Crispycat Recordings: The inability to abstain...

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The inability to abstain...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selections 2016

Mark Farner - Wake Up

Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence

Lana del Rey - Honeymoon

The view from the office this morning...

Good skies...

I've been trying to abstain from CD buying but, in the British Heart Foundation shop, as a Grand Funk Railroad fan, I could not less this God-bothering solo album from Mark Farner pass me by - especially when the price was merely 99 pence...

Then, a trip to Fopp, and they had more of these 20th Century discs for £3 so three of those were snapped up...

...while these (also £3 each) Lana del Rey albums are chalk full of melancholia doused in mellotron...

What's not to like?

Idiot...

Home late after a particularly testing day in the business of the bringing home of the bacon which allows me to maintain my status as a dilettante...

As a consequence, "DCI Banks" took priority over listening but I had the chance to sample a couple of items later on...

Just as well this week's podcast was already in the bag...

Hihglight of the Day : New music...

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!