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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Mar 16, 20231 min read
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
I didn’t go wild for Nirvana at the time. They seemed to personify something of a back to basics approach to rock music, which was...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 16, 20231 min read
Bjork - Debut (1993)
I first heard this album, probably the year after release, on a coach while accompanying a party of sixth form students to Paris, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Sugar - Copper Blue (1992)
I first came across Bob Mould in the mid 1990s and wasn't really aware of Sugar until then. Having heard some solo stuff, a friend lent...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (1991)
I don't remember how I stumbled across Massive Attack, as on paper they certainly wouldn't have been my thing. Possibly after getting...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 14, 20231 min read
They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990)
They Might Be Giants' quirky songs appealed from the first time I heard Birdhouse In Your Soul, and I bought this in a sale quite soon...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 14, 20232 min read
Steve Reich - Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I don’t recall the first time I heard Different Trains, but it made a massive impression. I clearly remember hearing a performance from...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
I'm sure I was aware of the Pixies by the mid 1990s, and had a 'best of' CD (which we'll come to in good time), but in the mid 2000s, I...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 12, 20232 min read
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive (1987)
As previously mentioned, I'd quite liked Japan and was taken by Sylvian's collaboration with Ryuchi Sakamoto on Forbidden Colours. I...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 12, 20232 min read
XTC - Skylarking (1986)
From 1978-1982, XTC were probably my favourite band. I was lucky enough to see them a few times before they stopped doing live gigs, but...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 12, 20232 min read
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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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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