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My Ridiculous CD Collection


Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
It had to be this album for 1977, didn't it? A quid in a charity shop, it had to be done. The first time I heard the Sex Pistols was...
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Feb 25, 20232 min read
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Steve Hillage - L (1976)
I bought this on vinyl at the time. I was already an avid listener to Gong, but I'm not sure I'd made the connection with how much...
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Feb 24, 20232 min read
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Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
I knew nothing of Patti Smith until Because The Night and I saw her at Reading Festival in 1978. I remember feeling disappointed at the...
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Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)
By the mid 1980s, I'd rediscovered Robert Wyatt, through his beautiful Shipbuilding single, his song Born Again Cretin on NME's C81...
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Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Hawkwind - Space Ritual (1973)
We're at the 100th album already, and Hawkwind's live epic takes this proud slot. I first heard Hawkwind when Silver Machine hit the...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 22, 20232 min read
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David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
Another musician that I've respected and admired over the years, rather than loved, has been David Bowie. I've spoken before of how the...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink (1971)
If I have a musical favourite genre, it's the so-called "Canterbury Sound", and Gong, Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt have already...
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Feb 19, 20231 min read
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The Who - Live At Leeds (1970)
The Who have always been there. I've always respected them, without loving them. I've probably preferred Pete Townshend's solo work to...
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Feb 19, 20232 min read
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Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays (1969)
1969 was a busy year for Fairport. They released three albums, arguably their finest three, all excellent, in 1969, this being the first...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20232 min read
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The Doors - Waiting For The Sun (1968)
I grew up blissfully unaware of the Doors. Vague references to Jim’s mysterious death in the music press, and they seemed to be more of a...
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Feb 18, 20232 min read
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The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
So, by 1967, we’ve got some pop music to listen to. The album that ‘only sold 500 copies but everyone who bought it formed a band’....
steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20231 min read
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Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1966)
I first heard of Wayne Shorter as sax player in Weather Report, when a schoolfriend lent me Heavy Weather. It was only much later that I...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 18, 20231 min read
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
Time for a bona fide jazz classic, an album aficionados always mention alongside Kind Of Blue and Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert. I've had...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Charlie Mingus - Tonight At Noon (1964)
All I knew of Mingus was that he seemed to be revered by a 'Bohemian' crowd. In the famous Penguin Modern Poets - The Mersey Sound...
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Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (1962)
I don't remember the first time I heard Sun Ra, but something kept me coming back for more. Some of it I find completely unlistenable,...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Oliver Nelson - The Blues and The Abstract Truth (1961)
What becomes quickly obvious as I trek through the early 1960s is that it's all jazz. The 'golden age of rock'n'roll' never grabbed me,...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 17, 20231 min read
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Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960)
One of the issues with embarking on a project like this is how to choose what CD comes next. For the next batch (well over 60) I’m going...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 16, 20231 min read
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The Young Gods - The Young Gods (1987)
A Swiss industrial rock band, The Young Gods and their bleak uncompromising noise were introduced to me by a friend about 25 years ago....
steveburnhamuk
Feb 16, 20231 min read
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Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
I first became aware of Neil Young when Heart Of Gold was a hit in 1972, then forgot about him until an Old Grey Whistle Test appearance...
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Feb 15, 20231 min read
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Robert Wyatt - The End Of An Ear (1970)
Robert Wyatt is an artist who, I feel, I liked before I actually heard much by him. In the 1970s I knew very early stuff like Memories...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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