Just the one for me Stornoway – Best of Unplucked

Ah, yes, Firmer Hand – reassuring the lists are checked so thoroughly!

Here are mine. This poll and Dandelion Radio’s Festive Fifty are great awareness raisers. 1. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch 2. Du Blonde – Sniff More Gritty 3. Scott Lavene – Disneyland in Dagenham 4. […]

There’s a right old ding dong of perspectives in “Jackson” by Hazelwood/Sinatra, and others. Also mentions ‘peppered sprout’ but that’s not relevant here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=QZ4dSOejBPg

No Sir, you are not hard done by. Day of the Dog is loaded with great tunes. I Wanna Destroy Myself… Tell ’em All to Go to Hell… My Zero… and that’s just the first 3 tracks.

Touring in 2018 and I […]

“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” It’s been years since I’ve seen it and I hope it lives up to the domestic hype I’ve stoked.

Yep, haven’t worked listening to Yeah Yeah Noh into the family Christmas traditions yet…

Listen to the Cabin Pressure Christmas episode Molokai. I recommend the box set for anyone not familiar with Cabin Pressure

Very much enjoyed reading your lists. Only two from me which don’t look like they’re set to trouble the top of the charts:

Liars – TFCF
Cabbage – Young, dumb, and full of…

I don’t know the songs but I reckon that’s probably Shotover.

A football one from me. I was at Highfield Road in 1990 to see Liverpool beat Coventry 6-1. At the time it was run-of-the-mill brilliant – not Barca standards but brilliant. Has since become significant as the […]

Not top notch amazing but I was cycling home a while back and came across a busker who turned out to be Frank Black. If this video posts correctly I’m behind him in the high-vis strap – safety first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdu0Wd0DJx4

I occasionally listen to Dandelion Radio which was set up by Peelites after John Peel died. As with Peel, the music is uneven but there’s always the possibility of hearing something unusual and different. That […]

contributing to critical mass:

Hunky Dory
Low
Ziggy Stardust
Heroes
Next Day

Just the one for me:

Meilyr Jones – 2013

“I’m like a one-eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store”.
Filth from rock’n’roll days.

this, every time

Elvis Costello exposes the unglamorous side with Ghost Train – a joy to hear when he performed it on tour last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZ9GZgvqKI

faces of strummer fell from Roddy Frame’s wall in ‘Walk Out to Winter’, and the Clash and others attended Bob Marley’s ‘Punky Reggae Party’.

Two pop oddities from 1983 that still sound good to these ears:

Kissing with Confidence – Will Powers

Waiting for a Train by Flash & the Pan