Scott Walker - Scott (1967)
For many people, Scott Walker's appearance on Later with Jools Holland, singing Rosary, was a wow! moment, and I'm no exception. I knew...
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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Feb 11, 20231 min read
Tom Waits - Closing Time (1973)
I was late discovering Waits. A friend had lent me Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones, but they hadn’t really made an impression and it...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 11, 20231 min read
Richard and Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey (1975)
My first exposure to the Thompsons was via a John Peel show devoted to the Fairport family and associated artists, and I listened to...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 10, 20231 min read
The The - Soul Mining (1983)
In the late 1980s CDs were expensive and it was a commercial proposition for video rental shops (remember them, kids?) to also rent out...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 10, 20231 min read
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees (1984)
I quite liked Japan without going overboard on them, and really rated Sylvian’s collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto on Forbidden Colours,...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972)
Didn’t we all do it? Listen to Radio Luxembourg in bed when we should have been sleeping? So there are some songs which didn’t make it...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine (1968)
With a couple of interruptions I’m trying to go through the earliest album of artists I’ve enjoyed enough to buy multiple albums, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory (1998)
Burt Bacharach died today. He’s a man whose work I’ve respected and admired, rather than loved. So many of his compositions are old...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Rick Wakeman - Journey to The Centre Of The Earth (1974)
Bought for a quid in a charity shop in Norwich, as a nostalgia trip for an LP I owned in my proggiest teenage phase - an LP purchase I...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 8, 20231 min read
The Golden Palominos - The Golden Palominos (1983)
I heard an Arto Lindsay song on Radio 3's Late Junction about 20 years ago, and kept my eyes open for his work. Finding this in a charity...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Jonathan Richman - Radio On: Stop And Shop With The Modern Lovers (1997)
I’ve no recollection where I bought this, a 2CD compilation of the Modern Lovers, but can’t imagine how anyone could see this and leave...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
Throughout the 1970s, Dark Side Of The Moon was the standard all other prog albums were judged by, but I don’t really recall listening to...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 2, 20231 min read
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (1985)
I knew little about the Waterboys other than the hit single The Whole Of The Moon, which always seemed to be playing during a...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Bob Mould - Workbook (1989)
I was lent this album by a friend in the mid 1990s, I’d never heard of Bob Mould, and was only vaguely aware of Husker Du. The album’s...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Kraftwerk, the wilderness years. They’d had the surprise hit with Autobahn in 1974, and it wouldn’t be until 1981 that the rest of the...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Brian Eno - Ambient 1 - Music For Airports (1978)
It’s 1978, and loud guitars thrashing out simplistic beats with angry lyrics are all the rage. So what does Brian Eno, erstwhile...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Half Man Half Biscuit - McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (1991)
After a brief hiatus, HMHB reformed to make this, their third album, with title (and cover photo) taken fro Michael Palin’s Ripping Yarn,...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True (1977)
First year of university, and this was one of those records we sat round and actually listened to. And this geeky looking bloke on the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Julian Cope - Fried (1984)
Julian Cope’s second post Teardrops album, with its cover featuring the artist naked beneath a large turtle shell, might be thought to...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 29, 20231 min read
Rod McKuen - Sings Jacques Brel (1992)
I was introduced to Jacques Brel by Scott Walker (not personally), and was aware that Rod McKuen, American (I thought he was Canadian...
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