If you need a record to cut through the fug of a hangover then this is the one – just as well, I had quite a few hangovers in the 80’s – only saw them live once – they toured with Blur and MBV possibly the loudest concert I have ever been to.
10 albums in 10 days – album #4 – Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
So within these 10 albums there are 3 real keepers, albums that even now I go back to time after time and this is one of them. No idea where it came from, I’d heard their synth pop singles, seen them live but there was no clue that they were going to drop this album … Continue reading 10 albums in 10 days – album #4 – Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
10 albums in 10 days – Album #3 – Real Life – Magazine
It was a chance encounter that introduced me to Magazine – I was 5 minutes late for my first lecture at Uni and the tutor wouldn’t let me in and I was told to wait outside. 3 minutes later another young lad rushes by, army greatcoat, DM’s and a gets the same treatment. We say … Continue reading 10 albums in 10 days – Album #3 – Real Life – Magazine
10 albums in 10 days – Album No 2 – Sons & Fascination/Sisters Feelings Call – Simple Minds
Their last great album, although New Gold Dream wasn’t bad, produced by Steve Hillage. This was 3 years before Jim Kerr learnt to go La, La, La and it all went downhill and bombastic. Back in 1981 they were still synth led, great bass lines from Derek Forbes and Charlie Burchill’s guitar added texture and … Continue reading 10 albums in 10 days – Album No 2 – Sons & Fascination/Sisters Feelings Call – Simple Minds
10 albums in 10 days – Album 1 – Crocodiles – Echo & the Bunnymen
I missed punk, post punk was my ‘scene’, going to university in Sept 1980 at the height of the Manchester (not Madchester)/Liverpool axis that, arguably, started with the ‘legendary’ Sex Pistols concert at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester that gave us the Buzzcocks, Joy Division and many more. So I arrived at … Continue reading 10 albums in 10 days – Album 1 – Crocodiles – Echo & the Bunnymen
colin reynolds - music memories / mental health / living with a stoma 