I still remember buying this album on cassette on the day of release and listening to it at full blast in my car and thinking music doesn’t really get much better than this. I’d been a U2 fan since their debut album Boy. This was, finally, the album that catapulted U2 to international stardom and […]

Just one calendar month until the 7th May 2021 and the release of my first album Present Tense. All the songs are done and dusted, the album artwork is all complete, the tracks have been loaded onto the streaming services and the CDs will be ordered in the next day or so. It’s all systems […]

The breakout album by The Boss, Born To Run is a seminal rock album. Full of great songs including the anthemic Born To Run this album fully deserves to be in anyone’s Top 10 list. I was lent this album by a guy I worked with at the time. He’d seen Springsteen play live in […]

I picked one of Joni Mitchell’s songs River in my Top 10 Songs. River is from Blue which very nearly made this list but in the end I chose Hejira because it’s such a brilliant album and it demands your attention. Driven by Joni’s unusual guitar tunings and Jaco Pastorius’ amazing bass lines Hejira is […]

Fleetwood Mac took the profits from the mega selling Rumours album and spent a huge part of it on an ambitious double album called Tusk released in 1979. It’s fair to say that it wasn’t well received at the time drawing direct comparisons with Rumours it was seen as overblown and not as immediately commercial […]

When it was first released Hunky Dory didn’t sell that well, it was really only when Ziggy Stardust went stellar that people caught up with this brilliant album. Hunky Dory is something of an uncompromising album. It’s chock full of great songs. The musicianship is excellent but sparse and Bowie sings in clear English accent […]

Brighton based Mary Spender has a huge YouTube following and frankly it’s easy to see why. Her videos are charmingly English, in a good way, and cover a wide range of music topics. Mary covers guitar reviews, original music, cover music, Ableton and a whole lot more on what is a pretty eclectic channel all […]

Kate Bush at her best. Side One contains four of her best ever songs, Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, The Big Sky and Cloudbusting and the rest of this incredible album chips in with some exceptional music delivered only as Kate Bush can deliver. Kate Bush is quite simply an outstanding talent who […]

There has to be at least one Paul Simon album in my Top 10. Or maybe a Simon & Garfunkel album. In the end it came down to a choice between Graceland and There Goes Rhymin’ Simon and Graceland won by a narrow margin. I’ve bought the LP, cassette and CD of Graceland over time […]

Despite the fact that I could have had 30 songs in my Top 10 Songs list it was fun putting the list together and sharing it with you. So, starting tomorrow, I’m going to share my Top 10 Albums with you. The criteria is simple, each album must be chock full of great songs and […]