My favourite music reviewer Marcello Carlin has reached Parklife on his blog where he and his wife Lena Friesen review every UK No. 1 album

http://nobilliards.blogspot.com/2021/03 ... klife.html

The TGE one will be epic size apparently

All the lonely, people where do they all belong. There aren't many albums I can 'relate' to, but the Great Escape , with its studies of people irretrievably trapped in dead-end lives, comes close. It's often said that - contrary to MLIR and Parklife - Albarn has no sympathy for his characters on the...

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Or else Yuko and Hiro/Battery

Manhoo wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2020, 14:24

I got bored during lockdown and wrote a review in defence of Babylon Zoo's first album because I can. https://lamortdelamusique.blogspot.com/ ... ith-x.html

Lovely stuff

Blur - On Your Own

Dog

Finished preparing for an assignment about New Pop and Paul Morley I'm presenting later

The Grid - Flotation

I have a list for bands like these!

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/chemical ... op-albums/

He may have done but if he did I have already forgotten (he certainly mentioned work for the next instalment however)

I'm excited to hear the Alan Price and Skellern ones, which like Roy's Mustard were released a long time ago on out-of-print CDs and have been pretty unavailable until now.

Also bought some classics on CD the other day:
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy
Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
The Slits - Cut

Michael McDonald's song isn't exactly a cover but it borrows a lot from the Chuck Jackson song which resulted in Leiber-Stoller getting a writing credit

The Chuck Jackson song is a lot better

In the last week on CD:

Roy Wood - Mustard (2019 remaster)
Alan Price - Between Today and Yesterday (2019 remaster) (yet to arrive)
Peter Skellern - The Complete Decca Records 1972-1975 (yet to arrive)

A few weeks back on LP:

John Martyn - One World
Steve Hillage - Motivation Radio

Chuck Jackson - I Keep Forgettin'