Oh yes, working my way though Ed’s adventures, a most enjoyable way to wile away the time

1- Creatures of Light and Dark – Jackie Leven

2 – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations – Eels

3- Harp and a Monkey – Harp and a Monkey

4 – Cursed With Being – Gorgeous

5 – No Such Place – Jim […]

Jackie Leven’s wonderful lament for his Father, I kind of pinched it for my Father, I don’t think Jackie would have objected

Nice to see Night Lilies get another vote, a wonderful album.

On Thursday evening there was a virtual concert to raise a glass of toffee vodka to Jackie, arranged by Deborah (his widow) and Jinder a friend of Jackie’s and fellow musician. It featured various Jackie related […]

1 – Night Lilies – Jackie Leven

2 – Tunnel of Love – Bruce Springsteen

3 – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot – Sparklehorse

4 – Bob Mould – Bob Mould

5 – Closer – Joy Division

6 – Brotherhood […]

This keeps me grounded in both good and bad situations –
Stiff Little Fingers – My Dark Places

Has to be Alice Cooper – School’s Out, epitomises what a chart record should be, teen friendly, sarky rebellious lyrics, caused outrage in the parents, catchy whistle-able tune.

Doing a FB 10-a-day Live album thingy, not a great lover of such albums and I’m struggling to name 10 and of those I am naming probably only a couple will have been played with any sort of regularity. Oh and to […]

My scores on the doors, decided on only one entry per artist, so here goes…. struggling to press the ‘post’ button as I still want to change things…. oh bugger it here goes

1 – Forbidden Songs of the […]

The then marriage was, in possibly unpoetic terms, a car crash, to escape I’d spend hours in the local forest with the dogs, just walking the hills.. As a rule we go we’d go later in the evening when there wasn’t […]

Hello Hurray – Billion Dollar Babies

Interesting, never seen that version.

@twang was it on the Charter Line label, pale blue with a picture of Alice and a snake and jumbo jet in the top corner?

@lando-cakes LC , sort of right-ish and idid think about it but… Control was initially released, albeit just in Spain and was under the name John St Field, it only got a wider release in 1997 when Cooking Vinyl […]

Alice Cooper – Love It To Death

Jackie Leven – Fairytales For Hardmen

By heck I would have bet that either 1 or 2 was by the Roches….. just as well I never took up career as a professional gambler.

I’d heard a very poor bootleg of Hadestown recorded at the Chapel in London, l […]

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1) Absent Father (Letter from a Falklands Veteran) – Harp and a Monkey
A soldier is sent to the Falklands conflict and as a result his whole m […]

And last on the door mat was @lemonhope, apologies for the delay but I’ll use the excuse of Christmas and the New Year for my tardiness in finishing the review.

1) Acapella to start and most enjoyable it is, a […]