Heron - Heron
Heron - Twice As Nice And Half The Price

The Incredible String Band - I Looked Up
The Incredible String Band - U
The Incredible String Band - Be Glad For The Song Has Ne Ending

Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian
Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

The Coral - The Coral

Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
Lilys - The 3-Way

The Beach Boys - Today!
The Beach Boys - Summer Days (& Summer Nights!!)
The Beach Boys - Party! Uncovered & Unplugged
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys - Smile

Beulah - Handsome Western States

Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Sun Ra - Interstellar Low Ways
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow

The Doors - Strange Days

The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir

The Heavy Blinkers - Hooray For Everything

This week’s spins:
Georgie Fame ‘Swan Songs’ - Fame’s last album from 2015 is as fine a record as he’s made throughout his long career: skilful R&B with a touch of humour thrown in;
Julian Cope & The Teardrop Explodes ‘Cold War Psychedelia’ - I must admit to a suspicion of barrel scraping the first time I heard about this. I was wrong. This is a highly entertaining record, for fans anyway;
Simple Minds ‘Live In The City Of Light’ - live summary of the start of the Minds’ artistic decline, with more verve than soul in evidence;
Scritti Politti ‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ - hearing this again for the first time in 35 years was a real mind trip back to my twenties. Even the glitzy 80s production doesn’t mar the joy of these songs - well, not too much anyway. Unlike
The Monkees ‘Pool It’ - where, as Flash noted last week, the dated production really does get in the way. A shame, because there’s a similar feel good vibe running through most of these songs and Dolenz is on particularly good vocal form;
Opeth ‘Pale Communion’ - Opeth’s 2014 album is less heavy than most of its predecessors but still hits hard with a wider range of instrumental colour and melody. Intelligent hard rock is all;
Brian Eno ‘Another Green World’ - a lovely blend of songs and sonorities done as only Eno can. Possibly the coolest ever LP to feature Phil Collins?
Steely Dan ‘Aja’ - proof that you can’t work too hard to make a great record. Technical perfection is hard to achieve: to add warmth as well is even harder. The Dan never made a better album. And I’m struggling to think of anyone else who did;
Deniece Williams ‘This Is Niecy’ - her first album from 1976 is a classy set of songs showing her amazing vocal range;
Charley Pride ‘Back To The Country’ - one of Pride’s last RCA albums, short and sweet if a little dated in its 80s crossover way;
Waylon Jennings ‘Turn The Page’ and ‘Sweet Mother Texas’ - 1985/6 releases by Waylon, still in fine voice but few self-penned songs;
Paul Desmond ‘Glad To Be Unhappy’ - Desmond’s smoky tone captured to perfection on this 1965 LP, also featuring Jim Hall on guitar;
Sun Ra ‘Lanquidity’ - Stuart Maconie’s featured album from last week’s Freakzone is a belter, one of the great Saturnian’s most accessible albums. Newly reissued and ordered without delay by me;
Beethoven: Symphony no.4 (BPO/Herbert von Karajan) - Karajan’s 1977 recording of Beethoven’s most lyrical symphony is less incendiary than his 1962 account but still superb, especially in the Adagio second movement;
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture and Symphony no.3 (LPO/Klaus Tennstedt) - earnest, teutonic readings by a troubled conductor who found fame too late in life. There was so much more to Tennstedt’s art than Mahler;
Beethoven: Symphony no.8 (Concertgebouw/Bernard Haitink) - the earliest of four recorded B8s from Haitink is still his best: vibrant and powerful with attention to the work’s inner detail and humour;
Schumann: Symphony no.3 (VPO/Sir Georg Solti) - well played but nondescript rendering of Schumann’s Rhenish;
Bach: Partita no.3 in A minor (Trevor Pinnock) - how anyone can play this at all, let alone as well as this, amazes me.

Each night I go to bed, I pray like Aretha Franklin.

Sweet vibes to all

Dave x

C.O.B - Moyshe McStiff & The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart

Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz

John Coltrane - The Avant-Garde (with Don Cherry) / My Favorite Things (mono) / Coltranology Vol 1: Live Konserthusen, Stockholm 23/11/61 / Impressions: Jazz Masterworks LP (Live 1961-2)

Crass - Why Don't You F*** Off (Yes Sir, I Will 2002) / Best Before 1984 / Ten Notes On A Summer's Day

The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun

Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off / Surrealistic Pillow / Early Flight

King Crimson - Islands / Larks' Tongues In Aspic (40t mix)

Love - Da Capo / Forever Changes / Four Sail (Arthur Lee mix)

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um / Portraits

My Bloody Valentine - EPs 1988-91

Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming & Get On The Beam / Sounding The Ritual Echo

One - Come

Psychic TV - Thee Fabulous Feast Ov Flowering Light / Southern Comfort

Public Image Ltd - First Issue / Extra Issue: Rainbow 26/12/78 / Russell Club, Manchester 16/6/79

The Radha Krsna Temple - S/t

The Residents - Meet The Residents / Not Available

The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos

Slowdive - Just For A Day

Soft Machine - Volume 1 & 2

Spirit - S/t / The Family That Plays Together / The Adventures Of Kaptain Kopter & Commander Cassidy In Potato Land

Talking Heads - Fear Of Music / Remain In Light

Carnage - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Cold War Psychedelia - Julian Cope & the Teardrop Explodes
Coral Island - The Coral
Luxury Variations EP - CZN
Negative Capability - Marianne Faithfull
Imperial Wax Solvent - The Fall
Straight Songs Of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan
Clara - Locsil
The Alias Sessions - Murcof
Monkey Business (45) - Pet Shop Boys
Deutsche Elektronische Muzik Vol 4 - V/A