So, I went on a spend up for some reason and bought :

Gang of Four - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century 5 quid: Fopp. They have re-recorded their early stuff and reissued it. This is the original and cheaper. I keep hearing them on 6Music and thought I should take a listen...Franz Ferdinand have clearly heard them.

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back I can't believe that not only do I not already own this, but I've not actually ever heard it all the way through before. It's brilliant and currently VERY cheap on the Amazon marketplace. This one is the remaster.

Adam & The Ants - Live at the BBC I'm an unapologetic Ant fan. I think this completes my collection of just about everything he ever put out on CD. Dirk Wears White Sox may not be the best album of all time, but it's in the top one....(thanks for that line Cloughy). PS. Number 2 is Remain In Light by Talking Heads, and if you disagree, you're wrong. Sorry.

Goldfrapp - Supernature Not had a chance to really listen to it, but from dipping in and out, it sounds great. I got the spec ed with a DVD version of the album in 5.1...

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Again - 6Music made me do it. They were on Round Table last Friday and I had to go out and buy the album. Not given it a proper chance yet.

The Broken Family Band - Welcome Home, Loser Brill stuff! More Americana than the Americans, even though they are a bunch of Brits.

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike Smiley music. Unashamedly badly produced and happy. Some of it sounds frighteningly like Betty Boo...

Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue Phwoar, etc. She's still the best avantguard-dance-jazz-pop female singer songwriter out there, despite the stiff competition.

The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan Not even managed to listen all the way through this one yet. The doorbell one's good though.


I think I've figured out why there are declining music sales : until I discovered 6Music, I'd almost stopped buying albums (and I don't generally download anything except the odd tracks I buy off iTunes). The problem is that there are very few ways to actually be exposed to any new music apart from the stuff the record companies want to ram down our throats. And most of that is sodding so-called R&B.

ive listened to every album i have at least once

altho i know what you mean, some things do take time to appreciate

i listened to an album ive had for ages (and love a few songs off) again the other day, and found another few songs on it that i could barley remember, and couldn't believe id missed em the first few times id listened!