Music is a time machine, pt 342...

Playlist
Various - The Best of Blaxploitation - Cinematic Soul and Bad Ass Funk Classics
Long Distance Calling - Trips
The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix
Plenty - It Could Be Home
Various - Pulp Fusion [15th Anniversary Crystal Edition - 2CD]
Takemitsu - Takemitsu: Complete Solo Guitar Works
Laurent Garnier - Misch Masch
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
The Dead Daisies - Burn It Down
David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Gabrieli, G - Music For San Rocco
Yes - Magnification
Ohio Players - Funk On Fire: The Mercury Anthology
Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 6 - Magnum
Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
Various - Funk Soul Classics (Ministry of Sound)
Tuber - Out Of The Blue
Gentle Giant - Super Star (Italian Compilation)
Johnny Clarke - The Front Line
Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism
Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy
Michał Milczarek Trio - Ambient Works
Donald Byrd - Blackjack
The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,
Passengers - Miss Sarajevo [EP]
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor (Limited Deluxe Version)
Andrea Belfi - Ore
Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems
Tangerine Dream - Genesis of Precious Thoughts (Live in Budapest 2017)
Jellyfish - I Wanna Stay Home [Single]
Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!
Noël - Is There More to Life Than Dancing?
Ulrich Schnauss - For Nothing EP
The Fierce and the Dead - The Euphoric
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Genesis - The Best...Genesis
Tuber - Desert Overcrowded
Alison Wonderland - Awake
Evie - Balades électriques
Jeff Beck - Truth
Nazareth - Razamanaz
Various - Wow! That Was The 70's
Various - Now That's 1973-05 - 1973-09
T Rex - The T Rex Wax Co. Singles - A's And B's, 1972-77
Various - 101 Disco Anthems
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
Various - The Sound Of The 70's
Slade - Sladest
Status Quo - Dog Of Two Head
Cliff Richard - The Whole Story
Anne-Marie David - Tu te reconnaîtras [Single]
Various - Original Soul Classics
Argent - In Deep
Various - Sound Of The 70s : Glam Rock

May, away...

Some stuff on Twitter, once again, led me to consult my diaries as to when a particular LP might have been acquired...

In the evening, some good TV (exactly what, now forgotten, as is the way)...

Again, the Twitter led me to a stupid project...

It;s said that what was the N01 single on your 14th birthday defines you...

Can't remember by whom but, hmmm...

Anyway, here's the Top 50 from mine...

Which of course I had to create as a playlist...

Turns out I have 30 of the UK Top 50 for the week of my 14th birthday and probably had bought around 16 of those at the time...

Music is a time machine, pt 342...

Today's artwork, "December 1974"...

Highlight of the Day : Looking back and listening...

The man in black, or, rather, sky blue...

Playlist

Neal Morse - Lifeline
Various - Can You Dig It? - The '70s Soul Experience
DJ Hell - Zukunftsmusik
Mindgames - Paradox Of Choice
The Blue Nile - Peace At Last
Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer
Various - NOW That's What I Call Country
Rose Royce - Greatest Hits

Susanna - Wild Dog

36 - Circuit Bloom

Various Composers - Expo 1

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Ali Akbar Khan - The 80 Minute Raga

deadmau5 - where's the drop?

Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy

Scott Walker - Scott

Bryan Ferry - Frantic

Scott Walker - Scott 3

Alice Cooper - Killer

Bidiniband - The Motherland

W.E.T. - Earthrage

GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star

Various - Eurovision 2018

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Bill Frisell - Music IS

Gregson - Quartets: Two

Monk Higgins - Extra Soul Perception

Mindgames - Paradox Of Choice

Delta Saxophone Quartet - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening - The Music Of Soft Machine

Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 10 Africa Funk

Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner Soundtrack

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Defecto - Nemesis

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity
deadmau5 - where's the drop?
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

A return to the fray, kind of, this evening, as MB5's (Meadowbank 5's), founded by Mr CBQ (then known as Sombre Reptiles) and some workmates back in 1982, had a special derby challenge of the "oldies" (darks) v "newbies" (lights) and I, as the so-called "Godfather" of the squad ,which has seen, probably, hundreds of players take part over the last 36 years, was invited along to be referee...

I had my whistle, my stopwatch, a pen, some notepaper and my cards...

A thrilling game ensued...

4-1 for the darks at half-time...

...soon thereafter to be 8-1...

A late comeback saw the final score at 8-3 - with the lights winning the last 10 minutes 2-0 - and, as one wag advised, "last goal the winner"...

Ah the banter...
 
Lights were : Matt, Marcin, Dami, Tolga, Chibs, Wind, Steven and Essom...

Darks were : Jamie, Connor, Nigel, Mickey, Grant, Gav, Lloyd and Ed...

I gave up probably over five years ago now - Nigel and Mickey were the only two I've played alongside, although I met a few of the others at the awards night earlier this year...

Even though just strolling around, blowing the whistle occasionally, has badly affected the old legs, it was very enjoyable indeed to be back...

All too soon it was over...

A bus and a lift up the hill from a post Zumba Exec Producer and some TV and some listening and the day was gone once more...

Today's artwork, "Back in the Fray"...

Highlight of the Day : Refereeing...

A small request begets a large project...

Playlist

Various - Karl Marx's 200th!

Tuber - Out Of The Blue

Gentle Giant - Super Star (Italian Compilation)

Various - The Front Line

Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy

Michał Milczarek Trio - Ambient Works

Donald Byrd - Blackjack

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,

Passengers - Miss Sarajevo [EP]

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor (Limited Deluxe Version)

Andrea Belfi - Ore

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

Tangerine Dream - Genesis of Precious Thoughts (Live in Budapest 2017)

Jellyfish - I Wanna Stay Home [Single]

Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!

Noël - Is There More to Life Than Dancing?

Ulrich Schnauss - For Nothing EP

The Fierce and the Dead - The Euphoric

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Genesis - The Best...Genesis

Tuber - Desert Overcrowded

Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire

Laura Pausini - Hazte sentir

Love Unlimited Orchestra - White Gold

Willie Hutch - Soul Portrait

Bryan Ferry - Frantic

Various - NOW That's What I Call Country

Hinds - I Don't Run

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Various - Funk Soul Classics (Ministry of Sound)

Grouper - Grid of Points

deadmau5 - where's the drop?

Scott Walker - Scott

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 4 - Fully Loaded

Neal Morse - Lifeline

The Ohio Players - Pleasure

The Bad Plus - Ronnie Scott's 2017-07-27

Erik Honorè - Heliographs

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

Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 1 - Funky jazz classics & original breaks from the tough side

David Bowie - Blackstar

Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism

The Bad Plus - Prog

Barry White - Just Another Way to Say I Love You

Federico Albanese - By the Deep SeaGolden Earring - On the Double

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Deep Purple - The Book of Taliesyn

Free - Tons Of Sobs

Free - Free

King Curtis - Instant Groove

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

The Move - Shazam

Tom Paxton - The Things I Notice Now

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You

Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed

The Idle Race - Idle Race

Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation (2008 Remastered)

Traffic - Last Exit

Willie Hutch - Soul Portrait

Santana - Santana

Privilège - Privilège

Joni Mitchell - Clouds

Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola

Cream - Goodbye

The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children

Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!

Yes - Yes

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Humble Pie - As Safe As Yesterday Is

Tony Williams' Lifetime - Emergency! (Verve Remaster)

The Who - Tommy

Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room

Procol Harum - Novum

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Various - Can You Dig It? - The '70s Soul Experience

DJ Hell - Zukunftsmusik

Mindgames - Paradox Of Choice

The Blue Nile - Peace At Last

Father John Misty - God's Favorite Customer

The view on the hill this morning at 8:05... 

The view this evening on the hill at 17:50...

It took a while to become a scorcher...

The beast was about its business, having visited Fopp at lunchtime and, once again, partaken of nothing...

Music listening comprised this week's podcast shortlist followed by the Italian and Spanish versions of the latest Laura Pausini then the iPod on shuffle - albums of the year 1967-2018 plus around the last 150 or so acquisitions...

And then, music from 1969...

On Twitter, Sid Smith was asking people for their one fave LP of 1969...

I chose "In the Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson...

My 10 from that year are in this chat-less podcast...

Some of the suggestions led me to check all my 1969 albums, around 85 in all but some suggestions which I knew I had weren't in this selection...

Turns out I have around 5,000 LPs in my iTunes without a release date recorded...

So I made a playlist of those, deleted all classical and various artist collections then went through the rest, painstakingly removing live LPs and compilations...

Now I have 1,432 LPs of which I "have to" determine the release year...

And this is how a new project arises...

Prior to this, this week's "Agents of Shield" was enjoyed while Anne cooked an excellent pasta...

Ended the day with a particularly ungood episode of "Holby City"...

Today's artwork, "The Beast About Its Business"...

Highlight of the Day : Mucking about with my music collection...

Honing and droning...

Plyalist

Capital Models - 2018-05-27

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!

Andrea Belfi - Ore

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fifty Five Songs - A Selection of Songs from the Concert Series

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Bitter Sweet Covers

Disco Complex 99 - Funtime

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Virginia Man EP

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Jaffa Cake April Tutu

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightlive

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Michał Milczarek Trio - Ambient Works

Tuber - Out Of The Blue

Various - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

Genesis - The Best...Genesis

Various - The Front Line
Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism

Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism_evolution

Gentle Giant - Super Star (Italian Compilation)

Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy

Donald Byrd - Blackjack

The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,

Passengers - Miss Sarajevo [EP]

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor (Limited Deluxe Version)

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems
Tuber - Desert Overcrowded
Ulrich Schnauss - For Nothing EP
Various - Karl Marx's 200th!

Up super early and splitting the recordings from yesterday into individual MP3s and e-mailing them to the boys...

At lunchtime, a trip to the closing down Maplins - nothing found...

Back home, a disappointing attempt at playing along with yesterday's recordings, which had soundtracked the day...

Comparing Ligeti collections with Ethan Iverson, late of The Bad Plus, on the Twitter...

His monolith trumped my handful - although only by 5 discs...

He reckoned my selection was pretty good...

Then to re-compiling this week's podcast...

No TV watched...

Today's artwork, "A Handful of Ligeti"...

Highlight of the Day : Honing the podcast...

Home cooking can be the best...

Playlist

Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light
Disco Complex 99 - Funtime
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Set
Capital Models - 2018-05-13
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple

Camel - The Snow Goose

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Disco Complex 99 - Funtime

Various - Milano Jukebox 2017

Noël - Is There More to Life Than Dancing?

The Fierce and the Dead - The Euphoric
Capital Models - 2018-05-27

Reasonable early start but no gym today due to painful knee - ironically from putting my trainers on yesterday morning...

Plenty other rubbish to be getting on with though - for example, recreating this LP digitally...

...a companion LP of sorts to one of my 1979 faves...

In the afternoon out to Roslin to play covers with the boys - Chloe was shy...

...but the cake was good...

... and the playing was probably the best so far - coming together...

Back home and Anne suggested some wine out the back, before I got work with listening back...

Burgers were expertly prepared...

Uh oh, more wine...

...but work too, of sorts...

Ready...

Yum...

As the sun went down, I passed up on a visit to The Listening Room, where old chum Ian Sclater was the main act, looking instead to work on the covers recordings...

Quite possibly, a little too much vino rosso was clouding my brain as much as the clouds were clouding the sun in the pic above...

Sleep beckoned...

Today's artwork, "Playback"...

Highlight of the Day : Wine and burgers with Annie Milannie...