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...

I was slow getting to know King Crimson, despite my teenage appreciation of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. They made no impression during the...

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...

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...

If you’d asked me my favourite band in 1975, the answer would almost certainly have been Genesis, my disillusion not really coming until...

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...

I first heard of The Fall about six months before this album – a university friend from Manchester, whose record collection made mine...

Forty years ago, there was a Sunday market on Folkestone seafront, with a fantastic record stall selling second hand LPs, in seemingly...

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...

I first heard Cake a couple of years earlier, when a friend lent me their previous album, Fashion Nugget , which inexplicably I don’t...

“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...

A long overdue listen again to Adamson’s 1989 piece, a film score to an imaginary crime story. Dark and atmospheric are the first...

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...

I didn’t know much about Split Enz in the 1970s. New Zealanders, strangely dressed and coiffured, possibly like an antipodean Deaf School...

"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...