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Ressurection Joe - Cult

Would also go with Marillion... Odeon New St, 1983, a week or two after "Script..." had been released, they were still a bit of an unknown quantity. In almost 40 years of gigs I have never seen anyone hold the audience in their hand completely entranced the way Fish did that night, simply stunning.

Lazy Dog Shandy - Easy Street

As a student in the mid-80s I was interested enough to buy their first album. These days I wonder why...

Miss The Girl - Creatures

(sorry couldn't resist...)

Hot Chocloate's "Emma" could almost have been written for the Sisters Of Mercy...

Battle Of Evermore - Zeppelin

Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers - ...er...ZZ Top originally wasn't it...?

Really wish New Order had recruited a new singer and left Barney to his guitar...

For whatever reason I never got into Whitesnake back in the day...when I moved to a new flat back in the summer some very kind friends bought me an Alexa dot thing, which somehow brings out bass better than my DAB radio ever could (don't ask me how, it just came like that lol) I find myself with a rather better appreciation of them now...

Always thought Tony Hadley has one of the finest voices I ever heard and "Journeys To Glory" will always be in my top ten albums of all time. How did they go from that to a cabaret act 😞

beat me to it lol...my all time favourite singer

...sounds like one of those annoying adverts sorry...!

My introduction to Hawkwind was on my one and only Donington, 1982... aged 16 thought they were cr*p on the day. Asked a 6th form mate for a recommendation, he lent me Live 79... even bl@*dy worse to my ears. Several years later finally had a (very cheap) pair of proper stereo headphones, plugged them into the family music centre to listen to Janice Long one Saturday and about the first thing I heard was "Master Of The Universe" from Space Ritual... yoy! Decades on, now having a couple of mates one of whom has been a huge fan for ages and one who has seen them 380+ times (mostly tagging along with his brother who was some part of their crew) I have learned that a) they aren't a band to see at an outdoor festival; and b) they are actually rather better than my initial impression!

Wild Flowers - All About Eve

Disco 2000 - Pulp

So - Soft Cell

The first time I saw Editors (about 15 years ago now lol) one of the supports was somebody called Brakes, who apparently had an album out with 16 tracks that was 29 minutes long in total... one they actually did play consisted literally of the singer shouting "comma comma comma comma full stop!" over a couple of chords, roughly 9 seconds from beginning to end

That's it lol.... I honestly keep forgetting!

The WonderStuff headlined in Brum at the place I can never remember the flipping name of (top of Hurst St turned into a roller disco) and played a shorter set than when I saw them supporting All About Eve in the same place a few months earlier. Also saw New Order there some years previously who played a very short set as well but apparently came back for encores to prevent a riot... by which time I was on the bus home...

If you pass through my soul tonight Gather all his troubles Tomorrow's long eternal night Gather for tomorrow "Love Under Will" Fields Of the Nephilim...their definitive track lyrically and musically to me

Thanks for reminding me of another one I do have 🙂 was lucky enough to catch him on that tour, pretty awesome

Bizarrely I think the only non-live non-compilation multi-disc albums I have are London Calling (but only on CD!) and Sandinista... which I do have on original vinyl, was actually one of the first albums I ever owned 🙂 apart from side 1 which does have a couple of decent tracks I'm not sure any of the rest of it has seen the turntable more than twice in 40 years!

A bit of Quo or CCR...?