I've always been interested to listen to music from around the world, and often find much to enjoy, I've no recollection of buying this...

If you want to listen to swing jazz from the 1940s you could do a lot worse than pick up a Louis Jordan compilation, and given how Jordan...

I was attracted to this album for a quid at a boot fair, as it was released on Peter Gabriel's Real World label, which is generally a...

This one's a bit of a cheat, because I didn't buy it. it came free with a Sunday newspaper that I wouldn't buy, even if there was a...

I did have a bit of a folk-rock phase at one time, and have never lost my affection for the late 60s / early 70s Fairport albums, but I...

About eight years ago, I noticed that Marc Riley had an BBC TV show called All Shook Up, and the current episode featured long time...

Another recent purchase, of an album I had no idea about in 1976, and wouldn't have understood if I had. It's Waits at his most...

Often cited as one of the first jazz-funk albums, this 1973 album by Hancock was one of those picked up in a late night EBay raid (buy...

Lloyd Cole completely passed me by in the 1980s. I'd heard of him but for some reason decided he was one of these pop stars who had...

I had wondered what would be an apt selection for this, the 300th review in this exercise. Then I saw the owner of the excellent Albums...

The Cure were firm favourites during the final years of university. I loved the simplicity of their music, shunning both the...

Beck seems to be one of those artists who sold quite big at the time, but for whom people haven't maintained that affection, hence the...

My long overdue Bowie education continues with the first of his 1977 albums (and the first of his Berlin trilogy). My favourite trivia...

This CD was another recent purchase in an EBay raid (oh, the perils of alcohol and late night internet browsing), and an attempt to catch...

Despite my curious and enquiring musical taste in the 1970s, Krautrock (or Kosmische Musik) completely passed me by. No one in my circle...

Joan As Police Woman is a name I've heard over the past couple of years from people whose opinion I respect, so when I saw this for a...

This is the penultimate King Crimson studio album (assuming there isn't yet another resurrection), where the band is reduced to a...

The whole Iggy / Bowie / Berlin thing completely passed me by in the 1970s and it wasn't until much later (possibly when Lust For Life...

Have I mentioned that I like The Fall? One of the latest purchases is this 1988 album, originally the soundtrack to a Michael Clark...

I was only vaguely aware of Pharoah Sanders, until a friend recommended the album Promises he made with Floating Point shortly before his...