(1) Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield With crushing inevitability, my obsession with Mike Oldfield wins the day. I’m long past trying to properly articulate my love for this music. You all must have that one […]

You love it really!

Four. Got a light?

Probably only another Scottish person would get this retitling of a famous carol: A Wean In A Manger

Strange that you like Meddle and Wish You Were Here and not this though. Ah well. Yeah fitterstoke is right, life is too short (one day you find ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you […]

Okay, I’ll get back to you if I ever go to Jamaica. Speaking of Jamaica, have you ever heard Dub Side of the Moon by the Easy Star All Stars? It’s good!

I’ve been getting into Smile recently. It’s fascinating how many fan versions are out there, it seems to be the kind of album that invites that kind of collaboration and interaction. I’m starting to think about […]

Pink Floyd on the whole are pretty soporific. Which I quite like!

Yeah, maybe overture wasn’t the right word for that start bit. I just meant you get a load of sound effects, then Breathe sounds like half a song, and just when you think it’s getting into it, it goes off into […]

(2) Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd Oh how predictable. But there’s a reason this album is so ubiquitous: for want of a more descriptive term, it’s just brilliant. I’ll try and describe what I like about […]

Nope. 😁

Yeah it was! Never seen that. Very weird to hear them without the screams, it felt like there was an instrument missing.

Paradoxically, I kind of agree it’s too long. Like the white album, like Electric Ladyland, like bloomin’ Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, like Mahler (!) it kind of FEELS too long… but but but… I was serious […]

Not on my watch. 🙂

Here’s the one. It’s Bach, of course, but you all knew that didn’t you?

Total diversion here, but I’m just reminded that it always bugged me that since Abbey Road came out on CD they’ve always listed Her Majesty as a separate track. It’s not! It was never that way on the old LP, it […]

Oh definitely. Goosebumps. By the way, it was only relatively recently I heard the original hymn that Paul based the American Tune melody on, on radio 3. I’d heard it was based loosely on something, but it’s […]

Indeed! A cosmic high five, my Topographic brother. Of course, your comment invites the question of what the other two in your top three Yes albums are? Is it the two I mentioned here?

(3) Tales From Topographic Oceans – Yes Wait! Come back! Ignore the naysayers and luxuriate in this crazy rambling album that sounds like nothing ever did before and never will again. Tales From Topographic […]

I refuse to be triggered! Not this time. (Dons cool helmet, climbs onto high horse, trots off into Smugland)