Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan - Desire
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
Bob Dylan - Street Legal (did Dylan ever do a more annoying song than No Time To Think? Might have been bearable at just a few verses, but it just goes on and on)
Bob Dylan - At Budokan (first time play - hadn't realised that Dylan radically revised the arrangements of his songs for this album to much critical derision, which is odd as it forces him to sing more melodically than on any of his other live albums and there is a genuine punch to the overall sound. Not all the arrangements work, for example we didn't really need reggae versions of Don't Think Twice and Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and the flutes are a bit too busy at times, but it makes for a very distinctive live album, and it's good to have Just Like A Woman restored to 6/8 time)
The Seeds - The Seeds
The Seeds - A Web Of Sound
The Seeds - Future
Bread, Love & Dreams - The Strange Tale Of Captain Shannon & The Hunchback From Gigha
Bread, Love & Dreams - Amaryllis
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte
Popol Vuh - Cœur De Verre (Aguirre is a breath of fresh air in this period where all Popol Vuh's albums started to sound the same. Don't normally approve of bonus tracks added to vinyl LPs, but the addition of Aguirre 3 to the reissue really enhances the overall experience)
Can - Tago Mago
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Live In Paris 1973
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Elton John - Caribou (RSD 2LP - some good stuff on the bonus LP and nice to have this in a gatefold sleeve to match his other albums of the era))
Adam Ant - Vive Le Rock
Adam Ant - Manners & Physique
Adam Ant - Persuasion
Adam Ant - Wonderful (the last Adam Ant single I bought was Apollo 9 and didn't bother with the albums after that, although I did see him and Marco perform a live in-store acoustic set to promote the Wonderful album. Vive Le Rock is a very enjoyable album, good songs done with gusto. Manners & Physique shows how dated production became in just a few years, probably a mistake to hand over the arrangements and most of the musicianship to an outside source. The unreleased Persuasion is much better and there are some good songs on Wonderful)
Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation
Flaming Youth - Ark 2
Ash Ra Tempel - Le Berceau De Cristal
Ash Ra Tempel - Inventions For Electric Guitar
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Friends - Fragile
Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless (on first listen this is a vast improvement on the underwhelming Hotspot from a few years ago, although I was expecting producer James Ford to bring something a bit more distinctive to the overall sound. Nonetheless, it's lyrically very interesting and worth further investigation)
The Witch Hazel Sound - This World, Then The Fireworks...
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