Music today has been diverse because in the car we listened to All Together Now by Argent from 1972 with the long version of Hold Your Head Up and Tragedy which is not really like The Bee Gees but they must have heard it. I’ve had this album since day one and know it well, […]
Music today has been a mix of playlists and albums, one of the playlists was replaying the same songs too often so I listened to the whole of Paul McCartney and Wings‘ Band On The Run (1973) instead of the title track – again. I like that album a lot probably because McCartney is playing […]
Music today has been, you guessed it, The Machine That Cried (1973) by String Driven Thing. Starting as three-part harmony folkies in Scotland before growing into a folk-rock ensemble with a core of Chris and Pauline Adams, initially with John Mannion on guitar before another key member, Graham Smith, joined on electric violin and Mannion […]
Music today was LUMP’s self-titled album (2018), Laura Marling’s side project with Mike Lindsay. This was the first album and a new one, Animal, is coming on July 30th. It’s more out there than her solo records, less folky Joni Mitchell and more experimental but still, her beautiful vibrato shines through the songs. Give it […]
Music today has come from the wonderful Annette Peacock and her album Sky-skating (1982). It’s like a jazzier, more experimental Joni Mitchell if she was from New York and only played the piano. It’s Peacock’s fourth album, she made the pioneering electronic rock jazz experiment I’m The One in 1972, one of my favourite albums, […]
Music today was the first two (real) Heart albums, Dreamboat Annie (1975) and Little Queen (1977), which seemed to be perfect Portuguese suburbs music playing through the little speakers that Ariel’s previous carers had given us. She got a little noisy on the freeway so the acoustic songs didn’t come through too clearly but Ariel […]