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06–Jan–2016
1966 – A PROGRESSIVE YEAR FOR MUSIC - AND THE FIRST DOUBLE ALBUMS IN “ROCK”
The Album Chart of 1966 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. “We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity” ~ John Lennon, London Evening Standard, 4 March 1966. ...more →
 
28–Dec–2015
1965 – ELECTRIC DYLAN STILL BOSS HOSS
The Album Chart of 1965 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Despite some rumblings of discontent from certain quarters within the Folk fraternity, Bob Dylan’s shift to electric elevated his work to yet a new level of g ...more →
 
21–Dec–2015
1964 – DYLAN & THOMAS RESIST THE ENGLISH INVASION
The Album Chart of 1964 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. At long last there was a credible alternative force in the album’s world, as the young English beat groups, teenage fans themselves several years earlier, pai ...more →
 
15–Dec–2015
1963 – AN EARTHQUAKE IS ERUPTING
The Album Chart of 1963 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Just last year, American artists accounted for the entirety of my Top 30 “A-list” albums chart. ...more →
 
12–Dec–2015
1962 – RESPECT
The Album Chart of 1962 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song, ‘bout a funny old world that's a-coming along, seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn, and it looks li ...more →
 
09–Dec–2015
1961 – WORLD ACCLAIM FOR THE BIG O
The Album Chart of 1961 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. The seismic musical shift from the 1950s to the 1960s was never more perfectly encapsulated than with the work of Roy Orbison, as those wide-eyed 12 bar shoob ...more →
 
03–Dec–2015
1960 – ELMORE JAMES IMMORTALIZED ON LP
The Album Chart of 1960 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. “I believe my time ain’t long” sang Elmore James on “Dust My Blues”, the top track from my album of the year. From his mid 20s he had known that he had a seri ...more →
 
30–Oct–2015
1959 – IVOR CUTLER - THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD
The Album Chart of 1959 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Art Rupe squeezes out another Little Richard album set from the Specialty vaults – it’s effortlessly album of the year. I can’t help but wonder though – what ...more →
 
28–Oct–2015
1958 – AMERICAN ROCK N ROLL DOMINATES
The Album Chart of 1958 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Bo Diddley's new Rock n Roll beat finally comes to the album market; so good that even the mighty Little Richard must take second best this year. ...more →
 
27–Oct–2015
1957 – THE FIRST ALBUM MASTERPIECE
The Album Chart of 1957 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. In the world of the Jukebox Rebel, diminished fifths and compound augmented fourths do not a masterpiece album make. Soul, passion, attitude, character, aweso ...more →
 
26–Oct–2015
1956 – FATS RULES THE ROOST
The Album Chart of 1956 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. With his first three LPs all making my Top 5 for 1956, there's little doubt as to my top dog in this years album chart. Pictured in November 1956, the great m ...more →
 
25–Oct–2015
1955 – ONE EYED CAT PEEPIN’ IN A SEAFOOD STORE HITS POP CHARTS!
The Album Chart of 1955 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Ken Nordine’s disorientating tale of an unbelievable friendship takes top spot in this sparsely populated chart, but the headline story is provided by the ban ...more →
 
24–Oct–2015
1954 – BONJOUR DE BELGIQUE
The Album Chart of 1954 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. It’s an indisputable fact that the United States dominated the album releases from the 1930s to the 1950s but there were one or two exceptional talents who ma ...more →
 
23–Oct–2015
1953 – HANK LIVES ON
The Album Chart of 1953 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. A little boy lost his Daddy at the start of the year – and country music lost one of its greatest stars. Hank Jr. was watching and learning from an early age ...more →
 
22–Oct–2015
1952 – TRAD FOLK REVIVAL PROPELLED
The Album Chart of 1952 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Despite the insane cold-war paranoia of the period, the “lefties” associated with the folk music scene continued to build strong underground roots, defying bl ...more →
 
21–Oct–2015
1951 – HANK’S EX-JUKEBOX CUTS MAKE UP DEBUT ALBUM
The Album Chart of 1951 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. By 1951, the LP still had a long road to travel as it strove to find its place as the foremost outlet for an artists recorded works. ...more →
 
20–Oct–2015
1950 – LA MÔME PIAF EST NUMÉRO UN
The Album Chart of 1950 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. The littlest rebel tops my album chart for the third year running – Columbia were making the most of the market appetite for their new microgroove LPs, and th ...more →
 
25–Sep–2015
1949 – THE GREAT ALBUM SPEED WAR OF 1949
The Album Chart of 1949 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. The flag of France flies at the top of my album chart for the second year running - her most beloved export was winning hearts and minds across the Atlantic. ...more →
 
24–Sep–2015
1948 – THE DAWNING OF THE LP ERA
The Album Chart of 1948 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. For the first time ever, the United States were not represented at the top of my album chart. But there was a much bigger story than THAT going on… ...more →
 
23–Sep–2015
1947 – THE END OF AN ERA
The Album Chart of 1947 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. The era of the 78 album sets was just about to come to a dramatic and sudden end, and this coincided with the last year in which Woody Guthrie was productive ...more →
 
22–Sep–2015
1946 – SONGS FOR ‘LIL CATHY, AGE 3½
The Album Chart of 1946 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Pictured in 1943 on the streets of NYC is Woody Guthrie and his amazing machine - when it wasn't busy killing fascists it was put to good use by entertaining ...more →
 
20–Sep–2015
1945 – MASSACRED CITIZENS REMEMBERED
The Album Chart of 1945 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Pictured are children of striking miners who had been at a party; The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913. ...more →
 
19–Sep–2015
1944 – BLOW THEM FASCISTS ALL TO HELL
The Album Chart of 1944 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. With musician bans and wartime restrictions on Shellac really kicking in, the number of albums being produced was in decline, and small Indies like Asch were ...more →
 
18–Sep–2015
1943 – TALKIN’ REVOLUTION
The Album Chart of 1943 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Pete Seeger is pictured here on the 2nd February 1944 leading the crowd in “When We March into Berlin”. ...more →
 
17–Sep–2015
1942 – FARE THEE WELL ALMANACS
The Album Chart of 1942 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Having been filed under “Gramophone Records of a Seditious Nature” by the F.B.I., America’s, ahem, “public enemy no.1” had one last glorious hurrah before suc ...more →
 
15–Sep–2015
1941 – THE YEAR OF THE ALMANACS
The Album Chart of 1941 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. Pictured are 4 of The Almanac Singers in 1941. L-R: Woody Gurthrie, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger. ...more →
 
11–Sep–2015
FIRST VIDEO POSTED AT YOUTUBE
Supporting my blog, the first video posted at YouTube; “Takawira” by Flavian Nyathi and Blues Revolution.
 
01–Sep–2015
1940 – ENTER STAGE LEFT, WOODY GUTHRIE
The Album Chart of 1940 is published today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. It's a rather sparsely populated chart. Ok, there’s only Woody Guthrie. But I’m pretty sure he’d still be No.1 if I owned every album that was ever released i ...more →
 
29–Jul–2015
FIRST YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
My first YouTube playlist is created, a Top 50 supporting the aforementioned Top 250 Songs of 1958 chart. [Oct-2020 note: no longer available, will be redone at a later stage]
 
29–Jul–2015
TOP 250 SONGS OF 1958
The Top 250 Songs of 1958 is published, supported by a blog post on the same day. [Oct-2020 note: the page is no longer active, awaiting a re-design.]
 
29–Jul–2015
BIRTH DAY
At WordPress, the first post from 'The Jukebox Rebel news blog' is published, entitled 'The Jukebox Rebel launches'.
 
29–Jul–2015
GOING PUBLIC
With one simple but significant click, the main website changes status from 'private' to 'public'.
 
27–Jul–2015
THE JUKEBOX REBEL NEWS BLOG
At WordPress, under the URL 'thejukeboxrebel.wordpress.com', The Jukebox Rebel news blog is set up.
 
21–Jul–2015
FIRST BLOG POST
At WordPress, the first blog post from 'The Last Great Record' is published; “I Think Ur A Contra [live ’11]” by Angélique Kidjo featuring Ezra Koenig.
 
18–Jul–2015
THE LAST GREAT RECORD
At WordPress, under the URL 'thelastgreatrecord.wordpress.com', The Last Great Record blog is set up with these immortal words; “The last great record to join my collection is the premise behind this simple blog, exciting as I’m only posting newly collected tracks, most of which are new discoveries. Any genre, any decade, old or new, it’s all the same to me. I’m a disciple of Peel, so there’s a left-field bias as you might imagine.” A manifesto right there!
 
07–Jul–2015
WORDPRESS ACCOUNT OPENED
Account ('@thejukeboxrebel') created at Word Press, with a view to promoting the site by blogging.
 
04–Jul–2015
YOUTUBE CHANNEL CREATED
The Jukebox Rebel channel at YouTube is created. The two main purposes of the channel are: a) to upload obscuros which don't exist on the platform, in order to support my blog posts and album reviews & b) to create playlists to support my chart pages.
 
18–Jun–2015
1939 – LEAD BELLY TAKES MY FIRST CHART HONOURS
Although the site is still set to 'private', the Album Chart of 1939 is created behind the scenes today, complete with reviews, ratings and track picks. The 51 year old folk singer with a chequered past sits proudly in 1939 with a great album to his name; the first of two that he would record for the Musicraft ...more →
 
01–Jun–2015
DO IT YOURSELF!
Plans to work with a professional website developer are ditched due to a lack of progress. I decide to go D.I.Y. How hard can it be? Under the URL 'thejukeboxrebel.wikidot.com', a basic behind-the-scenes model for the website comes into being. Somewhat randomly, 'The Top 250 Songs of 2013' is the first page to be worked on. [Oct-2020 note: the page is no longer active, awaiting a re-design.]
 
23–Apr–2013
THEJUKEBOXREBEL.COM
The URL 'thejukeboxrebel.com' is purchased, and housed on a independent server with a temporary landing page, somewhat miraculously captured once by the wayback machine!