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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

I'm still looking through those CDs which never made the main shelves, and wondering what they did to justify their relegation upstairs....

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...

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...

This rarely visited album, bought without a case or inserts, almost certainly in a sale of such things in Our Price, is subtitled Martin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A trip to the local charity shop unearthed this piece of loveliness from Sheffield's favourite crooner. Of course this meant that several...

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...

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...

This is another album I was very familiar with at the time, and quite liked without it being a particular favourite. Camel always felt...

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...