The final recent acquisition from scrolling through eBay after a few drinks, and If I'd been looking for a 1977 album, I wouldn't have...

Earlier in the year, I dragged our Bragg's Brewing Up With Billy Bragg and expressed surprise that I didn't already have this album....

Once again, this is a recent eBay purchase for a couple of quid. It's the second of Eno's Ambient series, this one a collaboration with...

Malka Spiegel is a former member os Israeli / Belgian band Minimal Compact, and is married to Wire's Colin Newman, who has co-writing...

I spent a lot of time in Sheffield in the late 1970s, and was at the university there in 1980-81, just at the time of the Human League...

That young scamp, Peter Gabriel caused much hilarity and confusion by naming his first four solo albums Peter Gabriel. This recent EBay...

After the surprise success of 1977's New Boots And Panties, this follow up was long awaited, and as I remember, receive with mixed...

In these days of Amazon and everything being available on line, delivered tomorrow, there for streaming and fully documented, an old fart...

Downtempo, experimental and ambient, says the blurb in Discogs, and who am I to argue? No idea where I picked this up, and I don't...

I'm cheating a bit by including the image (which, incidentally, Discogs declines to show because it's a bit rude), because my CD version...

Another quid at a boot fair (from a mate who was selling a few CDs for a charity stall), and a massive bargain. This is an odd one...

S Ryuichi Sakamoto - Discord (1997)   Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (1971)   Santana - Abraxas (1970)   Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015) The Screaming Blue Messiahs – Bikini Red (1987) Scritti Politti - Provision (1988) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)   Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1966) Sigor R ó s - Agaetis Byrjum (1999) Sigur Rós – Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (2008) Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968) Richard Sinclair – R.S.V.P.

H Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975)   Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch! (1978)   Half Man Half Biscuit - McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (1991)   Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono (2005) Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI Ambleside (2008) Terry Hall & Mushtaq - The Hour Of Two Lights (2003) Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (1973)   Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island (1994) Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters (2001) Roy Harper - Valentine (1974 ) P J Harvey - Songs From The Ci

A lot of people sneered at and derided Paul Weller's first post-Jam project, but I enjoyed the laid back, jazz influenced band that he...

Time for the third part of the Radio Gnome Trilogy, another album which I've known for almost 50 years. I first bought a copy of this...

This album was my introduction to Richard Dawson, when it was the featured album on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC Radio 6Music. And...

By 1982, were The Clash past their prime? Probably - I'm saving London Calling and Sandanista for later, as their (in my humble opinion)...

Another excursion with the atmospheric (occasionally) film music of former Magazine and Bad Seed member, Barry Adamson. This one doesn't...

PIL's last album before a two decade hiatus was this one which owes more to heavy rock than punk. I'm not sure where I picked the CD up,...

After Steely Dan took a break in 1981, Fagan produced this, his first solo album, using many of the session musicians who had previously...