A 3CD set of Canterbury Sound music for a fiver in the HMV sale? A quick look, and I don't have it all, so let's give it a go. The...

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...

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...

More Canterbury rabbit-hole here, although neither participant here was from Canterbury. Dave Stewart (not that one) was keyboard wizard...

I approached The Blue Nile backwards. Having somehow stumbled across their Peace At Last album, then been moved to buy new their final...

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...

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...

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...