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10 Neurotics by Black Tape for a Blue Girl Aside from Porcupine Tree’s In Absentia which is a concept album about a serial killing pervert, this is possibly one of the more….twisted….albums I have. Each song on the album tells the story of some sort of sexual depravity, kink or perversion. Some very dark indeed. Black Tape
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10000 Hertz Legend by Air I first heard Air in the mid 1990’s when they made 1997-1998 more bearable for me. That was Moon Safari. This is the album that followed. At the time, the wife and I thought our selves very avant garde. Listening to music by French musicians of the electronica genre. Hey, we
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9 by Damian Rice He lies. There are 10. Not 9. He might be referring to 9 albums. Or 9 pairs of socks. Or something. Not sure what. Don’t really care. Rice is one of those artists I thought “Oh I like that song on such and such a soundtrack, I’ll get their other stuff
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4AD Presents the 13 Year Itch by Various Artists This is the first of many compilation albums and the first of several sampler albums that I’ve collected over the years. I’ve been a huge fan of Ivo Watt’s 4AD label since the early nineties. Watt’s distinctive production reverberates throughout all the artists borne from the 4AD stable. Throwing
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2 Metre Sessie by Chris Isaak Now the more astute of you or any huge fan of Chris Isaak will be going “WTF?! I don’t recognise this as an album!”. And the answer would be yes. You are right. This is a 1991 recording of a live session from a Dutch radio programme (http://www.2metersessies.nl) which runs
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2 Sides of Yes by Rick Wakeman In case you didn’t know, Rick Wakeman was once the keyboard player for 70’s prog band Yes. The wizard of the keys. The bearded wonder of twiddle. A very talented musician. Sadly tainted by religious fervor and self important attitude. As a big fan of Yes, it makes
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….the Last Embrace by Arcana Ok, so before the pedants start, J River Music Center orders punctuation before numbers and the letter A. Anyway. Arcana is one of those bands I heard once and thought “Oh that’s a good tune, I’ll download their back catalogue because surely all their other stuff must be the same quality”.
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….All this Time by Sting I think this must have been one of Clair’s. You’ll notice as this project goes on, that I have a lot of unusual unconnected music tastes. This is one of them. Personally I can’t abide the bloke. Some of the Police songs are ok. But I’ve never liked Sting
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’69 – ’95 – Lemon Jelly I must have first heard of Lemon Jelly when I was living in Huskisson Street in Liverpool, so that must have been about 1999-2000. I most certainly had some of their other albums on my battered old Creative Jukebox 2 and that died when I worked at Liverpool University.
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Happy new year. 2013 eh? Already bad luck for Comet, HMV and Jessops. Also Pearson in Practice where I work have decided to call it a day meaning I’ll be out of work in 90 days time. So bad luck for me too eh? Anyway. In an effort to write away the blues, over on
The Compostual Existentialist 