And of course FZ had his hit (not in the UK)

Probably not quite suitable for your girl, Dai!

Correct. Great stuff.

Always a pleasure to hear the voice behind the name. What a gent that Pencilsqueezer is.

Thanks Nick, plenty to discover on your blog too.

@nickduvet

Strata Institute, cutting-edge funk-informed black jazz at the time (the 80s). Also in the 80s, the Vienna Jazz Orchestra made some excellent double-LPs for Hat Hut records out of Switzerland: Sokal was in their […]

Oh all right, better have this too
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Shanghai!

Duh..

Last Exit was Island Records’ attempt to squeeze an albums worth out of a group in turmoil at the time: Mason had left and rejoined a couple of times, Winwood was having his head turned with the short-lived Blind […]

You’re almost definitely right. Then again, if you’re privy to old BBC tapes, who knows what’ll turn up yet. 😉

Ever heard of Lancaster + Lumley’s album of 1976, Marscape, which was basically Brand X with sax, […]

Bought all the albums as soon as they were released, Mr Fantasy being my very first LP ever. Auspicious start in psychedelic ’67, stabilised as a trio (-ish) in ’70, expanded to a loose(-ish) collective to meet […]

Surprised it was Blodwyn, what with that bassoon (or even krumhorn) on the first track. Maybe your man from Gryphon was sitting in.

So this will have been a version of the group without Abrahams then, given that […]

Total mainstream guy here as far as the Walker Brothers are concerned, I remember their hits: not necessarily fondly, as we later got to know their image as (proto) boyband fodder for girls’ bedroom walls. Yep, at […]

Let’s hear it for Sandy

and indeed (was it even a single?)

Not only that, Twang. This was #43 with a bullet

A few more.

(Family: released 1969, watch out Moose, extra production and not a photo of the band that did the recording)

and as close as dammit (yes, ’68)

Actually, playing along is also very cool, and discovering what bands are doing is often not too complicated, e.g. my mates and I try different stuff in real time, say Pink Floyd or Little Feat or Creedence or […]

Was and am (just less frequently these days). Whole album sides of LPs has always been my thing, CDs get curtailed a bit, radio also attractive, all through loudspeakers. Downloads and that never really took hold, […]

Au contraire, Rigid Digit about halfway up the thread. Yes, had their moments but those lyrics, dear oh dear..

You having a larf, Tigger? This is a moral/ethical matter. And was 50 years ago as well.
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The Police. Did anybody on here ever take Sting seriously again after the dreaded tantra story? Yes, good drummer, decent guitarist, some good songs, but him?