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My Ridiculous CD Collection


Prefab Sprout – The Gunman And Other Stories (2001)
I enjoyed Prefab Sprout in the 1980s and 1990s, but when they disappeared after Jordan: The Comeback , and only returned after seven...
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Sep 27, 20242 min read
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Talking Heads – Remain In Light (1980)
And you may ask yourself, is it time for the fourth Talking Heads album already? This is an album I enjoyed at the time, had on vinyl and...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read
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Frank Turner – FTHC (2022)
The last one of the recent boot fair purchases (still sealed, £2), Frank Turner is someone I've had strongly recommended I'd only heard...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read
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Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning (2011)
So, a quick visit to Oxfam in Market Harborough yesterday, and I happened to stumble across this 2 CD album from 21st century...
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Sep 20, 20242 min read
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Joni Mitchell – Mingus (1979)
Now this was a bargain. Brand new, still sealed, £2 on a market stall. It's Joni's 1979 tribute to jazz legend Charles Mingus, recorded...
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Sep 20, 20242 min read
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Massive Attack – Heligoland (2010)
Another 'quid at the boot fair' acquisition from the weekend. I'd enjoyed Protection and Mezzanine a decade earlier, but subsequent...
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Sep 17, 20241 min read
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John Coltrane – Ascension (1966)
Now this is definitely going to need more than one listen. One of yesterday's boot fair purchases was this 2009 re-release of Coltrane's...
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Sep 15, 20241 min read
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Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs (1977)
The final recent acquisition from scrolling through eBay after a few drinks, and If I'd been looking for a 1977 album, I wouldn't have...
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Sep 15, 20242 min read
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Billy Bragg – Back To Basics (1987)
Earlier in the year, I dragged our Bragg's Brewing Up With Billy Bragg and expressed surprise that I didn't already have this album....
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Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Harold Budd / Brian Eno – Ambient 2 (The Plateaux Of Mirror) (1980)
Once again, this is a recent eBay purchase for a couple of quid. It's the second of Eno's Ambient series, this one a collaboration with...
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Sep 10, 20241 min read
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Malka Spigel – Rosh Ballata (1993)
Malka Spiegel is a former member os Israeli / Belgian band Minimal Compact, and is married to Wire's Colin Newman, who has co-writing...
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Sep 7, 20242 min read
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Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap (1983)
I spent a lot of time in Sheffield in the late 1970s, and was at the university there in 1980-81, just at the time of the Human League...
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Sep 4, 20242 min read
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Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1980)
That young scamp, Peter Gabriel caused much hilarity and confusion by naming his first four solo albums Peter Gabriel. This recent EBay...
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Sep 3, 20242 min read
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Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Do It Yourself (1979)
After the surprise success of 1977's New Boots And Panties, this follow up was long awaited, and as I remember, receive with mixed...
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Sep 1, 20242 min read
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Mogwai – Come On Die Young (1999)
In these days of Amazon and everything being available on line, delivered tomorrow, there for streaming and fully documented, an old fart...
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Sep 1, 20242 min read
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Fripp & Eno – Beyond Even (1992 - 2006) (2007)
Downtempo, experimental and ambient, says the blurb in Discogs, and who am I to argue? No idea where I picked this up, and I don't...
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Aug 30, 20241 min read
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Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide (1991)
I'm cheating a bit by including the image (which, incidentally, Discogs declines to show because it's a bit rude), because my CD version...
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Aug 29, 20242 min read
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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band– Mirror Man (1971)
Another quid at a boot fair (from a mate who was selling a few CDs for a charity stall), and a massive bargain. This is an odd one...
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Aug 29, 20241 min read
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INDEX Part Three (S - Z and various)
S Ryuichi Sakamoto - Discord (1997)  Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (1971)  Santana - Abraxas (1970)  Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015) The...
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Aug 29, 20245 min read
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INDEX Part Two (H - R)
H Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975) Â Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch! (1978) Â Half Man Half Biscuit - McIntyre, Treadmore...
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Aug 29, 20245 min read
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