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...

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...

After only ever hearing Dancing Fool on th radio during in the 1970s, I discovered Zappa after watching his Does Humor Belong In Music...

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,...

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...

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'...