Souly pickups of late. All US originals apart from the JB one which I’m not sure about. (more…)

Have bought a lot of vinyl and sat it next to the record player recently. I’ve played a couple. Such is life.

I was meaning to photograph them all but have so far captured the above quartet. The rest must wait. There’s some gooduns though. Ethio-funk sevens that really need recording onto the computer. Good Jazz and Soul LPs. Real nice.

Kate Bush – “Cloudbusting”

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Much delayed part two. Part one is here. (more…)

I was dreading the task of writing an end-of-decade list. After putting it off for a bit I laboriously compiled a list of about 150 songs that I love from the last ten years. Making the list did bring up some excellent songs I’ve not listened to for ages, so I may do some follow up posts just highlighting some forgotten, unsung or muchsung tracks. We’ll see.

I decided to pare the list down to just ten tracks. I thought it would be impossible, but in reality the ten pretty much picked themselves. I only quibbled slightly on points of “what is my favourite on that album?”. The ten I’ve ended up with has maybe three or four tracks that appear on some of the other lists I’ve read around the internet but still feels comfortably personal as a whole. Without further ado, here it is. Five here, five in part two.
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