No! Nor am I the racist or the Dutch guy who shouts ‘Play more music!”

Not a live album, but a live track on the 1992 Consolidated album “Play More Music”: in fact I can be heard talking to the band on it, which was mortifying when I first heard it, but as no one else did and the […]

Until Damo chips in 2.30, it seems like an instrumental.

An “illusion” is always ( putting me back in all this) “confusion”, although the two are not necessarily the same.

If there is Rentaghost then there is this:

If someone has posted this here before, I am sorry, but here is a musicologist explaining at some length why Rick Wright’s contribution to PF was significant.

I got my copy today and will listen properly over the weekend, but so far it sounds good, and has a Future Days vibe.

FWIW, I think the official albums are marvels of brilliant production, and so do not crave […]

Indeed. I think the switch from the debut ( a rather clean and guitar-heavy new wave record) in March to the dark strangeness of the follow up in October is the great transformation of MES as an artist.

Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, both 1978.

The Fall: Live At The Witch Trials and Dragnet, both 1979.

I maintain that the cream of The Pretty Things late sixties recordings were on the stray singles, or even the knocked-off De Wolfe Library recordings, and not the SF Sorrow album that now gets all the attention.

The Stipe/Mills “Dreams they complicate / complement my life” duet on “Get Up” is good as well.

From the pre-CD 80s, The Electric Prunes, “Long Day’s Flight” and The Seeds, “Evil Hoodoo” are excellent LP distillations of patchy albums and more recent overlong CDs.

Why not add Hearts and Flowers from 1967?

Thanks for the mention @Kaisfatdad. That video of Sendai was from the Yakushido Temple. Hanami has been and gone by now, with very good weather this year but a bit subdued for the Covid: I would share some photos […]

Remember that there is whistling on this?

My favourite Who album, but you have to now buy the full box set to get the bonus tracks (Melancholia, Glow Girl) that were on the standard 1995 reissue, which seems a bit much.

This was their thing

Edwick Rumbold
Toby Twirl
Sam Gopal
The Deviants

Mick’s singing with that London accent he adopts when he is trying to put some distance from the lyric or the situation: its no “Let’s Work”, tbf.

Game of Thrones around season 3: I had enjoyed the outrageous medievalism of season 1, but the relentless cruelty and torture-porn of season 3 wore me down (yes, I do know I am missing the whole point of the saga, […]