5 sounds like it’d be that bit in Bohemian Rhapsody

A few favourites of mine

The Orange Juice – Orange Juice (has some great 12” mixes tagged on the end)
Soul Mining – The The (most of the extra tracks still only exist on that format)
The Factory Tape – v […]

My tastes were a bit all over the place in the 90s. I saw these supporting Depeche Mode at the NEC on the Violator tour and they were absolutely brilliant (great album too).

So on a similar sort of vibe, Jon […]

Dave, there’s a reprint of a 1980 Paul Morley review of The Affectionate Punch here where he mentions Station To Station a fair bit. You may well have seen it before

I’ve bought a copy of Grant and Me. Haven’t started it yet

3. My Rock and Roll Friend – Tracey Thorn
Just started this and it’s very good. About her 30 year friendship with Lindy Morrison out of the Go-Betweens. I very much enjoyed Bedsit Disco Queen and first i […]

Pure Shores is great but I liked the follow-up, Black Coffee, even better.
A lovely Saint Etienne sound to it

I don’t own or like anything by them apart from those two singles

I must admit the use of “medaling” on BBC news Olympics reports has been irritating me no end

I’ve got that on the Eno II Vocal, box set

I never knew that.
Glad that I was quite quick off the mark (unusually) getting my copy

In the sleevenotes for She Gets Out The Scrapbook by Furniture (the compilation that came out after they split), it mentions being able to send off to Survival Records for a cassette of tracks that would have been […]

Thanks for that!

And also Martin Newell’s Oddcaste on mixcloud as well

Jim Irvin’s podcast you’re not on the list. People discuss their favourite albums, usually ones that sit outside the “greatest albums” lists.

We Buy Records is also good. Pretty self-explanitary.

Als […]

I put all my stuff on Discogs a few years back in the evenings of a cold (and wet) winter fortnight in New Zealand.
Once you get the bulk of it done it’s quite easy to just keep adding the bits you buy as you b […]

No. I won’t be buying the vinyl, but I’ll look at getting the CD if there’s enough extra stuff that I didn’t have
. I did get I Love My Friends as it had different tracks and also a full CD of songs that never i […]

Looking forward to this. I’ve got a Japanese CD of it called Astronauts+ which has got a bunch of extra tracks on it

Spot on. And well done on the reissue, especially the extra tracks (two of which I didn’t have)

I’m thinking the book shop would have along that strip of shops on Station Road next door to what is now a Wetherspoons. It might well have closed by 1984. Solihull is a difficult one to remember stuff like t […]

I used to go upstairs to the books when I was a little kid.
By the other one, do you mean Discovery Records? I spent tons of my spare time in there as a teenager. And Easy Listening in Acocks Green as well. I […]