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Links of Interest
I have already artfully linked some other websites of interest within my site, but here are more that may also be in your "bubble"? as they are mine:
| DuckDuckGo - don't "google" and get bombarded with junk mail and phishing! use this "safe" search engine instead |
| Discogs - user-built music database with loads of rare and obscure records listed (plus many up for sale) |
| Allmusic - huge music database packed with useful biographies, reviews and sound clips |
| Rate Your Music - music fans submit their votes and offer often interesting comments on pop releases |
| The Lords of Lounge - Vinyl Vulture is no more but this has been salvaged from the internet archives |
| Space Age Pop - comprehensive guide to easy listening sounds and other esoteric delights for hep cats |
| UK Number Ones - reviews of every UK Number One single up until the 21st century (after which, it didn't matter) |
| Both Sides Now - the anorak's guide to American record labels, with histories and detailed discographies |
| Then Play Long - reviews of every UK Number One album up until 1990 (and selective ones thereafter) |
| Thrifty Vinyl - record reviewing blog set up (and I quote) "for the discerning cheapskate record collector" |
| Forgotten Albums - amusing look at charity shop perennials rescued from their final destination: landfill |
| All Vinyl Experience - a backwater in cyberspace dedicated to bits and bats associated with records |
| Hyp Records - another exploration of the offbeat side of music, with ratings on hip, strange and exotic vinyl |
| Left And To The Back - usually features rock/pop oddities but also the odd funky nugget (often downloadable) |
| Remember When - reviews of every UK Top 40 hit from 1973 to 1985 (now restored via the internet archives) |
| Hit Covers - documenting the UK budget cover version LP's (many of course adorned by "crumpet") |
| Top of the Pops LP's - Hit Covers have a separate site for the "daddy" of cheapo covers albums series |
| Retrowaste - everything you need to know about popular culture from the 1920's to the 1990's |
| Nostalgia Central - covering the five greatest decades in the history of the universe (2nd half of the 20th century) |
| The Death In the Life of Jimmy Savile - now then guys n girls, was he really a monster? this suggests otherwise |
| Escape to the Seventies - if only i could get back to that decade for real? In the meantime this will have to do |
| The History of Pop - The 70s! - the first of three blogs covering the true pop decades that I lived through |
| Seventies Sevens - as it says on the homepage: a site for seven inch record labels of the 1970's |
| Glitter Suits & Platform Boots - interviews with the movers and shakers of the early/mid 70's UK pop scene |
| A History of English Glam Rock - everything you wanted to know about truck drivers in drag |
| Yes It's Number One - devotees wax enthusiastically over BBC4 re-runs of vintage episodes of TOTP from 1976/7 |
| It's Top Of The Pops - devotees wax enthusiastically over BBC4 re-runs of vintage episodes of TOTP from 1978 |
| Angelo Gravity - devotees wax enthusiastically over BBC4 re-runs of vintage episodes of TOTP from 1979 onwards |
| Disco Savvy - the lowdown on disco music, broken down year by year |
| Disco-Disco - another extensive feature on one of the greatest musical genres ever |
| The History of Pop - The 80s! - the second of three blogs covering the true pop decades that I lived through |
| Sound of the Crowd - dedicated to the music of the 1980's, with New Romantics, synth pop and the rest |
| Shapers of the 80's - British yoof culture at its finest, with the usual suspects of Steve Strange et al |
| Child Of The 1980's - the decade of Thatcher, yuppies and mullets... but there was lots of good stuff too! |
| New Sounds New Styles - in my view the best early 80's music mag, halfway between Smash Hits and The Face |
| The History of Pop - The 90s! - the last of three blogs covering the true pop decades that I lived through |
| The Afterword - to quote from the website: musing on the byways of popular culture |
| Aveleyman.com - a who's who and what's what of the more obscure end of film and TV entertainment |
| TV Cream - affectionate if tongue-in-cheek overview of the golden age of telly progs (1960's to 1980's) |
| As Seen On TV! - vintage TOTP blogger Chris Retro turns his attention to 70's/80's budget compilation LP's |
| 625 - one man's fascination with the more arcane aspects of British television |
| Trash Fiction - cheap and nasty (and cult) long-out-of-print paperbacks reviewed and rated |
| Thrilling Detective - all your favourite fictional gumshoes put under the magnifying glass |
| The John Hinde Collection - dedicated to the Guvnor of kitsch postcards from the 60's and 70's |
| Wishing I Was Here - another look at some of John Hinde's picture postcards of the rose-tinted past |
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