Tom Taylor

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Music Editor at Far Out Magazine

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Articles

Sellable Subversion: Did 'God Save The Queen' kill punk?

2 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Tue 22 April 2025 12:30, UK After a brief, confused hubbub, ‘God Save The Queen’ quickly became the moment punk stopped being a movement and turned into a consumable genre. The powers that be were puzzled and appalled by the rupturing of the status quo that it initially caused. In its earliest days, it was a potential upset to incumbent and inequitable capitalism.
‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’: Bob Dylan’s take on the inequality of modern society

2 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Mon 21 April 2025 22:30, UK If cancel culture was real, then half of those trying to cancel it would be doing so from behind bars. For the most part, modern society’s bid for greater accountability has been derided by design by the powers that be with plenty of blood on their hands. Bob Dylan was wise to this gathering inequity in the 1960s and he played out the corruption clearly in his classic track ‘The Lonseome Death of Hattie Carroll’.
Brown Horse recommend

5 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Sat 19 April 2025 6:00, UK A band from Norwich called Brown Horse does have an air of Alan Partridge about it. However, the best thing about the group is that they’d be well aware of that. The wry, slacker spirit of the lo-fi rock outfit is resplendent with a comic, satirical charm. Above all, there is also a sense of friendship, too. There’s a chemistry to the gang that is conveyed perfectly in their upbeat mix of honesty and irreverence.
Why Don Felder thought 'Hotel California' would never work

6 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Fri 18 April 2025 18:15, UK Hit songs might seem elusive, but most of them follow a formula. It might be a vague and variable formula, but it certainly doesn’t involve extensive runtimes, tricky triads, bizarre compositional quirks and impenetrable themes. As a band, the Eagles knew this well – you don’t sell over 200million records if you don’t – but they didn’t always adhere to their own hit-making policies. They had points to prove beyond commercial success.
The greatest opening track ever, according to Noel Gallagher

6 days ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Fri 18 April 2025 11:00, UK A great album doesn’t need a great opening song, but most great opening songs result in great albums. It is the pistol shot at the start of the race, and if it gets the record off to a flyer, then the rest of the strides often seem to follow suit, almost as though the whole LP was fully realised before ‘quiet in the studio’ was even uttered. Oasis were well aware of this reality—as soon as the sliding chords of ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Star’ start up, you know what you’re in for.
'God Only Knows': Lou Reed's favourite Beach Boys song

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Thu 17 April 2025 19:15, UK Lyrics only tell half the story of a song, just as dialogue only tells a fraction of a film. Music, at its best, twists words and melodies in magical ways, one hand-washing the other in a marriage of meaning and mystery. In the Nick Cave classic ‘Mercy Seat’, the protagonist might plead their innocence, but the building fever pitch of the screeching melody implies an implosive end is neigh. Few have been better at this than Lou Reed.
Bruce Springsteen's most timeless song, according to The Boss

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Thu 17 April 2025 18:15, UK It was a crisp and sunny day in Freehold, New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen was in the car with his mother, perhaps solemnly pondering his father’s mental health struggles, something he did a lot in his youth, when ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ crackled onto the radio.“The world he described was all on view, in my little town, and spread out over the television that beamed into our isolated homes, but it went uncommented on and silently tolerated,” Springsteen later wrote.
This hit was the most played song of the 20th century

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Thu 17 April 2025 15:30, UK The results are in and it is official: America is the soppiest nation on Earth. Nobody swoons for a love song quite like the States, and the stats are out there to prove it. It is a fact that strikes at the heart of wholesome American optimism, a nation young and eternally prosperous enough not to have dashed hopes ingrained into its spiritual constitution.
Roger Daltrey names the one band that saved rock music

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Wed 16 April 2025 17:00, UK Long golden locks, a belting voice, a well-oiled torso, and trousers so tight you could count the change in his pocket: this description could apply to any number of frontmen, but it all started with Roger Daltrey. The Who were the thorniest rose of the flower power era. They were heavy, literally packing their drum kit with explosives and never once leaving a hotel room intact. Daltrey was the face of this rogue operation.
Why we have a Fleetwood Mac classic to thank for Elvis Costello

1 week ago | faroutmagazine.co.uk | Tom Taylor

Wed 16 April 2025 14:30, UK Before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac had the blues guitar maestro Peter Green at the helm. Through his very singular stylings, they established themselves as Britain’s premier blues-rock outfit of the late 1960s in a hurry. That was no easy feat at a time when the genre was flying, but with the only guitarist who made BB King “sweat” in their midst, their status was justified. However, his time in the band was fated to be tempestuous.