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Donovan - What's Bin Did & What's Bin Hid
Donovan - Fairytale

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (finally caught A Complete Unknown this week and had the cinema all to myself, making this excellent film all the more immersive. Remarkable musical performances from the actors involved and a wonderful sense of time and place, although felt a bit miffed that they nicked the 'Judas!' from the Manchester Free Trade Hall and shoehorned it into the Newport Folk Festival).

Kate Bush - The Dreaming

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Damned - Music For Pleasure
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette

Vangelis - 1492: Conquest Of Paradise
Vangelis & Stina Nordenstam - Ask The Mountains EP
Vangelis - Voices

The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
The Stranglers - Dreamtime
The Stranglers - All Live And All Of The Night
The Stranglers - 10

Julian Cope - Self Civil War
Julian Cope - England Expectorates
Julian Cope - Robin Hood
Julian Cope - Friar Tuck (a bit behind on Cope's most recent releases but found these all on YouTube and had a very enjoyable binge. England Expectorates and Friar Tuck in particular are both instant classics).

Philip Glass - The Photographer (Found an autographed LP of this for a fiver in a charity shop and the arpeggiated repetition of the music came as no surprise. Truly lovely for about 10 minutes, somewhat grating once it reaches the 20 minute mark).

David Bowie - Outside
David Bowie - Earthling
David Bowie - Hours

Wet Leg - Wet Leg (Revisiting this after a couple of years it still feels like a winning mixture of Courtney Barnett, Elastica, The Libertines and moments of My Bloody Valentine. There was something of a backlash against them but looking forward to their Glastonbury appearance this year and hopefully a second album).

Maddy Prior & June Tabor - Silly Sisters

I take your point about A Complete Unknown and its rewriting of history; in fact, it rather spoiled the film for me. It’s great that it’s turned a whole new generation onto Dylan, but I wonder how many of his new followers will consider it a documentary rather than mere entertainment. If so, they’ve been sorely misinformed.

Love the look of the vinyl soundtrack, mind. On first glance it looks like a proper Bob LP from the early Sixties.