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,...

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...

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...

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...

This incarnation of King Crimson is probably my favourite - the early 1980s, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin lineup....

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...

This is the third album of the trilogy Scott-Heron made after parting company with musical collaborator for most of the 1970s, and the...

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...

Revisiting the Housemartins' second album, bought before Christmas on an EBay raid, didn't fill me with as much expectation as the debut...

Reflections is the second album from the Original Album Classics box set, which Santa brought me, and was heavily drawn from on the...

The next offering is another Zappa mid-seventies album, picked up in a charity shop just before Christmas. Apostrophe(') is doubled up...

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...

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...

Elvis Costello's second album, the first backed by The Attractions (Although not yet billed as such), was a recent internet purchase,...

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...

I always thought that the Housemartins felt like a breath of fresh air after the sometime sneering cynicism of punk, and the preening...

I first heard Scritti on NME's C81 cassette , where The "Sweetest Girl" opened proceedings, and was immediately hooked by the electronic...

This re-issue of the Rezillos first album was an Ebay acquisition last week. I saw the band in their prime in Durham, and it was a great...

Welcome to the 500th review in this blog. I had thought long and hard about which album should mark this milestone, but made my mind up...

This is a jazz purchase on the basis of it being two names I felt I ought to find out more about - US saxophonist Stan Getz, and Canadian...