I was looking at some of the releases over at SuperDeluxeEdition today, and two in particular caught my eye. One was the 50th anniversary special edition reissue of Elton John’s Honky Chateau, and the other was the 40th anniversary reissue of OMD’s Dazzle Ships.
Entries Tagged as 'Music'
All wrapped up
January 14th, 2023 · Comments Off on All wrapped up · Music
I have inadvertently become one of those people who keep their vinyl LPs in plastic sleeves. This is not because I am precious about my small collection. I have always looked after records, or tried to, but have never been distraught if the sleeves got a bit tatty. Admittedly vinyl costs so much now that […]
2022 – Dirty Rat
January 11th, 2023 · Comments Off on 2022 – Dirty Rat · Music
First things first. I realise that I have started to get carried away. Having created a playlist with one track per year of my life about 5 years ago (I think) I subsequently decided to write a little post about each track but I have ended up writing about everything else in the year and […]
Tags: 1962Onwards·Spotify
Digging in the crates
October 30th, 2022 · Comments Off on Digging in the crates · Music
At the moment I am still enjoying the novelty of having a turntable again and the rituals of playing a vinyl record. For a start there is that way of holding an LP by the edges and flipping it over, which just can’t be taught or described; you just do it, and even after so […]
Just like starting over
October 9th, 2022 · Comments Off on Just like starting over · Life, Music, Technology
Quite a long time ago I sold my turntable (a gorgeous Linn Sondek LP12) and all of my vinyl. We were moving to a smaller house and the vinyl was taking up a lot of space, not to mention the space needed for a proper rack for the turntable, amplifier, speakers, etc. I found that […]
Tags: Music·Technology·Vinyl
2021 – Cosmosis
February 7th, 2022 · Comments Off on 2021 – Cosmosis · Music
Well. 2021 was another year of not going out much wasn’t it? Another year of (mostly) working from home, and then staying at home afterwards. There was fresh air of course, as I was getting out for regular walks and shattering the 10,000 step target on good days – though a lot less for a […]
Tags: 1962Onwards·Spotify
King Bastard
January 15th, 2022 · Comments Off on King Bastard · Music
They say that you can’t or shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but what about records? If the front cover has a picture of a skull in a space helmet, a band name of King Bastard above an album name of It came from the void and the back shows a track listing that […]
The pleasures of pre-ordering
August 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on The pleasures of pre-ordering · Life, Music
In the last year or two I have been discovering the joys of pre-ordering stuff online. I know that some pedants have issues with the term ‘pre-order’, but we all know what it means: ordering something before it is released. I guess you could call it ‘pre-release ordering’. In general I do not actually buy […]
Tags: Shopping
Can’t get you out of my head
April 7th, 2021 · Comments Off on Can’t get you out of my head · Life, Music
Having an earworm is a fairly frequent event for me, but I have had a really strange one today, even by my standards. Earworm is defined by the Collins Dictionary website, rather unsatisfactorily, as “an irritatingly catchy tune”. I don’t think that captures the full quality of an earworm, which is not just a tune […]
Tags: Nostalgia
2020 – Automation
January 2nd, 2021 · Comments Off on 2020 – Automation · Music
It is that time of the year again. The time when I add another track to my Spotify playlist, the one that has one song for every year I have been around. I have now added a 59th track to it, which makes me fell a bit old. While this might have been a bit […]
Tags: 1962Onwards·Spotify
