Category Archives: Music

The real reason for this whole blog thing is an attempt to review music I like – because you need more than 140 characters to do it properly.

Ten Songs for the Mean Reds

Sea Song – Lost Souls – Doves
Pantomime Horse – Suede – Suede
Every Day Is Like Sunday – Bona Drag – Morrissey
Let Down – OK Computer – Radiohead
Julia – 1984 – Eurythmics
Orpheus – Secrets of the Beehive – David Sylvian
Forbidden Colours – Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Being Boring – Behaviour – Pet Shop Boys (best experienced along with the Bruce Weber video)
D.C. – Doughboy Hollow – Died Pretty
Twin Layers of Lightning – Liberty Belle (etc etc) – The Go-Betweens

CD Collection #6

More 80s bands beginning with C today.

075992585927 Julee Cruise Floating Into The Night
5033197253725 The Crystal Method Legion of Boom*
042282768827 The Cure Pornography*
022925684325 The Cure Japanese Whispers*
9325583005022 The Cure Bloodflowers*
  The Cure The Top
090317076522 The Cure Disintigration*
042282723123 The Cure The Head on the Door
602498629055 The Cure The Cure*
075596047722 The Cure Staring at the Sea The Singles
9325583000737 The Cure Faith*
022925685025 The Cure Kiss Me*
042282535429 The Cure Seventeen Seconds
077778653127 Curve Pubic Fruit*
9320881301456 Curve Gift*

Two comments..  There’s a lot there that Red Laser didn’t recognise, and yes, I was a Cure fan. I’m not sure Disintegration is the greatest album ever as claimed by some cartoon characters, but it’s undoubtedly The Cure’s best. One of their best at least. Or one of my favourites anyway, what would I know.

CD Collection #5

Not much to say about this section today. Sorry about the Coldplay. No apologies whatsoever for the Cocteau Twins.

Unfortunately not all the Cocteau Twins albums.. but enough will do.

5014436513022 Cocteau Twins The Pink Opaque*
652637021127 Cocteau Twins Garlands
077779366927 Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas
652637060225 Cocteau Twins Victorialand
077779641628 Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels
Cocteau Twins Treasure
731451450129 Cocteau Twins Milk & Kisses
5021456102457 Cocteau Twins Stars and Topsoil*
5014436610028 Cocteau Twins Loves Easy Tears
5014436303029 Cocteau Twins Peppermint Pig*
5014436405020 Cocteau Twins The Spangle Maker*
724354050428 Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
094631128028 Coldplay XY
5014436315022 Colourbox Colourbox MAD315CD
Colourbox Colourbox CAD508CD
5027731796045 The Creatures Anima Animus*

*Items not recognised by Red Laser

CD Collection #4

 

Part 4 of the CD Collection Series continues with a look at 80s bands that start with the letter C.

 

 

724381168226 The Chemical Brothers Come with Us
724384295028 The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole
9398603209021 Chicane Far From The Maddening Crowd*
77778669920 China Crisis Working with Fire and Steel
017837712426 Chris & Cosey Songs of Love & Lust*
5413356001129 Chris & Cosey Techno Primitiv
The Church Starfish
77774625623 The Church Heyday
9399602605821 The Church A Quick Smoke at Spot’s*
077779062522 The Church Blurred Crusade
0035627496523 Gary Clail/On-U Sound System Emotional Hooligan*
743211192026 Gary Clail/On-U Sound System Dreamstealers*
Anne Clark To Love and Be Loved
Anne Clark The Sitting Room/Changing Places/Joined Up Writing
018777333320 Close Lobsters Foxheads Stalk This Land

I find it strange that Red Laser recognised Close Lobsters but not Gary Clail – apparently obscurity is no measure of whether you make it to the great database in the skycloudthingy.

Also, why do I have two home made Anne Clark albums? I’m not sure. The handwriting isn’t mine and if I ever have listened to them, it was once enough and never again. I’ve a feeling they’ll be first against the wall when the revol.. cleaners come.