Its an odd mix. The author claims “I’m not a music snob” and then lists a hundred or so albums that, for the most part, only a music snob would have in their collection.

ELP, Quo, Vangelis, Bread, […]

… and from Australia – although I donated in pounds

My thoughts exactly. Love Genesis until Hackett left – it was the lovely layers and textures from that guitar. His departure was much more devastating for the group than Gabriel’s.

Cant stand “Yes” and can […]

I remember “I’m Mandy” as an astonishingly weird and brave epic at the time. Quite unlike anything else in the charts at the time. Me and my “early teen” mates were very impressed.

I always thought that with […]

They are beloved here as you know but I’ve never been able to stand them. Still – good news about the rain eh!

I tried to found a startup a few years ago doing pretty much exactly this. Elderly dont like spending cash so are a very hard group to pitch to

Speaking as an observer now in Australia (but an ex member of the 1980’s militant tendancy) the problem appeared to be Corbyn and his failure as a leader to stomp on accusations of anti-semitism and terrorist […]

Boring to go about it I know, but Derry Girls has been the best comedy for years. The whole family including 3 teenagers loved it. We have seen both series several times and will stick on a favourite episode […]

Joe Hisaishi is a legend in my house. My son is playing the “Spirited Away” theme for his piano graduation concert in a few weeks, and therefore plays it several times most days – but I still think its lovely

I came here also to nominate Leo Sayer’s early stuff. “The show must go on” is ace and also a candidate for the trivia question of songs that dont mention the title in the lyrics (along with BoRap and Ballad of […]

I decided only this week that I really dont like Richard Thompson even though I own various early albums and always nod along when he’s described as “our finest guitarist”. I suppose he may be – but the voice is […]

oh … and while we are at it. If any Cardiacs fans have any spare cash around – Tim really needs it. Cheers

The full “Sing to God” album is on youtube if you want to give it a try.

You are in for a treat Rigid. Said many times on this blog – Cardiacs are the greatest lost British band. “Sing to God” is their mad masterpiece

I hate it – but my kids love it and I’ve always felt guilty at being grumpy about a bit of dressing up.
Here in Oz it’s summer, hot as hell and broad daylight. Doesn’t stop the ghouls and zombies though, […]

Coincidentally this week Spotify threw up an Anthony Philips track on one of those “Radio” playlists. (I think it may have been Stackridge Radio.) Anyway I thought it was pretty good. I was a huge fan of […]

Interestingly my 17 yr old daughter and all her friends like “Big Star”. They see nothing particular hip or cool about this – its just Spotify regularly throws them into their “Daily Mix” lists, presumably […]

Leicester scored more than the All Blacks

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