#WeekendSingles #12InchTuesday Following on from my theme at the weekend, some 12” cover versions. The Frankie GTH picture disc is War. And did you know that the original version of the fab Soft Cell single, What, was performed by Groucho Marx’s daughter? You learn something every day!

#WeekendSingles More cover versions. The one in the Polydor sleeve is The Hollies’ version of Bruce Springsteen’s Sandy.

#WeekendSingles Cover versions this week. Lots of them.

#5debutalbums0509 Helen Jane Long, the pianist and composer, has made some fantastic modern classical albums. Me and a mate are hoping she’ll come and play a concert in South Yorkshire. In the meantime we’ll make do with her albums, and her debut, Porcelain, was a great album to start off with

Dundee United’s first goal yesterday was scored by the voice over announcer on Cilla Black’s Blind Date!

#WeekendSingles Only one new single for me this week, but it’s a cracker, Reconnez Cherie by Wreckless Eric, bought from the excellent Wah Wah Records in Wakefield. I’m now going to flog my complete collection of Pet Shop Boys fanzines to fund a return trip to Wah Wah…and Record Store Day

#5debutalbums0509 Lots of great British jazz musicians have emerged over the past 15-20 years and my favourite by some way is Manchester’s trumpeter/composer Matthew Halsall. His soulful, spiritual debut, with help from saxophonist Nat Birchall, started off a body of work yet to have a misstep.

#5debutalbums0509 This album is wonderful. A collaboration between Robbie Williams’ former writing partner and Benedict Cumberbatch’s wife. Its gentle piano led pop with breathy French vocals. Think Francoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, 60s French film soundtracks, or just listen to it, because it’s fab

#5debutalbums0509 My 5 will come from these…probably: Guy Chambers & Sophie Hunter Matthew Halsall Helen Jane Long Olafur Arnalds Burial Scuba Cherry Ghost Little People Emancipator Verb T & Harry Love The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Jake One Cool Calm Pete Fliptrix Jazz Liberatorz

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac More from the person with too much time on his hands… The not-but-should-have-been singles are in the alt. text. And yes, The Masterplan isn’t a proper album, but come on, most of Oasis’s best songs were thrown away on B-Sides.

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac The entry from the one with too much time on his hands! I’ve written the track in question in the alt. text. I’ve cheated a bit with the Gary Moore one. It isn’t on the LP, but it is on the CD, and not as a bonus track at the end, he put it at track 6 in the middle

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Before I post my albums I just wanted to do this. I really like the Stones, but I love the Beatles. Whenever the Beatles or Stones debate comes up my answer to people is always the same…

#WeekendSingles Some new ones I bought this week.

#WeekendSingles I have 12 boxes of singles, so had an idea that proved to be one of my daftest. I used a random number generator, which came up with 40, and chose the 40th single from each box. I regretted it by box 3. It came up with a few crackers, and one of the only singles without a sleeve!

#5debutalbums50s60s 50-69 is a long period to be choosing from. My first run through has identified this pile, most of which are worthy of progressing. A lot of the bigger bands help out by having mediocre debut albums, packed with cover versions, but there’s still an awful lot to choose from

#WeekendSingles More new ones and free ones.

#WeekendSingles Some new ones, including one in a fab Def Jam sleeve

#WeekendSingles A pile of free singles I got from the freebie box at a record shop in Barnsley, whilst hunting for company sleeves. Most of the free singles are rubbish, but I’m keeping these…for now. Basically, until I run out of space, at which point I’ll wonder why I kept (most of) them!

#WeekendSingles Some new ones, including not one, not two, but three Nik Kershaw records! And some Ricky Nelson and Elvis singles that missed the group photos the past couple of weeks.

#WeekendSingles Hi all, I just wanted to give you all a heads up on this. SuperDeluxeEdition are reissuing Eg & Alice’s fantastic 24 Years of Hunger as a 2 CD set, with a stack of unreleased tracks. It’s my go to album whenever the ‘best album you haven’t heard’ chat raises its head. Link in thread

#WeekendSingles #12inchTuesday Some rap 12” singles to wake me up after a late night coming home from Liverpool

#WeekendSingles To go with last week’s Ricky Nelson, here’s some Elvis

#WeekendSingles Been on a bit of a singles spree a-lately, so here’s some new ones. “Hang on”, I hear you think, “surely you already had the Duffy single??” Yep, but not this European release. This makes 12, so 13 others to collect.

#5debutalbums9094 This must be the best half decade for debut albums there is. I decided to drag the contenders off the shelf and it went on..and on…and on. And I have my rap albums on a separate unit, so they’re pictured below, but narrowing these (and the rap albums) to just 5 won’t be easy

A national disgrace.

#WeekendSingles One of the albums I chose yesterday, as being one of my dad’s favourites, was a Ricky Nelson compilation. It certainly rubbed off on me, as I have every one of Nelson’s albums on vinyl or CD (as well as his autograph, framed on my wall). And here’s all my Ricky Nelson singles.

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac 4 LPs my dad loved on the left, particularly the Billy Fury one. And 4 of my mum’s on the right, although it was a different Hollies compilation she had on cassette. The Hollies are her favourite band, but she loved the Mamas and the Papas LP.

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac My new Christmas albums, 2 LPs and 2 CDs. The CD on the left is Roy Montgomery’s Rhymes of Chance, whilst Chelsea Light Moving is a Thurston Moore side project. The Jayhawks LP is one of my favourite albums. My daughter ordered it from the US.

#WeekendSingles Here’s a single I couldn’t resist picking up from Vinyl Tap’s bargain basement. Some BBC sound effects on a 1977 freebie disc from a magazine. On balance, my favourite track is ‘sawing head off’.

#WeekendSingles Okay, my 16 favourite new singles that I’ve acquired this year, 12 x 7” and 4 x 12”. I can’t say ‘bought’, because two of them were kindly given to me by Rich Watson & Andrew Watson. The best two as well. Some comments in the alternate text.

#WeekendSingles It’s Saturday, who knew?? I ripped the place apart the other day, looking for the promo CD single of PSB’s Christmas single, before concluding I don’t actually own a copy & had accidentally put it in the ‘own’ section on Discogs, rather than ‘wants’. So here’s all my PSB CD singles

#WeekendSingles Happy Christmas weekend singlers! I said the other day I didn’t have any Christmas records, but then I remembered the Greg Lake one was in one of the sleeves I bought last week. Then I remembered another. And another. Seems I had more Christmas records/CDs than I thought.

#WeekendSingles Ridiculous packaging of the day. What was in this great big box? I’ve sat it on top of the hi-fi for scale.

#WeekendSingles Some more from Vinyl Tap’s bargain basement. The Bad Manners singles are My Girl Lollipop and Lorraine.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

#WeekendSingles I don’t have any Christmas singles, but I bought this picture disc a few weeks ago. Funny, isn’t it, that Gary Glitter’s Christmas single got pulled years ago due to his awful crimes. Phil Spector’s record doesn’t appear to have suffered, despite him murdering a woman.

#WeekendSingles Some new ones. It’s the 3rd copy of the Tymes single I’ve bought and at last I have a clean copy!

#5albums25 Dog Eared by the fabulous Yorkshire folk-popster Billie Marten. She’s yet to make an album that’s less than fantastic. This will be one of my top 5. Me and Jimmy V were unlucky that the gig of hers in Leeds that we were going to was on a night where the flooding stopped us getting there

#weekendsingles Some new ones this week.

#WeekendSingles It’s very satisfying when a price sticker comes straight off a 40 year old record without a fight, or taking a chunk of the sleeve with it, isn’t it?

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Here’s 16 new (old) LPs I’ve been really pleased to get this year, some of which had been near the top of my wants list for some time.

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac This was supposed to be my top 20 albums of 2025 that I have on LP/CD, but I miscounted, so it’s a top 21. My 3 favourite albums this year are: 1 - F.L.A.W. by Napoleon da Legend & Giallo Point 2 - Flux by Alison Goldfrapp 3 - Antidepressants by Suede

#5debutalbums7074 Re solo Beatles. Are we considering McCartney as Paul’s debut, rather than his soundtrack for The Family Way? And are we considering Plastic Ono Band as John’s solo debut, rather than Live Peace in Toronto or the three ‘Unfinished Music’ albums he did with Yoko?

#5debutalbums7074 Unless we decide Paul McCartney’s solo debut was McCartney, rather than the soundtrack to The Family Way, my 5 will come from this selection.

#WeekendSingles Some more new singles. Really pleased with the Harry Nilsson promo. And the Stones’ version of You Better Move On is one of my favourite tracks of theirs.

#WeekendSingles After being skint for months I finally have a bit of money to buys records with, so here’s some singles I bought this week. A couple of crackers too, as the B-Side of the Prefab Sprout one is Cruel & the B-Side of the Madness one is Bed and Breakfast Man (which is why I bought it)

@jo-bartlett.bsky.social Hi, you may remember me asking you whether you took the title of the first Jo and Danny LP from a Lilac Time song, before you told me you (and therefore Stephen Duffy) had taken it from Don’t Look Back. Well, I’ve just been reading an old review of a Lilac Time LP…

#WeekendSingles #12InchTuesdays 3 fab new 12” singles that arrived yesterday. And if these three songs aren’t enough there’s a great live cover of Badfinger’s brilliant No Matter What on the B-Side of the Jellyfish single. Powerpoptastic!

#WeekendSingles I was lucky enough to start watching TOTP and taking an interest in the charts at a time when truly great singles were being released and being successful. The first single I bought was Pop Muzik and I got the other 3 in the first photo next. And here’s 12 more early singles I had

Why are all the magazines and record shops announcing their ‘albums of the year’ in November? Barely in November for Mojo and Uncut. Are they just guessing that any other albums coming out will be rubbish?