Saturday, 7 June 2025

Pushin' Too Hard - American Garage Punk 1964-1967 (2024 comp)*****

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  Last week I was browsing at Reckless Records in London, trying to choose between these boxsets curated by Cherry Red Records  - a British ...
Sunday, 1 June 2025

London Record Shops

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(THE FIRST PART OF THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 2015, SCROLL DOWN FOR THE  2025  UPDATE) I just got back from my latest visit in...
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Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Deep Purple "Live In Japan" a.k.a. "Made In Japan" 1972*****

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I found this LP at a 2nd hand records store in Tokyo; I am quite familiar with the (official, at least) discography of Deep Purple b...
Monday, 19 May 2025

Sadistic Mika Band "天晴 (Appare)" 1989****

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One of the albums I was looking for during my recent trek of Japanese record stores was  黒船 ( Kurofune)  by Sadistic Mika Band (SMB)...
Tuesday, 13 May 2025

"Rolling Tickets - Live Back-" 1964-1969(rec)1982(comp)*****

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Wow, it's been a month to the day - probably the longest time I've been away from you. Truth is, I've been quite busy at work, a...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

Extremoduro "La Ley Innata" 2008****

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I recently returned from Madrid, Spain. Ιt was my second visit there, much happier than the previous one when I got COVID and st...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

UNCUT: The 500 Greatest Albums of The 1980's ...ranked!

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So here's one more list of the kind I often publish here. As I've previously said, I collect these special editions featurin...