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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and The Abstract Truth (1961)
What becomes quickly obvious as I trek through the early 1960s is that it's all jazz. The 'golden age of rock'n'roll' never grabbed me,...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 16, 20231 min read
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960)
One of the issues with embarking on a project like this is how to choose what CD comes next. For the next batch (well over 60) I’m going...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 16, 20231 min read
The Young Gods - The Young Gods (1987)
A Swiss industrial rock band, The Young Gods and their bleak uncompromising noise were introduced to me by a friend about 25 years ago....
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 15, 20231 min read
Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
I first became aware of Neil Young when Heart Of Gold was a hit in 1972, then forgot about him until an Old Grey Whistle Test appearance...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 13, 20231 min read
Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear (1970)
Robert Wyatt is an artist who, I feel, I liked before I actually heard much by him. In the 1970s I knew very early stuff like Memories...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Take Me To God (1994)
I had wondered why Glastonbury 1994 made such an impression on me, and on looking it up, it was the first one which was extensively...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
Some days Wire are my favourite band ever. First heard at the height of punk, this album has been with me ever since. The simple...
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steveburnhamuk
Feb 11, 20231 min read
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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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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