My Favourite Critic

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This week’s theme: Rock critics/writers

What music enthusiast operating in the media steered you in the right direction on the often hazardous contemporary music highway?

To enter, please complete this sentence.

‘I would like to dedicate__________to ___________for sharing with me his/her impeccable taste and love of decent music.’

Lines MUST close at 5.45pm  MIDNIGHT on Sunday!

Samples of writing/enthusiasm may be included.

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42 thoughts on “My Favourite Critic”

  1. Dermbob

    I would like to dedicate Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd to Alan Freeman BBC Radio 1 for sharing with me his/her impeccable taste and love of decent music.’

    3. Specific Gravity

      +10,000 maniacs

      I would like to dedicate New Grass by Talk Talk to Donal Dineen for sharing with me his impeccable taste and love of decent music.

      https://youtu.be/LuYNidNgQic

      Insight, foresight, more sight, the clock on the wall reads a quarter past midnight… And so would begin a few hours of nightly magic. Dineen’s shows remain the pinnacle of musical broadcasting in this country. He just let the tracks do the talking and despite his obvious breadth and depth of knowledge, was never preachy or arch about introducing lesser known but massively talented artists from around the globe. It was like a muso mate sharing some recommendations they thought you’d like to hear.

      Where else in the dross of Irish radio would you get to hear in a single show the likes of:

      Bonnie Prince Billy
      Kronos Quartet
      Red House Painters
      Keith Jarrett
      Brian Eno
      Lali Puna (try their cover of Together in Electric Dreams)
      Kraftwerk
      Some up and coming Tuareg throat singers

      Midnight in a perfect world, indeed.

      Anyone know of anyone broadcasting anything remotely comparable – other than BBC6, perhaps?

  3. Al Jeers

    I would like to dedicate anything by Steeleye Span to Alan Partridgefor sharing with me his/her impeccable taste and love of decent music.

  4. Joe cool

    I would like to dedicate my love of music to Dj’s Smashy and Nicey…for helping me fall in love with the classic B.T.O. Anthem ….you ain’t seen nothing yet

  5. Boj

    I would like to dedicate ‘Marvin Gaye – Let’s get it on’ to ‘Your Ma’ for sharing with me her impeccable taste and love of decent music.

  6. Odockatee

    I would like to dedicate Dialélam
    Song by Amadou Binta Konté and Tidiane Thiam to Donal Dinneen for sharing with me his impeccable taste and love of decent music. He picks a random long lost album every week in the Ticket on a Friday and his enthusiasm makes me seek it out the recommendation for a listen. This is the most recent of which tickled my fancy.

  8. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

    MTV Europe with Ray Cokes and Paul King. Those guys helped me discover my love of white guy rock-grunge that still abides with me today.

  9. Tarfton Clax

    Pat James ex Radio Dublin and currently Sunday Nights on Nova for Introducing me to the Joys of Zeppelin, Purple and the Radiators from Space.

  10. Liam

    I’ll dedicate MBV’s “Sometimes” to Dave Fanning whose evening Rock Show got me through secondary school and also introduced me to the likes of the Pixies, Primal Scream REM and the Cure way way back in the day.

  11. Birneybau2

    I would like to dedicate ‘Basketball Get Your Groove Back’ by Deerhoof to Marc Riley for sharing with me his impeccable taste and love of decent music. And consistently playing stuff I have NEVER heard before. Mon-Thurs 6Music, 7-9 p.m. And being a member of The Fall for a while.

    1. sǝɯǝɯʇɐƃᴉq

      Ahhh…I knew somebody would mention The Fall so I wouldn’t have to.

      Please let this man win.
      Thank you.

  12. Liam Deliverance

    I would like to dedicate American Townland by Interference to the producers and researchers, and indeed the hosts, of Other Voices for sharing with me their impeccable taste and love of decent music. The series which has been running for 14 years continues to introduce music of a high quality from artists old and new and to do so in a warm and reliable format. Great music, knowledgeable hosts, beautiful scenery and moments of pure magic. Here we have Glen Hansard, an Other Voices legend in his own right, introducing Interference, headed by Fergus O’Farrell and the song American Townland. 14 years on and it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and also, sadly, brings a tear to my eye as Fergus is no longer with us. Rest well Fergus and thanks for the memories.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bLiln73d8U

    American townland
    Snow in Iceland
    Russian farmland
    And the sword of Islam
    The state of new Israel
    Remembers Belsen
    Now there’s sand for Palestine
    And grass for Israel

    Won’t you settle down, stop fighting for your gods…

    2. Lush

      Never understood why Interference weren’t more widely acknowledged.
      Fergus was an amazing guy.

    3. Eoin

      One of my favourites from the OV albums… Beautiful music from Interference… And I loved him so… RIP Fergus

  13. Starina

    I would like to dedicate Stay Beautiful by the Manics to Daniel Booth from the Melody Maker for his scathing, laugh-til-the-tears-run album reviews and demented back-page comics about Morrissey. a true kindred spirit of weird for a girl stuck in small-town 90’s America.

    1. Starina

      on research it looks like he didnt do the comics BUT he did do pithy responses to the crazed letters page. god i’m old

  14. Doood

    I would like to say fair play and congratulations to golden discs. I’ve no idea how you still exist in a world of Spotify, Netflix and who knows what else. Keep up whatever you’re doing x

    1. Doood

      Unless your shops are a money laundering tool for whore houses and drug barons. If that’s the case I hope you crumble

  15. scottser

    I would like to dedicate Nobody’s Hero’ by Stiff Little Fingers to Lester Bangs for sharing with me his impeccable taste and love of decent music.

    “A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.”
    ― Lester Bangs

    2. Brother Barnabas

      meh.

      if we could forgive him the sex predator / child rapist bit, there’d still be the Liverpool fan bit

    3. relax@badatmemesvillas

      John Peel. The most fervent and famous Fall fan ever.
      Did you know he married a pig? I read that somewhere but it could have been a porkie*.

      *That’s what we used to call Fake News.

  17. mcgenius

    I would like to dedicate this beer I’m supping to Bob Boilen of NPR’s “All Songs Considered” podcast for sharing with me his impeccable taste and love of decent music. And for introducing me to Puddles’ Pity Party and his unbelievably awesome Johnny Cash / Pink Floyd tribute.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfPwtUTP4k

  19. ouch

    I would like to dedicate to ‘Henry McCullogh’ by BP Fallon and David Holmes to both BP Fallon and David Holmes for sharing with me their impeccable taste and love of decent music and this amazing tribute to a legend of Irish music. They’re two men whose recommendations have help me discover some amazing music, it was an interview with David Holmes that first made me seek out Histoire de Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg, easily in my all time top ten!

  20. dylad

    ‘I would like to dedicate anything by Joseph Spence to John Kelly during his Eclectic Ballroom phase on Radio Ireland (preceding the also great Donal Dineen) for sharing with me his/her impeccable taste and love of decent music, and Huun huur tu, of course.

    https://youtu.be/gqtRow0c2Zs

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