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My Ridiculous CD Collection
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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Lou Reed – Transformer (1972)
In 1971, David Bowie, a trier with years of flop singles behind him (of 13 single releases, only one, Space Oddity had charted) went to...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
The Quartet – Shattering (2008)
The Quartet are a Canterbury based collective, led by former Wang Chung front man Jack Hues, (fans of Emile Zola will be tittering right...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page – No Quarter (1994)
Led Zeppelin have always been there or thereabout for me. Never a personal favourite, but a band I’m always happy to listen to and...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
William Orbit – Strange Cargo (1987)
As I recall, William Orbit had his 15 minutes of fame in the late 1990s when his version of Barber’s Adagio For Strings was a chart hit,...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
National Health – National Health (1978)
This was a band I’d wanted to hear long before I actually did. Formed in 1975, when Hatfield and the North imploded (just before I’d ever...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists (1992)
I missed the initial hype in the early 1990s about these noisy and angry young chaps, hailing from my wife’s home town, Blackwood, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Lambchop - Is A Woman (2002)
This is, I think, the first one of these I’m listening to for the first time. I picked this up very cheaply in a charity shop, alongside...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
I was slow getting to know King Crimson, despite my teenage appreciation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. They made no impression during the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Joe Jackson - Jumping Jive (1981)
I knew the hit singles and the first two albums, so was intrigued when seeing this album cheap many moons ago. This, in retrospect, seems...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Back in the good old days, dear reader, libraries had books and nothing else in them. Except for the record library at the bottom of...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Steve Hackett – Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975)
If you’d asked me my favourite band in 1975, the answer would almost certainly have been Genesis, my disillusion not really coming until...
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