From the great PSF staple of bands

Porridge (The Movie) is, I think, the one 1970s comedy spin-off that really stands up, because of Ronnie Barker / Fulton Mackay squaring off in the Clement and Le Frenais screenplay. Otherwise, I get […]

Mention above of The Creation reminds me of some vinyl greatest hits that capture a more minor group in a better light than a longer set, especially when they had good sleeve notes.

Electric Prunes- Long Day’s F […]

Tim Buckley’’s Monterey, on Star Sailor, is an anguished and pent-up performance of hurt and frustration until Buckely overreaches himself and lets out a sort of yodel that sounds like a Jimmy Saville imp […]

The Simon and Garfunkel Collection (the one with the photo of them on the beach)
The Kinks, Ultimate Collection.
The Doors, Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine ( the original ‘deep cuts’ collection)

I read that the sixties psychedelic legends The Misunderstood used to perform a long spacerock piece, “The Trip to Inner Space,” at their gigs in 1966- 67 but no one ever recorded it.

On a related issue, the […]

Yep, my first thought of nanopop as well. What could have been…

Primal Scream as well for me, at the UEA on the Screamadelica tour in 990 or so. Hadn’t anticipated what a “maximum rock n’roll” ( ha!) band they aspired to be despite the blissed-out heights of the album.

Annette Peacock, “I’m the One”

and, if you must, ELP, “Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends”

Blur’s Country House was stodgy and crass, although popular, and seemed to epitomize the worst of the Britpop moment.

Massive Attack, Blue Lines; Triphop

My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything; Shoegaze (the previous mini-LPs don’t count)

Ooh er missus, how embarrassing. I meant “blowing” as in the American phrase for vomit “blowing chunks” because, to quote Paul Whitehouse, “I was very, very drunk” at that moment. .Nothing more exciting than that in 1987.

The James Taylor Quartet at the Town and Country Club in 1987: I was new to underage drinking and had too much vodka and Strongbow on route to the venue , and once inside became indisposed. I may have heard them […]

The ‘Boy Child’ album also includes ‘The Plague’, a great b-side that was sadly left off the recent box set.

Years ago, The Word ran an article on US/UK musical differences, and one of the examples was Wal […]

If you like, try the Neues Museum: it’s not so large as to be overwhelming, but you can see wonderful exhibits like the Queen Nefertiti statue and a mysterious Bronze Age headdress made of gold.

The Seeds ‘Raw and Alive’ ( a tricky one as it is a ‘one take live in the studio’ recording, originally with overdubbed crowd noise, but the later, un-dubbed version is great)

Henry Cow, ‘Concerts.’

The Alter […]

Country Joe and the Fish-Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Sonny Sharrock-Black Woman
Television- Marquee Moon
The House of Love (the real debut, not the collected singles)
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted

Good choice, even though I like the first album. I cannot possibly afford the new BBC session box set, but I would like to hear the versions of that single that it contains.

Slowdive with ‘Slowdive’ in 2017 ( assuming they will not record again)

Also ( a long shot this), Pulp’s ‘We Love Life’

I’ve listened to his new album and thought it was enjoyable, but it is a rather sketchy 30-minute dabble in electronica (Malkmus’s “Trans”, if you will) and not really the stuff of a major new tour.