Don’t forget King Wenceslas, the consonant mangler.

…though the frost was crew-el

… gathering winter few-oooh-el…

The oil crisis also saw more recycled vinyl being used in album production.
Very laudable, we would say these days, but it apparently did everything I have heard about it, suggests it did nothing for audio quality.

The question mark is generally missing in popular music.
Think of any song title that asks a question, and it is almost guaranteed the necessary punctuation mark will be absent.

On that note, it is worth noting that just a few days ago The Apostrophe Protection Society gave up, conceding the battle has been lost.

Brearley calmed him down and stroked his ego.
I read an interview with him when he spoke of Brearley’s man management.
He’d take the piss out of Botham, calling him Granny and charge him with bowling long-hops, […]

Feel free to invoke it, old telemetacarpal friend.
If I have read it, I have forgotten it.

Record companies also stopped giving anymore than the absolute minimum with vinyl.
The last new vinyl album I bought was Roger McGuinn’s Back From Rio.
There was no insert with production information/lyrics. […]

I beg to differ on vinyl being cheap 30 years ago.
Prices were increased way beyond the inflation rate, to discourage us from buying it and move us to over to CDs.
As someone who held out as a vinyl buyer, I […]

Thank, for that update @eyesteel. I may not be in London for the first half of March, but I will definitely be here in the second half, so I’ll keep an eye out for Redlands Palomino Company gigs.

Thanks @retropath2, I am giving Redlands Palomino Company a listen, and they certainly sound like my sort of thing.
Have they split up? The newest album on Spotify is 2014’s Broken Carelessly.

Given streaming options etc, my first consideration when tempted by a new CD is that it will take up more room.
I had a massive clearout earlier this year, but space still seems to be at a premium.

You’ll have to excuse my ignorance, but I don’t understand that as either an insult or a compliment.

I think you’re just lucky.
We are ex-directory, but I think they just have lists of numbers by area code, which are called by computer. So it calls NNNN-NNNN-0001 to 9999 and we get hit by default.

Here in London I can say the same.

Back in the 1970s it was still known as vinyl.

Has anyone spoken to Jay Farrar?

With respect to his training, one of the various people commemorating him spoke of him regularly mumbling about how he should never have given up medicine.
However I recall there was a time when there was a huge […]

This is Jefferson Starship’s best song:

None of the posters that I’ve seen have struck me as being with taking to a framers. as Fatima did. Still it’s interesting to know that those creases can be treated and removed, should I ever be moved by the […]