I have been popping into the Charity Shops every now and again over the last several weeks and have, since the last time I posted about them, picked up 158 CD’s at an average of […]
Month: May 2019
Pearl Jam – Vitaology
I rarely talk about Pearl Jam, which is odd as I really rather like them and have done since they released their debut album. A lot of their releases came out when I was buying […]
Death and Vanilla – Are You A Dreamer?
Label: Fire Records – FIRELP543XFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Pink Released: 10 May 2019Genre: Electronic, RockStyle: Darkwave, Experimental, Psychedelic Rock If either of you bothered to read the drivel I write then […]
Miriam Makeba – Miriam Makeba
Label: London Records – HA 2332, London Records – HA.2332Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Purple Label Released: 1961 I was delighted to find and original copy of this album in the used record store today, […]
Best Albums of 1959
I watched a brilliant live broadcast by the BBC from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival celebrating the now defunct TV show Jazz 625 called Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only. It was broadcast in black […]
Legacy 7″ Box – 9
XTC – Senses Working OvertimeVirgin VS 4621982 UK I happen to think that this is one of the greatest 45’s ever pressed to wax, a truly brilliant pop song that has intelligent lyrics but a rather […]
Rosalia – El Mal Querer
This was one of my albums of 2018, though I’d never mentioned it before then. There’s actually a lot of albums that it takes me while to get around to mentioning, some going back several […]
More terrible album covers
I’ve added some more HERE but I just keep laughing at this one. I may have posted some of these before but I’m not really keeping track.
LEGACY 7″ BOX – 8
Public Image Ltd – Public ImageVirgin VS 2281978 UK I saw the single in its newspaper wrapping in Woolworths, though I can’t remember where, in Oxfordshire I would guess. I remember walking over to it and […]
LEGACY 7″ BOX – 7
The Clash – Tommy GunCBS, CBS S CBS 6788, 67881978 UK I never owned a copy of this as far as I remember, a couple of friends did and I used to play their copy […]
Best albums of 1983
I was 16 in 1983 and, to be honest, it wasn’t a great year in music for me. Choosing 30 albums for this list was difficult, not because of what to include, but actually finding […]
Lamb – The Secret of Letting Go +
I’m a fan of Lamb, both the group and the meat, though I would only put mint sauce on one. I wasn’t looking for it but I found and bought their new album today in […]
We need to talk about Martin…….
Back in 2002 I bought the album Open Heart Zoo by Martin Gretch having heard a song of his somewhere, Dave might remember where (Hi Dave). Back then I thought it was a rather brilliant […]
