I had wondered what would be an apt selection for this, the 300th review in this exercise. Then I saw the owner of the excellent Albums...

The Cure were firm favourites during the final years of university. I loved the simplicity of their music, shunning both the...

Beck seems to be one of those artists who sold quite big at the time, but for whom people haven't maintained that affection, hence the...

My long overdue Bowie education continues with the first of his 1977 albums (and the first of his Berlin trilogy). My favourite trivia...

This CD was another recent purchase in an EBay raid (oh, the perils of alcohol and late night internet browsing), and an attempt to catch...

Despite my curious and enquiring musical taste in the 1970s, Krautrock (or Kosmische Musik) completely passed me by. No one in my circle...

Joan As Police Woman is a name I've heard over the past couple of years from people whose opinion I respect, so when I saw this for a...

This is the penultimate King Crimson studio album (assuming there isn't yet another resurrection), where the band is reduced to a...

The whole Iggy / Bowie / Berlin thing completely passed me by in the 1970s and it wasn't until much later (possibly when Lust For Life...

Have I mentioned that I like The Fall? One of the latest purchases is this 1988 album, originally the soundtrack to a Michael Clark...

I was only vaguely aware of Pharoah Sanders, until a friend recommended the album Promises he made with Floating Point shortly before his...

A recent purchase from a charity shop, I was expecting far more noise and experiment than tunes from Pere Ubu's 'rock opera', even with...

The outcome of this review is a foregone conclusion. I borrowed this album from Deal Library when it was released, and a friend who had...

This is another recent purchase - I seem to be buying these quicker than I can review them. This is an album I heard and enjoyed at the...

After a hectic fortnight, it's back to these reviews. The Wedding Present are another band of whom I was aware at the time, but didn’t...

Wishbone Ash were one of a number of rock bands from the 1970s, obviously popular, frequently mentioned in the music press yet neither I...

My only reference to Riley from the 1970s was reading that Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells had been influenced by this album. However, in...

I've recently been listening to a lot of podcasts from Martyn Ware (Human League and Heaven 17), and he's mentioned Richard Hawley a few...

This is an album I heard frequently during my teenage years, yet many felt it wasn't a 'proper Pink Floyd album', being a film soundtrack...

The Tangs (as no one ever called them) were a band that in the 1970s I thought I should like, but at the time seemed too airy-fairy...