The Collection

  • Industrial Metal…

    Industrial Metal…

    Well, having admitted to my occasional fondness for country music, I feel I had better return to one of my other musical favourites. This one is probably more in keeping with my appearance and everyone’s general perception of the kind of thing you might expect to find in my CD collection. However, just to add

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  • Guilty Pleasures…

    Guilty Pleasures…

    Continuing the musical theme which has taken hold around here, there is one genre of popular music that I didn’t mention in my post the other day. It has many fans all over the world, but is a uniquely US phenomenon. I am, of course, referring to the occasionally cheesy, often maligned, but nevertheless richly

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  • Can I see a Show of Hands?

    Can I see a Show of Hands?

    As many of you who know me are probably aware, my musical tastes are pretty wide-ranging and can be a bit eclectic. Alongside heavy rock/heavy metal, electronica, a bit of rap/hip-hop and a love of classical pieces, I’m also rather fond of the British folk scene. Or, indeed, the folk, roots and world music scene

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  • Reach out…

    Reach out…

    Some songs only really work when performed by their original artists or in some particular version that becomes the classic one that everyone loves and remembers. Others, however, can take on new leases of life when re-arranged or performed by someone else. For me, this is a classic example of that phenomenon. An excellent original,

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  • Well, at least I’ll be in good company…

    Well, at least I’ll be in good company…

    Here’s one that did the rounds on Facebook and other social media a while ago. Some of you will have already heard it, some of you may well know of the band already or even be ardent fans. In any case, it’s a song that never fails to put a smile on my face and

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