose behalf so many complaints have been indignantly voiced since the 50 And Counting dates in London and New York were announced. Why don’t they celebrate their half-centenary with, say, a free concert, the cry went up in some quarters, and let more people have a chance to see them, and for nothing too? Well, when they tried that in 1969, look where it got them: Altamont.