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The Housemartins, The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death, 1987 on Elektra

On this record the Housemartins were Norman Cook, Dave Hemingway, Stan Cullimore, Pete Wingfield, and P.D. (Paul) Heaton. Heaton & Hemingway went on to form The Beautiful South,…

Shame, Food for Worms, 2023 on Dead Oceans

My membership in Secretly Society actually introduced me to shame, a post-punk band from the UK (who style their name in lower case). This was their third LP…

Simple Minds, Empires and Dance, 1980 on Zoom / Arista.

Simple Minds, Empires and Dance, 1980 on Zoom / Arista. My copy is a UK pressing on Zoom though I picked it up locally at Deep Thoughts in…

Yazoo, Upstairs At Eric’s, 1982 on Mute

Yazoo, Upstairs At Eric’s, 1982 on Mute My copy s a UK pressing, thus the Yazoo instead of Yaz, as the US Sire pressings had it. Vince Clarke…

Ella Fitzgerald, Ella, 1959 on Verve.

Ella Fitzgerald, Ella,  1959 on Verve. This is a mid-seventies reissue of what was originally released in 1959 as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers” in a…

Art Tatum, The Genius, 1973 on Black Lion

Art Tatum, The Genius, 1973 on Black Lion Conpilation of recordings from 1944 and 1945 UK label founded in the late 60s that did a lot of reissues

Human League, Lebanon, 1984 on Virgin.

Human League, Lebanon, 1984 on Virgin. 12″ single with an extended Lebanon om the A side and “Thirteen” plus an instrumental version on the B side EMI Records…

Various Artists, Life In The European Theatre, 1981 on WEA.

Various Artists, Life In The European Theatre, 1981 on WEA. Apparently a UK pressing – the US version opted for “theater” in the title, and subbed The Doors’…

UB40, Live, 1983 on DEP International.

UB40, Live, 1983 on DEP International. UK pressing, recorded on tour in Ireland in 1982. Love these early tunes: Burden of Shame, Tyler, One in Ten, Sardonicus. (Dont…

Robyn Hitchcock, Groovy Decay, 1982 on Albion.

Robyn Hitchcock, Groovy Decay, 1982 on Albion (original UK pressing). Hitchcock’s second solo album with Sara Lee from Gang of Four and Anthony Thistlewaite from the Waterboys, produced…

Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records.

Various Artists, The Old Grey Whistle Test Take Two, 1976 on Super Beeb Records. Follow up to the Old Grey Whistle Test sampler I posted a while back….

Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia.

Mike Bloomfield, John Paul Hammond, Dr. John; Triumvirate; 1973 on Columbia. My copy is a UK pressing but it was out in the US at the same time….

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980. Mine’s a 1986 UK pressing on Virgin sublabel Dindisc. Via Dyno Records in Newburyport (pre-covid). “Enola Gay, you should have stayed…

UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records.

UB40, Signing Off, 1980 on Graduate Records. Opens with “Tyler” (about Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at 17 in Louisiana, who served 41 years before being released in…

The English Beat, Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire.

The English Beat (or as they were known in the UK, The Beat), Wha’ppen, 1981 on Sire. Went through a mod phase in the early eighties – you…

Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records

Thompson Twins’ second album. In the US we didn’t get A Product Of and Set but instead got In the Name of Love, which was most of this…

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Vegan London, continued – Blue Elephant

On our last night in London, we made our way over to Fulham for Blue Elephant Royal Thai Cuisine. It’s in a very unassuming part of Fulham, near…

Vegan London – Mildred’s in Soho

While in London (photos here) we had dinner at a local institution – Mildreds in Soho, a vegetarian restaurant for the last 17 years. We knew right away…

Positively Vegetarian – DeMuths, in Bath

We spent a night in Bath, on our way to Bristol airport to fly over to Dublin. Bath’s a great town – we could have spent another couple…