About SGTMT
Sounds Good To Me Too, or SGTMT, was the name of a wonderful independent record store in Bedford town centre in the 90s, where the writers of this blog grew up.
We bought our first records there. Some of the best and worst we’d ever hear. We browsed the racks looking for our next favourite band, whether punk rock, drum n bass, hip hop or something we hadn’t heard of yet. We made some great discoveries.
Sadly the store is long gone, but the effect it had on these four local boys remains. It turned us into the music lovers we are today. Naturally, we thought it was only right to rob its name, and create this Sounds Good To Me Too blog.
SGTMT is a music blog, plain and simple. We write about music we love. We talk about new music and old music. Music from any genre goes, as long as we love it.
We’re glad you found us. Please hang around and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, The Hype Machine and all that. You can also read about us at The Guardian, here.
We’d love to hear from you if you’ve got something you think we’re going to dig, if you like to know more about us, or if you’d like to advertise with us. Go ahead and drop us an email: soundsgoodtometoo@gmail.com
Enjoy discovering your new favourite band with us!
Matt Simmonds
Brighton: @mattsimmonds
Handsome, witty, erudite. All round good egg.
Tim Simmonds
Manchester: @tsimmonds
Ugly, dull, stupid. All round idiot.
Tom Careless
London: @icollectnoise
Genius got shrunk in the wash.
Luke Davydaitis
Edinburgh: @lukedvd
Romanian immigrant now lost in the badlands. Presumed dead.
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Hi, I play in the Austin TX reggaepunkska band Indofin, and we recently released our new album entitled 2X Broken and would definitely be interested in being reviewed on your site, and even possibly make our music available for sale at your online store, or just post a free download or two, we think your readers would enjoy our tunes, and our story. Visit our website http://www.indofinmusic.com, and just reply back if you’d be interested. If not no worries
Thanks Albert, we’ll check out your tunes
Hey I’m Max, I’m a musician from Long Island, I wanted to submit some of my music to you guys, hope you can give it a listen. Thanks! http://soundcloud.com/maxwelldemon/sets/strange-beings/
I have just recorded a four hour Kazoo solo which I think could have commercial potential. If I play it to you down the phone, could you review it? Favourably, of course. There may be a fiver in it.
Ah, I’m off the leash today. I will regret hitting the button. But I fear I’m going to ….
OK, that message was generated by my cat walking over the keyboard. I know, I know – what were the chances? Anyway, definitely nothing to do with me. I am a serious person.
That made me laugh out loud… I still can’t post a link to our own new album because I’m too busy laughing, spitting out Diet Coke, coughing up my own liver, and falling into a coma.
(rallies) http://onwardchariots.bandcamp.com(lapses into unconsciousness)
I’m getting blackcurrant, I’m getting truffles … I’m getting hints of Pink Floyd from aspects of ‘Mama’ and none the worse for that …. and I’m getting a sense of band that believes in what they do. Jesus, you have trumpets and clarinets ….. that means you have real musicians (No disrespect to all the rock musicians out there. Or the drummers.). And hey – any band that has released stuff on ‘Dufflecoat’ is all right with me. Except, of course, that it should be ‘Duffel coat’. Lord, I wish I still had the duffel coat I had when I was twelve. Those toggles … so in trend. I would have to let it out a bit, of course.
Ben? Ben? Someone call 911! 911, now!
Thanks for your concern, Ephraim. Turns out I’m fine – you don’t actually need a liver! And thanks for the kind words; yeah, we finally decided just to invest an insane amount of time in a project and see if that would matter. This is the first time anyone’s ever mentioned Pink Floyd in conjunction with this band, which I’m also excited about! Maybe a little too excited… better drink a beer to calm myself down… wait, I can’t! No liver.
P.S. More on creatively spelled label names – we also put out a single on a label called “Elefant”. But I think that’s correct in Spanish.
Ben Ben, it’s been a busy day, and I haven’t had time to track down the precise Pink Floyd tune … but it’s from ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and it may be ‘On the run’. It’s the synthesiser (sp?) riff. And as we’re now communicating, I need to admit that my name is not Ephraim Zimbalist. That’s just a cover. I am in fact Charles, Prince of Wales, and I hereby grant you the Manor of Upper Coity, Vale of Glamorgan, with full rights of mopery, termigory, ullage, pillage, rapine and the rights to graze four pack ponies or sixteen sheep (but not both, that would be silly).
*sighs*
Nurse, I think it’s wearing off again …..
Dear Prince Charles,
That’s funny. I hadn’t thought of that connection, but as soon as he heard that keyboard line, our drummer/producer did. He even ended up playing a hand percussion part that’s just like the drums in On the Run. Only he played it on a table in his apartment instead of playing a £100,000 drum set while drinking whiskey and having sex with a groupie.
Yours,
Mitt Romney
The correct form of address is ‘Your Royal Highness’. But you are presumably a colonial and so cannot be expected to know; I will overlook it just this once.
I personally have no experience of the activities you go on to mention (however, I once played a mean cello) …. but sadly it seems the generation of the Royal Family beneath me are ‘up for it’, as the young people say.
Yours,
Charles Windsor
(PS I hope you are taking your Manorial duties seriously. The Welsh tend to react to absentee landlords with random acts of arson. Just a word to the wise.)
Sorry to hear that your cello was so mean to you – but that may explain your emotionally and mentally complex adulthood. I’d also like to take this opportunity to mention how interesting it is that we colonials take your royalty so seriously… and I find the attitude of many Britons toward the Windsors highly refreshing. For that matter, we seem to take our Presidents very seriously as well….
Too seriously. Political action takes place at a local level – the upper strata is controlled by multinationals, cadres and powerful lobbies …. take back the power!
Sorry, Barraclough speaking; HRH’s gentleman’s gentleman. And closet anarcho-syndicalist. I am just poised for the moment when the masses rise, and against that day I keep a straight razor sharply stropped, if you get my meaning.
Ever watched ‘Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy’?