Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (1985)
I might have seen Prefab Sprout five years before this album was released, when as a duo they supported The Rezillos in Durham, but I...
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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Mar 11, 20231 min read
The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)
Another recurring theme (apart from 'quid in a charity shop') is that what sounded new and exciting at the time can look quite ordinary...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 10, 20232 min read
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (1983)
I was lent this by a friend in the mid 1990s and was lukewarm about it. I re-discovered Waits about five years later, enjoying those...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 9, 20232 min read
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
On to 1982, and an album that completely passed me by at the time. As previously mentioned, I knew of The Fall, knew the singles but I...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 9, 20232 min read
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (1981)
After Eno worked with Talking Heads, producing Fear Of Music, and before Remain In Light was released, Eno and Byrne snook off down their...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 9, 20232 min read
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
I wasn't planning to do this one for a long time yet, but since today is the album's 50th birthday, it seemed fitting. It's an album I've...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Ash - 1977 (1996)
Ash were one of the Britpop band I heard bits of and quite liked, so picked up the CD when I saw it cheap. For some reason I've barely...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1991)
Country rock / Americana music is not my thing. No sir, not at all. Yet something appealed on hearing Chris Isaak's 1990s hit (for some...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 27, 20231 min read
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 1992: The Love Album (1992)
Carter USM were a band who seemed to appear from nowhere in the early 1990s, and return there just as quickly. This, their no 1 album...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 26, 20232 min read
James - Gold Mother (1990)
My first exposure to James was the Sit Down single, which I always associate with it blaring out late at night from a college summer...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 26, 20231 min read
Various Artists - Colours Are Brighter (2006)
A charity CD compilation of songs for children by established artists, which I'd like to say I bought to help Save The Children, but I...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 26, 20231 min read
Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis (1998)
Still looking through the CD drawers of the 'disappeared', I stumble upon Grant Lee Buffalo. I'm guessing a quid in a charity shop as a...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 26, 20231 min read
June Tabor - An Echo Of Hooves (2003)
A bit of a break from the chronological march through the years, to look at some of the CDs moved to the upstairs drawers when the...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 25, 20231 min read
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (1980)
There was a thriving music scene in Liverpool in the late 1970s based around Eric's Club, a scene I wasn't really aware of and if I had...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 25, 20231 min read
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
So much has been written about Joy Division and Ian Curtis, that I'm not sure I can add anything. I never saw them play, but heard this...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 25, 20231 min read
Magazine - Real Life (1978)
I have no anecdote about first hearing Magazine or this album. It just seems to have always been there, perhaps an influence of...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
It had to be this album for 1977, didn't it? A quid in a charity shop, it had to be done. The first time I heard the Sex Pistols was...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Steve Hillage - L (1976)
I bought this on vinyl at the time. I was already an avid listener to Gong, but I'm not sure I'd made the connection with how much...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 23, 20231 min read
Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
I knew nothing of Patti Smith until Because The Night and I saw her at Reading Festival in 1978. I remember feeling disappointed at the...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 23, 20232 min read
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
By the mid 1980s, I'd rediscovered Robert Wyatt, through his beautiful Shipbuilding single, his song Born Again Cretin on NME's C81...
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