Only the first three Jackie Leven albums were put on on vinyl and they now go for silly money.

For the cover art alone Night Lilies, Defending Ancient Springs, Creatures of Light and Dark and Shinning Brother […]

Goy my ticket pinned to the board, May seems unlikely even if we have this Covid thing on the run by then, Social Distancing will no doubt still be an issue.

Hopefully the show will take place as it will most […]

Good on you for sorting this L0W, as of this moment the list looks like this, in the next moment it will probably be different…

Eels – Earth To Dora
Jim White -Misfit’s Jubilee
Bob Mould – Blue H […]

As mentioned by @retropath2, no list, no category is ever completer without a reference or link to Jackie Leven, there maybe have been better but I’ve yet to come across them..

“yes I am lying in the ground […]

@locust @stellarX

Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come…. Tracks and words

1) From Which I Came/Magic World – Eels Blinking Lights and Other Revelations – 2005
“the little bundle had arrived”

Tracks 1 & 12 […]

And secondly it’s @Locust the cover uses the same minimalist approach as Working Men’s Club new opus and if the content is as good I’m in for a treat..

Track 1) A piano plays a discordant incongruous dys […]

Or to put it another way….. why should I suffer alone!!!!

Father Ted
Blackadder (series 2 onwards)

As a recipient of the actual real disc, I suggest you good folk and yes, even you not so good folk, listen to this selection, you will enjoy it.

@stellarX

Tin hat on, poison pen to the ready…….. let’s go

1) “Tell em Hugh”….. what a way to start, when we reminisce about our future past and fondly create list’s of great singles bands, this lot o […]

George of the Jungle …. best film of all time

Muppet Christmas Carol

Love and Death

Listening
Album of the month has to be Bob Mould’s Blue Hearts, best since his eponymous 1996 album.
Emmy The Great – April bought on the strength of one song heard on Liz kershaw’s show, has been get […]

The first box sets I was aware of were the ones my Father purchased from Readers Digest, titles such as Carnival of Hit’s, Your Favourite Memories, The Sensational 70’s, this last one bemuses me as his opinion of […]

Gave it a thought but £2.99 seemed a lot of money, but went over to Amazon just for a look-see and lo it was £2.98…… with such a big price drop I couldn’t refuse ……

Always something to tempt on your monthly list MM.
And what may well appeal to some – Bob Mould’s See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody is currently 99p on Kindle.

I’m up for it.

The initial “oh bollocks I have no songs that in anyway represent the chosen theme” then spending hours trying to whittle down 100’s of possibilities that I have decided do fit the theme down […]

Sparklehorse……

“Imagine a record as a galaxy, and all the songs as sort of little planets.
And some of them are messed up and spinning off-axis.”
~ Mark Linkous – describing his music.

A beguiling mix […]

@jaygee A case for being ‘forgotten’ could be laid at the door of Cooking Vinyl (his record label) after his death they talked of retrospectives, re-issues etc and yet 10 years on we still wait.

How is Jackie not a a household would most always the first topic of discussion whenever two or more members of the Church of Leven got together, on a selfish note his anonymity to the world at large permitted us […]

And there’s