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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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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 → |
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11–Sep–2015 |
FIRST VIDEO POSTED AT YOUTUBE ![]() ![]() Supporting my blog, the first video posted at YouTube; “Takawira” by Flavian Nyathi and Blues Revolution. |
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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 → |
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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] |
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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.] |
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29–Jul–2015 |
BIRTH DAY ![]() ![]() At WordPress, the first post from 'The Jukebox Rebel news blog' is published, entitled 'The Jukebox Rebel launches'. |
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29–Jul–2015 |
GOING PUBLIC ![]() With one simple but significant click, the main website changes status from 'private' to 'public'. |
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27–Jul–2015 |
THE JUKEBOX REBEL NEWS BLOG ![]() ![]() At WordPress, under the URL 'thejukeboxrebel.wordpress.com', The Jukebox Rebel news blog is set up. |
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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. |
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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! |
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07–Jul–2015 |
WORDPRESS ACCOUNT OPENED ![]() Account ('@thejukeboxrebel') created at Word Press, with a view to promoting the site by blogging. |
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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. |
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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 → |
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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.] |
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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! |
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