A deep dive into Morrissey’s “The Last of the Famous International Playboys,” this episode unravels its dark ties to real-life gangsters (Ronnie and Reggie Kray), the glamorization of violence, and the media’s obsession with infamy. This story traces the song’s roots in British crime history, its place in Morrissey’s post-Smiths […]
https://www.twitch.tv/alfomedia https://www.patreon.com/AlfoMedia https://twitter.com/renshawhs https://www.instagram.com/renshawhs/ https://www.bonfire.com/store/alfo-media Hey everybody! Thanks for watching this video, “The Top 10 Bad Songs on Great Albums”. This is an idea that’s been suggested to me a lot, and I’m finally making it! It’s a really interesting concept. An artist/musician makes this great, critically acclaimed, beloved album…but […]
Andy Rourke, bassist for The Smiths, passed away on May 19, 2023 from Pancreatic Cancer. I’ve had it on my short list to create some content highlighting The Smiths, so today I’m taking a look back to the 1980s and recounting the Top 10 Bass Lines From Songs by The […]
I recently shared the top 10 albums I play on vinyl, and it got me thinking — how does that compare to the top 10 BANDS that I spin from my record collection? Today, I set out to answer that question in a good ol’ countdown video. While there is […]
Released June 16, 1986, The Queen is Dead is the third studio album by the jangle and indie rockers The Smiths. In this week’s Fun Facts About Albums video, I discuss the album cover and name then cycle through the track list discussing some fascinating and interesting things I dug […]
Welcome to 2024! As we put a nice bow on 2023, tons of online stores and brick-and-mortar record shops held their year-end sales. Today I’m sharing what vinyl finds I pulled for Christmas, New Years, and other December sales in this vinyl haul video! TONS of these items have been […]
In November 1989, two bands from Manchester appeared together on Top of the Pops and it changed indie music forever. The Madchester sound was the unity of jangly guitars and thumping dance music: big, psychedelic, even funky and a perfect companion to taking Ecstasy. Artists like The Stone Roses, Happy […]
Emo is tough to define. As Andy Greenwald wrote in Nothing Feels Good: “Emo means different things to different people. Actually that’s a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people.” For the most part it’s more of an insult than a genre, and because of […]
