My books look completely unread. I hate cracked spines. It makes me wince physically when I see people bend back the covers till they snap. And I always take the dust covers off hardbacks because I don’t want them […]

Tattered Pans? I think I have some of their early singles.

Irony.

Impressive. I’m quite good on first lines from classic novels generally and love to be tested.

I liked the Bond books when I was younger because they were a tantalising peep into the grown up world although I […]

I have a few of these half-mastered albums and they do seem to sound crisper and clearer. Sometimes the albums are split into ‘doubles’ playing on 45 which is a bit annoying because they break up the flow of the […]

I loved the Bond books as a teenager and also loved the films up to, and including, ‘Live and Let Die’. After that I felt they became increasingly tedious and the subsequent actors were just actors. Not Bond. […]

The, ahem, *emotional* approach for Joe came as *effortlessly* to him as crooning in a rocking chair came *effortlessly* to Val Doonican.

I skip through most of it but always watch Joe Cocker. Blew everyone else away. Effortlessly and humbly.

That’s fine. I never argued that the versions on the BOTT box were ’empirically better’- only that I preferred one or two of the previously unissued versions to the ones on the original release. The point I […]

Not sure I agree. I think there are quite a few versions of the tracks from ‘Blood on the Tracks’ on the last set which I actually prefer to the ‘originals’. I certainly have never listened to any previously […]

I’ve long since learned the lesson (from ‘Anthology’) that the best Beatles versions of all of their songs were the ones they actually issued at the time and anything they left on the cutting room floor clearly […]

A backwards version. In mono.

Nice looking box but all of these albums and their respective bonus tracks were initially released six years or so ago.

Yes easily the finest album the Beatles never recorded.

I love it so much I shan’t be buying this. I’ve since learned the lesson that if it wasn’t good enough to be included the first time then there was […]

My favourite Moz retort was in an NME interview when they asked him why he’d taken so long to return to the UK on his original ‘comeback’.

“I have a very demanding cat.”

Yeah, me too. I normally write all my posts in Welsh and press the button. Such a relief not to have to on this occasion.

Da iawn chi Nigel y Moelyn. Gyda llaw, ‘dwi’n bedwar deg wyth ac mae gen i neges arbenning i chi yn eich ebost….

Having Welsh as a first language can actually be incredibly useful in this digital age. I sometimes get odd messages from Welsh speaking FB friends in English. That’s when alarm bells ring. No Welsh speaker would […]

I’ve got all the records I need now thanks.

These lists are great and I agree with most of them up to 1986 or so. Problem for me is that after that I lost all interest in new artists and albums (except new albums by artists I already liked).