The best of the last 12 months can be a good soundtrack...

Playlist

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

Edgar Froese - Ages

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

The Clash - London Calling

Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Focus - Focus III

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

Shaw - Orange

Radio.String.Quartet - In Between Silence

Phronesis - We Are All

Rihm - Klavierwerke 1966-2000

Various Composers - Fromm Music Foundation : Twentieth Century Composers Series

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five

Cosmic Ground - Cosmic Ground V

Roll The Dice - Born to Ruin

William Fitzsimmons - Mission Bell

Tangerine Dream - In Search Of Hades - The Virgin Recordings 1973 – 1979

Melanie De Biasio - Lilies

The Weeknd - After Hours

Max Richter - Voices

King Crimson - The Elements - 2019 Tour Box

Szymanowski - Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music

The Undisputed Truth - The Collection

Various Artists - C.Sides Compilation 2006

Holmboe - The Complete String Quartets

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From the Bardo

Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Taylor Swift - Folklore

Hound Dog Taylor's Hand - Hound Dog Taylor's Hand Vol II

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Complete Original Mahavishnu Orchestra Columbia Albums Collection

Luke Howard Trio - The Shadow

65daysofstatic - replicr, 2019

We Lost The Sea - Triumph and Disaster

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters

Max Richter - Max Richter - Voyager: Essential Max Richter

Rush - Vapor Trails Remixed

Joe Harriott - Abstract

Phish - Sigma Oasis

Rammstein - Untitled

GoGo Penguin - GoGo Penguin

DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age

Herman Van Veen - Neue Saiten

Various Composers - Shutter Island OST

Slow Meadow - Happy Occident

Sun O))) - Pyroclasts

Lindemann - F&M

Contemplator - Sonance

Agnes Obel - Myopia

Various Artists - Neu Decade: A Compendium of Modern European Music: 1970-1979
Hawkwind - Epocheclipse

Up...

Initial listening was double LPs from 1966-1986...

Dylan to Sylvian...

Then the whole Sylvian album...

And then, as it was the end of the month yesterday, a question was asked...

"Hey Dave? You know how you acquired 87 new records in August?

Well, if push came to shove, what would be your top 10?"

"My top 10 for August would be this very dectet - and you can listen to them here!" 

And so those too were listened to...

Then, a playlist of the 120 albums which comprise each of my Top Ten Acquisitions of the month from September 2019 to August 2020...

These are the 2020 entries, including the 10 shown above already...

 

When I added these 120 into my recently created Top 200 playlist, it went up to 238 - meaning 38 of the 120 form the last 12 months weren't in the initial 200...

Anyway...

Another day of WFH...

Around tea time, a call from Sheila, mum had pressed her alarm but the alarm people could not raise her or her neighbours...

Which begs the question, why were Sheila or I expected to go when the alarm people are paid to attend...

That's for the future..

For now, I raced over in 15 minutes...

There was a "situation" but nothing untoward - mum just couldn't reach the phone to speak to the alarm people...

Again raises a question but, anyway, I sorted everything out and left her after an hour or so, with a cup of hot milk and looking a lot better than when I'd arrived...

Home for a postponed tea and then a couple of episodes of "Chuck" and then writing this up - I'd let it lie for 10 days...

Not good...

Also, I've been a bit lax in the old random LP of the day spinning...

So 8 were chosen to bring things up to date...

To bed at midnight, with Hawkwind in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Mum being OK, kind of...