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...
top of page
My Ridiculous CD Collection
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...
4 views0 comments
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...
4 views0 comments
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...
8 views0 comments
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...
6 views0 comments
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...
2 views0 comments
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...
5 views0 comments
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...
5 views0 comments
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...
3 views0 comments
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...
4 views0 comments
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...
4 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 7, 20232 min read
Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord (2022)
I first heard Richard Dawson on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, when his previous album 2020 was featured and wasn’t sure at first. After...
6 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
This one seems to always appear up at the top of the ‘Top 100 albums ever’ sort of lists, and I’ve even seen it at number one. Yet it...
8 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Various Artists - Deutsche Electronische Musik (2010)
Subtitled Experimental German Rock and Electronic Musik 1972-83, this 2CD set was a (requested) Christmas present about ten years ago....
3 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Frank Zappa - Saarbrücken 1978 (1991)
I was aware of Zappa throughout my youth, and even remember Dancin’ Fool on Radio 1 during university days, but he hadn’t really made an...
3 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Yes - The Yes Album (1971)
In the 1970s, this was what us serious boys listened to, put off Bowie and glam by homophobia (Men wearing make up? They’ll be sporting...
1 view0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
XTC - Go 2 (1978)
XTC were a band I was aware of by 1978 and I first saw them at Sheffield University (3rd Nov 1978, according to the internet) at about...
2 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
The Mighty Wah! - The Maverick Years…And Then Some (2001)
Pete Wylie, self styled ‘part time pop star full time legend’, wrote some great songs and some of them are collected here. Originally...
3 views0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978)
There is a system I’m using to work my way through these CDs, which should have given me Talking Heads’ first album, 77, at this point,...
1 view0 comments
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Discord (1997)
I first became aware of this album about twenty years ago, hearing one of its pieces on Radio 3’s Late Junction, where the late Robert...
3 views0 comments
bottom of page