47% can be reasonably impressive...

Playlist

Various - Wow! That Was The 70's

Supertramp - Breakfast In America

Nile Rodgers - presents The Chic Organization - Up All Night

Motörhead - Overkill

XTC - Drums & Wires

UK - Danger Money

Various - 101 Disco Anthems

Kiss - Kiss Gold

Various - The Best Disco Album In The World... Ever! Vol 2

Public Image Limited - The Greatest Hits, So Far

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose

Donna Summer - Bad Girls

Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002

Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery

Various - Billboard Top 100 1979

David Essex - Imperial Wizard

Various - 101 Punk & New Wave Anthems

The Clash - The Essential Clash

The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

Blondie - Greatest Hits

Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound

Art Garfunkel - Art Garfunkel Album

Kate Bush - Anthology

Elvis Costello - Armed Forces

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Cheap Trick - The Very Best Of Cheap Trick

M - New York-London-Paris-Munich

Gary Numan - Premier Hits

The Skids - The Very Best Of The Skids

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands

The Tubes - Remote Control

The Jacksons - Destiny

David Bowie - Lodger

Earth, Wind & Fire - The Box Set Series

Abba - The Singles : The First Ten Years

Various - Lust For Life

Squeeze - Big Squeeze: The Very Best Of Squeeze

Sparks - No 1 In Heaven

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream

Various - School Reunion The Smoochies

Simple Minds - Life In A Day

Roxy Music - Manifesto

Queen - A Night At The Opera

The Police - The Very Best Of Sting & The Police

Paul McCartney & Wings - Back To The Egg

Paul McCartney - Wingspan

Various - Cinema Classics

Various - Best Of The Seventies

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

Perhaps I have too many guitars...

Finally finished off the "singles of the 1970s" project today, completing the selections from 1979...

In all, 1,168 singles of the 1970's charts were "liked" while around 548 were remembered as having been bought at the time, 47%...

This is how I waste my time...

This plus buying art books for two quid...

In the final of University Challenge, we came third with 45 points, some of which were taken because "I was going to say that"...

Today's artwork is "The Golden Age"...

Highlight of the Day : 70's singles...

Recreating the wall of sound...

Playlist

Capital Models - 2018-04-08

Josh Rouse - Love in the Modern Age

Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician

Kamelot - The Shadow Theory

Toree - Symbiosis

Genesis - Nursery Cryme (1994 Definitive Edition Remaster)

John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness

CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity

Bazzi - COSMIC

Dave Douglas - Convergence

Breathless - Green To Blue

Van Der Graaf Generator - H To He Who Am The Only One

The Velvet Underground - Scepter Studio Sessions 1966-04-25

Alban Berg Quartett - ABQ : 20th Century Masterpieces

Various Composers - American 20th Century Piano Music

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs

Yes - Union

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden

William Fitzsimmons - Gold in the Shadow

Various - Super 70's Rock

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado

Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe

Various - 101 Punk & New Wave Anthems

Various - Funk

Blondie - Greatest Hits

Wire - On Returning (1977-1979)

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Yello - Solid Pleasure

The Tubes - Remote Control

Herman Van Veen - Heute Abend

The Paper Kites - On the Train Ride Home

King Crimson - Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind

Kiss - Kiss Gold

Various - Best Of The Seventies

Various - Lust For Life

Various - 101 Disco Anthems

The Jacksons - Destiny

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Greatest Hits

The Doors - Best Of The Doors

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Queen - Greatest Hits I

Elvis Costello - Armed Forces

Toto - Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun

Various - Billboard Top 100 1979

The Skids - Scared To Dance

Up super early and to work...

...90 minutes or so to sort out the back room...

As I was on the cusp of finishing moving all the wooden boxes, I thought I was going to have to do it all again...

...but it worked, with a little bit of pressure...

Then to sorting out the classical A-Z by composer...

Done, dusted...

The, what seems to us, new, squirrel, was back today - this one does not hang upside down...

In the afternoon, a rehearsal with Keith and Johnny out at Roslin.  Stu sadly unable to attend his lovely dad having died and prep etc for the farewell ahving to be undertaken...

Not a great time for the jinglemeister but solace taken from a long life, well lived...

Back into town and to Jane and Bobby's for nephew Olly's birthday bash...

Steak pie and cake had been requested and were duly delivered to the birthday boy and his guests...

Late on some listening back to today's "tapes"...

Not bad, although the second guitar is missed...

Today's artwork "Wall of Sound"...

Highlight of the Day : Backroom reconstituted, no, musicking, no Olly's birthday...

The wee man with the missing U...

Playlist

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

David Bowie - Blackstar

Marillion - Radiation

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

The Cure - Pornography

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake and Palmer

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

The Cure - Disintegration

Roger Waters - Smell the Roses [Single]

Evan Parker ElectroAcoustic Ensemble - Hasselt

Jason Moran - Modernistic

Federica Carta - Molto Più Di Un Film

Kadebostany - Monumental

Rhye - Woman

Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Rheostatics - 2067

Alice Cooper - The Essential Alice Cooper - The Epic Years

David Bowie - The Next Day

Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow

The Decemberists - 'll Be Your Girl

Perfect Beings - Perfect Beings II

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th Anniv)

David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (New Shoes Edition)

Federico Albanese - By the Deep Sea

Taylor Swift - September

Record Store Day today - which means nothing to me other than reminding people that every day is Record Store Day and it really ought to be about Record Stores and note records...

But, yea verily, t'is like pissing in the wind...

Some new unrelated to RSD music entered the collection via the ether...

Elsewhere, chaos in the garden, most likely the beak-work of a crow or two, much to this wee monkey's delight...

Rolls secured and tasty sausages prepared...

...by the EP...

A new book perused - bought mid week but only able to be brought home yesterday due to all the nights out...

This too recently secured, my first CD purchase for around nine days...

It's fine for one ninety nine...

A visit as we enjoyed coffee...

...from wee Fang the Black Cat...

"What do you mean I'm only after Dreamies?"

Anne was off out to have some things done regarding legs and I took the opportunity to commence a switch around in the back room, with previously put up into the loft shelving having been brought back into the fray with the help of a standing at the bottom of the ladders and catching big heavy wooden stuff EP...

Not quite yet, but a good start...

Over to my mum's mid afternoon to meet Wee Lackie (short for Lachlan, whom my nephew and niece in law insist on calling Lauchlan or Lockie, despite they themselves having given him the without a "u" name, Lachlan)...

Anyway, whatever he's called, he's reasonably cute...

The family...

Mum was delighted to "get a shot" of the wee man...

As was Great Auntie Anne...

Even I had an unpictured go...

Andy makes a good dad...

While baby chat ensued inside, I went outside with Wee Dougie and big brother Kerr...

There was running around...

...and there was falling over...

...and falling over...

...and running around...

Father and son...

Great uncle and great nephew...

Mum's garden has a few reasonable flowers...

And a cheeky wee scoundrel...

...whose speciality was stealing biscuits...

Great grandma had another go with Lockie...

...good flowers inside too...

A generational photo was lined up...

...and children were held upside down...

Dougue reacted reasonably to me accidentally letting him go and him falling face first onto the ground...

He tried to see of very small ornamental clogs would fit on his feet...

...while Lockie lazed around...

Home for an evening of good entertainment via a tasty curry and three episodes in a row of Agatha Christie's "Ordeal By Innocence" which was very good indeed - notwithstanding people moaning about almost everything in the original story having been changed...

Oh well...

Today's artwork, "Generational Pride"...

Highlight of the Day : Children, kind of...