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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Aug 12, 20241 min read
The B-52's – Cosmic Thing (1989)
I didn't know I owned this album and don't remember buying it. It's not really my thing, as my daughter has just informed me with a "Why...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 11, 20242 min read
Siouxsie And The Banshees – The Seven Year Itch Live (2003)
I'm still a little surprised and dismayed that I don't own Siouxsie's fantastic debut, The Scream , and I'm contemplating biting the...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 11, 20242 min read
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin – Selected Tracks (1993)
More Canterbury rabbit-hole here, although neither participant here was from Canterbury. Dave Stewart (not that one) was keyboard wizard...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 10, 20241 min read
The Blue Nile – Hats (1989)
I approached The Blue Nile backwards. Having somehow stumbled across their Peace At Last album, then been moved to buy new their final...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 10, 20242 min read
Oasis – (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Of course, in 1995, this band and album were the saviours of rock and roll. I didn't like Oasis, and I didn't like the Gallaghers. I...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 9, 20242 min read
Gong – Angels Egg (1973)
Another album from my youth, one which I think I bought second hand in the original Probe Records in a basement under Silly Billy's in...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 8, 20242 min read
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call (1997)
This wasn't the first Nick Cave album I'd heard, or bought, but when it arrived, it made an impression like no other had. Possibly the...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 8, 20243 min read
Steve Miller / Lol Coxhill – Miller/Coxhill Coxhill/Miller; "The Story So Far..." "...Oh Really?" (2007)
How far down the Canterbury Sound rabbit hole could I get in my teenage years? Ladies and gentlemen, how about the two Steve Miller / Lol...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 6, 20242 min read
Genesis – Foxtrot (1972)
At the age of 15, this was my favourite album. I couldn't conceive of anything more magical than this, and I treasured my vinyl copy. I...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 5, 20242 min read
Kevin Ayers – Whatevershebringswesing (1971)
After a week or two of looking at the CDs which don't live in the main shelves, I'm numbed by the mediocrity, so I'm looking at a few old...
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steveburnhamuk
Aug 5, 20241 min read
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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steveburnhamuk
Aug 3, 20242 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 2, 20241 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 2, 20241 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 27, 20242 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 26, 20241 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 25, 20241 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 23, 20242 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 16, 20241 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 16, 20241 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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