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My 100 Essential Albums – 15 – It’s A Beautiful Day , by It’s A Beautiful Day
It’s A Beautiful Day , a supreme summer of love album, with attitude Released in 1969 this is a tremendous album that rewards repeated listening and I can not imagine being parted from it for any length of time. Perhaps that is a quick definition of an essential album. When I picked up the album […]
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My 100 Essential Albums – 10, The Velvet Underground and Nico
In my last post about my 100 essential albums I explained that I had removed Exile on Main Street from the list because when I thought about it I did not think that it was one of those essential albums that I could not live without. However, its replacement, The Velvet Undergound and Nico […]
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My 100 Essential Albums – 8 Disraeli Gears by Cream
My 100 Essential Albums – 8 Disraeli Gears by Cream Released in November 1967 this was Cream’s second album and regularly features in lists of the top 100 essential albums. After the blues influenced, softer Fresh Cream, their first album, Cream embarked on a different, heavier, path. This is, perhaps, the prototype for later heavy […]
My Essential 100 Albums – 7 The Original by Ray Charles
This just has to be in my list of 100 essential albums because it is the first record I ever bought! At 13 I had a Saturday job working in a hardware shop in Stokes Croft in Bristol. At the time Stokes Croft was not the best area in Bristol and the customers seemed to […]
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My 100 Essential Albums – 6 – Transformer, Lou Reed
My first experience of Lou Reed’s music was courtesy of John Peel’s radio show. Late at night on an old Bakelite radio while reading in bed, typical teenager stuff. The first Velvet Underground track I heard was (I think) Heroin, but it could have been White Light. In any event, I was sold. Following the […]
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My Essential 100 Albums – 4 – Music in a Dolls House, Family.
The first album by Family “Music in a Doll’s House” (1968) is a strange and wonderful thing. Roger Chapman is blessed with a distinctive, warbling voice. The band were all talented musicians including Ric Grech on bass and Jim King on sax being the most recognised. Family released this complexly orchestrated album in 1968 and […]
My Essential 100 Albums – The First One! Captain Beefheart
The idea behind this list is for me to say which 100 albums I will take with me if I was marooned on a desert island or when I have to go to live in an old folks’ home (not that I am anticipating that in the near future). The prospect of paring my CDs […]
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My Essential 100 Albums – 7 – George Thorogood and the Destroyers, GT&tD
Recorded in 1977 this was the first Thorogood album. Mainly blues covers with only two self penned songs it introduced me to the talent that is George Thorogood. A love of blues shines through the playing. It is one of those things, 10 bands can play the same song but you know instinctively which band […]