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. 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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. 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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. 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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
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