So this is probabaly a rather leftfield choice and a difficult album to kick proceedings off with as parts of it sound rather odd 70 years after it’s release, but odd in a rather brilliant […]
Black Pumas – Black Pumas
Over a whatsapp video call, David showed me a new CD he had bought, I nodded politely as though I recognised the band and knew all about them and we moved on to the next […]
33 1/3 Radio – Show 12 – Funk and Soul
At last, what nobody has been waiting for! A new radio show episode!
Manuel Göttsching – Inventions For Electric Guitar
Shortly before Lockdown I saw a copy of ‘Inventions For Electric Guitar’ in my local record store and completely ignored it as, based on the cover, it was probabaly not my thing at all, soI […]
Nashville Skyline Contemporaries
I played my copy of Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan at the weekend and it had one of those inner sleeves that advertises other albums, that I like. I knew most of the artists on […]
Record Store Day Picks – 1
Due to the global pandemic RSD 2020 was put on hold and re-designed so that instead of a single day there will be three ‘Drops’ over a period of three months begining in August. From […]
The Turing Test (Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film)
Another movie in my head that now has it’s own soundtrack. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/545iiYndSssryyuFi8wgiA?si=munbGhkpQSacvACZN0aiWw
Off Earth (Soundtrack To An Imaginary Film)
I have had an entire movie going around and around in my head today, which is where it should stay as in there it is epic but if I wrote it down it would probably […]
Best Albums of 1967
1967 was probabaly the greatest year ever, mainly because it was the year I came into this world. As a result of being 0 years old I don’t remember any of these at the time […]
Top 40 Joni Mitchell Songs
Quite why I start these almost impossible lists is something I probably need to speak quite earnestly to a therapist about, however, here I am, doing it again. As always it is just my opinion […]
The Tinned PIlchards
For a brief period in the 1980’s one band exploded onto the scene like a comet hitting the planet, only to disappear as quickly as they appeared. That band was The Tinned Pilchards, since written […]
Albums of the Year 2019
27 – Lambchop – This (Is what I wanted to tell you) I’m always excited at the release of a Lambchop album particulalry having seen them live a few years ago. More recently there are […]
Best Albums of 2010
Here we are again with one of those best of lists that I do, they take ages, very few people read them and still I don’t care, it has become an obsession to try and […]
Mission 781 Speakers
I don’t really use Facebook much but I was on there on Saturday and something from the ‘Local Sales’ thing was in my feed. I clicked on it and there were a pair of speakers […]
1959 is almost complete
I now have 28 of the 30 albums from my https://thirtythreeandathird.blog/2019/05/11/best-albums-of-1959/ list. The final two are proving irksome, one due to cost and the other due to availability, but I’ll get there eventually.
