(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

The Wombats are an English indie rock band formed in Liverpool in 2003, consisting of Matthew Murphy (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Tord Øverland Knudsen (bass, backing vocals, keyboards), & Dan Haggis (drums, backing vocals, keyboards). 

The Wombats have sold over 1 million albums worldwide.

The Wombats released several EPs before working on their first full-length album Girls, Boys and Marsupials (2006), which was released only in Japan and featured some tracks that would reappear on their major-label debut studio album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation (2007). 

After releasing a self-titled EP in 2008 and touring for three years, they released the studio albums This Modern Glitch (2011), Glitterbug (2015), and Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life (2018), all of which received mostly positive reviews. Their fifth album Fix Yourself, Not the World (2022) became their first No. 1 album, topping the UK Albums Chart within a week of release.

On September 27, 2024, The Wombats teased a new single, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come. It was released as the first single to their upcoming sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean, which was released last Friday.

Let's get into some new and old ahead of the Friday Flash(back) tomorrow. Back for a limited for season for 2025.

Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - MALLRAT - {Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right}

Friday Flash(back) - Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Manic Street Preachers, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. 

The band consists of Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes). 

Following the release of their debut single Suicide Alley in 1988, Manic Street Preachers became a quartet with the addition of Richey Edwards as co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist. 

The band's early releases were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a wider alternative rock sound.

Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about, culture, alienation, boredom and despair gained them a loyal following.

Manic Street Preachers' first charting single was Motown Junk in 1991, followed by their debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992. 

The band's next two albums were Gold Against the Soul in 1993 and The Holy Bible in 1994, the latter being the last album with Edwards, who disappeared in February 1995 and was legally presumed dead in 2008.

The band continued as a trio with Wire as primary lyricist, and achieved commercial success with the albums Everything Must Go (1996) and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998).

The Manic Street Preachers have headlined festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading, winning eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards.

They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, and have had one nomination for the MTV Europe Music Awards. 

The band has sold more than ten million albums worldwide.

The Manic Street Preachers have had two number one singles in the UK charts: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998) & The Masses Against the Classes (2000), as well as two number one albums: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021).

From 1991 to 2010, they had 33 consecutive top 40 singles in the UK.

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - WAFIA - {Promised Land}

Friday Flash(back) - Franz Ferdinand - The Human Touch

(Pre) Friday Flash(back)

Franz Ferdinand, the Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band's sixth studio album, The Human Fear, was released last month, reaching number three on the UK Albums Chart.

Their original line-up was composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Nick McCarthy (rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals), Bob Hardy (bass guitar, percussion) and Paul Thomson (drums, percussion, backing vocals). 

Julian Corrie (keyboards, lead guitar, backing vocals) and Dino Bardot (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) joined the band in 2017 after McCarthy left during the previous year, and Audrey Tait (drums, percussion) joined the band after Thomson left in 2021. 

Franz Ferdinand have been nominated for several Grammy Awards and have received two Brit Awards, winning one for Best British Group, as well as one NME Award.

The band's first single, Darts of Pleasure, just missed out on the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 44. 

Their second single, Take Me Out, proved their big commercial breakthrough, peaking at number three. Take Me Out charted in several other countries and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal; it became the band's signature song. 

Their debut album Franz Ferdinand won the 2004 Mercury Prize and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.

In 2005, the band released their second studio album, You Could Have It So Much Better, produced by Rich Costey. It peaked within the top-ten in multiple countries and earned Grammy-nominations for Best Alternative Album and for one of the singles, Do You Want To. 

The band's third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, was released in January 2009; by then the band had shifted from a post-punk-focused sound to a more dance-oriented sound. A remix album of Tonight, titled Blood, was released in July 2009.

Four years after the release of Tonight, the band released their fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, in August 2013. 

In 2015, Franz Ferdinand and American rock band Sparks formed the supergroup FFS and released a one-off album, FFS, in June 2015. The band underwent multiple lineup changes following FFS, beginning with McCarthy's departure in 2016. 

After acquiring Corrie and Bardot, the band released their fifth studio album Always Ascending in February 2018. Thomson departed in 2021 and was replaced by Tait. 

 

 

   

Hurry Up Tomorrow - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - THE WEEKND - {Hurry Up Tomorrow}

Nostalgia Albums of 2024 - Summer Music Lists Special - Part Four

1. The Weeknd - The Highlights
2. Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version)
3. SZA - SOS
4. Taylor Swift - Lover
5. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
6. Taylor Swift - Midnights
7. Taylor Swift - Folklore
8. Post Malone - The Diamond Collection
9. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR 
10. Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess
11. Taylor Swift - Reputation
12. Travis Scott - Utopia
13. Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
14. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
15. The Weeknd - Starboy
16. Taylor Swift - Evermore
17. Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
18. Kanye West - Graduation
19. Foo Fighters - The Essential
20. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

it's Franky baby! - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - YOUNG FRANCO - {It's Franky Baby!}

Aussie Albums of 2024 - Summer Music Lists Special - Part Three

1. Amyl And The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
2. Tones And I - Beautifully Ordinary
3. Lime Cordiale - Enough Of The Sweet Talk
4. Missy Higgins - The Second Act
5. Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness
6. Rüfüs Du Sol - Inhale / Exhale
7. Royel Otis - Pratts & Pain
8. Fanning Dempsey National Park - The Deluge
9. Angus & Julia Stone - Cape Forestier
10. The Rubens - SODA
11. Teenage Dads - Majordomo
12. Skeggs - Pacific Highway Music
13. Empire of the Sun - Ask That God
14. PNAU - Hyperbolic
15. Sycco - Zorb
16. Thelma Plum - I'm Sorry, Now Say it Back
17. King Stingray - For the Dreams
18. Confidence Man - 3AM (LA LA LA)
19. Hockey Dad - Rebuild Repeat
20. Allday - The Necklace

Balloonerism - Guests - SZA Season continues

Mac Miller has great taste, with getting SZA onboard as his one and only guest on his second posthumous album since his death in September 2018.

SZA continues to grow in popularity with SOS (former Album of the Year, right here) landing at number 6 on the end of year ARIA album charts for 2024.

LANA was a new masterpiece with BMF gaining airplay on radios across the nation.

For now enjoy a little more midweek SZA.

Balloonerism - visuals

Balloonerism - A Film Based On The Album By Mac Miller, streams now on Amazon. Below are some more visuals related to this weeks feature album. Already the third feature album of 2025! 

Album of the Week - MAC MILLER - {Balloonerism}

Club Trax of 2024 - Summer Music Lists Special - Part Two

1. Disclosure - SHE'S GONE DANCE ON
2. Dom Dolla - GIRL$
3. Sgt Slick - Stars on 45 Theme
4. James Alexandr - Look At Me {Feat. Nada Leigh}
5. Sean Paul & Odd Mob - Get Busy
6. Cloonee - Sippin' Yak
7. Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D - Somedays
8. Dave Winnel - Bump the Line
9. Dave Winnel - Bang It
10. FISHER & Flowdan - Boost Up
11. Mell Hall - Slow 
12. Sgt Slick - Dance With You {Feat. Karina Chavez}
13. Cyril - Stumblin' In
14. Fred again.. & Baby Keem - leavemealone
15. Charli XCX - 360
16. Charli XCX - Von Dutch
17. Tobiahs - Lifetime
18. Charli XCX & Billie Eilish - Guess 
19. Chase & Status, Stormzy - BACKBONE
20. Dom Dolla & Tove Lo - CAVE

Debí Tirar Más Fotos - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - BAD BUNNY - {Debí Tirar Más Fotos}

Artists of 2024 - Summer Music Lists Special - Part One

1. Charli XCX
2. Billie Eilish
3. Gracie Abrhams
4. The Kid LAROI
5. Post Malone 
6. Fred Again...
7. Chappell Roan
8. Beyoncé
9. Taylor Swift
10. The Weeknd 
11. Kendrick Lamar
12. Tommy Richman
13. Troye Sivan
14. Dom Dolla
15. Tyla
16. Thelma Plum
17. Sycco
18. FINNEAS
19. Angie McMahon
20. Clairo

Friday Flash(back) - Returns February

Friday Flash(back) returns bigger, louder and more fun than ever next month. Also The summer music lists are returning, tomorrow for a short summer series.

A brand new feature album will also land on Monday, as I spend some well deserved time in Melbourne. The city of tennis explodes again. Sadly I will miss the Australian Open concerts this season. Maybe in 2026.

Also Laneway next month. Expect a full review of an Australian brat summer! The Album of 2024, live in the Eastern Suburbs. Boom! 

2025 a big year for Flashing off the Record!

Here is a sneak peak at the first Friday Flash(back) for 2025...

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

WHAM (Who Hard as Me) - Guests

Album of the Week - Lil Baby - {WHAM - (Who Hard as Me)}

Album of the Year - Offical Music Videos

Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat - Guests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part Two - The 200 BEST Songs of 2024 {100-1}

1 - Charli XCX - 360 

2 - Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

3 - Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us

4 - Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER

5 - Charli XCX - Guess (with Billie Eilish)

6 - Gracie Abrams - That's So True
7 - Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby
8 - Charli XCX - Girl, So Confusing (with Lorde)  
9 - Lola Young - Messy
10 - Post Malone - I Had Some Help {Feat. Morgan Wallen}
11 - Spacey Jane - One Bad Day
12 - Billie Eilish - LUNCH
13 - The Rions - Physical Medicine
14 - Kendrick Lamar - Luther (with SZA)
15 - Ocean Alley - Tangerine
16 - Artemas - i like the way you kiss me
17 - Charli XCX - Apple
18 - The Kid LAROI - Baby I’m Back
19 - Amyl and The Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
20 - Gracie Abrams - Close To You
21 - Olivia Rodrigo - Obsessed
22 - Royel Otis - Foam
23 - Ball Park Music - Like Love
24 - DICE - This is Not a Love Song
25 - Addison Rae - Diet Pepsi
26 - The Kid LAROI - Aperol Spritz
27 - Teenage Dads - Boarding Pass
28 - Justice & Tame Impala - One Night/All Night
29 - Dom Dolla - Girl$
30 - Thelma Plum - Hurricane
31 - Peach PRC - Secret
32 - Charli XCX - Club Classics
33 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - Music is Better
34 - Royel Otis - Claw Foot
35 - Fred again.., Anderson .Paak, CHIKA - places to be
36 - Old Mervs - What You've Lost
37 - Confidence Man - I CAN'T LOSE YOU
38 - Justice & Tame Impala - Neverender
39 - DICE - Quick to Judge
40 - Clairo - Sexy To Someone
41 - Beyoncé - Bodyguard
42 - Hockey Dad - Wreck and Ruin
43 - Sycco - Buttered Up 
44 - Billie Eilish - CHIHIRO
45 - The Weeknd, Playboi Carti - Timeless
46 - Charli XCX - Von Dutch
47 - Old Mervs - Parched
48 - Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
49 - Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry
50 - Chase & Status, Stormzy - BACKBONE
51 - Charli XCX - Talk Talk (with Troye Sivan)
52 - SZA - Saturn
53 - Disclosure - She's Gone, Dance On
54 - Royel Otis - If Our Love Is Dead
55 - Hockey Dad - Base Camp
56 - Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D - Somedays
57 - Fred again.., & Baby Keem - leavemealone
58 - Dom Dolla, Tove Lo - Cave
59 - Central Cee & RAYE - Moi
60 - Gigi Perez - Sailor Song
61 - Sycco - Monkey Madness
62 - Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up
63 - Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em
64 - Macklemore - HIND’S HALL
65 - RAYE - Genesis, pt. ii
66 - Amyl and The Sniffers - Jerkin’
67 - Tate McRae - 2 Hands
68 - Confidence Man - SO WHAT
69 - SZA - 30 for 30 (with Kendrick Lamar)
70 - Cardi B - Enough (Miami)
71 - Charli XCX - b2b
72 - Young Franco, piri & MC DT - Going On
73 - beabadoobee - Beaches
74 - Mallrat - Hocus Pocus
75 - Allday - Miss You Still {Feat. Cub Sport}
76 - Lime Cordiale - Cold Treatment
77 - FISHER x Flowdan - Boost Up
78 - Childish Gambino - Lithonia
79 - Central Cee - Band4Band {Feat. Lil Baby}
80 - Amyl and The Sniffers - Chewing Gum
81 - King Stingray - Through The Trees
82 - South Summit - Givin' It Up
83 - Peach PRC - Touchy Subject
84 - Tyler, The Creator - Noid
85 - Griff - Anything
86 - Budjerah - Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense
87 - Tate McRae - It's ok I'm ok
88 - Ruel - Made It Awkward
89 - Confidence Man - CONTROL
90 - The Weeknd - Dancing In The Flames
91 - Clairo - Juna
92 - DON WEST - Small Change
93 - Pacific Avenue - Lucy
94 - The Kid LAROI - Slow It Down {Feat. Quavo}
95 - 21 Savage - redrum
96 - RÜFÜS DU SOL - Break My Love
97 - Angie McMahon - Untangling
98 - Quavo & Lana Del Rey - Tough
99 -  Tobiahs - Lifetime
100 - Lime Cordiale - Enough of the Sweet Talk