The Ukrainians were formed by the Wedding Present’s guitarist, Peter Solowka. I remember enjoying the Wedding Present’s John Peel...

Definitely a quid in a charity shop, probably attracted by the name (Tankus, very similar to Tarkus , the first ELP album I heard) and...

Santana completely passed me by in the 1970s. I never did look to USA for musical enlightenment and they were never really cool. Even...

I’ve always thought the Ramones had more influence through their image and the iconic symbol which is on about ten t-shirts for every...

Penetration were a band I was aware of in the punk era, but don't recall hearing much of in the early days. I did once meet a girl from...

I’d loved Tubular Bells in the 1970s until the great punk purge told me to cast aside all the old farts and embrace the new way of...

I’ve put this on with no idea what to expect. I’ve no recollection of buying it, but suspect it was charity shop / boot fair. I was aware...

It would have been September 1979, working behind the bar of the Station Hotel in Sheffield, on a quiet Thursday evening, that I popped...

Judging by the state of the CD booklet, this one was a quid at a boot fair, but the CD’s just fine. I’m not sure what I can write about...

“And a blues CD on the Hallmark label, that’s bound to be good”, as said Nigel Blackwell on HMHB’s 24 Hour Garage People. It’s not on the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The current ‘random choice’ mechanism from the shelves is to look for artists who only have one CD representing them on the shelves, and...

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...

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...

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...