Teddy Thompson – Teddy Thompson (2000)
A quid in a charity shop, son of Richard and Linda Thompson, surely there will be something in the genes which deliver a few good tunes?...
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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Aug 32 min read
The Barely Works – Best Of The Barely Works (1995)
One track which I enjoyed on a Cooking Vinyl compilation was all I'd heard of Barely Works when I saw this compilation for a couple of...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 21 min read
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine – 101 Damnations (1990)
Carter USM - a flash in the pan for a couple of years in the 1990s. Likeable rocky little songs, with titles which made you want to...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 21 min read
Everything But The Girl – The Language Of Life (1990)
I'm still looking through those CDs which never made the main shelves, and wondering what they did to justify their relegation upstairs....
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 272 min read
Elvis Costello – Brutal Youth (1994)
Almost certainly picked up in an HMV sale within a year of release, I think it's fair to say that this isn't viewed as one of Costello's...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 261 min read
Lightning Seeds – Jollification (1994)
I go through phases with bands - I get obsessed with their music, play them to death for a bit, then get very bored, very quickly. I did...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 251 min read
Various Artists – And Here Is The Young Man (1998)
This rarely visited album, bought without a case or inserts, almost certainly in a sale of such things in Our Price, is subtitled Martin...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 232 min read
Paul Weller – Days Of Speed (2001)
I'm leaving the CD shelves for a while, and concentrating on the CDs in drawers in the office, which for some reason, never made it...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 161 min read
The Screaming Blue Messiahs – Bikini Red (1987)
A quid in the charity shop and I've already got my wallet out? Why ever not? I did once own a Screaming Blue Messiahs album on vinyl, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 161 min read
Orbital – In Sides (1996)
A real 'while I've got me wallet out' punt, here. I was too old and settled for the electronic dance revolution of the 1990s, I didn't do...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 151 min read
Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (1970)
Another one from the raid on Oxfam in Market Harborough, and it's yet another Neil Young, this time his 1970 'classic' After The Gold...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 152 min read
Richard Hawley – Lady's Bridge (2007)
A trip to the local charity shop unearthed this piece of loveliness from Sheffield's favourite crooner. Of course this meant that several...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 132 min read
The Fall – New Facts Emerge (2017)
The last and the most prized of the Amble Harbour Boot Fair discoveries is the final Fall studio album, released six months before Mark E...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 121 min read
Tangerine Dream – Tyranny Of Beauty (1995)
Another of the Amble Harbour purchases - a couple of quid for a Tangerine Dream album that I hadn't previously heard of. I'm well aware...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 91 min read
Camel – The Snow Goose (1975)
This is another album I was very familiar with at the time, and quite liked without it being a particular favourite. Camel always felt...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 62 min read
Kevin Ayers – Bananamour (1973)
This is an album I knew from the mid/late seventies, and already had on CD, when I was tempted to buy the 5CD collection of early Kevin...
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steveburnhamuk
Jul 42 min read
Barry Adamson – As Above So Below (1998)
This might well have been the last piece of vinyl I bought before deciding that my vinyl collection was going to have to be sacrificed to...
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steveburnhamuk
Jun 242 min read
Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)
After only ever hearing Dancing Fool on th radio during in the 1970s, I discovered Zappa after watching his Does Humor Belong In Music...
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steveburnhamuk
Jun 242 min read
Yes – Close To The Edge (1972)
This is another of those albums that I've probably been listening to for half a century, and am overly-familiar with. I owned the vinyl,...
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steveburnhamuk
Jun 231 min read
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live At The Fillmore East 1970 (2006)
I bought this from a charity shop almost a year ago, and don't think I'd listened to it, until now, As I've mentioned, I have a huge...
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