Spinning while I ripped...

Playlist

Alban Gerhardt, Cecile Licad - Casals Encores

Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare

David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed

Sparks - The Best of Sparks

Captain Beefheart - The Mirror Man Sessions

Corelli - La Folia

The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse

Fehlfarben - Xenophonie

Mahler - Symphony #7

Françoise Hardy - Tant De Belles Choses

Haydn - 107 Symphonies

Hawkwind - Stasis The U.A Years 1971-1975

Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Roy Wood - Singles 1968-1976

Bob Dylan - Planet Waves

Mahler - Symphony No. 8

Mott The Hoople - The Columbia Singles 1972-1974

Beethoven - Fidelio

Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!

The Rolling Stones - The London Years

Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin - 20 Jahre Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin

Capital Models - 2020-02-09

Various - 7" Singles (See Below)

Capella De La Torre - Una serata Venexiana

Mozart - The Singles

Various Composers - Classical Essentials

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1970s

Up super early to get the podcast done and up...

Then, to some tidying...

...followed by listening to an album recently mentioned on the Twitter...

A signed copy no less...

...with the gig ticket stowed away inside...

Into town and past what used to be an essential item on the street for many people...

Walking to the library to return the Haydn and the Velvets...

...and a meet with a rather glum looking Dr Prog...

That's better doc...

Lunch...

I'd popped into Blackwell's Books on the way and bought three CDs...

On the way back to the car post meet, I bought three more in the Cancer Research shop...

And, on returning home, a further three awaited...

In all then, a pile of 9 classical titles...

Whilst ripping all of the above, I enjoyed spinning some more old 7"s...

First today, The Strawbs from around Xmas time in 1972. “Part of the Union” was such a let down after the magnificence of “Lay Down", a fave to this day. A special 7” edit too...

Beast of a single from The Sweet. It is, in fact, heavy metal disguised as pop. The intro is superb and listen to those guitars at the end. And, in the middle, a slice of sublime...

A straight cut from “Gone to Earth”, a superb album...  Nice cover...

A nice single from Sakamoto and Sylvian - I forgot to tweet this one...

Ex Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra. A couple if his early 80s singles were faves with me, this being one. Used to have a couple of his solo albums. Must try and find them again...

Wait. This rather than Ruffin’s broken-hearted might well be my fave Motown single. Played the instrumental version on the b side. Super!

I think I bought this because I loved Patti Smith’s version. The b side of this reissue is a wee bonus and was played too...

If push comes to shove, this just edges “Metal Guru” and “20th Century Boy” and, frankly most of the other top notch T Rex singles from 71-73 to be declared my favourite. Youth Club memories from 72...

The Tubes’ most successful single, which led to a slot on Top of the Pops, a highlight of 1979. Saw them at Munich Circus Krone that year - as well as the Edinburgh Odeon...

And red vinyl...

Two tracks from probably my fave (and quite possibly the last true) prog album. Both cuts are special 7” edit/remixes. Tasty!

More from UK. The b side is a re recording, by the then new trio, of the opener from the debut album...

Plays fine, despite the label colouring leaking into the vinyl...

Played all 4 tracks from this 33 1/3 EP. Puts the Ure led version in the shade...

One of my earliest singles and probably responsible for my almost 50 year love for this much maligned band...

The B side is my favourite version of the classic “Gypsy” - edited to perfection...

Edinburgh punk band The Valves. Signed at Bruces record shop along with next one. Drummer Teddy Dair was a fellow stall holder at record fairs in the 80s and 90s. Top punky pop...

2nd from the Valves, as their pop sensibilities started to seep through their punk veneer, big style. Hugely enjoyable stuff...

Who are White Heat?  It’s the Velvets of course, on a 12 minute, four song bootleg single. Top...

The Velvets again. In strange company on this freebie from Polydor and Sounds...

Banned by the BBC...

McCartney’s reaction to being banned by the BBC...

 The 7” edit of this classic from The Edgar Winter Group. So used to hearing this across the decades that When I hear the full version, it seems “wrong”...

Wire’s most “pop” moment? Probably...

Wishbone Ash even had Hipgnosis designing their singles’ sleeves. Very surface noisy this one. Thanks be to the supreme being of the universe (and Phillips & Sony) for CDs...

Got this for the Roy Wood presence but there’s a little too much of a Chas & Dave feel to it at the start unfortunately...  

Still, not bad...

More Roy Wood. I had to secure a 2nd copy of this. It was pressed for such loud playing that it would jump. As a 13 yr old, I thought I could sort that by pressing the needle into the record!! This is that one. It has two passages that consist of hissing...

The second of two Roy Wood classics released in 1972....

The two tracks on the B side are also top notch. “Do Ya” rivals “Don’t Fear the Reaper” in the cowbell stakes...

One of those covers that outdoes the original. Robert Wyatt’s take on Elvis Costello’s “Shipbuilding”. Great sleeve too...

A nice rarity from the days when Yello was a trio. Different versions from their LPs on the Residents’ Ralph Records...

More Yello as we approach the end of the alphabet and the CD ripping sesh... 

Two tracks from their debut...or so I thought...

Seems the B side isn’t on the LP... 

It’s on the anthology though...

Possibly my first Yes record - “And You And I” and “Roundabout”. Full versions on a 33 1/3 7”...

From the labels, this appears to be a Double A Side. A powerful edit lifts and, seemingly, remixes “Total Mass Retain” from “Close to the Edge” coupled with the succinct and rocking 7” edit of Paul Simon's "America"...

Last one.  The adjective “haunting” was possibly made for this. Best panpipe record in the world...ever (actually, probably the only acceptable one)...

It took 4.5 hours all told - to add 19.25 hours of music to the library...

In the evening, some listening and some watching of TV...

A good Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : New CDs...