No tunes can still be good....

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Cage

Shostakovich - Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 & 9

Shostakovich - Shostakovich: Symphonies

Barber - Winter Was Hard

Yes - Bi Generator

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimosn King

The Tubes - Outside Inside

Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments

Weinberg - Weinberg: Chamber Music

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Ease Down The Road

Max Richter - Voices
Hirschfield - Solitudes
Minciacchi - The Aforesaid
Tchemberdji - Chamber Music

It was Monday and it was early...

Scenes...

The beast was about its business working on its new LP...

...before breakfast...

Today's classical piece was Shostakovich's 5th symphony - the one used by Morrissey at one point...

Or rather, Saturday's classical piece was that - I missed them over the weekend as I was "too busy"...

Yesterday's was another Shostakovich symphony, his 10th - also very good...

..while today's piece was Barber's Adagio for strings, played by the Kronos Quartet - lovely stuff...

I also missed my random LP of the day over the weekend so Saturday's was Yes' "Big Generator"...

Much better than the hit “90125”...

 ...but 4 yrs was just too long to get it out...

Sadly, despite its soaring highs, this spelled the beginning of the end of Yes as a “big-selling” band...

Meanwhile, a visitor...

...making a lot of noise to warn its friends about something or other - probably a cat...

On to yesterday's random LP, King Crimson's debut, a stone cold classic...

Bought 23rd April 1977 for just 80p (which is £5.11 today)... 

An original and it plays fine....

Weirdly, for 2.5 yrs prior to this, “Lizard” had been my only KC LP...

Someone on Twitter reckoned it could be worth a lot of money if it had a "textured" label...

Someone else reckoned that wasn't textured enough...

Oh well - I wouldn't have sold it anyway...

Next up, today's random LP...

As you might tell from the number of times their records have cropped up I’m a huge Tubes fan...

Bought this on release for £3.69 in 1983...

 That's £12.74 in today's money...

Some cracking tunes on here...

Then, spending some time with a couple of new arrivals on the Col Legno label - far out classical stuff...

These five arrived today...

Tasty pasta for tea...

..and a visit from Fang...

In the evening, University Challenge and we came second again...

I moved the books around...

...and we watched some TV...

Later I moved the books back...

Some discussion re the "Triumvirate of Fusion" on the Twitter...

...and I noted my RTF comps and live discs...

That was about it...

No, wait...

Wrote up my red books of CDs I own and it seems that, in the last 366 days, I’ve acquired 625 CDs....

 That’s the equivalent of 1.71 CDs, each and every day, day in day out, for an entire leap year...

Uh, oh...

Highlight of the Day : New tuneless stuff arriving...