I only realised this week that Series 7 of this has already started. On Monday night Johnnie and his great mate David Hepworth discussed The Lexicon Of Love and Welcome To The Pleasuredome, and it seems I’ve missed two more, including one on ELO and the Traveling Wilburys. To The iPlayer! (Next week it’s Suzanne Vega and Joni.)
New series of Johnnie Walker’s Long Players
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Bibbety bobbity boo —>
Thanks – downloading from iPlayer as I type…..
Been listening to these back-to-back.
I’d forgotten how great that Simply Red album sounded. Seems peculiar to me that it was overlooked in that “1001 Albums…” tome. “Picture Book” is pretty good though, I s’pose.
Still totally unmoved/unimpressed by The Verve’s “Urban Hymns”. Miserableist nonsense.
ELO’s “A New World Record” is OK, but never did excite me much and still doesn’t.
Traveling Wilburys Vol.1 is a marvellous record that I somehow missed getting into my collection. I must rectify that omission.
ABC’s “A Lexicon Of Love” was an absolute marvel of a record at the time, which I bought and played over and over, but I have an aversion to playing it these days. This show made me realise why. It’s that horrible airbrushed drum sound. They don’t sound anything like real drums like you might actually hear.
I can appreciate the way the whole album has been polished to gleaming perfection by Trevor Horn in all other respects, but he went too far with the drums and now they offend my ears too much for me to play it.
Currently listening to Walker & Heppo’s take on FGTH’s “Welcome To The Pleasuredome”. This is a Trevor Horn production too, but I’ve never had any problems with what he did here.
While we’re tuned to Radio 2, I noticed in the latest e-missive from Gretchen Peters’ mailinglist that Radio 2 re-ran her “Sad Songs Make Me Happy” DJ spot earlier tonight.
I missed it, of course, but thanks to the miracle of iPlayer Radio, here it is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h0myb
Reminder: Joni and Suzanne tonight at 10pm.