Whats on your turntable tonight?

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

One of my favourite debut albums of the 80’s and frequently played . Great production too.

I was very fortunate to inherit this album as part of a collection which cost me the equivalent of a few beers from a good friend and now retired work mate named Doug McRae. 

I’d only ever heard individual songs from it previously but now it always gets played from start to finish. I definitely got the better deal Doug. Cheers 🍺

Norah Jones / Pick Me Up Off The Floor
2020 Blue Note

Tracey Ullman / You Broke My Heart In 17 Places
1983 MCA

The eponymous Rickie Lee Jones

I suppose I’d call myself a bit of a Hi-Fi nut, an audiophile if you will. That’s why I’m here I suppose. I think we’re thought of at a level slightly above train modellers.

But it’s always only about the music and so my pursuit of ‘perfect sound’ and the equipment that plays it has only ever been about trying to get as close as possible to the sound as the artist intended.

Sometimes a beautiful sounding album and a beautiful album are the same thing. There’s a few albums I own that fit that bill, albums that got the production and the musicianship that the material deserved.

An album made by a girl in a beret and the finest musicians in town and she’s got a voice so sassy, flirty, aching and touching that if she turned up on your doorstep you’d ask her to stay the night. 

Carole King / Tapestry
1971 CBS