I received the CD version via Bandcanp, around November time I think. It sounded ok, but was clearly a CD rom, and the packaging was somewhat sparse. I noticed the more of the band’s music appeared on Spotify at t […]

Can’t recommend Seed Of Memory and River highly enough.

Trout Mask Replica — probably not an album anyone can have a casual relationship with. You really have to work at it but when/if it clicks, it becomes essential. First time I heard it, I thought, “What is this s […]

Happy.

I’m starting to think the Stones are approaching this whole superdeluxe/deluxe edition thing wrong. Most of the studio outtakes are pretty disposable, especially the ones that have been finished off or tarted up […]

Ah, those were different times. There’s a notorious Guy Peellaert illustration (Diamond Dogs/It’s Only Rock n Roll etc) of the Stones dressed as SS officers, drinking tea with some naked children. Mind boggling, really.

Required reading for anyone who isn’t taking the rise of Reform (and populists everywhere) seriously, or who thinks migrants are just coming across the sea on a jolly.

First non-compilation Stones album I ever bought, in the summer of 1977 I think (a little late, I know, but I had to save up for it). Still think “Memory Motel” is a masterpiece and I seem to be one of the few […]

SEEN: One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterpiece, a tremendous, counter-cultural action movie and strangely prescient, given it was completed before Trump’s re-election. Also, Katherine B […]

Enlarged prostate — confirmed following a doctor’s finger up the back passage (the procedure itself made me feel old).

Bill Fay. Waited 40 years to release his third studio album proper, then followed it with a couple more — all excellent IMHO.

Think there was a 90s experimental/hardcore band called Bum Gravy. Nice.

I’m liking Midget Handjob.

I’ve been listening to my CDs of the deluxe edition. Delighted with the sound of the remastered original album — The Rad Gumbo box version I had previously was unaccountably poor, noticeably duff compared with t […]

Still think his storming rendition of “Cypress Avenue” that closes the original It’s Too Late to Stop Now live album is hard to beat. Also really like the live “Rave On John Donne/Rave On Part Two” on Live At […]

Groundhogs Popular: Split Connoisseur: Who Will Save The World

Think I’d invert the Buzzcocks

Lou Reed Popular: Transformer Connoisseur: Berlin

Not extensively but do like P=A a lot, and their early stuff (saw them in London in 1983, on the back of buying a 10”EP that included “The Unguarded Moment”)

Perhaps Boces is more a hipster than connoisseur choice