2024 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...
2024 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...
2024 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...
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...
Well I think we've figured out the new Blogging tools on this website so let's keep going shall we, maybe not every day but reasonably regularly. The old stuff is still here if you want to read it, up top there under the "Blog Archive" link. One new feature we now have (or rather one that works now...