Frank Turner – FTHC (2022)
The last one of the recent boot fair purchases (still sealed, £2), Frank Turner is someone I've had strongly recommended I'd only heard...
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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Sep 202 min read
Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning (2011)
So, a quick visit to Oxfam in Market Harborough yesterday, and I happened to stumble across this 2 CD album from 21st century...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 202 min read
Joni Mitchell – Mingus (1979)
Now this was a bargain. Brand new, still sealed, £2 on a market stall. It's Joni's 1979 tribute to jazz legend Charles Mingus, recorded...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 171 min read
Massive Attack – Heligoland (2010)
Another 'quid at the boot fair' acquisition from the weekend. I'd enjoyed Protection and Mezzanine a decade earlier, but subsequent...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 151 min read
John Coltrane – Ascension (1966)
Now this is definitely going to need more than one listen. One of yesterday's boot fair purchases was this 2009 re-release of Coltrane's...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 152 min read
Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs (1977)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 112 min read
Billy Bragg – Back To Basics (1987)
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....
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 101 min read
Harold Budd / Brian Eno – Ambient 2 (The Plateaux Of Mirror) (1980)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 72 min read
Malka Spigel – Rosh Ballata (1993)
Malka Spiegel is a former member os Israeli / Belgian band Minimal Compact, and is married to Wire's Colin Newman, who has co-writing...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 42 min read
Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap (1983)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 32 min read
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1980)
That young scamp, Peter Gabriel caused much hilarity and confusion by naming his first four solo albums Peter Gabriel. This recent EBay...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 12 min read
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Do It Yourself (1979)
After the surprise success of 1977's New Boots And Panties, this follow up was long awaited, and as I remember, receive with mixed...
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steveburnhamuk
Sep 12 min read
Mogwai – Come On Die Young (1999)
In these days of Amazon and everything being available on line, delivered tomorrow, there for streaming and fully documented, an old fart...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 301 min read
Fripp & Eno – Beyond Even (1992 - 2006) (2007)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 292 min read
Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide (1991)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 291 min read
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band– Mirror Man (1971)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 295 min read
INDEX Part Three (S - Z and various)
S Ryuichi Sakamoto - Discord (1997) Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (1971) Santana - Abraxas (1970) Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015) The...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 295 min read
INDEX Part Two (H - R)
H Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975) Half Man Half Biscuit - McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (1991) Half Man Half Biscuit -...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 282 min read
The Style Council – The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (1989)
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...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 272 min read
Gong – You (1974)
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...
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