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My Ridiculous CD Collection
steveburnhamuk
Apr 20, 20242 min read
The Slits – Cut (1979)
There hadn't been many all-female groups who weren't manufactured pop vocal acts before the "great punk revolution" of the late 1970s,...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 19, 20242 min read
Sigur Rós – Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (2008)
I have a number of Sigur Rós CDs, which I've picked up in charity shops. I don't know why I decided they were a good idea, and after...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 18, 20242 min read
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow - Desperate Straights (1975)
The second half of the 'two albums on one CD', this is one I owned on vinyl (bought second hand from Virgin) in the 1970s, one that no...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 18, 20241 min read
Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon (1974)
Another cheat. I actually own this as a 'two albums on one CD thing' alongside Slapp Happy's collaboration with Henry Cow, Desperate...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 15, 20242 min read
June Tabor & The Oyster Band – Freedom And Rain (1990)
I like June Tabor, I like the Oyster band, so why wouldn't this collaboration be something I enjoy? I saw them do Love Will Tear Us Apart...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 15, 20241 min read
It Hugs Back – The Record Room: First Four Singles (2008)
It Hugs Back came to my attention as the 'day job' of Matthew Simms, who has been guitarist with Wire for the last fourteen years. So,...
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steveburnhamuk
Apr 11, 20241 min read
Dead Kennedys – Bedtime For Democracy (1986)
Another recent purchase. I didn't really need another Dead Kennedys CD, but it looked lonely in the Oxfam Shop. There's no surprises...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 31, 20242 min read
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999)
Nine Inch Nails are the brainchild of Trent Reznor. That was the sum total of my knowledge of the band before buying this at a charity...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 29, 20242 min read
Richard Sinclair – R.S.V.P. (1994)
Despite my teenage (and beyond) love of the so-called 'Canterbury Sound', it was a complete coincidence that I ended up living for 40...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 29, 20242 min read
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Join Hands (1979)
This was the first Banshees album I owned (pretty much as soon as it came out), but I've listened to their first one, The Scream far more...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 29, 20242 min read
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile (2018)
In 1978 it was "God save the Queen, she ain't no human bein'". Forty years on, Sons Of Kemet make a similar statement with more subtlety...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 27, 20242 min read
Steely Dan - Gaucho (1980)
I pretty much got up to speed with all of Steely Dan's albums while at university, yet this, their final album before a 20 year album...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 26, 20242 min read
Silver Apples – Silver Apples (1968)
I had never heard of Silver Apples until this was the featured album on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone. I hadn't heard anything like it, and...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate – World Tour (1998)
I first came across Joe Zawinul in my teens when a friend lent me a Weather Report album, and certainly wasn't aware of his pedigree in...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 23, 20242 min read
The Passage – Pindrop (1980)
OK, I'll fess up. When I bought this cheap on Ebay earlier this month, I thought I was buying their first Cherry Red album Degenerates. I...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 23, 20241 min read
Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015)
I hadn't heard of Sauna Youth until they appeared on Marc Riley's All Shook Up, under the name Monotony, performing the song of the same...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 22, 20242 min read
The Ruts – Something That I Said - The Best Of The Ruts (1995)
The Ruts were just one of the host of second division punk bands around at the end of the 1970s, who churned out a couple of decent...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 20, 20242 min read
Rush – A Farewell To Kings (1977)
At the time I had Rush written off as one of those annoying metal bands from across the Atlantic, loved by people whose hair was longer...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 19, 20242 min read
Lou Reed and John Cale - Songs For Drella (1990)
Cale and Reed hadn't spoken for years until Andy Warhol's memorial service in 1987, but made enough of a connection to want to work...
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steveburnhamuk
Mar 18, 20242 min read
David Rees-Williams Trio – Hidden Colours (2002)
I've never really liked classical music as a genre (yes, I know the term classical music is as broad a term as music). I've never liked...
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