Grobschnitt: Muhlheim Special
Further Hunnery, this time more of the prog persuasion, from the 1978 album Solar Music Live. I particularly like the bass player.
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Dummy hypnotises ventriloquist
I can’t believe this – something funny on the BBC.
Cluster: Hollywood
Continuing the German theme, this is the opening track from the 1974 album Zuckerzeit. The Cluster boys also teamed up with Brian Eno a few times.
Kraan: Silver Wings
From the krautrockers’ 1973 album Wintrup. And here’s a bizarre live version on a TV talkshow. Dig the presenter’s barnet.
Ry Cooder: Poor Man’s Shangri-La
From one of Ry’s less disappointing albums of the 21st century, Chavez Ravine, about the bulldozing of a Latino haven in LA.
My top 100 Part 9
HERE we are then, sailing stately as a galleon into my 20 favourite albums of all time. 20 Robin and Barry Dransfield: The Rout of the Blues (1970) This was the subject of … Continue readingMy top 100 Part 9
Jess Roden: What the Hell
As Whispering Bob says in his intro, JR was in Bronco and the Butts Band before branching out on his own. One of the more interesting early-70s British white-soul singers. … Continue readingJess Roden: What the Hell
Merril Bainbridge: Sleeping Dogs
There won’t be many slumbering canines while this bird is singing.
Medicine Head: Pictures in the Sky
The first hit for John Peel’s Dandelion label, this went to No 22 in the 1971 singles charts for the psychedelic twosome of John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans. Peel apparently … Continue readingMedicine Head: Pictures in the Sky
NEU! Hero
Krautrock meets punk on this track from the album 75 which inspired many a British act, Bowie and Joy Division to name but two.