The Bobsphere

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@RoughTrade Flea - Honora

What’s the first jazz record you’d hand to someone who “doesn’t like jazz”?

@RoughTrade Anything off OK Computer

If you could be in the studio for a full recording session of one song, what would it be?

@RoughTrade The Richard D James album

What is your favourite Aphex Twin album?

@Ofmooseandmen @drewgum I remember reading my Elvis blackout - that was a riot

Post - it - Notes from Underground by Simon Crump. Publishing June 25th. An evisceration of the class system where co-workers, friendship and community prevail. Featuring a frozen woodpecker, a badger and Jesus shopping in a home ware store in Halifax. Bloody marvelous.

@RoughTrade I love spoken word stuff: sleaford mods , Anthony Szmierek, John cooper Clarke etc

Favourite song/album for your morning commute?

@RoughTrade No distance left to run - blur

Greatest love song of all time? 💘

@RoughTrade De la Soul - 3 feet high and rising

Album which captures the essence of hip hop's golden age?

@RoughTrade Beat Happening

If one artist could compose/ perform the soundtrack to your biopic, who would it be?

@RoughTrade De la soul’s 3 feet high and rising

Favourite album/song you recently rediscovered after not listening to it for a long time?

@RoughTrade The Velvet Underground and Nico

Most important and/or iconic album cover of all time?

@RoughTrade Omg you’re getting life without buildings to reunite!!!

This is 50. From a small shop in West London to a global community of music heads, it’s been half a century of backing counterculture, celebrating the physical format and championing creativity (1/2).

@RoughTrade Will there be a rough trade curated compilation or two? I still listen to the 25th and 30th anniversary ones

We're excited to mark our 50th anniversary with a year-long programme of exclusive vinyl releases and events, reflecting both our history and our continued role in supporting artists and communities (2/2). #RoughTrade50 blog.roughtrade.com/50-years-of-ro…

@RoughTrade Dry cleaning- Secret Love

First vinyl purchase of 2026?

@RoughTrade Sorry boys in the better land!!!

@RoughTrade When boys in the band was featured in a Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture Compilation.

At what stage in their career did you discover Fontaines D.C.? Rough Trade East's Adam McCabe reflects on his journey as a Fontaines D.C. fan and a selection of his favourite Irish artists leading Ireland's cultural music moment. blog.roughtrade.com/a-rough-guide-…

@RoughTrade Granddaddy!!!!

Albums everyone tells you sound Christmas-coded without being explicitly Christmas, then you listen to them, and they actually do (a thread).

@RoughTrade Grandad - the sophtware slump

@RoughTrade Björk - hands down

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged aired for the first time today in 1993. Best MTV Unplugged performance of all time?

@RoughTrade The song that got me into alternative rock: Blur’s Girls & Boys

Album/song you wish you could hear again for the first time?

@RoughTrade I’m going to go for a classic here: Ride - Nowhere

What album do you personally consider the most complete representation of the shoegaze genre?