This Isn’t Just A Blog About Music
It’s about why music matters. Why it always has, and why some of us can’t separate the songs from the stories behind them.
My name is Tom. Former DJ, vinyl obsessive, and someone who has spent a lifetime noticing that the best music was never just entertainment. It was always something more urgent than that. A Story that came from the heart, a mixture of celebration and raw emotion, combined to draw a picture within our minds, our own interpretation of the song
Sometimes those things should not be ignored; they need to be addressed. They need to be discussed, and your comments are duly welcomed. TLVC is a platform for debate. Not a billboard to promote my own narrative.
I’ve Never Just Listened
I’ve never been drawn to a song just because it’s catchy. If it tells a story, if it makes you uncomfortable, if it asks a question that has no easy answer — that’s when music becomes something else entirely.
Enola Gay. Abraham Martin and John. Zombie. The Wall. Heart of Glass.
Songs that danced while they documented. That entertained while they indicted. That gave a voice to people who had no platform, no microphone, no means of being heard except through three minutes of melody and truth, that comes from within the heart
I paid attention to all of it. And it changed how I see everything.
The 7th Of February
There’s a date that has followed me my entire life.
7th February.
For as long as I can remember, I kept noticing that things happened on that date. Things that mattered. Connections between artists and eras and movements that nobody seemed to be talking about.
Connections between a Victorian novelist, a New York band, and an army of marching hammers.
Once you see them you can’t unsee them.
That’s what this blog is for.
What You’ll Find Here
The Lost Vinyl Club exists because music deserves to be taken seriously.
Not just appreciated. Not just streamed and scrolled past. But properly examined, questioned, celebrated and challenged.
You’ll find long reads that connect the dots between artists and eras. Opinions that might make you nod vigorously or want to argue back. Stories behind the songs that changed how people thought about the world. We also look at the relationship between the music industry itself and the artists whose creativity is often exploited to further the Record Companies’ objectives and shareholder dividends. Rightly or wrongly, we merely tell the story, so that you, the Jury can draw your own conclusions
And always – always, the music at the centre of it all.
Pull up a chair. Put something on the turntable