Let It Be, for sure, The Who at Leeds and Who’s Next on vinly. 60s goes up to Jimi, so Band of Gypsies, Cry of Love, oh, and Nick Drake. But these are all fag-end frankies, aren’t they, not really 1970s?
I do hav […]

It feels like loads but in RC world it’s a tiddler.

CDs… 800.
45s… 300.
LPs… 400.
70% 60s / 30% pre-60s.

I’ve got more music I can shake a stick at. Even with those slight numbers, huge swathes of it hav […]

Ironically it was the Record Collector, more than any other publication I remember reading, that was at the forefront of the “CD good, LP passé” angle.

Now the holier than thou, born again, Record Collector come […]

The CD format is not completely dead then.

No, I think you could right about the volume.
A Marc Bolan release which was the only place you could get Pewter Suitor for years.

I’ve got a 12” single. Straight up.

I didn’t get on the CD bus until 1997, and so I have only ever really known it as a relatively cheap option. Not just second hand either, in 1997/8 the earliest CDs I bought (the Byrds’ reissues, Them, Kinks, Mon […]

Yeah, but the format in which people access music is not going to be exactly as it is now. How do you know that that there Cloud, when it changes to something else, which it will, will automatically store what it […]

It doesn’t really undermine my point.
Whatever the streaming service was he had, he thought it had everything, I asked him to get the first thing in the alphabet, Aardvark (for the spelling more than its artistic […]

They might be now… I’m talking about 2030.
You think they’ll still be there then?

Want specifics?
Outside a pub a couple of years ago… he says “this thing can play anything”… I say “bet it doesn’t”. […]

Jobs for the boys… I reckon an Old Etonian did it.
Now, if only Cameron knew an Old Etonian in high office who could get him out of…

I don’t even know what streaming is! If it’s “Alexa play…”
Ace, as alluded to above, and my favourite label by miles, nowhere to be found.

I’m convinced that Magic FM, any Gold station, and Radio 2, are way a […]

He never overdid the vinly angle either.
Sometimes he’d play records, sometimes CDs.
If Ace, Bear Family or Trojan had put out a quality CD, he’d usually play four tracks from it, plugging it all the way, and […]

So much obscure stuff, I’m rather pleased I don’t take part in it.
Begs the question, what’s obscure?

Ah ha, Pointless.
Yesterday, this was a question:
“On which 1969 Beatles’ album does the song Octopus’s […]

No way! I’ve got a signed publicity postcard somewhere courtesy of a CD win.

I used to win loads of his competitions – he’d do one on most of his shows and the prize was usually a quality CD on Ace – rea […]

Now, to anyone under a certain age it would be like telling them that Newcastle United used to win trophies, but do you remember when Radio 2 was really good?

It used to be rubbish until…
Lamarr suddenly […]

Toast, yeah, but what is this website’s obsession with young people?
Hate to say this but I couldn’t give a shit what young people want.
Wish ‘em well and all that but, er, yeah, don’t want their verdict on Gene […]

Uh?
If the Beatles (in the context of supplying the High Street with a version of a cheap, easily stored, disc, by a famous act the average Joe can play on a system they still own) can’t sell reasonably well, t […]

Really good points (not the being called a bitch bit!).

I really liked John Peel, with all his varying accents, varying classes, and varying football teams.
The idea of him has influenced me more than the actual […]

Fame is smaller than it’s ever been, and the smaller it gets the greater the claims for it become.
Andy Warhol was right.