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  First night of the two day festival. Featuring The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Subway Sect, Suzie (spelling on the poster), And The Bansh...

  Nothing worse to the devoted record collector than those that are lost without trace. One of my early albums was OMD's Dazzle Shi...

  The song title feels apt for today. It's gloomy and wet outside my window though it's still early doors. This is from Buffalo...

  Born this day.

One of The B52s earliest and finest moments. I assume it's a tribute to the wonderfulness of the American woman. Fair enough! I caugh...

Jeff Tweedy makes the case, very eloquently, for the album, for vinyl and for producing art that says something rather than just wanting to ...

  The Scots say no to Independence. Perhaps The Ramones 'We're a Happy Family' is the thing to post. Instead, it seems tim...

  Hendrix died this day.

  One of the main reasons for this blog, one of the main revitalisers of my love for vinyl has been an event called The Record Player ...

  An incredibly momentous day. Scottish Independence Polling Day. It could be the end of a 400 year union. Despite the seriousness of i...

17/09/14 £10.00 Third Eye Record Stall, Canterbury   When you've got a reasonably sized record collection like I have, going seco...

  Lead singer of the MC5 died this day in 1991.

  A good friend, fellow battler through life and music com padre who roomed next to me in my first year at university, posted this else...

  Released this day.

A Guardian article . The Byrds and one of their greatest song. The telling of how they came to write it is almost Spinal Tap-ish. Another ut...

  U2 are all over the news right now. If you have an iTunes account, they left a free new album in it the other day. This may or may no...

  Best named politician ever (US Vice President at the time),made himself a hero by stating that the youth of America were being "...

  Time for another spurious series. From their wonderful first album. The rest of the song's not bad either.

  A great, concise, singer-songwriter. Possibly not really a song just about biscuits.

  Author of perhaps the best hip hop debut album. Born this day.

  From a Seventies BBC series called The Innes Book of Records by Neil Innes of The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and friend of the B...

  On the recommendation of Lester Bangs. B Side to 1966's  Anyway That You Want Me.

  Geffen, Nirvana's record label, threw a party to celebrate the release of this, on of genuinely few records to be able to claim t...

  I'm at the stage where bands can be together for several years, put out a number of records before I catch up to them. Such is th...

  Smithereens songwriter and lead singer. Born this day.

  More medicine but this is just wonderful! Two piece group signed to John Peel's Dandelion Record Label who had a Number 11 hit w...

  Over the year and a bit of this blog it has transmuted from an album review blog to daily postings and spurious, themed series. Still...

  Later covered by The New York Dolls but I think this shades it.

  Yes, I know I'm stretching the 'animals' thing. The original of this song, later covered by Tim Buckley by a Greenwich Vi...

  Ray Charles began recording sessions for Atlantic Records. First single Mess Around came out the next year.

   

  Well, Hiphopopotamus! This deserves a post anyway.    

  Could be pretty much anything from 1982's Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty record. Evergreen Dazed, I Worship the Sun, Fortune, T...

Born this day.

  For my university mate Andy. Memories of those times.    

  Great Post Punk from Glasgow band more than ten years back now. Their only studio album Any Other City is highly recommended.

Second song, first slide was a wonderful thing on important albums in the early Eighties. They were all literary. And all remarkable! 1...

  They performed this on this day in 1968 on Frost on Sunday in front of an invited audience.

  From the very talented Beach House. This reminds me a little of a cheerier outtake from Big Star's Third Album. It's really h...