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My Ridiculous CD Collection


Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Damon Gough's debut under the moniker Badly Drawn Boy was the surprise winner of the mercury Music Prize in 2000, and I bought the CD at...
steveburnhamuk
Feb 42 min read
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Associates – Double Hipness (2000)
I bought this album many moons ago, in a sale in a short lived Fopp outlet in Canterbury, and I don't recall ever listening to it. It...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 282 min read
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King Crimson - Beat (1982)
This incarnation of King Crimson is probably my favourite - the early 1980s, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin lineup....
steveburnhamuk
Jan 252 min read
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Bruford – Feels Good To Me (1978)
It's 1978, and for the most part, as a first year student I'm very punk resistant, still preferring the more cerebral challenge of the...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 223 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Moving Target (1982)
This is the third album of the trilogy Scott-Heron made after parting company with musical collaborator for most of the 1970s, and the...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 221 min read
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Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation (1973)
The second part of this 'two albums on one CD re-issue' by Zappa is 1973's Overnite Sensation, bought in a charity shop just before...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 181 min read
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The Housemartins – The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (1987)
Revisiting the Housemartins' second album, bought before Christmas on an EBay raid, didn't fill me with as much expectation as the debut...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 132 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Reflections (1981)
Reflections is the second album from the Original Album Classics box set, which Santa brought me, and was heavily drawn from on the...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 102 min read
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Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (') (1974)
The next offering is another Zappa mid-seventies album, picked up in a charity shop just before Christmas. Apostrophe(') is doubled up...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 102 min read
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John Cooper Clarke – Snap, Crackle & Bop (1980)
I was an early fan of John Cooper Clarke, having heard and liked Disguise In Love a couple of years earlier, and bought the 10" clear...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 12 min read
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Gil Scott-Heron – Real Eyes (1980)
Santa's one contribution to my CD collection this year was a three album compilation of Gil Scott-Heron's early 1980s CDs, made after...
steveburnhamuk
Jan 12 min read
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Elvis Costello – This Year's Model (1978)
Elvis Costello's second album, the first backed by The Attractions (Although not yet billed as such), was a recent internet purchase,...
steveburnhamuk
Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention – One Size Fits All (1975)
Frank Zappa - such a flawed visionary. A man seemingly so convinced of his own rightness that it's never clear how much of his humour is...
steveburnhamuk
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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The Housemartins – London 0 Hull 4 (1986)
I always thought that the Housemartins felt like a breath of fresh air after the sometime sneering cynicism of punk, and the preening...
steveburnhamuk
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Scritti Politti – Provision (1988)
I first heard Scritti on NME's C81 cassette , where The "Sweetest Girl" opened proceedings, and was immediately hooked by the electronic...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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The Rezillos – Can't Stand The Rezillos (1978)
This re-issue of the Rezillos first album was an Ebay acquisition last week. I saw the band in their prime in Durham, and it was a great...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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The Jam – Setting Sons (1979)
Welcome to the 500th review in this blog. I had thought long and hard about which album should mark this milestone, but made my mind up...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 22, 20243 min read
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Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio – Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio (1957)
This is a jazz purchase on the basis of it being two names I felt I ought to find out more about - US saxophonist Stan Getz, and Canadian...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 19, 20241 min read
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The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop – Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
This 1956 album is the earliest one in a box set I bought of Mingus albums, and which I only listen to rarely. I'm no expert in matters...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 14, 20241 min read
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Jane Weaver – Flock (2021)
I've enjoyed Jane Weaver's music since stumbling across her performance on Marc Riley's All Shook Up show a few years back, and have...
steveburnhamuk
Nov 13, 20242 min read
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