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Steve Gozdecki's writings (mostly rock-related)

My Neumu record reviews

• Klee, Honeysuckle
• The 1900s, Plume Delivery
• Frank Lenz, Vilelenz and Thieves
• Buzzcocks, Flat-Pack Philosophy
• Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Robert Pollard, From a Compound Eye
• Peter Bjorn and John, Falling Out
• Portastatic, Bright Ideas
• Death Cab for Cutie, Plans
• Idlewild, Warnings/Promises
• The Tears, Here Come the Tears
• The Jan Martens Frustration, The Jan Martens Frustration
• The Ponys, Celebration Castle
• Mercury Rev, The Secret Migration
• New Order, Waiting for the Sirens' Call
• Doves, Some Cities
• The Wedding Present, Take Fountain
• Ian Brown, Solarized
• American Music Club, Love Songs for Patriots
• Sally Timms, In the World of Him
• Sparta, Porcelain
• Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
• Moco, Out to Go
• The Catheters, Howling...It Grows and Grows!!!
• Ash, Meltdown
• French Kicks, The Trial of the Century
• Gingersol, Eastern
• The Mekons, Punk Rock
• Poster Children, No More Songs About Sleep and Fire
• Electric Soft Parade, The American Adventure
• The Strokes, Room on Fire
• Snow Patrol, Final Straw
• Relaxed Muscle, "The Heavy"/Billy Jack + Sexualized"
• British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power
• The Wrens, The Meadowlands
• Tindersticks, Waiting for the Moon
• Lloyd Cole, Music in a Foreign Language
• The Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium
• The Libertines, Up the Bracket
• Flaming Lips, "Fight Test" EP
• Black Box Recorder, Passionoia
• Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks
• Johnny Marr + the Healers, Boomslang
• New Order, Retro (boxset)
• The Electric Soft Parade, Holes In The Wall
• Mike Johnson, What Would You Do?
• Suede, A New Morning
• Idlewild, The Remote Part
• Primal Scream, Evil Heat
• Cinerama, Torino
• Get Up Kids, On a Wire
• ShelleyDevoto, Buzzkunst
• Doves, The Last Broadcast
• South, From Here On In
• Lloyd Cole, Etc.
• Billy Bragg and the Blokes, England, Half English
• The Divine Comedy, Regeneration
• Cinerama, "Health and Efficiency" single
• Pulp, We Love Life
• Ian Brown, Music of the Spheres

My Neumu columns and articles

• Steve Gozdecki's Favorite Albums of 2005
• Steve Gozdecki's 10 Reasons To Live (2004 top 10 albums)
• Poster Children Cover Political Rock
• Lloyd Cole Makes a Commotion
• Neumu's Top 20 Of 2003: It's Cat Power, By A Whisker
• My favorite albums of 2003
• Poster Children Back in Action
• London Suede Take a (Permanent?) Break
• Finally tuning in to Radiohead
• Another Day at the Office for the Flaming Lips
• Speaking "American English" with Idlewild
• The Neumu Top 20
• Steve Gozdecki's 2002 Platters That Matter
• Who Needs Sleep? (Radio 4 and The Pattern live reviews)
• In the U.S. of A. It's Time to Vote!
• The music suggestion machine (or why we still need rock critics)
• The album will live on

Other stuff

• Sox in Five column on Gapers Block (weekly)
• My second-prize-worthy entry to Zulkey's "most overrated celebrity death" contest
• My "dissed" tale on Zulkey.com
• My list of "Ways I've attempted to relieve the symptoms of my latest wicked winter cold" on Zulkey.com
• My "list of ways of shopping for clothes for self-conscious single guys in their early 30s" on Zulkey.com (near bottom of page)
• My "foot in mouth" tale on Zulkey.com (scroll down or search for "Steve" on the page)

Random unpublished stuff

• Catching Up With Lloyd Cole (rough cut)