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My Ridiculous CD Collection
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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steveburnhamuk
Feb 22, 20232 min read
Hawkwind - Space Ritual (1973)
We're at the 100th album already, and Hawkwind's live epic takes this proud slot. I first heard Hawkwind when Silver Machine hit the...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 19, 20231 min read
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
Another musician that I've respected and admired over the years, rather than loved, has been David Bowie. I've spoken before of how the...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 19, 20231 min read
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (1971)
If I have a musical favourite genre, it's the so-called "Canterbury Sound", and Gong, Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt have already...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 19, 20232 min read
The Who - Live At Leeds (1970)
The Who have always been there. I've always respected them, without loving them. I've probably preferred Pete Townshend's solo work to...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20232 min read
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays (1969)
1969 was a busy year for Fairport. They released three albums, arguably their finest three, all excellent, in 1969, this being the first...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20232 min read
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun (1968)
I grew up blissfully unaware of the Doors. Vague references to Jim’s mysterious death in the music press, and they seemed to be more of a...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20231 min read
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
So, by 1967, we’ve got some pop music to listen to. The album that ‘only sold 500 copies but everyone who bought it formed a band’....
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20231 min read
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1966)
I first heard of Wayne Shorter as sax player in Weather Report, when a schoolfriend lent me Heavy Weather. It was only much later that I...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Time for a bona fide jazz classic, an album aficionados always mention alongside Kind Of Blue and Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert. I've had...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Charlie Mingus - Tonight At Noon (1964)
All I knew of Mingus was that he seemed to be revered by a 'Bohemian' crowd. In the famous Penguin Modern Poets - The Mersey Sound...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (1962)
I don't remember the first time I heard Sun Ra, but something kept me coming back for more. Some of it I find completely unlistenable,...
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