A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
I think I can guarantee that you won’t have heard anything quite like this. From the 1974 album Desperate Straights, when Virgin Records let their artists do what they liked, … Continue readingSlapp Happy/Henry Cow: The Owl
This wasn’t enough to turn me vegetarian but it certainly made me go for only free-range pork. From Wyatt’s 1986 EPs collection.
Inspired combination of Captain Beefheart’s Dropout Boogie and Apache by the Shadows from Edgar ‘Out, Demons Out’ Broughton. Single came out in 1970 on the Harvest label.
From the later work of an underrated guitar star, creator of the pioneering instrumental Rumble. This is a live clip from 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBhViJYO9M
THE scene is heavy-metal guitarist Nigel Tufnel’s music room. He is showing film maker Marty DiBergi a Marshall amplifier on which the dials all go up to eleven, rather than … Continue readingSpinal Tap go to eleven
Great stuff from the 1973 album Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun. Our Gracie at her best.
Where Ray Winstone, top geezer of the betting adverts, got his elocution lessons. Eric was one of the first artists signed to Stiff Records, along with Ian Dury and Nick … Continue readingWreckless Eric: Whole Wide World
From the Dan man’s 1994 solo album Eleven Tracks of Whack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheQ76S9Je0 . RIP Walter.
Prog gem from the 1970 album Friend’s Friend’s Friend. Persevere until the 2 min 55 mark when horn player Keith Gemmill begins to enjoy himself. You will too.
The best thing about Clem Snide in my book is that the singer, Eef Barzelay, sounds like a young Loudon Wainwright III. This is from the band’s 2005 album End … Continue readingClem Snide: The Sound of German Hip-Hop