For me, the only absolutely perfect album is The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk. Even the German version is not absolutely perfect, because of that strange growl that Ralf comes out with in Das Model. There are loads of […]

I love that song.
I once worked with a woman who lived in that area and by quoting the lyrics she became convinced I had lived there.

I’m a big fan of the Searchers, but they insisted on doing a version of bloody Young Girl when in concert. Why?! They had so many great tunes of their own, and it wasn’t even in their usual jangly genre. And it […]

In the Word In Your Ear Peelcast (still available to listen to) the point was made that firstly David ‘Kid’ Jensen and later Janice Long came along and started encroaching on his territory, which Peel reacted to […]

David Sylvian – Dead Bees On a Cake
Japan – Tin Drum
Peter Gabriel – 2 & 3
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks & Beautiful Vision
JAMC – Darklands
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Heaven 17 – Penthouse and […]

Rosanne Cash has been a huge favourite in our house for more than 25 years, but neither my wife nor I can stand Tennessee Flat Top Box, which she performs pretty much every time we go to see her live.

Here is a slight diversion on this thread.
I used to love pretty much everything Free did at the time they were active. Except for Don’t Say You Love Me, which I hated with a vengeance. I just couldn’t understand […]

Yes, I read it somewhere! Possibly the Farage effect. It is so out of fashion now, but thankfully some famous ones came along to ease my pain….Mansell, Benn, Clough.

Wikipedia says there were 1943 registered […]

I believe the name Gary has pretty much gone the same way.

Is that actually true @nigelt ?

Astounding if it is.

10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe

Fucking football………..

Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Afghan Whigs – Black Love

Entertainment! By Gang of Four every time.

Speak & Spell by Depeche Mode?
Original Pirate Material by the Streets
The Specials

I have a couple of theories about all killer albums. One is that they are much […]

Yeah, @dr-volume I saw that too.

What IS all that about?

And why on earth IS THIS NOT ON SPOTIFY?

Barry Andrews, Rossmore Road.

I do think that’s a default setting with a lot of people – partly through ignorance or other factors. Partly it was down to Peel himself – he had a series of personas on the radio: the cosmic whisperer of the late […]

Wot, no The Fall??

Happy to be of service, Bing 🙂

Not sure @Franco

The singles were ace, the rest maybe less so.