Milliseconds on the buzzer can make all the difference...

Playlist

Various - Top 50 of 2024 So Far...

Dohnányi - Complete Piano Works Vol 1

Dohnányi - Piano Works Vol 2

Laurence Pike - Prophecy

Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1-3

Donizetti/Lindpaintner - Concerti for Winds

Various  - Woodstock Generation

Laurence Pike - Distant Early Warning

Einstürzende Neubauten - Rampen (Apm: alien pop music)

Roll the Dice - Until Silence

Roll the Dice - Born to Ruin

Up and compiling this week's Top 100 LPs...

...under promising skies...

Here are my Top 50 LPs of  2024 so far... 

...which soundtracked the majority of my day...

...and here are the rankings, based on the average of total points (100 for No 1, 1 for No 100) divided by weeks on chart but, crucially, limited to those having scored at least 400 points over the piece (otherwise my LP of the year could be one that came it at No 1 one week and then disappeared for good the next - i.e. with an average of 100)...

The position on the current Top 100 is shown in the first column - 101 means the LP is no longer on the chart...

Anyway, every single one is recommended...

Right, out...

..and a number 31 into town...

...up the Bridges...

...for a meet with Dr Prog - he was on a number 3, which passed my bus - we were Whatsapping each other re the "bus race", so much so, that he missed his stop and, despite my bus being slightly behind his, and me getting off a stop early, I beat him to Summerhall...

Oh how we laughed...

Coffees, rolls and good chat were all enjoyed...

Discussion re tribute bands, covers bands, Don Henley supposedly miming etc etc...

All good...

Out and to the Bethany shop, each of us buying 3 CDs...

To Till's bookshop...

...Phil in search of Stephen King...

...to no avail...

Then, we were heading towards Tollcross, with the intention of cake partaking, when we passed a wee shop opposite the University...

In the two old buffters went...

..and cake was indeed enjoyed...

...along with strong coffee...

Post this, with more chat and discussions re our CD purchases and recommendations being swapped re recently discovered subjectively good music, we parted ways...

Phil was off for even more coffee at Anne's and my old record shop - mainly to use the facilities...

I, on the other hand, utilised alternative facilities at the robotics department of the university...

...which was nice...

47 years since this was my short-lived (too much time spent in record shops) place of learning...

A bus down to Canonmills to my latest discovered shop of choice and two books and a CD purchased for ten of your UK pounds, cash...

Up to Princes St, onto an airport bus but alighted at Shandwick Place, popped into FOPP and one final CD acquired, re their Leaf Label offering...

Back onto a 26 and to the terminus, meeting this fine wee monkey on my walk down to Crispycat Towers...

Let the ripping begin...

Today's haul...

Rather inevitably, this...

On checking the diary, it turns out that each of these Dohnanyi discs was bought on a trip to Glasgow, for gigs, attending both with none other than Dr Prog!

Roger Waters in 2018 and Tangerine Dream in 2019 - both CDs were bought at Mixed Up, in their £1 section, now, sadly, no longer a feature of that establishment...

I did not have this though...

...or this...

...although I did have a download of this, by Australian drummer, Laurence Pike, acquired just over 30 days ago but, till now, not listened to...

As regards the books, well, it seems I already have the paperback edition of the Documenta 12 catalogue...

Jeez oh...

Anne arrived home from an afternoon at the hearing people with her mum, getting replacement, state of the art, hearing aids to replace the pair Mary accidentally microwaved a couple of weeks ago...

Later, Anne to Pilates, me in charge of egg mayonnaise production...

Which went surprisingly successfully...

Mind you, what could really have gone wrong?

Post many baked potato and expertly produced egg mayonnaise scoffing accompanying phone calls to/from Mary re her new hearing aids etc, we enjoyed the grand final of University Challenge, achieving a total of 85 points...

So, UCL beat us...

...but were trounced by Imperial...

But, really, it all hung on the split second faster starter buzzing of Mr Lee...

Here the scoring across the teams - Lee on fire and best player of the entire series both overall and on average...

Interesting to note that neither captain scored any starter points...

And so, here are the record breaking (5 times) champions (obvs different contestants in each of the previous four wins)...

 

Some more music listening with Mary Beard on Nero in the background, was followed by bed...

Highlight of the Day : Out and About...

Today's New Music:-