The Tangs (as no one ever called them) were a band that in the 1970s I thought I should like, but at the time seemed too airy-fairy...

Flying Teapot, the first album in the Radio Gnome trilogy was a firm favourite once I’d discovered the bonkers world of Gong in my...

Davis' interpretation of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess was one of the first Davis albums I bought, and is one I haven't listened to as much as...

After the demise of The Teardrop Explodes, Cope returned to the rehab of his home town, Tamworth and wrote most of the songs for this,...

Yet another recent charity shop purchase (we've had some decent donations this week), I thought it was time I looked deeper into Stevie...

This was a recent charity shop purchase, of an album I'd never previously owned, but for some reason know quite well. I saw Focus about...

Currently the most recent Fall CD I own (the aim is, of course, to get them all), this is a recent Ebay purchase. This is the sole outing...

I probably heard this before the first album (but not before the early singles), and confess to being disappointed at the time. Classic...

A firm favourite since university days, I'd forgotten how great this album is. The original vinyl version had twelve songs, mostly less...

Picked up for a couple of quid on EBay last week, I've only just got round to listening to this latest Fall addition to the shelves. And...

Who doesn't enjoy a record company sampler? Thinking back to Virgin's V and Cash Cows, Cherry Red's Pillows & Prayers, and even earlier,...

Time for one from the upstairs drawer now. I don't know what Edwyn Collins has done to deserve being relegated to here, but this 'quid in...

This one is a recent Fathers' Day / birthday gift from son. I saw their 2022 Glastonbury performance and was mightily impressed, which...

A recent online purchase, one of three Fall albums that EBay provided while I was bored earlier in the week. I told my wife that I'd...

As previously mentioned, in the early 2000s I trawled my way through Nick Cave's back catalogue, and I suspect this album, the Bad Seeds'...

My Bowie education continues, with his final album, recorded while knowing he was dying of liver cancer, and released without publicity...

Depeche Mode have always just been there, without really making a massive impression. I quite liked the very early singles, but lost...

Of course I like Peter Gabriel. His era of Genesis was my favourite band as a teenager, and I thoroughly enjoyed his first four eponymous...

I've no idea where I picked up this CD, a compilation of the solo work of drummer Bill Bruford, well known for his stints with Yes and...

This one was a happy find for 50p in a charity shop last week, not something I could leave there. I've already reviewed his anthology...