For some reason, my dad had Motown Chartbusters Vol. Six – the one with the incredible Roger Dean “space beetle” cover. Nice!

They played “Books are Burning” live on BBC’s “The Late Show” in 1992, but I’m not sue that that really counts…

“No modern jazz to begin with Bird and Diz were tricky men for a drummer to sit in with Max Roach still wears the watch he wore when bop was new Elvin Jones has two and Buddy Rich wears three One on the right […]

“Furlined seats and lettered windscreen Elbow on the windowsill Eight track blazing Brucie Springsteen Bomber jacket, dressed to kill” “Grey Cortina” – Tom Robinson Band Brucie? BRUCIE? Surely nobody has […]

Much earlier in this thread, I listed ten of my favourite pieces of Renaissance music. Now I think it’s time to more forward chronologically and look at the seventeenth century. This is the period before the g […]

I have a huge envelope containing ticket stubs from almost all of the 441 gigs that I’ve been to in my life. One ticket in the envelope is from an Orange Juice gig at the Haçienda, Manchester on 23 March […]

Thumbs-up for the two Phi-Psonics albums. Great band!

“And she said there was no music Before I came along They changed my brain And I made the Beatles appear I made the Beatles appear Out of nowhere” “Beatles” – Kathryn Williams

For those who enjoy Breton harp music, I can recommend “Diriaou”, a newly released live album from 1998 by the Breton harpist Kristen Nogues and the Devonian reedman John Surman. Lovely stuff!

I might have Hergest Ridge instead of Tubular Bells, and I might try to squeeze in Virginia Astley’s “From Gardens Where We Feel Secure” or Vashti Bunyan’s “Just Another Diamond Day” somewhere in the list. But […]

“Birdland on Fifty-Three The street sounds like a symphony We got John Coltrane and ‘A Love Supreme’ Miles says she’s got to be an angel Lady Day got diamond eyes” “Angel of Harlem” – U2

“Harry Truman was our president A coke and burger cost you thirty cents I was still in love with Mavis Brown On the night Hank Williams came to town” “The night Hank Williams came to town” – Johnny Cash & […]

“Ah, the suffering did show in your eyes as we spoke And the gospel music The voice of Mahalia Jackson came through the ether Oh, my common one” “Summertime in England” – Sir Van the Man

And maybe Terry Reid’s “Seed of Memory” or “River” could sneak in there too?

“René and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war” – Paul Simon

Good call!

“Easily losing their evening clothes They dance by the light of the moon To the Penquins The Moonglows The Orioles And The Five Satins The deep, forbidden music They’d been longing for René and Ge […]

Re: “That album swims in a pool of its own” Maybe paddling around at the other end of the pool is Holger Czukay’s “Movies”?

“When they saw you kneeling Crying words that you mean Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs Pretending that you’re Al Green, Al Green” “Goody Two Shoes” – Adam Ant

I’ve actually heard almost no Taylor Swift! I am, however, a Blue Nile fan, and I’d read that Ms Swift had mentioned them in one of her songs…