Mass Appeal releases are all over the place release wise in the UK, still no sign of the Nas/Prem album, anyhoo I'm pleased to say Cabin in the Sky is quite, quite, wonderful.
07.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mass Appeal releases are all over the place release wise in the UK, still no sign of the Nas/Prem album, anyhoo I'm pleased to say Cabin in the Sky is quite, quite, wonderful.
07.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just all of this tune.
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Saturday...
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It's a wonderful thing.
06.03.2026 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Far too much dust my broom business on sdg albums for me, but this is an incredible compilation. Art department winner too.
06.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0But at least they still fo that
06.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh yes, Jasmine are awesome. There Tempo reissues are cheap and still highly regarded.
06.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Totally in agreement!
06.03.2026 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The full trilogy. Friday.
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It really is a great record. You are the voice of reason though. 😀 I don't doubt they're any better but the attention to detail is there. The Spanish Fresh Sounds albums are similar. 😀👍
06.03.2026 07:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Helen Merrill debut.
I only have this cheap repress, and say to myself buy a copy with original artwork, a nice Japanese copy, but then I play it and it really is decent sounding, and it's to be listened to, not looked at. Either way Helen is the best.
05.03.2026 21:14 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So Tough.
More cleaning. Their finest moment. 1993. Not that I'd return there. Righto...
05.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh my, the Luck of Lucien.
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ATCQ people's instinctive travels...
Another debut. 1990. More box fresh sounds. Did we honestly think we'd be listening to these albums 3 decades on? I'd say, maybe not. NP
05.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Young Disciples Road To Freedom
The Young Disciples Road to Freedom still sounds remarkably fresh for an album 35 years old. The Freedom Suite in particular - part 3 dropping Hercules throughout. Oh my, great album title and sleeve art, deserves a place up there with the finest!
05.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good news. I like AB, particularly Enderby. I've never read Ulysses, though i am cheating with the audiobook, which makes it less daunting. Sounds like an excellent day in my book!
05.03.2026 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book of the day. Here Comes Everybody - Anthony Burgess on James Joyce.
05.03.2026 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mort met Brel in Paris mid 60s, adapted his songs, inspiring Scott Walker and made the amazing and off it's face My Death album. They should behave.
04.03.2026 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Death of William Posters Pan paperback 1967
...the radio softly playing fly-by-night Favourites for nomad boozers...
04.03.2026 20:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dexter Gordon Gettin Around Tone Poet
Another fave album cover. Photography, design. Dexter in the bottom right hand corner rather than centre. Very European looking too, maybe it's the beret? Fabulous album, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes. A cover of Who Can I Turn To? (any album with it on is worth a listen imo). Anyway, mellow...np
04.03.2026 16:45 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Haha. I've hidden it!
04.03.2026 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haha. It's been quite fabulous results wise so far. Trouble is i have other things I should be doing! 👍
04.03.2026 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Never seen the single either! Weird it's never been reissued, there is usually a Japanese reissue of these sort of albums, or maybe a Spanish Fresh Sounds. Nowt.
04.03.2026 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Which reminds me, I'd love to find a copy of Miss Toni Fisher's The Big Hurt album...
04.03.2026 11:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NP a now super clean copy. It changes, but I think this is possibly my favourite of the 4. The arrangements are quite something, Tony Bennett on a downer.
04.03.2026 11:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There is in our local charity shop. They call it old and interesting, or to you and me - really bloody expensive!
04.03.2026 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They were great days. When I do see those books now they're always overpriced so no-one is going to buy them. A lot of those authors are 90% out of print these days. I now belong to a bygone era haha!
04.03.2026 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They really don't look like they sound. All part of the charm.
04.03.2026 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers
NP. Bit hit and miss. But did a band look better? Love that symbol or hi-hat (I'm not technical) in the bottom right. It looks almost flying saucer.
04.03.2026 08:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyway, further back, those late 80s charity shop days of Pan and Penguin paperbacks 5 for a quid, a world of reading and self education. Magical.
04.03.2026 08:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0