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...
Occasional Albums Thing 009 - The Rezillos “Can’t Stand The Rezillos”“Punk” was/is a broad church. Once my world had been turned upside down by the Sex Pistols I then found out about the overt politicality (is that a word ?) of The Clash, the Stooge-isms of The Damned, The Jam leaning on...
Occasional Albums Thing 008 - Various Artists “Decca Originals” In a 1980’s (?) interview Frank Zappa explained “One thing that did happen in the 60s, was some music of an unusual and experimental nature did get recorded, did get released”. The executives of the day, he explained, were...
Occasional Albums Thing 007 - The Monkees “The Monkees” I know this next statement will cause much wailing, gnashing of teeth, exclamations of disbelief and much, much table thumping in certain circles but, this is my Blog and if you don’t like the opinions expressed here, go write yer...
Occasional Albums Thing 006 - Various Artists “Nuggets - Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era (1965-1968)” When I was doing the #2024AlbumsThing I did say that I hadn’t really covered any of the compilations I have, I did one or two but not too many. So now in this...
Occasional Albums Thing 005 - Eagles “One Of These Nights” I’ve mentioned my friend Rob in here before. It was Rob that first recommended Bruce Springsteen to me, a gift for which I shall be forever in his debt. But The Boss (he apparently hates being called that) isn’t the only thing that...
Occasional Albums Thing 004 - Damien Dempsey “Hold Your Joy” The release of a new Damien Dempsey record or announcement of a tour is always cause for much excitement in our house. A completely new Damien Dempsey record has been a long time coming. The disappointing “Soulsun” was released in...
Occasional Albums Thing 003 - M*ARX “Green Ginger Jive” M*ARX is Gary Marx, and Gary Marx has been around. He was a founder member of the Sisters of Mercy with the prince of darkness himself, Andrew Eldritch. On departing the Sisters in 1985 he formed Goth rockers Ghost Dance with former...
Occasional Albums Thing 002 - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Live From The Ryman Vol. 2” Back in September 2023 I wrote about “Live From The Ryman” which had been released in October 2018 and in October this year we get Vol. 2. It’s a live album, 15 songs over 2 LP’s one on translucent...