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My Ridiculous CD Collection


Steve Hackett – Please Don't Touch! (1978)
This is the second album of Hackett's from Universal's Five Classic Albums set, picked up cheap at a boot fair, and probably the one I'm...
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Feb 162 min read
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Gomez – Liquid Skin (1999)
This was Gomez's second album, and their highest chart placing, making No 2 in the album charts. I bought it on release, after being...
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Feb 122 min read
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Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking (1969)
1969 was a hell of a year for Fairport Convention. They released three albums, over the course of which they morphed from a country-rock...
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Feb 112 min read
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Soft Machine – Volume Two (1969)
Mike Ratledge, the final founding member of Soft Machine to leave the band, died this week, so we might have a couple of Softs albums in...
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Feb 72 min read
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Brian Eno – Music For Films (1978)
I've been listening to a lot of Eno and other ambient music recently. Four weeks ago, I had knee replacement surgery, and sleep has been...
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Feb 51 min read
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Miles Davis – Milestones (1958)
Picked up for a decent price in an HMV sale some years ago, this is a recording from one of Davis' 1950s sextets consisting of himself,...
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Feb 52 min read
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Kicking Against The Pricks (1986)
Nick Cave's covers album from 1986 features an eclectic selection and Cave himself has suggested it's the album where the Bad Seed really...
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Feb 42 min read
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Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Damon Gough's debut under the moniker Badly Drawn Boy was the surprise winner of the mercury Music Prize in 2000, and I bought the CD at...
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Feb 42 min read
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Associates – Double Hipness (2000)
I bought this album many moons ago, in a sale in a short lived Fopp outlet in Canterbury, and I don't recall ever listening to it. It...
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Jan 282 min read
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King Crimson - Beat (1982)
This incarnation of King Crimson is probably my favourite - the early 1980s, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin lineup....
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Jan 252 min read
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Bruford – Feels Good To Me (1978)
It's 1978, and for the most part, as a first year student I'm very punk resistant, still preferring the more cerebral challenge of the...
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Jan 223 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Moving Target (1982)
This is the third album of the trilogy Scott-Heron made after parting company with musical collaborator for most of the 1970s, and the...
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Jan 221 min read
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Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation (1973)
The second part of this 'two albums on one CD re-issue' by Zappa is 1973's Overnite Sensation, bought in a charity shop just before...
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Jan 181 min read
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The Housemartins – The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)
Revisiting the Housemartins' second album, bought before Christmas on an EBay raid, didn't fill me with as much expectation as the debut...
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Jan 132 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Reflections (1981)
Reflections is the second album from the Original Album Classics box set, which Santa brought me, and was heavily drawn from on the...
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Jan 102 min read
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Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (') (1974)
The next offering is another Zappa mid-seventies album, picked up in a charity shop just before Christmas. Apostrophe(') is doubled up...
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Jan 102 min read
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John Cooper Clarke – Snap, Crackle & Bop (1980)
I was an early fan of John Cooper Clarke, having heard and liked Disguise In Love a couple of years earlier, and bought the 10" clear...
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Jan 12 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Real Eyes (1980)
Santa's one contribution to my CD collection this year was a three album compilation of Gil Scott-Heron's early 1980s CDs, made after...
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Jan 12 min read
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Elvis Costello – This Year's Model (1978)
Elvis Costello's second album, the first backed by The Attractions (Although not yet billed as such), was a recent internet purchase,...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention – One Size Fits All (1975)
Frank Zappa - such a flawed visionary. A man seemingly so convinced of his own rightness that it's never clear how much of his humour is...
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Dec 11, 20242 min read
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