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My Essential 100 Albums – 7 The Original by Ray Charles
This just has to be in my list of 100 essential albums because it is the first record I ever bought! At 13 I had a Saturday job working in a hardware shop in Stokes Croft in Bristol. At the time Stokes Croft was not the best area in Bristol and the customers seemed to […]
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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 – 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 […]