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My Ridiculous CD Collection


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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Jul 16, 20241 min read
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Neil Young – After The Gold Rush (1970)
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...
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Jul 15, 20241 min read
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Richard Hawley – Lady's Bridge (2007)
A trip to the local charity shop unearthed this piece of loveliness from Sheffield's favourite crooner. Of course this meant that several...
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Jul 15, 20242 min read
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The Fall – New Facts Emerge (2017)
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...
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Jul 13, 20242 min read
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Tangerine Dream – Tyranny Of Beauty (1995)
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...
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Jul 12, 20241 min read
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Camel – The Snow Goose (1975)
This is another album I was very familiar with at the time, and quite liked without it being a particular favourite. Camel always felt...
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Jul 9, 20241 min read
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Kevin Ayers – Bananamour (1973)
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...
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Jul 6, 20242 min read
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Barry Adamson – As Above So Below (1998)
This might well have been the last piece of vinyl I bought before deciding that my vinyl collection was going to have to be sacrificed to...
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Jul 4, 20242 min read
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Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)
After only ever hearing Dancing Fool on th radio during in the 1970s, I discovered Zappa after watching his Does Humor Belong In Music...
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Jun 24, 20242 min read
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Yes – Close To The Edge (1972)
This is another of those albums that I've probably been listening to for half a century, and am overly-familiar with. I owned the vinyl,...
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Jun 24, 20242 min read
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live At The Fillmore East 1970 (2006)
I bought this from a charity shop almost a year ago, and don't think I'd listened to it, until now, As I've mentioned, I have a huge...
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Jun 23, 20241 min read
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XTC - Drums And Wires (1979)
The second time I saw XTC was at the Top Rank in Sheffield, soon after this album was released, and it was at this point I think I 'got'...
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Jun 21, 20242 min read
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Robert Wyatt - The Peel Sessions (1989)
A very short one now, possibly I shouldn't even count it. Is it an EP or an album? This is a 1989 CD release of Robert Wyatt's sessions...
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Jun 21, 20241 min read
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Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years (1987)
This one is a recent purchase, filling a gap in my Waits collection. It's often seen as the third in a series which started with...
steveburnhamuk
Jun 3, 20242 min read
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Ben Watt – Fever Dream (2016)
After reviewing Watt's 2014 album Hendra a couple of weeks ago, I had a look online for more Ben Watt product, hoping to pick up his...
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May 31, 20242 min read
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David Bowie – Hunky Dory (1971)
My Bowie education continues with a recent online second hand purchase (I do love curling up with an iPad and Music Magpie after a few...
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May 31, 20242 min read
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Sun Ra & His Solar Myth-Arkestra – Strange Worlds (2005)
The Sun Ra back catalogue is immense, partly due to the lack of control many musicians had of their own music, and Sun Ra's prodigious...
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May 29, 20242 min read
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Nick Lowe – Dig My Mood (1998)
Nick Lowe is clearly a good egg. From 1970s rocker, to go-to producer for Stiff Records - which earned him the nickname Basher ( "bash it...
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May 23, 20241 min read
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Richard And Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
I first heard a couple of tracks from this album on John Peel, probably in about 1976, when he did a 'Fairport and family' special, which...
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May 23, 20242 min read
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Jah Wobble – Heaven & Earth (1996)
The number of Jah Wobble albums I own is easily into double figures, partly due to his prolific output, and also because there often...
steveburnhamuk
May 22, 20242 min read
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