Ashford & Simpson~Bourgie Bourgie
Sven Libaek~Misty Canyon
Teenage Fanclub~B-Side
Nilsson~Mother Nature's Son
David Byrne~Loco De Amor
Rose Battiste~Hit And Run
Rita Lee~Tempo Nublado
Byard Lancaster~Satan
Sonic Youth~Disconnection Notice
Flying Lotus~Putty Boy Strut

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Weep Not Child which is a Kenyan book set around the Mau Mau wars~very good.

I'm once again celebrating the genius of The Meters' drummer Zigaboo Modeliste and if anyone has the time to spare here's why https://www.youtube.com/wat…

In the eighties, after steroid abuse had robbed him of his testicles, Arnold Schwarzenegger used to sit on the verandah and remember what it was like to have gonads~scrotal recall

I always thought that song was about Manilow's chronic addiction to quaaludes aka Mandrax aka Mandys but then I found out that he didn't write it and that it was originally called Brandy.

R.I.P to the wonderful Cilla Black, British television presenter, scouse contemporary and friend of The Beatles and pop star. My favourite Cilla clip with Marc Bolan on her TV show in 1973 https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Walked out of work yesterday evening knowing that I wouldn't be back there for two weeks and did a fist punch into freeze frame like Judd Nelson at the end of The Breakfast Club. Unfortunately got stuck in the freeze frame for two and a half hours and had to deal with the embarrassment of the cleaners having to do…

It's a great album (could maybe do without quite so many skits) and probably one of the first records where I felt I needed to get a cd copy as well because the vinyl pressing was pretty terrible (as was 3 ft High) and it had a whole load of different tracks including My Brother's A Basehead. It's quite rare for a…

Love those first three J.Bs albums (J Beez Wit The Remedy has got to be one of the most batshit major label rap albums of all time). I find it hard to rank De La's discography just because the quality's so high and the sound changed a lot after Prince Paul wasn't producing them any more so it became something quite…

De La Soul's most iconic album is obviously Three Feet High which is an incredible record but for me was just the beginning of an incredible run of releases that were, if anything, even better. De La Soul Is Dead, Buhloone Mind State, Stakes Is High, The AOI records and The Grind Date make for a pretty impeccable…

Rockin' Sidney~My Toot Toot
Ceephax Acid Crew~Capsule In Space
Mantronix~Get Stupid Fresh pt1
Sandy Denny~Next Time Around
The Specials~Rat Race
Bernard Herrmann~I Work The Whole City
M.J Cole~Sincere
Annette Hanshaw~Moanin' Low
Mama Cass~Lady Love
Amerie~1 Thing

A punk is having sex with his girlfriend while listening to punk music
'Is this Johnny* Rotten?' she asks
'Nah I've only used it once before.'
*A Johnny or a Rubber Johnny was a slang term for a condom in Britain in the seventies and eighties

I saw Nurse Betty when it was in cinemas in 1999 and loved it then, so I was pleased that it stood up very nicely to a re-watch and remains a delightfully peculiar little movie with strong performances from all of the cast. My son has reinstalled ad blocker on the computer which for some reason has allowed me to look…

James Brown never recorded Soul Man. Sam and Dave did the original and had the hit and several acts did cover it including Sweet Charles who was signed to Brown's people label but Brown himself never did.

I think his pictures are very funny and it's a great idea to take submissions from the public. I'd say about 50% of his stuff will probably not travel well though as a lot of them do tend to feature minor British television celebrities who wouldn't mean anything to most people outside of the UK and Ireland. Case in…

I think he was using the name before nonce gate occurred and was probably loathed to change it then because that's what people knew him as. I wonder who got the job of going through all of the Beeb's TOTP archive and cleavering all of Saville and DLT's introductions out.

I'm presuming these anglophiles that you speak of have to sign some kind of register and that I'll be informed if one moves into my neighbourhood.

I'd love for somebody (maybe Ed Piskor?) to work with George Clinton on a comic based on the p-funk mythology. If you're like me and spent a great deal of your formative years rolling jazz cigarettes on the back of those album sleeves you'll know what an incredible universe they had going on there and Starchild, Sir…

Also in this week's fuck the tories I'm proposing we make up the compassion deficit in Britain by cutting 15% off of Osbourne, Duncan Smith, Cameron and Hunt (like from the neck up and with a rusty pen knife).

Veering dangerously close to prog fusion territory with Weather Report's Black Market and Steve Tibbets' eponymous debut. I have a real thing for late seventies synth heavy ECM jazz. Also a house/ techno ep from Northern Ireland's The Cyclist called hot house which has that John Carpenter Betamax funk sound which I…