Occasional Albums Thing 029 - Lulu “The Most Of…”I’ve written about Lulu in this Blog before (here in fact https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/blog/read_205038/2023-albums-thing-224-lulu-love-loves-to-love-lulu.html) and in that post I admitted that although I genuinely do like Lulu the...
Occasional Albums Thing 028 - Bob Dylan “Greatest Hits”My Dad is a Bob Dylan fan, my Brother is a Bob Dylan fan, my Mom really doesn’t like him at all. Me, I’m somewhere betwixt those two positions. I understand and appreciate his importance in the grand scheme of things, he’s a masterful...
Occasional Albums Thing 027 - Various Artists “The Front Line”There’s some confusion over the release date for this fine, fine compilation of Jamaican Roots Reggae. John Lydon (nee Johnny Rotten) has said on many occasions that he was sent to Jamaica by Richard Branson AFTER the Sex Pistols...
Occasional Albums Thing 026 - The Cult “Electric”Talking of Heavy Metal (see Pearl Jam 3 weeks ago https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/wrrb/cmon-guys-its-heavy-metal)…I will hold up my hands and confess to not being the world’s biggest fan of The Cult. Anything prior to them dropping the...
Occasional Albums Thing 025 - Various Artists “Get Primitive! The Best Of Pebbles, Volume One: The Originals”Walking from the car park to the shop I pass the local Oxfam charity shop. They sell records, they put a selection in their window, usually laughably over-priced copies of “Dark Side Of...
Occasional Albums Thing 024 - Jason Isbell “Foxes In The Snow”For his 10th studio album (9th if you don’t count the covers album “Georgia Blue”) Jason Isbell at last delivers a solo acoustic record. I’ve pointed out before that JI is not only a great songwriter but also a superb...
Occasional Albums Thing 023 - Pearl Jam “Ten”Right then, before we get to this record let me lay out my position on “Grunge”. Firstly the genre itself seemed completely music press created, I’m positing that none of the bands lumped under that label would have told you they played...
Occasional Albums Thing 022 - Sam Fender “People Watching”Back in July 2023 I said, at the end of a piece about Sam Fender’s “Seventeen Going Under” album, that I couldn’t “wait to hear what the canny chanter does next”. Well here it is and given how I feel about Sam’s first two...
Occasional Albums Thing 021 - Nick Drake “Made To Love Magic”If you are still to be seduced by the beauty of Nick Drake’s music you may want to begin with his three studio albums, my thoughts on those can be found at the links below.“Made To Love Magic” is a compilation album released in...
Occasional Albums Thing 020 - Various Artists “The Wigan Casino Story”/“Out On The Floor”/“Leapers, Sleepers & Creepers”/“Soul Super Bowl”/“The Magic Touch”/“New Breed R&B”Cheating again by lumping a bunch of themed compilations together in one post. I guess the first...
Occasional Albums Thing 019 - Various Artists “Tamla Motown Presents 20 Mod Classics” Volumes 1 & 2Imagine, if you will, your narrator in late 1979 or early 1980. We were coming through to the tail end of the initial rush of the Punk years, my favourite band was unquestionably The Jam, a...
Occasional Albums Thing 018 - Various Artists “The Sopranos - Music From The HBO Original Series” & “The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs - Music From The HBO Original Series”David Chase’s creation for HBO, “The Sopranos”, was the greatest TV series ever made and nothing will convince...
Occasional Albums Thing 017 - 10,000 Maniacs “MTV Unplugged”You don’t have any then two come along at once…”MTV Uplugged” albums that is…My love affair with 10,000 Maniacs and in particular the angelic voice of Miss Natalie Merchant goes back to the very beginnings of my writing this...
Occasional Albums Thing 016 - Mike ‘Sport’ Murphy “Daylight In The Swamps 1997-2003”Sometime in the late 1990’s (possibly the early 2K's) while on tour in the USA my brother Miles was in a van with our friend and ace guitarist Michael Ferentino. To entertain themselves they were listening...
Occasional Albums Thing 015 - Bruce Springsteen - “In Concert/MTV Unplugged”MTV Unplugged was/is (it still runs occasionally) a series on MTV (D’UH!) that featured artists recorded live in concert but in an acoustic setting, or “unplugged”. It first aired on 26th November 1989 with...
Occasional Albums Thing 014 - Various Artists “Instro Hipsters A Go-Go” 1&2Two volumes of weirdy instrumentals collected together on the handy LP format. Both of these albums are of “questionable provenance”. The “Instro Hipsters” series runs to five volumes on CD, all good there....
Occasional Albums Thing 013 - Various Artists “The In-Kraut Vol. 1-3”As this and the next post will show, I’ve not only got a thing about coloured vinyl, I also have a thing about weird and wonderful instrumentals, whether because they’re plain ol’ weird and wonderful or because of who is...
Occasional Albums Thing 012 - Various Artists “Truckin’ Favorites”I talked briefly about this record when we had a look at The Wonder Stuff’s second album “HUP” (https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/blog/read_206530/20234-albums-thing-420-the-wonder-stuff-hup.html). Not only did it play...
Occasional Albums Thing 011 - Drive-By Truckers “Plan 9 Records July 13, 2006”On Thursday the 13th July 2006 Alabama's Drive-By Truckers were asked to play a benefit for the Harvey Foundation at Plan 9 Records in Richmond Virginia, on the occasion of the shops 25th anniversary. The Harvey...
Occasional Albums Thing 010 - Flesh For Lulu “Big Fun City”Flesh For Lulu’s 2nd album proper was a look back at where they had come from with a pointer to where they were heading. They had been formed in 1983 by singer/guitarist Nick Marsh and were completed when they added former Wasted Youth...