Forgotten about music can be good to rediscover...

Playlist

Various Artists - Pure... Psychedelic Rock

Matthew Florianz - Sprook

John Cale - Honi Soit

Max Jury - Christian Eyes

Bidiniband - The Motherland

And One - Magnet (Premium Edition)

Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot

Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'Til Dawn

Neu! - Neu!

Cameo - Word Up! The Ultimate Collection

Daft Punk - Homework

Freddie Hubbard - The CTI Years (1970-1973)

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2020s

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2010s

And January is gone...

Most of the day soundtracked by German band And One who I was reminded of yesterday when dipping into my "tracks of the week" from back in 2014...

Home alone and cooking...

Reasonably tasty...

Links for the podcast recorded...

I'll put it together tomorrow...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Cooking...

Too much, too son...

Playlist

Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot

David Patrick Octet - Igor Stravinsky, The Rite Of Spring

Herman Van Veen - Neue Saiten

Various Artists - The Greatest Seventies Album

Various Artists - 100 Hits : Guitar Heroes

Müthel - Trois Sonates Et Deux Ariosi Avec Douze Variations

Arve Henriksen - Strjon

Françoise Hardy  - (Parenthèses ...) (CD)

Various Artists - Abstract

Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'Til Dawn

Various Artists - The Best TV ADS...Ever!

Albéniz - España y otras piezas para piano

Mazagan - Tajine Electrik

Fennesz - AUN – The Beginning and the End of All Things

Cage - Complete Piano Music

Son Lux - Brighter Wounds

Monteverdi - Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali

David Bowie - Heathen

Haydn - String Quartets (Complete)

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

Herman Van Veen - Herman van Veen 100

DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age

Girls Aloud - Chemistry

Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

David Bowie - Reality

The Doors - The Soft Parade

Uriah Heep - Travellers In Time: Anthology Vol. 1

Various Artists - The Front Line

Wire - Pink Flag

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Cruising With Ruben & The Jets [2012 Remaster]

Various Composers - Vivarte 60CD Collection

Dar Williams - End Of The Summer

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

Rainbow - The Best Of Rainbow

Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella

Steve Harley - Stranger Comes To Town

The Killers - Sam's Town

Wallenstein - Cosmic Century

New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

The Temptations - Psychedelic Soul

Taylor Swift - 1989 (Deluxe)

Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection

Van Veen - Piano Music Volume 2

Loudon Wainwright III - Album II

Leipziger Streichquartett - Festgrefreßen (?!)

The Rolling Stones - The London Years

John Cale & Terry Riley - Church Of Anthrax

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live)

Mozart - String Quartets and Quintets

Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks

N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

Various Composers - Musik in alten Städten & Residenzen

Uriah Heep - Equator

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

Various Artists - Soul Years 1976

Soft Cell - Heat : The Remixes

Neil Young - Greatest Hits

Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection

Brian Eno - ENOBOX II / Vocal

Roy Wood - Music Book

Today's listening was so far unplayed tracks on the newly refilled phone...

Good...

At lunchtime, this from the BHF for 50p...

My 81st CD purchase of 2020...

That's too much for 30 days...

But there are just so many great bargains out there...

Still, need to reign it in a little...

Other than that, I'm writing this next Friday morning so can't recall what we watched other than I now we did watch "Death in Paradise" and the departure of Ardal O'Hanlon...

Highlight of the Day : Death in Paradise...

A day celebrated the day before...

Playlist

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy En anglais

Al Di Meola - Opus

Petrels - Onkalo

Ligeti - String Quartets

Daft Punk - Homework

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

Jon & Vangelis - Page Of Life

Various Artists - Trance Nation Four

Peter Gabriel - Hit

Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Various Artists - Kranky Kompilation

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Various Composers - 20th Century Masterpieces

Dream Theater - Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)

Scars - Author! Author!

Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

The Weeknd - Kiss Land (Deluxe Edition)

Björk - Post

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Allan Holdsworth - Against The Clock The Best Of Allan Holdsworth

The Clash - Sandinista!

Cage - Complete Piano Music

Tallis - Mass For 4 Voices, Motets

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

Haydn - Piano Trios Complete

DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age

Styx - Brave New World

Nina Hagen - Unbehagen

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles

It Bites - The Big Lad In The Windmill

Fripp & Eno - The Essential Fripp & Eno

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

Allan Holdsworth - None Too Soon

Simpson - String Quartets #1 & 4

Dar Williams - My Better Self

Paul McCartney - Tug Of War

Various Artists - After Dark 2

Cameo - Word Up! The Ultimate Collection

Pet Shop Boys - Hotspot

Up early on Annie's birthday - which we really celebrated a day early - but still special...



Cards opened...

Of  out int the dark...

At lunchtime, along to Fopp...

This is good disco/electronic music for £3...

Mostly Mr Johnny Jewel and his various offshoots - Italians do iy better in the dark, apparently...

This is funkier than you might expect - Cameo were an excellent funk band for almost a decade before "Word Up"...

And, the new Pet Shop Boys album - special 2CD version with the instrumental disc...

The view from the office this evening I...

The view from the office this evening II...

Ripping and listening and telly watching...

Pet Shop Boys is good but somehow I'm always a little disappointed with them these days - can't really put my finger on it...

Notwithstanding that, most likely my Album of the Month, release-wise...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's birthday, even though it was kind of yesterday...

Brzl...

Playlist

Neal Morse - Momentum

The Bad Plus - The Rite of Spring

Matthew Florianz - Onontgonnen

Various Composers - 20th Century Masterpieces

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You (Limited Edition)

John Coltrane - The Best Of John Coltrane

Udo Lindenberg - Radio Eriwahn

Girls Aloud - Ten (Deluxe)

Craig Armstrong - Film Works 1995-2005

Be Bop Deluxe - Air Age Anthology

Françoise Hardy - Message personnel

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run

Madredeus - Ainda

Icehouse - The Berlin Tapes

Ornette Coleman - The Complete Science Fiction Sessions

Gabrieli Consort & Players - A Venetian Coronation

The Supremes - Baby Love - The Essential Diana Ross & The Supremes

Piebald - Barely Legal & All Ages

Various Artists - Hip City - Tales From The Funky Side Of Town

Various Composers - Bachfest Leipzig 2007

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 26

Parliament - Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980

Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vols XXI-XXVIII

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

Brian Eno - More Blank Than Frank/Desert Island Selection

Neal Morse - Testimony

The Cure - Japanese Whispers

Anthony Moore - Flying Doesn't Help

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundystem

The Cure - Wild Mood Swings

Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection

Walter Carlos - Switched-On Bach

Status Quo - On The Level

King Crimson - The Great Deceiver

Various Composers - 19th Century Masterpieces

Nina Hagen - Definitive Collection

Various Composers - Musik in alten Städten & Residenzen

Hawkwind - Epocheclipse

Lemon Juice Quartet - Republic

Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band

The Czars - The Best Of The Czars

Debussy - Works For Piano

The Tubes - Goin' Down

Jon & Vangelis - The Friends Of Mr. Cairo

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition

The Divine Comedy - Casanova

The Doors - Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine

Ligeti - Works

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Caravan - Canterbury Tales - The Best Of Caravan

Talk Talk - Asides And Besides

Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off

The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution

Various Artists - Super 70's Rock

Various Artists - Da, Da, Da, Das War Die... Neue Deutsche Welle

Rush - Moving Pictures

David Bowie - Pin Ups

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Gold Und Liebe

The Stranglers - Black And White

Geoff Downes - The Light Program

Strawbs - Ghosts

Sparks - Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat

Françoise Hardy - Star

Françoise Hardy - In English (Marble Arch)

Tippett - A Tribute to Sir Michael Tippett

The Ventures - Where the Action Is

Family 5 - Resistance

Various Artists - Das Bleiben Hits

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Geisterfahrer - Fest Der Vielen Sinne

Family 5 - Resistance

The Tubes - Love Bomb

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna

Matthew Florianz - Mass Object

The views from the office this morning, out and about with the EP...

Coffees in Stockbridge...

...before heading up to George St and Fazenda for a birthday lunch for Anne, using a token (in part) gifted to me for my birthday nine months ago by chum Gina...

In...

Top notch fayre, starting with the salad bar, Anne is behind me selecting some delights...

Here's my first go...

..and Anne's...

The concept of this Brazilian restaurant is that various different cuts are brought on skewers to your table and carved to your plate...

Tasty...

...very tasty...

...enjoyed with some Brazilian wine...

Eventually, we could not really justify eating any more cuts...

And so, something else was ordered to round matters off...

Small Argentinian "biscuits", kind of similar to mini Wagon Wheels...

Lovely...

Coffee for Anne...

...before a visit to nearby White Stuff some further birthday treats...

My reading while Anne was in the changing rooms...

Items selected...

..and a bus home...

No tea required...

Some listening...

I'd wanted to play some LPs but it turns out my turntable is "suddenly" on the blink...

Now swithering about a new one...

"Holby City" rounded off a very good day...

Highlight of the Day : Celebrating the EP's birthday at Fazenda...

Looks is deceiving...

Playlist

Various Composers - New Music Collections: Orchestra

Spock's Beard - Snow

Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper

Neil Young - Decade

Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music

The Tubes - Remote Control

Neal Morse - One

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

Lothar and the Hand People - Presenting...Lothar and the Hand People

Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale

Soft Cell - Non Stop Ectatic Dancing

The Tubes - T.R.A.S.H.

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

The Bears - Rise and Shine

Tallis - Mass For 4 Voices, Motets

Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard & The Ballroom (Reissue 2004)

The Church - Conception

Juicy Lucy - Lie Back And Enjoy It

Rush - Caress Of Steel

Lone Star - Lone Star

Solution - Cordon Bleu

Yello - Baby

Television - Adventure

Alice Cooper - Da Da

Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation

Inga Humpe - Planet Oz

Horse - The Same Sky

Francis Dunnery - Let's Go Do What Happens

The Bad Plus - Activate Infinity

Focus - In And Out Of Focus

Jenkins, J - All In A Garden Green

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden

Eels - Beautiful Freak

Nico - The Marble Index

Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Sparks - Terminal Jive

Marin Marais - Suites pour viole de gambe - Juan Manuel Quintana

Trevor Rabin - Trevor Rabin

Wire - Pink Flag

Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds

Dutch Uncles - Out Of Touch In The Wild

William Orbit - Pieces In A Modern Style

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits

Strauss, R - Strauss - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

Françoise Hardy - Personne d'autre

Rush - Clockwork Angels

David Bowie - Lodger

Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo

Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy

Purcell - Instrumentalmusik

Television - Marquee Moon

Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

Shawn Colvin - Whole New You

Billy Cobham - Rudiments - The Billy Cobham Anthology

Neu! - Neu!

Various Artists - Best Of The Seventies

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Robert Fripp - Network

Haydn - Complete String Quartets

Family 5 - Stein des Antosses

Free - Fire And Water

Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless

Nothing much to report today...

These on the way down from the terminus in the dark...

Beast in a hat...

Tonight, some Neu!

..and we came second in "University Challenge" and watched something else at 9pm which I can#'t remember but I think it might have been good...

Hmmm...

Highlight of the Day : Posting a pic on Twitter of an LP, while listening to an MP3 of it...

A glorious win and a forgetful mum...

Playlist

Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection

Freddie Hubbard - The CTI Years (1970-1973)

Max Richter - Voyager: Essential Max Richter

Various Artists - Is This Love

Françoise Hardy - Personne D'autre (CD)

Cloudland Blue Quartet featuring The Capital Models - 2020-01-11 (Set 1)

Muddy Waters - The Essence Of Muddy Waters

Rodrigo Leão - O Aniversário

Various Artists - The Greatest Seventies Album

Riverside - Acoustic Session - EP

Calexico - Carried To Dust

Capital Models - The Sweet Thrill of Industry

DDHR - Basso Profundo

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy I (Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles)

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy Sings About Love

Françoise Hardy - Message personnel

Genesis - And Then There Were Three

The Steve Miller Band - Sailor

Sparks - The Best of Sparks (1979)

David Gilmour - David Gilmour

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea

Caravan - Blind Dog At St.Dunstans

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

Sparks - Whomp That Sucker

Die Ärzte - Nach Uns die Sintflut

Public Image Limited - Album

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Rush - Vapor Trails

Lou Reed - The Raven

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

The Church - Sometime Anywhere

Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

Lou Reed - Ecstasy

David Bowie - Low

Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo

Peter Gabriel - So

Ringo Starr - Ringo

Strawbs - Ghosts

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

Prince - Sign 'o' The Times

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

The Clash - The Clash

Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe

The Cure - Concert: The Cure Live

Robert Fripp - Exposure

The Beach Boys - The Best of the Beach Boys Vol 1

Rush - Exit...Stage Left

The Czars - Goodbye

America - Homecoming

Al Stewart - Bedsitter Images

Chris Rea - Water Sign

Alice Cooper - School Days

Jon & Vangelis - Private Collection

Heavy Metal Kids - Anvil Chorus

Up early once again...

Today's project, to celebrate the 40th annivesary of the recording of the 1st Capital Models album...

I still enjoy it despite the not great production...

I discovered too that I have been spelling guitarist Eric Merrall's surname wrongly for, probably, 40 years...

Oh well...

Corrected now...

In the afternoon, took Anne to her mum's for the two of them to head to Tynecastle to watch Hearts, very surprisingly but very satisfyingly, thrash Scotland's newest club 2-1...

Meanwhile I visited my mum, who was fine and dandy and had her shopping carried out by her dutiful son...

Back at Jane & Bob's, post match, the mood around the table for Anne's birthday tea was buoyant...

Kind of...

There was some trouble lighting the candles/sparklers...

..and for Mary in trying to remember exactly who might be turning 59 soon...

Ah yes, her elder daughter...

Eventually...

Success...

...times two...

Kitty tried to cover her self proclaimed wayward ear with the Happy Birthday singing cake thing...

But failed...

The pyrotechnics over, the cake was enjoyed...

A very good evening indeed...

Back home for "Star Trek"...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Hearts 2 The Rangers 1...