Music Goes On - Reviews - Elbow

I built and ran this website between 2000 and 2001, combining passion for popular music and programming. It was listed by MTV's now defunct MusicNewswire as one of the then nascent web's top twenty sources, alongside Billboard and VH1. The most exciting part of it — for a 13/14-year-old excited by new music — was receiving scores of pre-release CDs from record companies. The entire project was written entirely from scratch (frameworks and libraries were not the norm back then!) in PHP linking to a MySQL database, with HTML as well as a little CSS and JavaScript for the frontend; the code is available here.

Girish Gupta

Albums

Singles

Elbow - Newborn 6 October 2001 \| 11:55:52 GMT/UTC Release: 1 January 1970 \| 0:00:00 (V2)
Newborn was originally released in June of last year (2000) as the lead track of Elbow's Newborn EP. The mellow track opens with Guy Garvey's sweet vocal on "I'll be the corpse in your bathtub, useless." The track features acoustic guitars, electric guitars, harmonies, keyboards; the lot. Very full production, but basic at the same time.