Compulsion...

Playlist
Various - 70 Artists : Top Ten Tracks (Shuffleplay)
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Smoke Stack
Andrew Hill - Judgement!
Black Sabbath - Past Lives
Andrew Hill - Compulsion!!!!!
Brian Eno - Empty Landscapes (CD-R)

I was certainly compulsed today when I visited FOPP and found an album from 1965 by Andrew Hill which has just been re-released on Blue Note...

Also bought a double disc of Black Sabbath live in the 70's...

Read the Hill disc's sleeve notes as I made my way home on the bus, whilst listening on shuffleplay to three of his other albums which currently grace the jukebox...

Top stuff...

Back home and Anne was off to her keep fit class - so, first, some Black Sabbath...

Never a great band really and this set is testimony to that (just as well it was only £3)...

Funny how some of the worst bands from the 70's retain some kind of mythology about them and are loved by "the kids" even today, e.g. Led Zeppelin...

Others meanwhile, whose music was far more inventive e.g. Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, hardly get a look in any more...

After the first disc of the Sabbs (not that bad really) it was time for Mr Hill...



On first listening this was dreadful stuff - tuneless, irredeemable nonsense noodling...

Anne arrived home and we watched the very uninspiring Man City v Sunderland game then, as she watched "Doc Martin" I sampled Mr Hill again, this time on the headphones...

Brilliant...

I can't explain this turnaround in my interpretation of the music...

Inexplicable...

Watched a double bill of "Coronation St" and ended the day with some calming ambient sounds from Brian Eno on the first compilation burned on our previous PC back in 2001...

Drifted off into the Land of Nod, a happy chappy...

Highlight of the Day : New CD not as bad as I first thought...