A celebration of my favourite format runs through my sensual highlights this week. First up - love this image that came my Pinterest way. Mmm - smell that fresh vinyl! 2 But first, the bad news Here's more proof that 2018 was a crap year for the high street
Amid the dire news about HMV, I'm hoping the flagship Oxford Street store hangs in there a bit longer. Even so, it doesn't look good for the old girl. Still - maybe there's a bright side? 3 Record Collector
The latest edition had a story about albums being 70 years old in 2018. I enjoyed the piece which names 70 crucially influential albums (one per year with runners up) but noticed my interest levels dropped significantly from the 1980s onwards. 4 Silver Lining
Isn't that a beautiful sight! Back to the future/ back to vinyl: from places like Chaldon Books and Records and Flashback Records - there are still plenty of vinyl stockists out there. 5 Even Sainsburys
Yes - you know it's a movement when supermarkets like Sainsburys stock vinyl. Overtime In the wee small hours (1955)
Found a copy of this (one of the 70 listed in that Record Collector atricle) in a local charity shop yesterday. First part of a 10 inch brace of releases before the album came out. Probably worth a bit more than the 5 quid I paid for it. According to wikipedia:In the Wee Small Hours was issued as two 10-inch LP discs, and also as one 12-inch record LP, making it one of the first of its kind in the pop field. It was also issued as four four–song 45-rpm EP discs sold in cardboard sleeves with the same cover as the LPs, not in paper covers like 45-rpm singles. It's in good condition given it's a couple of years older than me - cover's a bit worn but plays well. Like me.
1 Merry Christmas everybody The last set of jewels before the big day. Have a great festive season. See you on the other side!
2 This Is My Song
This peek into a recording studio and real people recording amazing stuff (like grandad/grandson duo pictured) was on the BBC this week and got me all misty eyed. Catch the next episode! 3 Springsteen on Broadway
I was watching this on Netfix while the Light Of my Life was having a bath. When she came out, she joined me and amazingly, for 2 plus hours, we were both glued to the performance (she's not really a music fan so there is no greater testimony to Bruce's electric delivery of his life story than that). 4 Roger Daltrey
Roger is hilarious! He manages to explain his upbringing succinctly, while remaining brilliantly funny. His humorous and recurring mentions of Pete's nose (as an example) are brimming with a honest love for the man - a trick that is tough to pull off.
5 Second best Christmas song of all time! Overtime Christmas, baby please come home! The best Christmas song of all time!! Darlene Love!!!
That means the interweb piles up unread and unacknowledged. Instead a steady diet of Brexit catastrophe on the BBC nightly news has been the order of the day. 2 Pointless
This precedes the BBC 6 o'clock and we've become addicted. Zander and Richard are a great comedy duo! 3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris has been my current book. Truthfully, I haven't had much of an opportunity for sustained reading so I've dipped into it over the week. Hopefully I'll be able to get into it more next week. Given it's the last week of the term that's unlikely but I live in hope. 4 Alan Parsons Project
I picked up a couple of APP records from Chaldon Books and Records a few weeks ago and these have been steady support this week. Specifically Pyramid and Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 5 Sexist advertising to be banned!
The Guardian ran this news item during the week about sexual stereotypes used to sell products, with some vintage ads that made me wonder what kind of world I'm living in these days. Overtime Endgames There are a couple of Marvel products to look forward to: Captain Marvel and the latest of TheAvengers mega movies.
1 Jerrrrrreeeeeeeey Missing Jerry. Although he's not giving us too much thought I suspect.
2 How to emotionally detach from criticism
It's not always peaches and cream in Wozza's world. I needed an article like this one this week. Feel better having read it too. 3 Poetry corner I sincerely hope
you have not
come to believe,
that simply because
you ran off & got
married behind
my back, you
are somehow
entitled to keep
my tape measure
Leonard Cohen (2002) 4 Smooooth Wanna try and fall back in love with 90's smooth jazz?
5 Edwards Audio
I'm in love with my new turntable!! Overtime Train This came on a compilation CD in the Purdmobile and I hit repeat. Been singing it all week!
1 H D T Loads of heavy hitters in this edition of JFTT. We've got the Fabs, 'Trane, the Band, poetry corner, and kicking us off this week - Henry David Thoreau. Let's get this arty party started!!
Austin Kleon has a nice piece in his blog about Thoreau (and I want to tell him to read Walden: Life in the Woods!). He also explains why he put stickies over the eyes. 2 The Biblio-Mat
Ingenious device and a great idea to dispense old books to a good home. Love it! 3 The Beatles by The Beatles
This album is always in my top 5 of all time (usually sits at number 2 behind John Lennon/The Plastic Ono Band). There have been reams written about the album but this was a nice podcast style interview with Giles Martin that you might like. 4 The Band's It Makes No Difference
Excellent piece from The Immortal Jukebox on The Band and that song. 5 Poetry corner We asked the captain what
course
of action he proposed to take toward
a beast so large, terrifying, and
unpredictable. He hesitated to
answer, and then said judiciously:
"I think I shall praise it."
Robert Hass (1979) Overtime The church of John Coltrane
