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The Mutton Birds - Envy Of Angels (1996)

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Feb 1, 20242 min read

The Mutton Birds - Envy Of Angels (1996)

I wasn't aware of The Mutton Birds until I say them at WOMAD probably in 1996. A friend had spent some time in New Zealand and had...

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Feb 1, 20241 min read

John Coltrane – Giant Steps (1960)

The final one from the 'Oundle Purchase', and we're on safer ground with the saxophone maestro himself. This album, from 1960, was...

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The Moody Blues – In Search Of The Lost Chord (1968)

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Jan 31, 20241 min read

The Moody Blues – In Search Of The Lost Chord (1968)

It's always the same - you wait 300 reviews for a Moody Blues album, then two come in quick succession. This is another cheap purchase...

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Jan 30, 20242 min read

Portico Quartet – Live / Remix (2013)

Another purchase from last week, as someone in Oundle seems to have decided they don't like Portico Quartet any more, and given their CDs...

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Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)

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Jan 24, 20241 min read

Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)

So, once I had the wallet out in Oundle, I ended up picking up anything that I thought might be of interest, so this for a couple of quid...

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Jan 24, 20241 min read

Runrig – The Cutter & The Clan (1987)

Runrig were a band I'd heard of as a Scottish nationalist rock band, but had never really encountered musically until seeing this cheap...

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The Moody Blues – To Our Children's Children's Children (1969)

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Jan 21, 20242 min read

The Moody Blues – To Our Children's Children's Children (1969)

The Moody Blues have always been there as a sixties thing, but only with a couple of insipid hit singles, excluding the rather good...

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The Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors (1982)

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Jan 20, 20241 min read

The Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors (1982)

The Monochrome Set were just a name in the music papers, and I didn't really hear anything of them until the wonderful Cherry Red Pillows...

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Jan 11, 20242 min read

Phil Miller - Cutting Both Ways (1987)

Down the Canterbury rabbit hole again! Phil Miller was guitarist with Delivery, Hatfield and the North and National Health, where he...

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate (1986)

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Jan 11, 20242 min read

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate (1986)

Still less than a decade after his debut with My Aim Is True, Costello released his 11th (yes, eleventh!) studio album Blood & Chocolate...

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It (1997)

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Jan 10, 20241 min read

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It (1997)

I got this CD out of the library on a whim in the 1990s, and bought it as soon as I saw it reasonably priced. Possibly something of a...

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Pat Metheny with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - Question And Answer (1990)

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Jan 9, 20241 min read

Pat Metheny with Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - Question And Answer (1990)

I'd heard of Pat Metheny as a great guitarist, and was interested in hearing more modern jazz, so on seeing this for a quid in a charity...

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The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Domino Club (1990)

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Jan 8, 20242 min read

The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Domino Club (1990)

The so-called folk-punk genre, arguably invented by the Pogues, had its moment in the mid-eighties, and some great music emerged. Among...

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The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs (1995)

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Jan 8, 20242 min read

The Members - Sound Of The Suburbs (1995)

The Members were one of those punk bands that hit the public consciousness for a year or so, before vanishing back into the ether....

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Robert Fripp – God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (1980)

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Jan 1, 20242 min read

Robert Fripp – God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (1980)

Happy New Year, everyone. The first post of 2024 is the only CD I received for Christmas, a 2022 reissue of Robert Fripp's noodling in...

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Dec 31, 20231 min read

Depeche Mode - Exciter (2001)

Ever since the early singles in the 1980s, Depeche Mode are a band I felt I ought to investigate further, so when a donation of a number...

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Dec 31, 20232 min read

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (1970)

I first heard this album when I was at primary school, and was visiting a friend's house when he put this on, telling me this lot were...

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Dec 30, 20231 min read

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)

This is an album I'd frequently heard snippets and odd songs from, and I was familiar with Chicago, there being enough there to convince...

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Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis (1988)

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Dec 30, 20232 min read

Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis (1988)

This one was a recent charity shop purchase, for not very much at all, but was a firm favourite when first released and I bought it on...

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Dec 23, 20232 min read

The Undertones - The Undertones (1979)

My associations for this album are an afternoon in late 1979 spent visiting Newcastle with a new 'friend'. We'd been seeing one another...

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