@Declan I know the name John Zorn but nothing about him – is he musically related to Fred Frith – is he more avant garde Jazz?

Oh, @Declan, you seemed to have missed my other pieces on In A Silent Way and Hot Buttered Soul! 😉

@Declan – not Heroes ?
Not even just for one day?

@Declan, there’s a day to be pedantic to well meaning neighbours who are great friends to Ireland and I don’t think this is that day. I’m also going to get all Eoghan Harris up in this place and add that there’s […]

Thanks for those @Declan. I know of the artists but have never heard any of those albums. All from the 1970s I see.

Manfred most certainly is a star. Talk about moving the goalposts.

I’m not sure which was my […]

Hi @Declan. As I alluded in my post, it was the night before the finals that I watched (a bit of) all of the available entries on YouTube. I’m not interested in the show, more in the music. As you say, it’s good […]

@declan regarding The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Phil Collins reckoned it was one of his favourite albums to have played on and to play live, because of the complexity of some of the music. The problem was when […]

Truly essential, @Declan ?

Godbluff and Still Life are arguably more essential than the first three. For me, these are the heart of VdGG, along with the first side of World Record.

I would make a case for […]

Couldn’t agree more re Hugh Banton @Declan ….arguably the fundamental difference between VdGG and solo Hammill is when solo, Hammill tends to play his own keyboards, whereas VdGG have the majesty that is B […]

You ought to join the next one @Declan

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Balls, was considering Hamburg for a Jolly Boys but plumped for Munich instead.

Entirely necessary, @Declan – butcher’s hook = look.

Nice one @Declan! I hadn’t realised Lyle had done that song.

It’s featured on Deadicated, a tribute album to the Dead. Also on that are the Cowboy Junkies who belong here too.

Thanks, @Declan. I’m a bit late in responding, but Python’s intellectual juxtapositions are dryly entertaining what-ifs (both the Life of Brian and the Philosophers’ football match) rather than guffaw-inducingly […]

@Twang @Declan

(None of these tracks is commercially available, so enjoy bootleg status. Don’t panic about the Z-share pop-ups – they don’t install anything – just click them away and reclick the download button […]

@Declan, the politicians have been fighting about that for close to 100 years, but they can never agree on anything, and when they finally vote some building plans through, they vote the wrong things through and […]

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Sorry for the delay in replying! To be honest, I don’t see JWH and NS to be that similar. I agree that they both come from a desire to respect his roots, but I these days think the former is probably […]

Oh no @Declan, I really like Far From Home a lot! Do give it another try. Try Googling ‘high heeled boys’….oh….maybe not….

Thanks @declan
Some days I feel like a bit of a wheezer, so you score twice!

Na, I always go the difficult way @declan. I may increase my choice to 8 albums, aye, and this way madness lies, if you know what I mean. Frank has way too many albums to think ‘maybe I’ll start a collection’, I’m […]