It’s a preposterous title isn’t it? Around this time of the year my mind goes mushy and hazy trying to distil everything I listened to in the last 365 days of my life, into a compact list. I still listen mainly to albums so this list is really a song from 12 great albums. But it’s not my top 12 albums (with a track from each). Missing from a list like that are standout records such as case/lang/veirs, Hayes Carll and Common. Anyway you get the gist. This is a cruel exercise that I will claim immunity from the moment I finish writing it. There are many, (very many) other as deserving songs. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Big Bash parts one and two. Rock ’n roll… rock ’n roll by Les Everett
The Big Bash loomed large for me this week. Continue reading
The best gig of 2016 by song list rat
There is a lame joke that goes: An angel walked into a bar… Continue reading
A dozen of the best: Top Twelve movies for 2016 by Richard Jones
WE’VE seen a number of really good movies this year mainly in our own central Victorian multiplex but with a couple viewed in Sydney and Melbourne during breaks at annual writers’ festivals. Continue reading
Best of 2016 in no apparent order by Sean Gorman
Books
Old Scores by David Whish Wilson. Continue reading
2016 in Review by Dean Schulze
My highlights for 2016 were all musical. The major highlight occurred on 20 October in the John Curtin Hotel at the bottom of Lygon Street in Melbourne. Continue reading
2016: a year of consolidation and dissolution by Nick Gye
The Top 20 musicians we lost in 2016 that I will miss the most* by Polly Coufos
We begin the annual australianrules.com.au best-of series in a melancholy mood with a reminder of what we lost in the world of music…
The ultimate in upsizing by Richard Jones
A look at The Founder…
THERE can’t be too many people in the western world, or indeed in many other nations worldwide, who haven’t chowed down on a McDonald’s Big Mac and fries.
So it’s a bit of a mind-stretching exercise to find out all about Ray Kroc, the man who franchised the fast food chain across the globe resulting in today’s 35,000 outlets. Continue reading