HUMBLE PIE: Natural Born Bugie (7″, Immediate IM…
Ahhhh, this record takes me back. Not to 1969 when it was released, obviously, as I was yet to be born then, but to my excitable youth, delving into the world of the 1960s and…
THE NATION OF ULYSSES: Sound Of Young America…
The first Nation Of Ulysses record, released on the cheekily-named Diskord imprint - a combination of Dischord and K Records, you see, I picked up this record around ten years after it came out, as…
THE SOUP DRAGONS: The Sun Is In The…
A confession; I'm not so cool that I bought this record when it first came out - I was only thirteen years old at the time and, in fact, listening more to Rick Astley and…
SOME VELVET SIDEWALK: Generate! (LP, K KLP 62,…
This record was bought about three or four years ago at a shop in Oxford called Avid. That shop has now very sadly closed down, due I believe to ever-increasing rent gradually edging them out…
JACK HAWKINS & THE SOUNDS OF THE 70’S:…
I can't get enough of these easy listening albums that purport to capture the whacked-out psychedelic mayhem/'Swinging London'-vibe/disco excitement of the 1960s and 1970s. That's lucky, as there were seemingly thousands upon thousands of them…
THE MIGHTY SAGUARO: Run (7″, 50,000 Watts Recordings…
This record I picked up at a gig featuring The Mighty Saguaro and other bands who are by now long forgotten. They may still exist, don't get me wrong; it's just that my memory is…
RAZORBLADE SMILE: This Accurate Pain (7″, Chocolate Narcotic…
Another artefact from the mire of early-to-mid-nineties indie-pop that I got myself so deeply into: I'll never have enough seven inch singles in wraparound sleeves with photocopied inserts, even if the wraparound sleeve in this…
LAST PARTY: Fax Me Wacko Jack Seed (7″,…
Dishy Records fell under my indie-pop-record-buying gaze due to their first release being by Hellfire Sermons, whose releases I eagerly hoovered up in the early nineties. As was very much the done thing for me…
CUD: Purple Love Balloon (12″, A&M AMY 0024,…
So here's the second Cud record I've written about on here thus far: I think they're the first band to achieve this dubious honour. It's not particularly a surprise, as I have a lot of…
CICCONE YOUTH: The Whitey Album (LP, Blast First…
I bought this album in around 1990 in, believe it or not, Birmingham's HMV - this was back when record shops carried records and some of them carried records that went beyond the charts and…