Occasional Albums Thing 043 - My Life Story “Mornington Crescent”Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s I was lucky enough to be spending a lot of time around The Wonder Stuff, practically living full time in London at their flat in Fitzrovia, right behind Great Portland Street tube station,...
Occasional Albums Thing 042 - Duran Duran “Duran Duran”I met Deb, my wife, in the late summer of 1981. I remember this because The Jam split up in 1982 and I managed to take her to see them before that fateful day. But during that period we were getting into very different stuff, more electronic...
Occasional Albums Thing 041 - Bruce Springsteen “Greatest Hits”Yes it’s a Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits compilation and you may well be wondering, as I’ve covered all the Springsteen albums in some detail elsewhere, why do I need to write about this, surely we’ve already covered...
Occasional Albums Thing 040 - Blondie “Plastic Letters/Parallel Lines/Eat To The Beat”A 3-in-1 special today…Blondie formed out of the scene that developed at the Mercer Arts Center (home gig for the New York Dolls for a time) in Greenwich Village, NYC in the early to mid 1970’s. Always...
Occasional Albums Thing 039 - Harvey Andrews “Writer Of Songs”As you know, I have a record shop…some people come into the shop just to say hello and have a chat. They’re never going to buy anything they’re just friendly faces you see occasionally, we talk about music or the matters of the...
Occasional Albums Thing 038 - Neil Young “Harvest”Neil Young has appeared in this Blog before, back in October 2024 to be precise (have a look here https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/blog?row=4&year=2024 for the whys and the wherefore’s). I’ve always kept an eye out for acceptable...
Occasional Albums Thing 037 - TV Smith “Channel Five”If you’ve been following along here then you’ll likely already know that I am something of a TV Smith fanboy. For those that are in the dark about this absolute hidden treasure, TV Smith was the singer and principle songwriter for The...
Occasional Albums Thing 036 - Screaming Blue Messiahs “Gun-Shy”Stop sniggering at the back, there’s a lot more to the Screaming Blue Messiahs than the admittedly laughable “I Wanna Be A Flintstone”. They were formed from the ashes of Pub Rockers and Beefheart fans Motor Boys Motor. In...
Occasional Albums Thing 035 - Rolling Stones “Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)”I love music from the 1960’s. Mostly obscure British and US Freakbeat/Garage/Psyche bands, obscure groups that made one, or if they were lucky two singles, and lesser known Soul artists. But I do like the...
Occasional Albums Thing 034 - Kirsty MacColl “Free World: The Best Of 1979-2000”If you read my blog post about The Wonder Stuff’s “Never Loved Elvis” (and if you didn’y you’ll find it here...
Occasional Albums Thing 033 - Bob Mould “Distortion: The Best Of 1989 - 2019”I was never really a big an of Hüsker Dü, their early records were much to harsh for me but there was a period in the later 80’s around the albums “Candy Apple Grey” and “Warehouse: Songs And Stories”,...
Occasional Albums Thing 032 - The Psychedelic Furs “All Of This And Nothing”The Furs (as we always called them), was it Psychedelic ? Was it Post-Punk ? Who cared, one thing we did know is that we bloody loved them. They released their debut, eponymous, album in the early Spring of 1980 and I...
Occasional Albums Thing 031 - The Grays “Ro Sham Bo”Once upon a time there was a band called Jellyfish, they were made up of Andy Sturmer, Roger Joseph Manning and Jason Falkner. They made an album called “Bellybutton”, a heady brew created by a mixture of American sunshine pop, Kansas,...
Occasional Albums Thing 031 - Damien Dempsey “Shots”If you’ve been with me for a while here you’ll very likely know how I feel about Damien Dempsey. Although the records I’ve been able to write about have been few and far between and of variable quality. Due to the time through which Damo...
Occasional Albums Thing 030 - Various Artists “The Midlands Roots Explosion Volume(s) One & Two”Back in the halcyon days of 1977…hey! I was 14 going on 15, having the time of my life and we discovered Punk Rock, they were great days for us…not only did we discover Punk but hand in hand...
Occasional Albums Thing 029 - Lulu “The Most Of…”I’ve written about Lulu in this Blog before (here in fact https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/blog/read_205038/2023-albums-thing-224-lulu-love-loves-to-love-lulu.html) and in that post I admitted that although I genuinely do like Lulu the...
Occasional Albums Thing 028 - Bob Dylan “Greatest Hits”My Dad is a Bob Dylan fan, my Brother is a Bob Dylan fan, my Mom really doesn’t like him at all. Me, I’m somewhere betwixt those two positions. I understand and appreciate his importance in the grand scheme of things, he’s a masterful...
Occasional Albums Thing 027 - Various Artists “The Front Line”There’s some confusion over the release date for this fine, fine compilation of Jamaican Roots Reggae. John Lydon (nee Johnny Rotten) has said on many occasions that he was sent to Jamaica by Richard Branson AFTER the Sex Pistols...
Occasional Albums Thing 026 - The Cult “Electric”Talking of Heavy Metal (see Pearl Jam 3 weeks ago https://www.whiterabbitrecords.co.uk/wrrb/cmon-guys-its-heavy-metal)…I will hold up my hands and confess to not being the world’s biggest fan of The Cult. Anything prior to them dropping the...
Occasional Albums Thing 025 - Various Artists “Get Primitive! The Best Of Pebbles, Volume One: The Originals”Walking from the car park to the shop I pass the local Oxfam charity shop. They sell records, they put a selection in their window, usually laughably over-priced copies of “Dark Side Of...