The Album Review Club - Christmas Break Until 8th January

Rob, you had a wee list of years we hadn't had yet, do you still have this to hand?

As it resumes with me in January, I am deciding between a couple, might help sway me. One would likely go down well here, based on some recent things seen, and is also part of colin larkin's list that I earmarked for bluehammer. The other new to most I believe, probably ticks a year. On the back of the last few somewhat similar albums, would probably be a welcome change, but then, maybe the break itself kind of does that.
I have not once nominated a record on the Larkin/Rolling Stone top 1,100 but I plan to change that with my next nomination finally and in future too probably. The thread’s been going on a long while! Pick what you like best :)
 
Rob, you had a wee list of years we hadn't had yet, do you still have this to hand?

As it resumes with me in January, I am deciding between a couple, might help sway me. One would likely go down well here, based on some recent things seen, and is also part of colin larkin's list that I earmarked for bluehammer. The other new to most I believe, probably ticks a year. On the back of the last few somewhat similar albums, would probably be a welcome change, but then, maybe the break itself kind of does that.
Years missing:-

  • Everything before 1964 (bar the classical nom)
  • 1965
  • 1967
  • 1988
  • 2005
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2011
  • 2018
  • 2022
  • 2025 :)
 
Happy new year pop pickers and hope 2025 is fabuloso and rocktastic.

For those of you with a wee soft spot for Big Country I found this footage on YT which you might enjoy if you fancy a bit of a party and a wee dram of malt in memory of Stuart Adamson.
Big Country's first single was "Harvest Home", recorded and released in 1982, as in page 1982 here.

Uncanny, and Happy New Year everyone! Keep looking for those numbers. ;-)
 
SInce we're still on break, I'd be remiss if not linking the video to the song that I listen to on this day each and every year.

Recorded in Sweden in December 1982, this was released in Jan 1983 and was the first song I remember from this Irish rock band I began to follow in high school. Sorry, but you can't deny this song, opening piano, vocals, guitar, or bass line, and I love the lyrics, written about the Polish Solidarity movement at the time.

Nothing changes... on New Year's Day

 
Whilst we are still on a break from the albums, it would be remiss of me not to comment on the sad news that DJ Johnnie Walker has died.

Naturally, I missed his first stint at Radio One, but 38 years ago this month, he returned to the station to host the flagship Saturday afternoon show, The Stereo Sequence. Johnnie presented the show until the middle of 1988, at which point Roger Scott took over, presenting until his untimely death in October 1989.

Roger effortlessly took over where Johnnie had left off; both DJs presenting with enthusiasm, a great deal of musical knowledge, sharing with their audience their latest musical discoveries.

"Do you not listen to music the radio?" I'm sometimes asked. "No," I say, "because after Johnnie Walker and Roger Scott, everything else pales into insignificance."

I like to think that our little thread is the text-based equivalent of The Stereo Sequence - a small group of friends passionately sharing their musical loves with friendly company.

RIP Johnnie, and thanks for The Lonesome Jubilee plus a whole host of musical memories that will last a lifetime.
 

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