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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Jan 21, 20231 min read
Tankus The Henge - Tankus The Henge (2013)
Definitely a quid in a charity shop, probably attracted by the name (Tankus, very similar to Tarkus, the first ELP album I heard) and the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 21, 20231 min read
Santana - Abraxus (1970)
Santana completely passed me by in the 1970s. I never did look to USA for musical enlightenment and they were never really cool. Even...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 21, 20231 min read
The Ramones - Ramones (1976)
I’ve always thought the Ramones had more influence through their image and the iconic symbol which is on about ten t-shirts for every...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Penetration - Don't Dictate: The Best Of (1995)
Penetration were a band I was aware of in the punk era, but don't recall hearing much of in the early days. I did once meet a girl from...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II (1992)
I’d loved Tubular Bells in the 1970s until the great punk purge told me to cast aside all the old farts and embrace the new way of...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Bill Nelson - Crimsworth (1995)
I’ve put this on with no idea what to expect. I’ve no recollection of buying it, but suspect it was charity shop / boot fair. I was aware...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Madness - One Step Beyond (1979)
It would have been September 1979, working behind the bar of the Station Hotel in Sheffield, on a quiet Thursday evening, that I popped...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 18, 20231 min read
The La’s - The La’s (1990)
Judging by the state of the CD booklet, this one was a quid at a boot fair, but the CD’s just fine. I’m not sure what I can write about...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 18, 20231 min read
B B King - King Of The Blues Guitar (1990)
“And a blues CD on the Hallmark label, that’s bound to be good”, as said Nigel Blackwell on HMHB’s 24 Hour Garage People. It’s not on the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 16, 20232 min read
The Jam - All Mod Cons (1978)
By autumn 1978 I thought The Jam were also rans. Two average albums with a couple of decent songs on, and a couple of minor hits. I saw...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 11, 20231 min read
I, Ludicrous - 20 Years In Show Business (2007)
In the 1990s, a friend lent me a cassette (ask your grandparents, kids!) with some songs by this South London pair on, and I enjoyed the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
P J Harvey - Songs From The City, Stories From The Sea (2000)
I’d been aware of Polly Harvey since Nick Cave’s The Boatman’s Call album, and her work was recommended by people whose opinion I...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Gang Of Four - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (1990)
I’m surprised to find that this compilation is the only Gang Of Four CD on the shelves, because I had the first two albums on vinyl, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Bill Frisell - Works (1988)
For the first time in this exercise, my picky CD player declines to recognise a CD, so this is being accessed by the magical medium of...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Egg - The Metronomical Society (2007)
I’d known of Egg when at school, as a proto-prog precursor to Hatfield and the North, and knew their Civil Surface album, recorded as a...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (1987)
The current ‘random choice’ mechanism from the shelves is to look for artists who only have one CD representing them on the shelves, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 10, 20231 min read
John Cale - Close Watch: An Introduction to (1999)
I think I picked this up in a sale, just with a feeling that I ought to know Cale’s work far better than just the first Velvet...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 8, 20231 min read
Cannonball Adderley - Money In The Pocket (2005)
No idea where I got this, but I’d have been aware of Adderley through his work with Miles Davis. It’s a live recording of a 1966...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 8, 20231 min read
David Bedford - Great Equatorial (1994)
A quid at a boot fair, I knew of Bedford from his work with Kevin Ayers, Mike Oldfield and his avant-garde classical works on the early...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 7, 20231 min read
Muse - The Resistance (2009)
I don't recall buying this, I suspect it's one of my daughter's that she put out for the charity shop, and I thought I'd give it a...
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