A wasted opportunity...

Playlist
Chicago - Chicago X
Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vol XVII
Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vol II
Stiff Little Fingers - Stiff Little Fingers Anthology
Frank Zappa - Zappa In New York
Kiss - Revenge
Santana - The Ultimate Collection
Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vol XIII
Various - Wait a Minute : The Stax & Satellite Story
Ten Holt - Canto Ostinato XXL
Ligeti - Kammerkonzert, Ramifications, Lux aeterna, Atmosphères
Chicago - Chicago III
Various - Prestige Records : The Album Cover Collection
Various - 3/60 Northern Soul
Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets
Various - The Look Of Love: Burt Bacharach Collection
Various - Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon
Booker T. & The MG's - The Best Of Booker T & The MGs
Chicago - The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition
Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vol VI
Chic - Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization - Up All Night
Various - Wish You Were Here Again
Ter Veldhuis - JacobTV - Complete Solo Piano Music
Jeroen Van Veen - Piano Music
Creek - Creek 2015
Chicago - Chicago II
Chicago - Chicago VI
Kraftwerk - Autobahn

The tenth of the January podcasts went up this morning - all these albums were featured over the month...

For February, I think I'll cut back a bit...

We'll see...

A beautiful, cold day...

A walk down to Stockbridge at lunchtime...

...and a few things spotted but nothing added to the collection, which remains under pressure to be reduced...

With that in mind, I identified over 300 albums today without which I could quite easily live...

Home...

...from the West End...

..to the bottom of Crispycat Hill...

...which was subsequently walked up - man, you can't go anywhere these days without people sticking their phones in front of your face...

At the top of the hill...

...these awaited...

...together with a double DVD of Philip Glass...

Just VIII to arrive now re the Chicago studio album gap fill...

Anne had been cooking for much of the day re a wee birthday related dinner party at Crispycat Towers tomorrow night...

Later on, a break in listening allowed a very good "The Musketeers" adventure to be enjoyed...

This was followed by what can only be described as a travesty of a Kraftwerk documentary on BBC4...

I especially liked the bit where precious airtime was given over to someone and their boyfriend playing Kraftwerk records in a pub, because they couldn't get tickets to the Tate concerts?

And the bit where a so-called design expert/legend waxed lyrical re the minimalism of the cover of "Autobahn" and how ahead of its time it was in 1974...

 ...when this is the original cover...

...dreadful...

Techno "legend" Derrick May took some considerable amount of time on screen to advise what he thought of Kraftwerk...

It seemed to boil down to "That shit was on fire man"...

So insightful...

Paul Morley came in for some well-deserved flack on Twitter for twittering a pile of pish - although his point about Kraftwerk being more influential than the Beatles was right on the mark...

At least Kraftwerk themselves came out, for the most part, reasonably unscathed as they didn't participate, other than their performance being filmed by people who clearly didn't know much about them...

What a let down...

I had to listen to side two of "Autobahn" to cleanse my palate...

Oh well, off to bed...

Highlight of the Day : Chicago but should have been Kraftwerk...