Yesterday we were watching an episode of The Simpsons where Homer was driving his family home, the car was covered in dust and Marge suggested that they get it washed but Homer chooses to ignore her. Just then Lenny pulls up alongside and suggests that Homer wash his car and Homer swerves into the nearest [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival were one of the many bands that my Dad passed onto me. We had a couple of albums kicking around (Willy & The Poor Boys and maybe Green River) but Cosmo’s Factory is the album that stuck in my head, possibly because of Travelin’ Band and Up Around the Bend, a couple [...]
Deep Purple in Hanwell On his blog Music Arcades, David posts a piece about an album every day, the recordings are selected using a database and a random number generator. “Just dug this one out” was me trying to do something similar but my posts are sporadic and the randomness is the disoganised randomness of [...]
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 I’ve always been most fond of the transitionary era of The Beatles and for many years have proclaimed Rubber Soul and Revolver as my two favourite albums, and that the band’s pinnacle was the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane single. The proclamation would normally have been followed by a dismissive [...]
OK – so this is “digging out” an album that I’ve actually never listened to before. Hazel has had it, I guess since release and I guess because of the Aimee Mann contribution. And of course I’d heard and enjoyed, in a cool but novelty way, Common People. But a whole album of Shatner seemed [...]
I was late to the Go-Betweens party; no sooner had Ken exposed me to their pop beauty than they decided to split up. Grant and Robert both released excellent solo albums and played London within days of each other. First up Grant at the Borderline played a decent and solid set and was joined by [...]
My dad used to volunteer at the local St John’s Ambulance book sales and for a while in the late 70s and early 80s you’d always find a pile of records at these sales that had clearly been donated by some local, music industry insider. Stacks of unplayed promos and, being a St John’s Ambulance [...]
Ken turned me on to Miracle Legion and I picked up a CD of Me & Mr Ray at an indie record shop in Epsom and over the next months filled in a collection. This is probably my favourite though (actually…no…thinking about it now Surprise Surprise Surprise is much, much better) , probably because it [...]
From Our Living Room… I loved From Our Living Room to Yours when I first got hold of it…so much so that I made a web page dedicated to The American Analog Set. In those early days of the Web that was a legitimate way of declaring love…well it was for me anyway I remember [...]
I’ve always claimed Overkill as my favourite Motorhead album, the opneing (title) track is as pure Heavy Metal as it’s possible to be – and it’s a song about listening to Motorhead and the best thing about the band is being immersed in their music so the best Motorhead song has to be about nothing [...]
