Books in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good. And just to show that writers don't live in a bubble, here's some other stuff... Albums Heard 2021 “Ain’t Necessarily So” — Andy Bey “Groovin’ High” — Dizzy Gillespie “Milestones” — Miles Davis “Body and Soul” — Coleman Hawkins “Besame Mucho” — Art Pepper “Taj Mahal” — Taj Mahal “Another Time Another Place” — Kevin Mahogany “My Romance” — Kevin Mahogany “Shades of Bey” — Andy Bey “Naturally” — J J Cale “Spurts” — Richard Hell “Leftism” — Leftfied “I, Assassin” — Gary Numan “Doctor Adamski’s Musical Pharmacy” — Adamski “Funny How Time Slips Away” — Junior Parker “Lift to The Scaffold” — Miles Davis “The Other Road” — Ray Barretto “Indestructible” — Ray Barretto “Texas Cannonball” — Freddie King “Charanga Moderna” — Ray Barretto “The Cry of Love” — Jimi Hendrix “Elegant Gypsy” — Al Di Meola “Lazarus: OCR” — Various “Fleetwood Mac” — Fleetwood Mac “Arzachel” — Arzachel “Blood Moon” — Fraction “A Funky Thide of Sings” — Billy Cobham “The Allman Brothers Band” — Allman Brothers Band “Population II” — Randy Holden “Pappo’s Blues, Vol. 1” — Pappo’s Blues “Physical Graffiti” — Led Zeppelin “Years Gone By” — Albert King “Out of The Wild Come” — The Baron Four “You Won’t Remember Dying” — Bulbous Creation “Trip Thru Hell” — C. A. Quintet “Freddie King Is A Blues Master” — Freddie King “Burglar” — Freddie King “Oxygéne” — Jean-Michel Jarre “Woman Across The Water” — Freddie King “Will O’ The Wisp” — Leon Russell “Milo Goes to College” — Descendants “Yanqui U.X.O” — Godspeed You Black Emperor “Carney” — Leon Russell “Kamikaze ’89” — Edgar Froese “Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” — Wu Tang Clan “CSN” — Crosby, Stills & Nash “Morgen” — Morgen “Demos” — Crosby, Stills & Nash “Black Sabbath” — Black Sabbath “Never Say Die!” — Black Sabbath “Meddle” — Pink Floyd “Everything Sucks” — Descendants “Introspection” — The End “The W” — Wu Tang Clan “No Man’s Land” — Victor Periano’s Kingdom Come “13” — Black Sabbath “Anabelas” — Bubu “Hyperborea” — Tangerine Dream “Weasals Ripped My Flesh” — The Mothers of Invention “13 Songs” — Fugazi “Tour de France” — Kraftwerk “Techno Pop” — Kraftwerk “Jerusalem” — Jerusalem “Computerwelt” — Kraftwerk “In The Court of King Crimson” — King Crimson “Minimum-Maximum” — Kraftwerk “The Emancipation Procrastination” — Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah “New Long Leg” — Dry Cleaning “I&II” — Friendship “Crosby, Stills & Nash” — Crosby, Stills & Nash “Mm…Food” — MF Doom “Czarface Meets Metal Face” — Czarface and MF Doom “Aglio E Olio” — Beastie Boys “Funhouse” — The Stooges “Every Hero Needs A Villain” — Czarface “Wild Things Run Fast” — Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” — Joni Mitchell “Double Dose of Danger” — Czarface “Keyboard Fantasies” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland “The Mouse & The Mask” — Dangerdoom “Done and…Dusted” — Dust Junkys “Eliminator” — ZZ Top “I’m The Man” — Joe Jackson “So Far” — Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young “Really” — J. J. Cale “Beverly Glenn-Copeland” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland “Deguello” — ZZ Top “Primal Prayer” — Beverly Glenn-Copeland “Nothin’ but the Blues…Live” — Lightin’ Hopkins & Freddie King “Other Voices” — The Doors “Confusion” — The Big Brother & Ernie Joseph “Secrets” — Herbie Hancock “Eat A Peach” — Allman Brothers Band “Idelwild South” — Allman Brothers Band “Solitary High Social Club” — Lay-Far & Phil Gerus “At Fillmore East” — Allman Brothers Band “Big Lizard in My Back Yard” — The Dead Milkmen “Beelzebubba” — The Dead Milkmen “Green Twins” — Nick Hakim “Claremont Editions, Vol. 1” — Various “One Trick Pony” — Paul Simon “Gentle Giant” — Gentle Giant “Walk Among Us” — Misfits “The Sonics Boom” — The Sonics “Toxicity” — System Of A Down “Lost Chance” — James Chance & The Contortions “Whistling Down The Wire” — Crosby & Nash “Heavy Soul” — Paul Weller “The Köln Concert” — Keith Jarrett “Sounds of Silence” — Simon & Garfunkel “Old Friends Live On Stage” — Simon & Garfunkel “Fillmore East 1970” — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “The Wind” — Balmorhea “Free Your Mind…” — Funkadelic “Maggot Brain” — Funkadelic “Angel Clare” — Art Garfunkel “Electric Music For The Mind & Body” — County Joe & The Fish “Shotgun Willie” — Willie Nelson “Future Days” — Can “Frampton” — Peter Frampton “True Meanings” — Paul Weller “Funkadelic” — Funkadelic “Zoolook” — Jean-Michel Jarre “Aqualung” — Jethro Tull “Dem Bones/Decapitated” — Broken Bones “Mothership Connection” — Parliament “Stoned Guitar” — The Human Instinct “Third Dimension” — Rahsaan Ronald Kirk “Colours” — Ken Nordine “Brutalism”— Idles “Joy as an Act of Resistance” — Idles “Coney Island Baby”— Lou Reed “Then Play On” — Fleetwood Mac “Lou Reed” — Lou Reed “Moonsung: A Real World Retrospective” — Shelia Chandra “String Quartet No. 4” — Philip Glass “On Sunset” — Paul Weller “Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve” — Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Graham Nash & David Crosby” — Crosby & Nash “Ellis In Wonderland” — Herb Ellis “I Am the Messiah” — MC Honky “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” — The Cranberries “Am I Not Your Girl?” — Sinéad O’Connor “Shot of Love” — Bob Dylan “Oh Mercy” — Bob Dylan “Portishead” — Portishead “Lulu” — Lou Reed & Metallica “Berlin” – Lou Reed “Poetry for the Beat Generation” – Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen “Moanin’” – Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers “Life by Misadventure” — Rag'n'Bone Man “I Still Do” — Eric Clapton “Cold Fact” — Rodriquez “Rock ’n’ Roll Animal” — Lou Reed “Songs of Love and Revolution” — The Telescopes “Gurrumul” — Gurrumul “Chávez Ravine” — Ry Cooder “Fat Pop” — Paul Weller “This Is All Yours” — alt-J “Daddy’s Home” — St. Vincent “Arrival of the New Elders” — Elephant9 “Eastern Sounds” — Yusef Lateef “Time Out” — The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Magnolia OST” — Aimee Mann & Various “Za Bakdaz: The Unfinished Opera” — Klaus Nomi “Sketches from Spain” — Miles Davis “Lush Life” — John Coltrane “Tom Verlaine” — Tom Verlaine “Discipline” — King Crimson “Eric Burdon Declares War”— Eric Burdon & War “Absolutely Live” — The Doors “Hidden Stories” — Hooverphonic “Velvet Underground Live w. Lou Reed” — The Velvet Underground “Inner Space/Out of Reach” — Can “Flow Motion” — Can “Cornbread” — Lee Morgan “Mr Hands” — Herbie Hancock “Carmina Burana” — Ray Manzarek “Miles in Tokyo” — Miles Davis “Beaters” — Harari “Takin’ Off” — Herbie Hancock “The Heart of Saturday Night” — Tom Waits “The Human Voice” — Alberto Iglesias “Café Atlantico” — Cesária Evora “Heavy Sun” — Daniel Lanois “Françoise Hardy” — Françoise Hardy “Leftover Feelings” — John Hiatt and The Jerry Douglas Band “Love On The Beat” — Serge Gainsbourg “You’re Under Arrest” — Serge Gainsbourg “Chants of India” — Ravi Shankar “Reprise” — Moby “IRM” — Charlotte Gainsbourg “Hardware” — Billy F. Gibbons “The Immortal Jeanne Moreau” — Jeanne Moreau “Typhoons” — Royal Blood “Ananda Shankar” — Ananda Shankar “A Secret Life” — Marianne Faithfull “Stephen Stills” — Stephen Stills “Loveless” — My Bloody Valentine “Quick Little Mix Tape” — Pete & Bas “Holes In The Wall” — The Electric Soft Parade “Intruder” — Gary Numan “Ecstatic Meditations” — Tom Furse “French Taste” — Carla Bruni “Nightclubbing” — Grace Jones “Bandwagonesque” — Teenage Fan Club “Delta Kream” — The Black Keys “Tom Furse Digs” — Tom Furse “10,000 Hz Legend” — Air “Endless Arcade” — Teenage Fanclub “Leisure” — Blur “Sea Change” — Beck “Serpentine Prison” — Matt Beringer “Mouasalat Jacad El Ard — Issam Hajali “Getz/Gilberto” — João Gilberto & Stan Getz “Aux pieds de la nuit” — Nyx Nótt “Carnage” — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis “After The Rain” — Muddy Waters “Washington Suite” — The Lloyd McNeil Quartet “I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too” — Martha Wainwright “The Great Escape” — Blur “Omara Portuondo” — Omara Portuondo “Poor David’s Almanack” — David Rawlings “Nice To Meet U” — Pi Ja Ma “A.T.’s Delight” — Art Taylor “Clubhouse” — Dexter Gordon “Still Wish You Were Here” — Various “West Side Strut” — Eddy Clearwater “Born To Die” — Lana Del Ray “Chemtrails Over The Country Club” — Lana Del Ray “Sun Records Recording Artists - Rosco Gordon” — Rosco Gordon “Purple BLUE” — Otis Kane “Kingfish” — Christone “Kingfish” Ingram “Inform - Educate - Entertain” — Public Service Broadcasting “The Race for Space” — Public Service Broadcasting “The Waiting Game” — Tina Brooks “Ballet Etudes” — Krzysztof Komeda “There Is A Place” — Maisha “Rolled Gold” — The Action “Sound Affects” — The Jam “King of the Delta Blue Singers” — Robert Johnson “There Are But Four Small Faces” — Small Faces “The First Minute of a New Day” — Gil-Scott Heron & Brian Jackson “Sunday's Child” — John Martyn “Faithless” — Marianne Faithfull “One Flight Up” — Dexter Gordon “Our Man in Paris” — Dexter Gordon “Profile” — Duke Pearson “Blues For Dracula” — Philly Joe Jones Sextet “The Sidewinder” — Lee Morgan “Cirrus” — Bobby Hutcherson “Walkin’ and Talkin’” — Bennie Green “A Night at The Village Vanguard (Live)” — Sonny Rollins “Blowback” — Tricky “Firebirds” — Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons “Setting Sons” — The Jam “Workin’” — Miles Davis Quintet “Mustt Mustt” — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan “Body and Soul” — David Murray Quartet “The Gift” — The Jam “Small Faces” — Small Faces “Rhythm and Stealth” — Leftfield “Beyond Now” — Donny McCaslin “Timeless” — Goldie “Wise One” — Bobby Hutcherson “Raio” — Domenico Lanellotti “Voices of the Real World” — Various “Outlaw R&B” — Night Beats “Dead Men Don’t Smoke Marijuana” — S. E. Rogie “Passion” — Peter Gabriel “Island Life” — Grace Jones “Waiting” — Bobby Hutcherson “Molokai” — Papa Wembe “Body and Soul” — Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake” — Small Faces “My Conception” — Sonny Clark “Blue and Lonesome” — The Rolling Stones “Think Tank” — Blur “Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence” — Ryuichi Sakamoto “Carry Your Kin” — The Breath “My Feeling For The Blues” — Freddie King “The Montreux Years” — Marianne Faithfull “Lay Low” — Lou Doillon “Warm Leatherette” — Grace Jones “The Impossible Bird” — Nick Lowe “69 Love Songs” — The Magnetic Fields “Calling Out of Context” — Arthur Russell “Doctor Hook” — Dr Hook “Thanks For Coming” — Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum “Pleasure & Pain” — Dr Hook “The Cape Verdean Blues” — Horace Silver “The Highwomen” — The Highwomen “I Love You Honeybear” — Father John Misty “Ambient 1/Music For Airports” — Brian Eno “Music For Films” — Brian Eno “Forever Changes” — Love “Boy From Michigan” — John Grant “Moffou” — Salif Keita “And.” — John Martyn “Il Est Cinq Heures” — Jacques Dutronc “Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia” — The Dandy Warhols “Volunteered Slavery” — Rahsaan Ronald Kirk “Aux Armes et Caetera” — Serge Gainsbourg “Mauvaises Nouvelles des Étoiles” — Serge Gainsbourg “Comic Strip” — Serge Gainsbourg “Goose Bumps” — Boyscott “Blood Pressure” — The Kills “This is Fine” — Winona Forever “Vol. One” — Sadgirl “Vol. Two” — Sadgirl “Joe’s Garage” — Frank Zappa “Touchdown” — Bob James “Black Pumas” — Black Pumas “New York” — Lou Reed “Senjutsu” — Iron Maiden “Les Filles de Illighadad” — Les Filles de Illighadad “Artemis” — Artemis “Eghass Malan” — Les Filles de Illighadad “American Poet” — Lou Reed “color theory” — Soccer Mommy “Dark Matters” — The Stranglers “Audio Violence ’89 (The Legendary Boston Broadcast)” — Lou Reed “Light-Foot” — Lou Donaldson “Lou Reed Live” — Lou Reed “Protest Songs 1924 - 2012” — The Specials “I’m Old Fashioned” — Bill Charlap Trio “ZZ Top’s First Album” — ZZ Top “Metal Machine Music” — Lou Reed “Growing Up in Public” — Lou Reed “Troyka” — Troyka “Es Una Nube, No Hay Duda” — Vox Dei “Bottles & Throttles” — Uncle Harry & The Kickstands “I Know Now Why You Cry” — Gregory Pepper & His Problems “Late at Night” — Alanna Gurr & The Greatest State “The Boston Strangler” — Lou Reed “Rock and Roll Heart” — Lou Reed “Ursa Major” — Ursa Major “Hearts and Bones” — Paul Simon “Quiet Nights” — Diana Krall “Street Hassle” — Lou Reed “Take No Prisoners - Live” — Lou Reed “The Blue Mask” — Lou Reed “Legendary Hearts” — Lou Reed “The Bells” — Lou Reed “A Child’s Adventure” — Marianne Faithfull “No Exit” — Marianne Faithfull “Detour de Force” — Barenaked Ladies “Lou Reed Live in Italy” — Lou Reed “New Sensations” — Lou Reed “Mistrial” — Lou Reed “Songs for Drella” — Lou Reed & John Cale “Saskadelphia” — The Tragically Hip “Lord Sitar” — Lord Sitar “Je t'aime... moi non plus” — Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg “Set The Twilight Reeling“ — Lou Reed “Fragments of a Rainy Season” — John Cale “Imposter” — Dave Gahan & Soulsavers “Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby” — Sarah Mary Chadwick “Picture in Mind” — Rachel Love “Never Will” — Ashley McBryde “Diagonal” — Enric Montefusco “Last Exit to Brooklyn: OST” — Mark Knopfler “Skull & Roses” — Grateful Dead “Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood” — Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood “Wrong Way Up” — Brian Eno & John Cale “Hair to Jazz” — Tom Scott “Tom Scott And The L. A. Express” — Tom Scott “Cat” — Hiroshi Suzuki “Barn” — Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Perfect Night in London” — Lou Reed “Magic and Loss” — Lou Reed “Ecstacy” — Lou Reed “Psalms” — Nathan Salsburg “The Raven” — Lou Reed “Malik” — Lafayette Afro Rock Band That's 375 albums in total. Can recommend most of them. Films Watched 2021
Films in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good. And just to show that writers don't live in a bubble, here's some other stuff... Films Watched 2020
Films in bold were particularly good. Plays Seen 2020
Obviously, not many this year. Theatre makers and theatre staff work tremendously hard before the pandemic, during it and they will after it. I can't wait to see more plays when available. Albums Heard 2020
You could listen to any of the above and have a good time. Art Seen 2020
I was really lucky to see as much art I did last year. A real blessing.
Books in bold were particularly good. And just to show that writers don't live in a bubble, here's some other stuff... Films Watched 2019
Films in bold were particularly good. Plays Seen 2019
Plays in bold were particularly good. Albums Heard 2019
You could listen to any of the above and have a good time. Art Seen 2019
Books in bold were particularly good. And just to show that writers don't live in a bubble, here's some other stuff... Films Watched 2018
Films in bold were particularly good. Plays Seen 2018
Plays in bold were particularly good. Albums Heard 2018
You could listen to any of the above and have a good time.
Books in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good.
Books in bold were particularly good. |
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