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what have you been listening to

I’m about to move so have most of my CD’s packed away. I am left with two to listen to – The Best of the Kinks 1966-67 – comfort listening – a cheapo Pickwick compilation CD, […]

have been watching

watched ‘normal people’ with the girlfriend who loved it. i thought it was pretty good but possibly dragged out a bit – it could have been cut by a third. the tv production was in my opinion […]

Just outside the top 10 with Katy Lied. An issue with some of my favourite artists – Van Morrison, Neil Young is that one album doesn’t particularly stand out above the rest of their output to be included.

I […]

Top ten in no order (hence chronological
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
And Nico – Velvet Underground
Hejira – Joni Mitchell
Low – David Bowie
The Clash – The Clash
Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
Another Music in a […]

No I haven’t. But I once spent 2 hours on a blazing hot 30c + summer afternoon in a closed provincial library reading the whole of Jeff aka Stinky Turner’s autobiography ‘Cockney Reject’ Foreword by Morrisey, […]

Thanks for the interest guys and some good points raised.

To challenge my own theory slightly I’m surprised no-one mentioned XTC. Andy Partridge has recently said that he believes that they are the only band […]

Thanks for all your entries guys. I’m afraid that they and my subsequent musings have lead me to the following conclusions.

1 – That there are very few or none late classic albums released by the school of 77 […]

Although initially disappointed when I bought Positive Touch at the age of 17, I now think it’s their classic. I was one of the deserters, so I never heard Sin of Pride in its entirety, just the odd track […]

Something to read

Knocked off a couple of books by Mark beaumont about two long distance cycle rides. Cycle touring is my thing – I had to abandon a planned trip at the end of March (Carlisle back to base in […]

thanks for this. i may well check it out

I’ve already read that a while back. On the subject of books about music has anyone read mark sinkers A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press – and is it any good – not […]

reading –
in their own write – adventures in the music press – paul gorman
published in 2001 – vox pop straight from the journos’ mouth of the 60’s us fanzine origins, 70’s golden age nme/melody maker, 80s smash […]

Sorry I appear to have inadvertantly pressed post comment whilst in the middle of this post. I have been re-editing and adding to this and have now been timed out so have lost the remainder of post.
I will come […]

Gigs:
Start of the month – got in two gigs. Porridge Radio doing a Sunday evening 7.30 pm short gig/signing at Rough Trade. They are good but not as good as their frontwoman thinks they are. The schtick is […]

As far as memory recalls, the best gig I have seen by a band/artist with that letter
Air
birthday Party
Leonard Cohen
Damned
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fallen Women (better live than the Fall in my opinion)
Gun […]

From 1972 listening to the Tuesday Chart run down was my introduction to Johnny Walker and stayed listening to him during 74 75 when he used to get readers to send in with their favourite songs by certain artists […]

hi

music nerd-dom 1971 – 1977
born january 1964
random memories of hearing tunes as a toddler on what may have been radio 2 – guantamera by the sand pipers and morningtown ride still give me warm comfortig […]

Hi

I have a dodgy keyboard on my laptop so sometimes can’t access the Z and so resorted to a C to convey the but I would draw your attention to a contemporaneous Strawbs b-side – Ciggy Barlust and the Whales […]