NEVER MIND THE CRACKLES AND POPS


The spoils of today's record hunt. I had the two Erasure records in my old vinyl collection, so it was nice to find them! Shame the 2-Tone 7"s aren't in the labels' iconic sleeves, but you can't have everything.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SONGS THAT SAVED MY LIFE #10

Image
The years 1994 -96 saw the nation in a celebratory mood: British music was back in the ascendant, our film industry was providing Hollywood with some serious competition, and there was a general sense of national pride in our sportsmen and women. "Cool Britannia", as the press dubbed it, saw a positive and hopeful mood that mirrored the swinging sixties. But not everyone went along, or fitted in with this mood. Certainly not Manic Street Preachers. They'd arrived in a whirlwind of eyeliner, leopard print, rage, and political sloganeering back at the beginning of the decade, declaring themselves to be celebrating the "culture of boredom, alienation, and despair", writing cut and paste lyrics attacking consumerism, capitalism, exploitation, as well as themes of the struggles of youth, despair, and other personal subjects. Their manifesto was to sell sixteen million copies of their self-proclaimed "best rock'n'roll album ever" Generation Terrori...
Read more

A METAL REVELATION.....

download;    to  copy  or  move   programs  or  information  into a computer's  memory , especially  from the internet or a  larger   computer .               ; a 3 day rock and metal festival held at Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK. Of all the varied musical genres i've gotten into over the years, heavy metal has never really been one of them. The odd band or song has occasionally caught my attention, and a few have become fond favourites, but overall i've found the sledgehammer riffs, growling, screaming and associated fashions not to my taste. Heavy Metal has a long history stretching back to the late 60's, with the birth of the genre through bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin, and over the decades it has diversified and evolved into Thrash, Death Metal, Glam Metal, Industrial, and many more. The likes of Saxon, Venom, and the mighty Iron Maiden succesfully r...
Read more

CATCH ME, I'M FALLING INTO MY PAST.....

At the time of writing, i'm a mere month away from turning 40. Now, i'm not about to start having a midlife crisis, or start having botox in a futile attempt to turn back the clock, but as i've gotten older, i've noticed a disturbing development, aside from the odd grey hair and a nasal/ear hair trimmer having become a necessary purchase. I've always told myself (and anyone else who would listen) that i would never become one of these boring old farts who only listens to music from their past, and who denounces all new music to be crap. But i find it happening, nonetheless. Conversations with friends only seem to confirm a similar attitude and outlook: that there is nothing recent worth listening to. New artists and more recent albums seem to be a dying breed in my collection, and whilst i still listen out for new talent - the advent of digital radio and 6Music was a godsend for people who, like myself, have stopped tuning into Radio 1 - i hear less and less of  mus...
Read more