Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Add. #3

CD#477  Lambchop - Aw Cmon (is what the CD case says, it turns out the CD inside is actually No You Cmon which was released at the same time)

Nothing breathtaking but nice, though my favourite of my three recent purchases is:

CD#478 Lambchop - What Another Man Spills

Again quite understated but tuneful and beautifully played.

CD#479 Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made

One of their later albums and quite dull and unremarkable - someone will no doubt tell me the early stuff is better - for some reason they have completely passed me by, though if everything they've done is like this I haven't missed much.

Friday, 26 August 2016

Add. #2

Another trip to Exmouth, six more to listen to: 

CD#471 Clare Teal - The Road Less Travelled

Not what I thought it was going to be at all. As it came from the Folk section I was expecting something at least folk-ish, but it turned out to be "easy-listening jazz". She has a fine voice and a bass player who's not afraid to play lots of notes, but it struggled to fill me with joy.

CD#472 Tom Waits - Alice

Tom Waits doing what Tom Waits does, I liked it but I'm not sure I will be buying everything else he's ever done.

CD#473 Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon

This was dreary and dull. 

CD#474 Aimee Mann - Lost In Space

I like this a lot, I'd forgotten about Aimee for a while until I re-listened to an MP3 album of hers and bought this as a consequence.

CD#475 Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

I couldn't remember what I made of the previous Iron & Wine album (Day 81) I bought when I picked this up but it's not bad if nothing special.

CD#476 Teddy Thompson - A Piece Of What You Need

I bought this because it has my favourite of the few Teddy Thompson songs I've heard on it - Don't Know What I Was Thinking - there are some other good tunes on here too.

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Addendum #1

Four more purchases from Exmouth Market, I'll add details once I've listened to them properly, i.e. not in the car.

CD#467 Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock

Reviews of this could best be described as variable, to me it's fairly light-weight Americana and better heard on the stereo than in the car. Neither awful nor spectacular.

CD#468 Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls

A mighty debut album, written, recorded and paid for by themselves before they signed to a label. 

CD#469 The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall

This is their third studio album, first major label release and often considered their best.

CD#470 Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

There are some good things about this, their second studio album, but it's a bit hit and miss as far as my tastes go.

Thursday, 30 June 2016

Complete list

Day 1
CD#1 Kris Delmhorst - Songs For A Hurricane
CD#2 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming.
CD#3 Lo-fi Lung - Heading for Those Trees/ Sit Down For A Day
CD#4 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
CD#5 Jonatha Brooke - The Works

Day 2
CD#6 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
CD#7 Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
CD#8 Meshell Ndegéocello - Bitter
CD#9 Boo Hewerdine - Harmonograph

Day 3
CD#10 Robyn Hitchcock - Olé! Tarantula
CD#11 The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
CD#12 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
CD#13 Jane Taylor - Montpelier

Day 4
CD#14 World Party - Private Revolution
CD#15 XTC - Mummer
CD#16 Elvis Costello - When I was Cruel
CD#17 Silver Sun - Silver Sun

Day 5
CD#18 Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
CD#19 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
CD#20 Hensley & Wright - Strong
CD#21 Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet

Day 6
CD#22 The La's - The La's
CD#23 Shack - H.M.S. Fable
CD#24 David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name . . .
CD#25 Gene - Drawn To The Deep End
CD#26 Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army

Day 7
CD#27 Eels - Souljacker
CD#28 Catatonia - International Velvet
CD#29 Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
CD#30 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
CD#31 Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs

Day 8
CD#32 Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
CD#33 Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform
CD#34 Sixpence None The Richer - Sixpence None The Richer
CD#35 R.E.M. - Murmur
CD#36 Nirvana - In Utero
CD#37 Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

Day 9
CD#38 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
CD#39 Eric Roche - With These Hands
CD#40 Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
CD#41 Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Day 10
CD#42 Emily Slade - Fretless
CD#43 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
CD#44 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
CD#45 Ash - Nu-clear Sounds

Day 11
CD#46 The Himalayans - She Likes The Weather
CD#47 Ruth Theodore - White Holes of Mole Hills
CD#48 Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy
CD#49 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Day 12
CD#50 Lee 'Scratch' Perry and The Upsetters
CD#51 Good Cop Bad Cop - Liberal Hearts Bleeding
CD#52 The Good The Bad & The Queen - The Good The Bad & The Queen
CD#53 Annette Bjergfeldt - The Kissing Post
CD#54 The Jam - All Mod Cons

Day 13
CD#55 The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
CD#56 Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
CD#57 Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
CD#58 Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

Day 14
CD#59 Michael Manring - Soliloquy
CD#60 Michael Rattray Allstars - Smile At Who You Need To
CD#61 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
CD#62 Blues Traveler - four
CD#63 Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

Day 15
CD#64 XTC - English Settlement
CD#65 Eurogliders - This Island
CD#66 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
CD#67 The Cure - Galore
CD#68 Max Richter - Songs From Before

Day 16
CD#69 Fischer Z - Red Skies Over Paradise
CD#70 Elvis Costello - Get Happy !!
CD#71 XTC - Drums and Wires
CD#72 Suede - Coming Up

Day 17
Bought more CDs

Day 18
CD#73 R.E.M. - Out Of Time
CD#74 Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
CD#75 Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
CD#76 The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World

Day 19
CD#77 Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real
CD#78 Iggy Pop - The Idiot
CD#79 Pink Floyd - Endless River
CD#80 Blondie - Plastic Letters
CD#81 Sam Phillips - Fan Dance
CD#82 Crowded House - Crowded House
CD#83 of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Day 20
CD#84 Feist - Metals
CD#85 Grandaddy - The Broken Down Comforter Collection
CD#86 Big Star - # 1 Record
CD#87 Homespun - Homespun

Day 21
CD#88 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
CD#89 The Strokes - Is This It
CD#90 McAlmont & Butler - The Sound of . . .
CD#91 Voice of the Beehive - Honey Lingers
CD#92 Julie Fowlis - Cuilidh
CD#93 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
CD#94 Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration

Day 22
CD#95 Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
CD#96 Del Amitri - Waking Hours
CD#97 Green Day - American Idiot
CD#98 Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Bridge)

Day 23
CD#99 Paul Simon - Surprise
CD#100 OP8 - Slush
CD#101 Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
CD#102 The Fratellis - Costello Music
CD#103 The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
CD#104 Barenaked Ladies - Gordon

Day 24
CD#105 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
CD#106 The Levellers - Levelling The Land
CD#107 Clive Murray - Earthman
CD#108 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
CD#109 Split Enz - Second Thoughts
CD#110 Mull Historical Society - Us

Day 25
CD#111 Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
CD#112 Various - Northampton Under Glass
CD#113 The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
CD#114 Counting Crows - August And Everything After
CD#115 Tubeway Army - Replicas

Day 26
CD#116 Mo Foster - Time To Think
CD#117 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Day 27 - Day off.

Day 28
CD#118 Steve Lawson - Grace and Gratitude
CD#119 XTC - White Noise

Day 29
CD#120 Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
CD#121 Elvis Costello - Spike
CD#122 Moses - Django
CD#123 Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Day 30
CD#124 Curtis E Johnson - The Compleat Unknown
CD#125 Paul Simpson - Noise With A Purpose
CD#126 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
CD#127 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
CD#128 Grandaddy - Below The Radio
CD#129 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly

Day 31
CD#130 Sam Brown - Stop!
CD#131 Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
CD#132 Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
CD#133 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
CD#134 Hanne Hukkelberg - Blood From A Stone

Day 32
CD#135 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
CD#136 Cocteau Twins - Milk And Kisses
CD#137 Public Image Ltd. - Public Image: First Issue

Day 33
CD#138 Etienne Mbappé - Misaya
CD#139 Queen - A Day At The Races
CD#140 Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland

Day 34
CD#141 Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
CD#142 Juliet Turner - Live

Day 35
CD#143 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood and Chocolate
CD#144 Richard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
CD#145 Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
CD#146 Radiohead - Pablo Honey
CD#147 Counting Crows - Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)

Day 36
CD#148 Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
CD#149 Chris Thile - How To Grow A Woman From The Ground
CD#150 Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish ?
CD#151 Ruth Theodore - Wormfood

Day 37
CD#152 The Ruts - Something That I Said
CD#153 The Finn Brothers - Everyone Is Here
CD#154 Be Bop Deluxe - Live! In The Air Age
CD#155 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
CD#156 Jonatha Brooke - Live In New York

Day 38
CD#157 Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
CD#158 Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
CD#159 Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
CD#160 Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience

Day 39
CD#161 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
CD#162 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
CD#163 Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
CD#164 Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Almanac
CD#165 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

Day 40
CD#166 P.I.L. - Metal Box
CD#167 Juliet Turner - Burn The Black Suit
CD#168 Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
CD#169 The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
CD#170 Therapy? - Troublegum

Day 41
CD#171 Radiohead - The Bends
CD#172 Taj Mahal - Mo' Roots
CD#173 The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around
CD#174 Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Day 42
CD#175 Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used To Be
CD#176 Bellowhead - Matachin
CD#177 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Day 43
CD#178 The Jayhawks - Music From The North Country
CD#179 Rogue State Circus - Songs From The Sea Of Serenity
CD#180 Echo And The Bunnymen - Evergreen
CD#181 Chyco Siméon - Finally
CD#182 The Story - Grace In Gravity

Day 44
CD#183 Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
CD#184 The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
CD#185 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - In Step
CD#186 The Incisors - Demos/We All Have Stories
CD#187 Counting Crows - This Desert Life

Day 45
CD#188 Beth Rowley - Little Dreamer
CD#189 Split Enz - True Colours
CD#190 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
CD#191 Moses - The Swimming Zoo
CD#192 The Monkees - The Definitive Monkees

Day 46
CD#193 Eva Cassidy - Songbird
CD#194 Julia Nunes - Settle Down
CD#195 Marcella Detroit - Jewel
CD#196 Meshell Ndegeocello - The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams
CD#197 Invocal - Uneven Keel
CD#198 Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
CD#199 R.E.M. - Monster

Day 47
CD#200 Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
CD#201 XTC - The Big Express
CD#202 Jonatha Brooke - Plumb
CD#203 Jennifer Kimball - Oh Hear Us
CD#204 Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon

Day 48
CD#205 John Watts - Ether Beep Start
CD#206 Catherine Maclellan - Dark Dream Midnight/Water In The Ground
CD#207 Liam Dullaghan - Making History
CD#208 Marillion - Script For Jester's Tear
CD#209 Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line

Day 49
CD#210 R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-fi
CD#211 Matt & Kim - Grand
CD#212 Blur - 13
CD#213 Silver Sun - Neo Wave
CD#214 Steve Lawson & Theo Travis - For The Love Of Open Spaces
CD#215 Radiohead - Ok Computer

Day 50
CD#216 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
CD#217 Gil Scott-Heron - Ghetto Style
CD#218 The Elected - Me First

Day 51
CD#219 Juliet Turner - People Have Names
CD#220 The Smiths - The Smiths
CD#221 McAlmont & Butler - Bring It Back
CD#222 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
CD#223 Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Day 52
CD#224 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
CD#225 Presumed Innocent - Where Clouds Cried Acid Tears
CD#226 The Mavericks - Trampoline
CD#227 Rush - Feedback
CD#228 Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
CD#229 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Day 53
CD#230 Syd Barrett - Barrett
CD#231 The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
CD#232 Extreme - II: Pornograffitti
CD#233 Jonatha Brooke - Careful What You Wish For
CD#234 Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites
CD#235 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
CD#236 Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
CD#237 Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
CD#238 Steely Dan - Aja

Day 54
CD#239 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
CD#240 Pink Floyd - Meddle
CD#241 The Who - Who's Next
CD#242 Cheap Trick - The Greatest Hits

Day 55
CD#243 R.E.M. - Up
CD#244 Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts
CD#245 Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Day 56
CD#246 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
CD#247 Supergrass - I Should Coco
CD#248 Suede - Dog Man Star
CD#249 Tich Vango - As The Crow Flies

Day 57
CD#250 Kris Delmhorst - Five Stories
CD#251 David Bowie - Heathen
CD#252 Sam Brown - Box
CD#253 Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
CD#254 Roy Harper - Stormcock
CD#255 The Jam - The Gift
CD#256 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Day 58
CD#257 Joni Mitchell - Hejira
CD#258 Little Monkeys - Live at the Marquee
CD#259 Marcus Miller - Silver Rain
CD#260 R.E.M. - Reveal

Day 59
CD#261 The Costello Show featuring the Attractions and Confederates - King Of America
CD#262 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Moods
CD#263 The Vapors - Turning Japanese (The Best Of The Vapors)
CD#264 Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds

Day 60
CD#265 Pink Floyd - Animals
CD#266 Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention
CD#267 Black - Wonderful Life
CD#268 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
CD#269 Show Of Hands - Roots: The Best Of Show Of Hands
CD#270 Various - Now That's What I Call Northampton Vol 1
CD#271 Moses - Golden Flatts

Day 61
CD#272 Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
CD#273 Pink Floyd - The Wall
CD#274 Monsieur Pantin - Ma Rosalie

Day 62
CD#275 Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel

Day 63
CD#276 Placebo - Placebo
CD#277 XTC - Go 2
CD#278 Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
CD#279 Marillion - Fugazi
CD#280 Terrorvision - How To Make Friends And Influence People
CD#281 Travis - The Man Who

Day 64
CD#282 Blondie - Parallel Lines
CD#283 Beth Orton - Central Reservation
CD#284 Blur - Parklife
CD#285 Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (Best Of)

Day 65
CD#286 Jonatha Brooke - Ten Cent Wings
CD#287 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
CD#288 Buckcherry - Time Bomb
CD#289 Gene - Revelations

Day 66
CD#290 R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction/Reconstruction Of The Fables
CD#291 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon By Bus
CD#292 The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
CD#293 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
CD#294 Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights

Day 67
CD#295 Stiff Little Fingers - Get A Life
CD#296 Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
CD#297 XTC - Nonsuch
CD#298 Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo

Day 68
CD#299 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
CD#300 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces
CD#301 Suede - Suede

Day 69
CD#302 Joni Mitchell - Blue

Day 70
CD#303 The Clash - London Calling
CD#304 Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name
CD#305 R.E.M. - Out Of Time.
CD#306 Steely Dan - Katy Lied
CD#307 Mull Historical Society - Loss

Day 71
CD#308 Fischer-Z - Fish's Head
CD#309 Thomas Leeb - Upside Down
CD#310 Nirvana - Nevermind
CD#311 Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things

Day 72
CD#312 Jonatha Brooke - Steady Pull
CD#313 Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
CD#314 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Punch The Clock
CD#315 Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
CD#316 Boo Hewerdine - Anon
CD#317 Counting Crows - Hard Candy

Day 73
CD#318 Juliet Turner - Season Of The Hurricane
CD#319 R.E.M. - Around The Sun
CD#320 Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
CD#321 The Jam - Setting Sons

Day 74
CD#322 Steve Lawson & Jez Carr - Conversations
CD#323 Sam Brown - Of The Moment
CD#324 Massive Attack - Collected

Day 75
CD#325 Robbie McIntosh - Unsung
CD#326 Muse - Absolution
CD#327 The Wonder Stuff - If The Beatles Had Read Hunter. . . The Singles
CD#328 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Day 76
CD#329 R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
CD#330 Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
CD#331 Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
CD#332 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Trust

Day 77
CD#333 Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet - The Juliet Letters
CD#334 XTC - Oranges And Lemons
CD#335 Terrorvision - Regular Urban Survivors
CD#336 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
CD#337 Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
CD#338 R.E.M. - Document

Day 78
CD#339 Joni Mitchell - Song To A Seagull
CD#340 Little Steven and The Disciples Of Soul - Men Without Women
CD#341 The Jam - Sound Affects
CD#342 The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow
CD#343 R.E.M. - Green
CD#344 Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
CD#345 XTC - Black Sea

Day 79
Bought more (4) CDs.

Day 80
CD#346 Feist - The Reminder
CD#347 Marillion - Clutching At Straws

Day 81
CD#348 Richmond Fontaine - The Fitzgerald
CD#349 Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
CD#350 Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
CD#351 Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
CD#352 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

Day 82
CD#353 Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
CD#354 Sam Brown - 43 Minutes
CD#355 XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2)
CD#356 Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

Day 83
CD#357 Marvin Gaye - The Very Best Of . . .
CD#358 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
CD#359 Counting Crows - New Amsterdam: Live At Heineken Music Hall.
CD#360 Boo Hewerdine - Thanksgiving

Day 84
CD#361 Various Artists - Help
CD#362 The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
CD#363 Blur - The Great Escape
CD#364 Julia Nunes - I Wrote These

Day 85
CD#365 Primus - Antipop
CD#366 Lee Perry - Dub-Triptych

Day 86
CD#367 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
CD#368 Ned Evett - iStole
CD#369 John Lennon - Lennon Legend
CD#370 Eddie and the Hot Rods - Live and Rare
CD#371 The Barracudas - Complete EMI Recordings
CD#372 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Blue Trees
CD#373 Ocean Colour Scene - Marchin' Already

Day 87
CD#374 Meshell Ndegeocello - Comfort Woman
CD#375 Various Artists - Shine 7
CD#376 Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
CD#377 Blur - Blur

Day 88
CD#378 Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry
CD#379 Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury
CD#380 Rush - Permanent Waves
CD#381 Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
CD#382 XTC - Skylarking

Day 89
CD#383 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
CD#384 Deacon Blue - Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
CD#385 (John) Watts - Spiritual Headcase

Day 90
CD#386 People In Planes - Beyond The Horizon
CD#387 Aztec Camera - Stray
CD#388 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Day 91
CD#389 Zwan - Mary Star Of The Sea
CD#390 Gwyn Ashton - Beg Borrow and Steel
CD#391 Julia Nunes - Some Feelings
CD#392 Jon Roniger - My World

Day 92
CD#393 Eliza Carthy - The Definitive Collection
CD#394 Homespun - Effortless Cool
CD#395 XTC - Homespun
CD#396 Boo Hewerdine - Toy Box No.1
CD#397 The Story - The Angel In The House
CD#398 The Who - A Quick One
CD#399 Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
CD#400 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
CD#401 Steve Ellis - Best Of Days

Day 93
CD#402 Gail Ann Dorsey - Rude Blue
CD#403 The Elected - Untitled bonus disc
CD#404 Sam Brown - Ukulele and Voice
CD#405 Various Artists - Tom Hall 1944 - 2003
CD#406 Counting Crows - Across A Wire: Live In New York City

Day 94
CD#407 Queen - News Of The World
CD#408 Days Of Worth - The Western Mechanism
CD#409 Roger Davies - Littletown
CD#410 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
CD#411 Rush - Signals

Day 95
CD#412 Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 - 1973
CD#413 Muse - Showbiz
CD#414 Burns Blue - What If . . .

Day 96
CD#415 XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1
CD#416 The Wild Roses - The Wild Roses
CD#417 Small Faces - Small Faces
CD#418 Ocean Colour Scene - Ocean Colour Scene
CD#419 R.E.M. - Reckoning

Day 97
CD#420 The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
CD#421 Various Artists - Shine Best Of '97

Day 98
CD#422 Deacon Blue - Homesick
CD#423 Robert Plant - Now And Zen
CD#424 Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
CD#425 Curtis E Johnson - Caledonian Postcards
CD#426 Tim Finn - Big Canoe
CD#427 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Day 99
CD#428 Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
CD#429 Feeder - Polythene
CD#430 Chyco Simeon - Roots-Mwen
CD#431 Devo - Duty Now For The Future / New Traditionalists

Day 100
CD#432 Juliet Turner - Let's Hear It For Pizza
CD#433 Various Artists - Mastercuts: 70s Reggae

Day 101
CD#434 The Works - Beware Of The Dog
CD#435 Gary Dunne - Twenty Twenty Fiction
CD#436 Michael Rattray Allstars - untitled
CD#437 Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
CD#438 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe

Day 102
CD#439 Various Artists - Out Of Our Idiot
CD#440 Boo Hewerdine - A Live One
CD#441 Tim Finn - Before and After
CD#442 Cast - All Change

Day 103
CD#443 Bob Dylan and The Band - Before The Flood
CD#444 R.E.M - Dead Letter Office
CD#445 Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
CD#446 Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -  Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers

Day 104
CD#447 Steve Lawson - Behind Every Word
CD#448 Jonatha Brooke - Live

Day 105
CD#449 Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
CD#450 Hensley & Wright - Glass Bridges
CD#451 Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds
CD#452 Small Faces - Best Of
CD#453 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics

Day 106
CD#454 Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
CD#455 Steely Dan - Gaucho
CD#456 Meshell Ndegeocello - Dance Of The Infidel
CD#457 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
CD#458 Fischer Z - Reveal

Day 107
CD#459 Bruce Springsteen - The River
CD#460 Marillion - B'Sides Themselves
CD#461 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
CD#462 Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus

Day 108
CD#463 Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits
CD#464 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Mellow Moods
CD#465 Supertramp - Retrospectacle
CD#466 Barenaked Ladies - Disc One 1991-2001

Day 108

CD#463 Mott The Hoople - Greatest Hits

Ian Hunter started his career with a band based in Northampton and was an apprentice at British Timken, a mile or so from where I live. Eleven tracks is quite meagre for a Greatest Hits, but worth it for Roll Away The Stone on its own.

CD#464 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Mellow Moods

40 tracks on 2 CDs, bought from . . . where else ? Exmouth Indoor Market.
Not by any means a Greatest Hits and none the worse for that.

CD#465 Supertramp - Retrospectacle

Another compilation, 32 tracks on 2 CDs this time and very much a Greatest Hits collection, with lots of great songs.

CD#466 Barenaked Ladies - Disc One 1991-2001

A collection of most of their singles released in the first 10 years of the band. 

. . . and until I buy some more CDs that's that.

I gave myself 32 weeks (4 CDs a day, 5 days a week) and finished in less than 16, which has surprised me, as I wasn't keeping note.

If I'd planned things better/at all, then I wouldn't have finished with four compilations, but such is life. It's been fun, mostly, and there are a number of albums that I'll look at with more fondness than I had before I started, some that will always be favourites and some that will almost certainly never be listened to again . . . at least I gave them one more try.



Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Day 107

CD#459 Bruce Springsteen - The River

You could probably make a case for cutting this down to a single album, but nevertheless there's some great music on here.

CD#460 Marillion - B'Sides Themselves

The last release before Fish left, it includes Grendel, Market Square Heroes (one of my favourites) and Freaks.

CD#461 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

Not bad for a debut album . . . and this CD version has 6 extra tracks including one of my favourites, The Wind Cries Mary.

CD#462 Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus

Apart from The Works (which has all the lyrics written by Woody Guthrie) this is the only album (that I'm aware of) that includes a co-write and also covers - The Beach Boys, James Taylor and The Alan Parsons Project (Eye In The Sky - which is coincidentally is the only thing by The Alan Parsons Project that I own, on a flexi disc).


Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Day 106

CD#454 Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

My favourite of the five I've listened to, it feels a little toned down in terms of her vocal style, but none the worse for that.

CD#455 Steely Dan - Gaucho

There are many bands where you can easily hear where in the timeline of album releases a particular album sits, and then there's Steely Dan. This is their seventh of nine albums but it could easily be the second, or a Donald Fagen solo album, or a Walter Becker solo album (IIRC, I have his second solo album, Circus Money as a download but haven't listened for a while).

CD#456 Meshell Ndegeocello - Dance Of The Infidel

Her sixth, a jazz album with a Meshell groove.


CD#457 The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

. . . and with that, they were gone.

CD#458 Fischer Z - Reveal

The first of John Watts' solo albums released under the Fisher Z name (original band member Steve Skolnik plays keyboards on one track).