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Playlist

Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Alban Gerhardt, Cecile Licad - Casals Encores

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

Patto - Hold Your Fire

Mahler - Symphony No. 8

Various Artists - Perfect Blues

Beethoven - Beethoven: Fidelio

Haydn - "London" Symphonies

Paul McCartney - Freshen Up Tour 2018/19

Various Artists - The Brazilian Funk Experience

John Fogerty - 50 Year Trip Live At Red Rocks

Maya Koch / Julian Milford - Paris : The Spirit of Diaghilev, Cocteau & Stravinsky

Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within

Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello

Various Artists - Supafunky II

Sheryl Crow - Threads

Annette Unger, Rieko Yoshizumi Aphroditische Tänze : Dresdner Moderne

Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen - The League Of Gentlemen

Daniel Cavanagh - Monochrome/Colour
Various - 7" Singles (see below)

Roy Wood - Singles 1968-1976

T Rex - 20th Century Superstar

Mott The Hoople - The Columbia Singles 1972-1974

Freezing cold and horrible this morning, which is not particularly reflected in these photos...

Listening was hitherto unlistened to tracks from acquisitions made thus far in February...

Home in the dark...

And, this evening, more singles given a spin, featuring the letters Q, R and S...

Quite possibly Queen’s best single, although “Killer Queen” and “Seven Seas of Rhye” run it close...

Complete with Mott the Hoople reference...

First of three Lou Reeds. Played both sides. Have them both on a bootleg of pre Velvets records. The Roughnecks...

Strange that I should have bought one of my all time fave singles and all time fave LPs (No Pussyfooting) on the same 1974 summer’s day in a wee shop in Berchtesgaden. This is a wonderful 7” edit. Such power. Full blast!!

The 4 minute edit of Lou’s “Street Hassle” featuring Bruce Springsteen...

Velvet’s “Waiting for the Man” on the flip side...

Springsteen was recording next door and apparently a fan of Lou. Was invited in. Uncredited, indeed, many thought it was Lou doing a piss take on Bruce, not realising it actually was Bruce...

1978 repress of the Residents’ take on the Stones from ‘76. Orangey vinyl...

And the the actual Stones. Very scratchy, very good...

Beautiful arrangement if the Presley classic, lead off track from Ronson’s solo debut. The B side was covered by the Human League...

Roxy Music would always put a non album track on the b side (and, in some cases, the a side). For example, "Virginia Plain" and "Pyjamarama" are absolute classics...

Often too, a non album A Side might be a special 7" edit e.g. "Hello Hooray", "Don't Fear the Reaper" "Also Sprach Zarathustra"...

And the 60's Stones had a lot Non-album A's...

Anyway, this was “Trash 2”...

Probably my favourite Motown single. Nice melancholy from Mr Ruffin. We never did find out but it probably wasn’t a good outcome...

Two singles, three records 5 songs 2 gatefold sleeves...

The first Rush LP I bought on release. I'd just started buying CDs - that was one of my first of the new shiny medium - I wanted to really appreciate the production. I did...

From the jukebox at the hotel in Konigssee where I stayed on a school trip in 1974 (see Berchtesgaden purchases). The guy came to change the records and I bought it from him...

Chum PEdantic Pedestrian commented "I once heard a bloke ask a wedding DJ if he had "Sambo's Party" by Sultana"...

Discovered Mathilde Santing in Amsterdam in '82 just as her debut 10” LP was released. This is one of her best songs, released a couple of years later...

The Sex Pistols from 1976. Changed things...

Still so Powerful all these years later...

The Shadows. My dad’s record “Geronimo”/“Shazam”. Before it was a music recognition app...

My favourite Sinatra. Probably due to The Tubes' 1977 cover on "Now"...

1st of 2 from Skids. Their pre Virgin debut, "Charles"...

Into the Valley. Exhilarating. Now the Walk On music for Dunfermline FC...  

White vinyl. Nice - but not for Raith Rovers fans apparently...

Played both sides of this 1974, pre-"Horses" disc from Patti Smith. Ahead of her time...

A Soft Cell rarity, recorded for the birthday of mag Flexipop and issued on flexi disc but this is a vinyl copy...

Artifact...

Just added to Capital Models’ set list - a classic Sparks 7” edit, with the full version on side two. Will always be the number one song in heaven...

Edinburgh punk legend, Larry Nicolaka The Square Peg. Features Big John and Gary from The Exploited, Larry’s son on spoken intro and yours truly on opening desolation and nuclear bomb....

Excellent rocker!

Last one and another from Annie Milannie’s collection, which I had too...

Based on “Spirit in the Sky” of course but a classic in its own right...

The night was brought to a close by another good episode of "Holby City"...

Oh Nicky what have you gotten yourself into...

Highlight of the Day : Playing some old records...