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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)
I have to confess, Motown Soul isn’t really my chosen genre, but following the rule that good music is good music, and a rave...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
The Fall – Live At The Witch Trials (1979)
I first heard of The Fall about six months before this album – a university friend from Manchester, whose record collection made mine...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Echo and the Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here (1981)
Forty years ago, there was a Sunday market on Folkestone seafront, with a fantastic record stall selling second hand LPs, in seemingly...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (1959)
The whole point of this exercise is to make me listen to CDs on the shelves (and tucked away in the drawers) that rarely attract my...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Cake - Prolonging The Magic (1998)
I first heard Cake a couple of years earlier, when a friend lent me their previous album, Fashion Nugget, which inexplicably I don’t own....
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
“Listen to Belle & Sebastian, you’ll love them” I heard from at least one person whose musical tastes I didn’t quite trust, but the...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story (1989)
A long overdue listen again to Adamson’s 1989 piece, a film score to an imaginary crime story. Dark and atmospheric are the first...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart (2009)
I’ve never got Dylan. Many of my age (and generally slightly older) revere him as a major deity, but I just don’t see (or hear) it. He’s...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20231 min read
Split Enz - The Best Of Split Enz (1993)
I didn’t know much about Split Enz in the 1970s. New Zealanders, strangely dressed and coiffured, possibly like an antipodean Deaf School...
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steveburnhamuk
Jan 1, 20232 min read
Gong - Camembert Electrique (1971)
"Bonsoir. C’est une emission direct de la Planete Gong." Probably about 1974, and I’d been seduced by the overblown prog nonsense of ELP...
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