Sunday, January 08, 2006

A great day for Clyde and a list of CDs....

I spent today walking (in reality hobbling very slowly) around the house, including up and down the stairs, without the aid of the moonboot. In retrospect, perhaps I was trying to do this too soon...

The hot and cold bathing of the injury continued, along with three sets of very painful exercises. My willpower re doing these every hour is, frankly, pish.

After brunch, Anne goes out to the garden while I update the diary....

Later she excitedly updates me re the fact that Clyde are beating Celtic 2-0 at half time having missed a penalty (for which the defender should’ve been Red Carded but went totally unpunished) and having had two other earlier goals chalked off – both for no good reason according to the pundits.

So it should really have already been be 4-0 to Clyde despite their having missed a penalty and Celtic should have been down to ten men...

Clyde had the ball in the net one more time in the second half - again it was not off-side as decided by the officials. The frankly Mighty Clyde FC managed to hold on after the frankly Dreadful Glasgow Celtic FC got a late goal - So much for Roy Keane....

A great day for Clyde! (they also hit the post - could've been 6 or 7 goals to 1)...

We watch Enterprise - I missed Stargate because I was collating the list of CDs below...

Late night, I stayed up with Meg the Black Cat to watch John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars". Enjoyable rubbish...

And so, after much deliberation I've finalised a list of 100 CDs which I enjoyed in 2005, with my favourite in each category in bold. My overall favourite CD of the year was Brian Eno's "Another Day on Earth".

100 CDs I Enjoyed in 2005

New


Fiona Apple-Extraordinary Machine
Adrian Belew-Side One
Adrian Belew-Side Two
Coldplay-X&Y
Alice Cooper-Dirty Diamonds
Brian Eno-Another Day on Earth
Four Tet-Everything Ecstatic
Robert Fripp-Love Cannot Bear
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel-The Quality of Mercy
Madredeus-Faluas de Tejo
Paul McCartney-Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
Brad Mehldau-Day Is Done
Porcupine Tree-Deadwing
Spock's Beard-Octane
Herman Van Veen-Hut Ab
Laura Viers-Year of Meteors
Dar Williams-My Better Self

Recent (But Pre 2005)

California Guitar Trio-CG3+2
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft-15 Neue DAF Lieder
Enchant-Tug of War
Fennesz-Venice
Girls Aloud-What Will The Neighbours Say
Francoise Hardy-Tant des belles Choses
Alice Martineau-Daydreams
Moby-Hotel/Motel
Neal Morse-One
Neal Morse-Testimony
Rheostatics-Night of the Shooting Stars
Shivaree-I Oughta Give You A Shot In The Head
Stars of the Lid-Gravitational Pull Vs The Desire for an Aquatic Life

Reissues

David Byron-Take No Prisoners
ELO-On The Third Day
Emerson Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery
Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick
M-Official Secrets
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Mick Ronson-Play Don't Worry
Mick Ronson-Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Michael Rother-Esperanza
Sparks-Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Uriah Heep-Demons and Wizards
Uriah Heep-Return to Fantasy
Uriah Heep-Sweet Freedom
Uriah Heep-The Magician's Birthday
Uriah Heep-Wonderworld
Herman Van Veen-Die Anziehungskraft der Erde
Velvett Fogg-Velvett Fogg
Yes-Fragile
Yes-Relayer

Live

Bruford-The Bruford Tapes
Earthworks-Footloose and Fancy Free
Falco-Donauinsel Live
Grand Funk Railroad-Bosnia
Kraftwerk-Minimum Maximum
Lou Reed-Animal Serenade
Tangerine Dream-Royal Albert Hall 2/4/75
Uriah Heep-Live

Jazz

Art Blakey-Buhaina's Delight
Grant Green-The Complete Quartets
Andrew Hill-Black Fire
Andrew Hill-Judgement
Freddie Hubbard-A Soul Experiment
Bobby Hutcherson-Oblique
Jackie McLean-Action
Medeski Martin & Wood-End of the World Party
Hank Mobley-Poppin'
Moraz/Bruford-Music For Piano & Drums
Lee Morgan-Charisma
Tony Williams-Lifetime

Classical

J S Bach-Complete Oboe Concertos
Beethoven/Wranitsky-Oboe Trios
Anner Bijlsma-70th Birthday Box Set
Dvorak-Complete String Quartets
Philip Glass-The Civil Wars
Janacek-Piano Sonata 1.x.1905
Marini-Curiose & Moderne Inventione
Mozart-Complete String Quartets
Saint Georges-Violin Concertos 1, 2, 10
Vivaldi-Bassoon Concertos
Vivaldi-Complete Oboe Concertos

Single Artist Compilation

Jason Falkner-Necessity
Isaac Hayes-The Man
Allan Holdsworth-Against the Clock - Best of
King Crimson-21st Century Guide Vol 1
King Crimson-21st Century Guide Vol 2
Procul Harum-The First Four
Rheostatics-Best of*
Hans-Joachim Roedelius-Auf Leisen Sohlen
Shangris Las-Best of
Jane Siberry-Summer in the Yukon
Soft Machine-Out Bloody Rageous
T-Rex-Singles A's and B's 1972-1977
The Tubes-Dawn of the Tubes
Roy Wood-Singles 1971-1976*
Yes-The Ultimate Yes : 35 Years
*Compiled by me

Various Artists Compilations

Blue Note - A Blue Conception
Blue Note - Out of the Blue
Constellation Music Until Now
Harvest Showdown
Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal : Island Anthology 1967-1972

..and I am continuing to enjoy listening to these on shuffleplay on the Jukebox....

Highlight of the Day : Clyde 2 Celtic 1

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