I bought this when it was released ( a rare full price purchase) but I haven't really listened to this album by former Talking Heads'...

Obviously, I know the hits, and it seems The Byrds wrote the template for jangly guitar and harmonies in US country/folk rock. Paying a...

The CD’s already in the drawer (it’s on the same disc as Another Music In A Different Kitchen) so let’s push on with Love Bites,...

In the days when artists can agonise for years over their works, it’s refreshing to return to an era when two albums in a year were...

“She stayed with me until she moved to Notting Hill She said it was the place she had to be, Where the cocaine is Fair Trade and...

I came to Tim Buckley via his son Jeff. His work had always been there, but I’d dismissed him as just another American singer-songwriter...

Jeff Buckley died before I'd ever heard him. I got his posthumous album Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk out of the record library,...

Erstwhile drummer with Yes and King Crimson, my interest in Bruford's solo work was awoken about ten years earlier, when he released his...

This is one of the best known and most iconic jazz albums of the bebop era, and a personal favourite. I seem to have always owned this CD...

I've long been a big fan of Jarrett's Köln Concert album, so thought I'd try this album he did with Scandinavian trio Jan Garbarek (sax),...

Teenage Fanclub completely passed me by. I don't recall ever hearing them in the past 30 years, but I'd heard enough about them to...

I'd really enjoyed Scott Walker's album of Brel songs, and we've already visited Rod McKuen's album of translations. This French...

For many, the reaction to a Brand X double CD might be "kill me now", and if I'm honest, I'm not relishing this one. But part of the...

Late 1990s Britpop wars and you had to choose your side. Oasis v Blur. North v South. Working class lads v Middle class ponces. Authentic...

Long ago, a friend lent me the A Week In The Real World compilation, following a request for a selection of African music. What actually...

I think I first heard the Blind Boys Of Alabama on a Real World compilation and really enjoyed what I heard, despite having had no...

I knew Frank Black as Black Francis in The Pixies, so this CD was obviously worth a punt for a quid in a charity shop. I don't recall yet...

I was completely unaware of The Birthday Party while they existed, and only investigated on discovering Nick Cave several years later....

I really don't remember what made me buy this album, my first exposure to The Blue Nile, but it made an instant impression. I went on to...

Obviously, I knew Hi Ho Silver Lining, but was there more to Jeff Beck than that? For years I'd had a cassette with a track of Beck and...