Mark J WrayGorton girls, Francis Benali, and the lost art of not knowing.It was not unusual, it has to be said, to spot graffiti in Manchester. Not something to make me stop and take notice, but one piece I saw…4 min read·5 days ago----
Mark J WrayEvery Album I Love — 1. Nirvana — NevermindNot content with trying to write a blog about every song I love, I thought I would make the task doubly impossible by also trying to write…5 min read·Mar 3, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 6. DJ Mujava : Township FunkI’m not really sure why it took me quite so long to become a music blogger. Blogs really started to take off in the early 2000s, around…4 min read·Feb 19, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 5. Daphne & Celeste: You and I AloneIf you’d told me back in 2000, that I would one day be writing a blog series about every good song by anybody, and that one of my first…5 min read·Feb 16, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 4. Ella Fitzgerald : How High The Moon (Live in Berlin)I’m not, generally, a fan of live albums. They tend to lack of the sound quality of studio recordings, but also never really reproduce the…4 min read·Feb 12, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 3. Tracy Chapman: Fast CarMusic was the first thing in my life that made me comfortable expressing my emotions. At my dad’s funeral, it was the music that ultimate…3 min read·Feb 6, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love — 2. Robert Wyatt: ShipbuildingAs I wrote about the song which gave this series its name last week, it probably makes sense to write about my favourite song of all time…4 min read·Feb 6, 2024----
Mark J WrayEvery Song I Love- 1. LCD Soundsystem : Losing My EdgeNote — This series was originally called Every Good Song, but I changed it to Every Song I Love to reflect the fact that music taste is…4 min read·Jan 30, 2024----
Mark J WrayDon’t live each day as if it’s your lastThere’s more bad advice out in the world than could possibly be imagined, a near infinite heap of nonsense. One of the most frequently…3 min read·Oct 8, 2023----
Mark J WrayHeadphones“My headphones, they saved my life. Your tape, it lulled me to sleep, to sleep, to sleep” — Bjork5 min read·Oct 1, 2023----