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.

While this thread is ongoing, this was another 1969 release, although it charted in 1970 so may be borderline.

Not a hit, but but an interesting psych-pop experiment from 1969 that benefits from EMI studio quality.

Pop perfection: I love the guitar embellishments.

That’s an interesting point. For what it’s worth, I have thought of Coldplay as a Generation X Moody Blues because they have sold a shed load of albums this century while losing any long-term credibility, but thi […]

Of that era, Jesus Jones were the ‘baggy’ group who broke America: they won an MTV award and ‘Right here, Right Now’ was a massive college radio hit, although they have not left a legacy. The Farm were always […]

Early: Pere Ubu, Pavement/Stephen Malkmus

Late: Wilco, Sleater Keaney

Thanks very much for this, Colin H: some of the other good’uns you mention
(Including Traffic, ‘Paper Sun’ and Big Maybelle, “I have the blues” ) are on this link I came across.

I actually like this video; maybe it was supposed to be a medieval dance of death or something for a song about the arms race , but it looks quire fun. Not much to do with Canadian techno-pop though.

A bit 90s, but you may remember this.

On the reissue front, no one mentioned The Pink Floyd yet? ( EDIT: yes, you did! ) Two albums in 69, in the peak of their pastoral pop period. But they put everything in the archive onto the recent (overpriced) […]

I know, I know, what you mean: a subtext of the White Album reissue (including the publicity, the liner notes, and judicious choice of outtake banter) was that everything was really just dandy between the boys […]