‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’ William Shakespeare, The Tempest.

In era bought the CD singles box set, so in this case no surface noise.

I remember the NME was all over this in period. She had been through the mill in this decade.

I call that a bargain, the best I ever had. Marianne Faithful - Broken English (1979) a minter for a fiver.

#vinyl #seventies #seventiesmusic

Sitting here in my safe European home. The Clash - Give ‘em Enough Rope (1978) power punk soundz from my 15 year old self bedroom system.

#vinyl #punkrock #theclash

That’s something we’ve lost. Buying an album in town, getting home and dropping the needle on your own setup usually on a Saturday afternoon about 5pm. A musical, melancholic, witty album and I’ve added a touch of nostalgia.

Grammar test. It’s Immaterial - Life’s Hard And Then You Die (1986) The best album you’ve never heard, a forgotten gem that deserved so much more. I think I bought it because it was ‘Now Playing’ in the record shop.

#vinyl #eighties #itsimmaterial #liverpool

#vinyl #pinkfloyd #progrock #darksideofthemoon

…nowadays we have such pristine streamed resolution you can hear virtually every detail which is sometimes lost through a stylus. Breathe, breathe in the air!

RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Side Of The Moon: The Quiet Architecture of Collapse - 45renegade A retrospective review of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, exploring its themes of time, money, madness and the quiet pressures of modern life.

Pink Floyd’s behemoth The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) has been pulled out of the hat in Album Club. But I’d already done my homework a while back and posted in the archive last year. There are so many other rabbit holes to go down though….

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Top loader. Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)

iPad, iFi IDSD Nano, Spotify Lossless

#hifi #budgethifi #spotify #petergabriel

Hearing more about people who have Crypto gains but are locked out of their digital wallets - which are also awkward to initially set up.

New tech won’t achieve mass adoption if people don’t understand how, or why to use it.

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The insurgency began and we missed it. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant. (1986) We are hope despite the times. Their finest work songs?

#REM #indiemusic #eightiesmusic

The Jam Singles Session 10/03/26

#vinyl #thejam #newwave #modernism #paulweller

You can always go down a rabbit hole with Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (1980) debut album produced by the ubiquitous Bill Drummond.

#postpunk #neopsychedelia #echoandthebunnymen #vinyl #newwave

I have scaled these city walls only to be with you. U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) it’s a Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois masterpiece (we) don’t play anymore? 39 today. Talk to me.

#vinyl #eighties #u2 #eno

ART: Waiting Women and 2 Nuclear Bombers (Handley Page Victors) - Colin Self (b.1941 - 45renegade A cultural review of Colin Self’s Waiting Women and Two Nuclear Bombers (1962), linking Pop Art, Cold War aviation and today’s renewed nuclear tensions.

Critique of a pop art painting too close to home at the moment.

#art #popart #nuclearwar #colinself

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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

#nowplaying #vinyl #postpunk #joydivision

Post-punk proliferation. Wire - 154 (1979)

#postpunk #artpunk #seventies #wire

Peak. The Who - Who’s next (1971) never a dull moment.

#vinyl #seventies #thewho

Allegedly one in seven retailers stopped taking cash last year. The Jam - Sound Affects (1980) bought with cash that came in a small packet each week. Most played in the cars at Northbrook College car park with The Specials debut. #nowplaying Pretty Green.

#thejam #newwave #modernism #eighties

RETROSPECTIVE: Bending The Space Time Continuum With Siouxsie and the Banshees - 45renegade A quantum retrospective of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Juju, exploring John McGeoch’s discordant guitar work, the album’s production, and its lasting gravitational pull on post-punk.

From the archives, Siouxsie and the Banshees peak post-punk.

#postpunk #retrospective #eighties

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Played the first three Steely Dan albums today. Catchy tunes, I recognise quite a few.

#seventies #steelydan #jazzrock #yachtrock

Nineties Indie Blur (S/T) style. The so-called difficult fifth album. Woo hoo.

#blur #cdcollection #nineties

OPINION: Art Punk & The Dismissal Of Punk Orthodoxy - 45renegade Art punk explained: how late-70s bands fused punk with conceptual art, electronics and experimentation into an edgy nervous evolution.

From the archives. Art Punk & The Dismissal Of Punk Orthodoxy.

#postpunk #newwave #artpunk

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Thank-you! Appreciated.

The album is fabulous I’ve had it since release.

I don’t think it’s possible to replicate the state they were in. This is a retro review I wrote then put on website last year.

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You want bleak but with a tune? The Cure - Pornography (1982) Given the state Robert and band were in - what an album. I think I wrote a review for this on the website. Movement, no movement just a falling bird. Cold as it hits the bleeding ground. A sort term effect.

#vinyl #thecure #postpunk

So you want to spin the world around? Gomez - Liquid Skin (1999) 20th Anniversary double album allegedly £100-£120 now. The world’s gone mad.

#vinyl #gomez #vinylcollection

File under fire. R.E.M. - Document (1987) sharpening stones, walking on coals to improve your business acumen. The fifth album on IRS. I’d say their mass adoption breakthrough album in the U.K. off the back of the singles. Peak Michael Stipe intellectual & political lyrics.

#vinyl #rem #altrock