Rhyming with rogue and the end of a radio...

Playlist

Moby Grape - Moby Grape

Fish - Weltschmerz

Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee

Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music

Ornette Coleman - Ornette!

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Television - Marquee Moon

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

The Skids - Scared To Dance

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Uriah Heep - Abominog

Diego Pinera - Odd Wisdom

Soft Cell - The Art Of Falling Apart

Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak

The Tubes - Love Bomb

New Order - Technique

The Church - Gold Afternoon Fix

Uriah Heep - Different World

Phish - A Picture Of Nectar

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk

Laura Pausini - Laura

Shania Twain - The Woman In Me

Lou Reed - Set The Twilight Reeling

James - Whiplash

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

The Cure - Bloodflowers

The Orb - Cydonia

Craig Armstrong - As If To Nothing

Massive Attack - 100th Window

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone

Plants And Animals - Parc Avenue

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware

Midlake - The Courage Of Others

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Plants and Animals - The End of That

Lou Donaldson - Gravy Train

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Caravan

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff

John Coltrane - Ascension

Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man

The Temptations - Cloud Nine

The Move - Shazam

Yes - The Yes Album

Neil Young - Harvest

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

David Bowie - Young Americans

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail

The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man

Françoise Hardy - Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp...

The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul

Dar Williams - Mortal City

The Tubes - Love Bomb

Marillion - Radiation

Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus And Mars

Electric Light Orchestra - ELO 2

Middle of the week and a face in the face of the watch...

Last day for the on the blink kitchen radio, which has served us well

Anne's painting is almost done...

New radio - which arrived late last night...

It is Wednesday...

Work...

This evening, went through all 741 albums of the month from May 1959 to January 2021 and replaced around 60 or 70 with alternative and better choices...

Hindsight...

Tasty sausage based tea...

On telly today, more "Superstore" and "Call My Agent" - only two left of the latters now...

And, this evening too, "The Bay" continued to be good...

Today's random record was this...

The Mighty Moog “Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog” (1973)..

2 years in its painstaking making, it’s not of course.... 

It’s 4 classical pieces in fewer than 30 minutes in a Wendy Carlos stylee...

 However, the cover reminded that Moog rhymes with “rogue”....

That'll do...

Highlight of the Day : Sausages...

Replacing a shelf can lift the spirits...

Playlist

Edward Spark - The Curse

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Elements

Stephen Mathieu & David Sylvian - Wandermüde

James Spence - Suzerain (Original Soundtrack)

Madlib - Sound Ancestors

Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden

Donald Byrd - Blackjack

The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks

Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps Présent

John Coltrane - Expression

Scott Walker - Scott

John Mayall - The Blues Alone

The Beach Boys - Wild Honey

Al Stewart - Bedsitter Images

Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

Gordon Lightfoot - The Way I Feel

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Golden Earring - Moontan (UK Version)

The Doors - The Doors

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat [Deluxe Edition]

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (RM)

David Bowie - Low

Michael Rother - Sterntaler

Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks [Extended Edition]

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem [2CD]

David Bowie - Blackstar

Up in the dark on a Tuesday morning...

Ready...

Set...

Go...

And a new shelf swapped for the old shelf - taken from my music set up in the attic...

Random record of the day was this...

 “The Best of Bowie” on K-Tel, with thanks to RCA....

Released 1980 on the back of “Ashes to Ashes”... 

16 hits (but not "Ashes to Ashes"), including a rare version of “John I’m Only Dancing” and the 7” edit of “Heroes”...

 Over an hour of the best of Bowie. Top!!

Liking the new shelf...

Later, realised today is the fourth anniversary of drummer Johnny joining the band...

One of those years has now been spent in limbo...

Compiled my albums of the month for January 1960-2021...

...and listened to quite a few...

On telly, at least a couple of "Call My Agent" - we are hurtling towards the conclusion...

Tasty tea from Annie...

...who painted as I listened - both post "Holby City" and the exit of Jac, thankfully not in a body bag, as we'd expected......

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : New shelf...

New day, new week, new month, new look..

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McClure (Edward Spark West End Mix)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Elements

Ficarra - Frantic Mid Atlantic

Tobias Karlehag - Process

Marek Malinowski / Robert Rychlicki-Gąsowski / Wojciech Zadrużyński - Scratching Fork

Ippu Do - Radio Fantasy

Crass - Stations of the Crass

Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

Kronos Quartet - Triple Quartet

Various Artists -  Milano Jukebox : Anne's No 1s 1961-2021

Masami Tsuchiya - Rice Music

Edward Spark - The Curse

Punishment of Luxury - Laughing Academy

Random Hold - The View From Here

Fairport Convention - Babbacombe Lee

Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine

Various Artists - From Brussels With Love

Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity

Yukihiro Takashi - Wild & Moody

Die Krupps - Stahlwerksynfonie

Alban Berg Quartett - Rihm & Schnittke: String Quartets No. 4 (Live at Vienna Konzerthaus, 1990)

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Rabbitt - A Grunt and a Croak in the Night

The Revillos - Rev Up!

Various Composers - Die Mannheimer Schule

Rhye - Home

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwenty

Nina Hagen - Unbehagen

Lili Drop - Monde Animal

Gentle Giant - Civilian (Remaster)

Gary Boyle - The Dancer

Huelgas Ensemble - The Magic of Polyphony

Jadin - String Trios

Golden Hymns Sing 'Hurrah' - The Great Dystopian Songbook I: Songs For The Setting & Rising Sun

Up in the dark...

Monday morning...

Lights on - new day, new week, new month...

New look...

WFH...

But, in a day, other things happen when not WFH - e.g. pre WFH and post WFH so let's cpncentrate on that...

Started with w Pet Shop Boys type mix of "Doug McClure" by Mr Spark...

Also today, amongst many other things, I listened back to the Twenty Twenty collection released on New Year's Eve...

..and amended the title of the new album to "Elements" as the upload to Bandcamp took place...

Also today, another mix of Mr Spark's "The Curse" - an ambient mix...

In the afternoon, some cake, bought for Friday's celebrations but superceded by Jane's better home made item...

A few random LPs today brought things up to date...

French band Lili Drop's 1980 debut...

They did 2 LPs - I bought them both on a trip to Paris in '82...

This is much more punky than the 2nd....

Think they may have been up there with the best French New Wave - but, then again, what do I know...

Gentle Giant's much maligned last LP....

Ten years of top notch musicking lead to this...

Definitely not as bad as many progheads think. For 1980, it's still quite complex but has a more direct attack than the Giant's earlier works...

  Definitely worth a listen!

There's a simple naivety about Roedelius' "Selbstportrait" tryptich...

 This is the 2nd of the 3. Recorded at home between 1973 and 77 and released on the Sky label in 1980...

One of many LPs bought in Kassel in 1980/81 which I still own. Lovely!

Although, as it's so quiet, it's not the best to be listened to on vinyl...

For tea tonight, an excellent idea from Anne - with a middle eastern feel to it, lamb with Tahini and flat breads...

Very tasty indeed...

Around 7:30, the radio in the kitchen having gone on the blink and new one having been ordered, said new item arrived and was set up...

Upstairs, post another not great result on "University Cahhallenge" (3rd on 60 points) and some "Call My Agent", the desk was even more tidy than yesterday...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's cooking once again...