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My 100 Essential Albums – 6 – Transformer, Lou Reed
My first experience of Lou Reed’s music was courtesy of John Peel’s radio show. Late at night on an old Bakelite radio while reading in bed, typical teenager stuff. The first Velvet Underground track I heard was (I think) Heroin, but it could have been White Light. In any event, I was sold. Following the […]
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My Essential 100 Albums – 5 Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Quite simply, this is the best rock album ever. Less simply, it is not really a rock album. It is a bluesy, rocky, multi faceted, arty, album that is difficult to pigeon hole. The only easy description is that it is clearly the work of a genius. By now I think that I have […]
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My Essential 100 Albums – 4 – Music in a Dolls House, Family.
The first album by Family “Music in a Doll’s House” (1968) is a strange and wonderful thing. Roger Chapman is blessed with a distinctive, warbling voice. The band were all talented musicians including Ric Grech on bass and Jim King on sax being the most recognised. Family released this complexly orchestrated album in 1968 and […]
My Essential 100 Albums – number 3 – Horses by Patti Smith
Horses – Patti Smith (1975) This was The and Glorious (to use her official title) Patti Smith’s first album and was released in December 1975. This album rescued me from a life in which I thought that music was dying, if not dead. I was blown away by the power and majesty of what she […]
My Essential 100 Albums – 2 Gone Aint Gone Tim Fite (2006)
It is my quest here to establish those essential 100 CDs that I would save if the house is going up in flames. The first one to be saved is Strictly Personal by Captain Beefheart and His Magic band. That was an easy, easy choice. The second was equally easy. Gone Aint Gone by Tim […]
My Essential 100 Albums – The First One! Captain Beefheart
The idea behind this list is for me to say which 100 albums I will take with me if I was marooned on a desert island or when I have to go to live in an old folks’ home (not that I am anticipating that in the near future). The prospect of paring my CDs […]
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My 100 Essential Albums
My 100 Essential Albums I like Desert Island Disks. For those that do not know this radio show the premiss is very simple. A celebrity is asked to choose just 8 tracks that they would take with them if they were to be marooned on a desert island. Obviously, 8 tracks is a nonsense. That […]
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My Essential 100 Albums
In these days when we are all living longer more and more of us will be faced with be faced with spending our declining years in sheltered housing. It goes without saying that most of our possessions will not be going to the home with us. There is not the room in sheltered housing to […]
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On This Day – “The Beatles Played at My Wedding, Honest!
We all go to local gigs where the band is a group of friends who have just got together for a bit of fun. I am sure that like me you have been to weddings where the band is just making its way in the world. Sometimes the bands are good, moderate, or even downright […]
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On This Day – I’m Not Dead, Honest.
On this day in 1969 Paul McCartney said officially that he was not dead, unless the statement was issued by William Campbell after the surgery. There had been persistent rumours that Paul had died in a car accident and that he had been replaced with a look-a-like called William Campbell. The story begins on 9th […]
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