I get there eventually. It took me 35 years to ‘get’ Captain Beefheart.

That’s excellent. As you say, could have easily fitted into “90125”.

No vocal jazz? Gale Moran maybe worth avoiding (she never added anything to Chick Corea, IMHO), but Ella Fitzgerald?

Quite. “Alabama”. And not even Lynyrd Skynyrd. I’ve had an abiding hate of mass-market ‘country’ music for a lifetime, and have no reason to yet eschew this irrational dislike. This, in a country that produced […]

It’s like saying the best restaurant is McDonalds and some Chinese chain as they sell the most food or have the biggest profits. A propos Nigel Molesworth, I diskard such things.

Who would have thought that a bloke who listens to Paper Lace could get a girlfriend, let alone cheat on his wife. “Billy, don’t be a zero”, indeed.

Incidentally, I have just read that Paper Lace has a […]

“We’ve always been into funk and reggae” says unemployed ex-Sociology student from satellite town of large conurbation in a long mac, the top button of his grey shirt done up, as he thumbs through the music papers […]

Bummer: just realised I’m off to see The Rezillos that night.

I have a personal grudge: it was generally a fine album when i enticed hippie nookie back to my secret blacklight bedroom. But “dogfight giggle” led several laydeez to lose their enthusiasm. I resent some of […]

to not know ” A Wizard, A True Star ” is to be able to discover a wonderful album that is through me like Brighton is through a stick of rock. I must have listened to it a thousand times. That and “The Nightfly”. […]

Thanks, Bang; I love a bit of florid flouncing where glam meets pop meets showbiz (see “Aladdin Sane”), and this meets my needs nicely.

a sample for those without time for the whole album yet:

Maybe the snide ‘received wisdom’ comments about Rush from some rock journalists are now seen as the sly mendacity they were. Paul Morley and Barry Miles, oh so cool and hip. Yawn.

I still like him. I can like someone’s art without digging their politics. You have to if you listen to popular music. His song “that’s how people grow up” is a work of wisdom.

I love his look here. He […]

I’m conflicted about Free and Bad Company. I disliked their rock conservatism (I started with glam), the double-denim ‘man of the people’, Players no 6 and a pint of tetleys bitter laddishness thrir fans had. I […]

And when he takes it off and in civvies, he looks like Johnny Vegas.

To be fair, I look like a variant on uncle Monty, so I can say stuff like that.

“The Nightfly” at no 667?

No further questions, m’lud.