Saturday, August 18, 2018

Chocolate, charts and comedy, the three Cs...

Playlist
Rheostatics - Music Inspired By The Group Of 7
The Cure - The Cure
Rush - Feedback
Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars
Karl Bartos - Communication
Martin Tielli - We Didn't Even Suspect He Was The Poppy Salesman
Yello - The Eye
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
The Blue Nile - High
Pet Shop Boys - Pop Art
The Czars - Goodbye
Peter Gabriel - Burn You Up, Burn You Down (Single)
David Sylvian - Blemish
Rheostatics - 2067
Madonna - American Life
Lucy Kaplansky - The Red Thread
Martin Tielli - Operation Infinite Joy
Melissa Ferrick - Everything I Need
Jonatha Brooke - Back In The Circus
Craig Armstrong - Piano Works
The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked
Alice Martineau - Daydreams
Rheostatics - Night of the Shooting Stars
Martin Gore - Counterfeit 2
Françoise Hardy - Tant De Belles Choses
The Album Leaf - n A Safe Place
Asia (Featuring John Payne) - Silent Nation
Spock's Beard - Octane
Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
Coldplay - X&Y
The Shangri-Las - The Best Of The Shangri-Las
Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
Madredeus - Faluas Do Tejo
Moby - Hotel
Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
Bryan Adams - Room Service
New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call
Neal Morse - One
Herman Van Veen - Hut Ab!
Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Dar Williams - My Better Self
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight
Lou Reed - Retro
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Various - Now That's 1975-01 - 1975-07
Yes - The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (Complete)
Paul McCartney & Wings - Wingspan
Ian Hunter - The Journey: A Retrospective Of Mott The Hoople And Ian Hunter
Various - Jackie The Album
Alice Cooper - The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper (Rarities)
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Bad Company - Straight Shooter
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Various - Wow! That Was The 70's
Roxy Music - Siren
Eagles - Desperado
Various - The Best Glam Rock Album in the World...Ever!
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes [Single]

Up early and working and Mia was, of course, helping...


At 11 or so, into town to meet up with Dr Prog at the library, then, down to the Grassmarket and, among the stalls, some CDs purchased a for a total of just £9...

A Funakdelic classic from 1970...


A disc from the just departed Aretha Franklin - prior to today I only had one original album plus her greatest hits...

This from 1968...


A Michael Nyman soundtrack - which is less stamped with his personality than his early work for Peter Greenaway...


And another Aretha album, also from 1968...


Chat, sustenance and coffee with the doc...


...at L'Etoile patisserie - this chocolate confection was very nice indeed - and cost more than a CD by a recently deceased soul songstress...


The place was festooned with French literature...


...and a plethora of tasty treats...


Whole I was away, Abbie's siater Rebecca called to take Mia home...

Booo...

Home and some measure of ripping and other non-essential work involving recreataing lists of number one singles throughout the years took place, before heading out to The Stand with the EP for tonight's Fringe show, Paul Sinha...


...which was very entertaining indeed...

He's a lot less confident than he comes across as 5th top quizzer in the UK on ITV teatime quiz show "The Chase"...

Picked up an Indian on the way home and the rest of the evening was spent watching two films, the very disappointing indeed "Hitman : Agent 47" and the not quite as good as its predecessors, "Ice Age : Continental Drift"

Oh well...

Anne enjoyed the highlights of Hearts beating Dunfermline to go into the last 8 of the League Cup (Queens drew at home 1-1 with Premier League side St Johnstone but lost 4-2 in extra time), while I continued with stupid projects...

Today's artwork, "It Sometimes Takes Seven to Get One"...


Lights out...

highlight of the Day : The Sihna Man...

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