#WeekendSingles A few more new ones before I run round shutting the windows, as it looks like we’re going to have a storm.

#WeekendSingles Some new ones.

#WeekendSingles Sad to hear of the death of Brian McFie, guitarist of one of my favourite bands of the late 80s/early 90s, The Big Dish. Here’s all their singles bar one. The one I’m missing is the first record of theirs I bought after seeing them supporting Lloyd Cole and the Commotions in 85.

#WeekendSingles I’ve just gone to sort a pile of company sleeves into alphabetical order, to put them away, and did what I always do and spoke the name aloud. Only got 2 in before I started laughing!

#WeekendSingles Here are some fab new sleeves I picked up in Vinyl Tap. The singles themselves are a bit rubbish though, but they go with the sleeves. Actually, the Silver Bullet one’s okay. There are another half dozen single-less new sleeves in the comments, including a brill Maple Annie one.

#WeekendSingles Taking some time to get going today. 5 hours in Vinyl Tap’s bargain basement plays havoc with my neck/back! Here’s some new singles. Can you see what Nick Lowe did?

#WeekendSingles #AlbumsAlmanac A couple of solitary LPs by Denim and Roger O’Donnell. The reason they are solitary LPs is that their other LPs are so sodding expensive! Two excellent records though.

#WeekendSingles Some recent purchases. The names of the singles you absolutely can’t read are in the alt. text.

#WeekendSingles 16 Dodgy singles

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Artists who you only have one album by, but an album you really like? Here’s a few. The Who - Who’s Next - I’m not really a fan of The Who. I like a couple of singles, but things like Tommy leave me cold. But I really like this one album.

There really should be a word for the mess you make when you misjudge it and think your electronic toothbrush has finished, only to find, as you remove it from your mouth and hold it in front of your face, that it was a momentary pause before starting up again for the final 30 seconds.

#WeekendSingles A few weeks ago I used the theme of great intros for weekend singles. I had intended to carry it over to 12” singles with great intros, but I kept forgetting. Well, I’ve remembered at last! The one in the company sleeve is Chic’s Good Times, an intro so good everybody nicked it!

#5DebutAlbums2026 I read yesterday that Super Sad Generation, which I thought was the debut album by the wonderful Arlo Parks, is actually an EP, so her debut album is the excellent Collapsed in Sunbeams. Very likely to be in my top 5.

#WeekendSingles More new ones, including singles by The Pink Floyd and The Knickerbockers that I’ve been after for ages. Titles in alt text for those you can’t see properly. The Knickerbockers single, Lies, could pass as an unreleased Beatles single.

#WeekendSingles I picked up this 10” single of Nick Hayward’s the other day that has ‘wheel packaging. It’s quite bizarre and to me just seems designed to damage your record.the top part spins around so you can get the record out, scraping across the record every time.

#WeekendSingles Some new ones, including my first couple of Poptones sleeves. Cosmic Rough Riders are fab. I must have taken the second photo in the dark! I’ve written about the ones you might not be able to see properly in the alt. text.

Over the past few years I have lost big fillings or part of a tooth 4 times. Every single time it has happened within an hour of my dentist closing for the weekend. 5:15 today, so they were probably just locking the door. At least it isn’t a bank holiday weekend like the last couple of times.

#WeekendSingles #12inchTuesdays Ha! In your face, stupid ageing memory. I’ve remembered 12” Tuesday and there’s still 23 minutes of Tuesday left. So here’s two 12” singles from when my memory was even better. A long time ago…

#5debutalbums2026 Yep, I initially thought we were just doing debuts from 2026, until I thought about it! I’m 56, so there are plenty of people my age who annoy me when they say there’s no good new music anymore, just listening to the same old artists. Here are 6 great debuts to prove them wrong.

#WeekendSingles I’ve just finished re listening to all my 2026 albums and Bill Pritchard’s Haunted is by far my favourite so far. Most of you probably won’t have heard of him, so here’s a Bank Holiday Bill Pritchard special, to encourage you to seek him out. Fans of Stephen Duffy will like his work

#WeekendSingles Last week I posted some singles with fab intros. Here are 20 fab singles with no intros. Straight into the vocals. Photos didn’t come out great, so the titles are in the alt text.

#WeekendSingles More fab intros

#WeekendSingles Flogged a load of Pet Shop Boys fan club stuff and promos, so off to meet Jimmy Viz for a Sheffield record shop crawl to spend some of the brass. But I remembered to transfer my photos from the iPod to my phone. So here are 16 singles with fab intros.

#5debutalbums9599 A great period for hip hop. Here’s 6 of the best: Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night The Dynospectrum - The Dynospectrum DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Lootpack- Soundpieces: Da Antidote! Handsome Boy Modeling School - So…How’s Your Girl? Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance

#WeekendSingles Some more new ones.

#5debutalbums9599 For me Joe Pernice is the greatest American songwriter of the past 30 years. Don’t believe me? Listen to Hundred Dollar Pocket from Chappaquiddick Skyline, 1 of 3 of his ‘debuts’ (all different bands) between 95 and 99. But if you are missing a lost love prepare to be heartbroken.

#WeekendSingles Some new singles. Who knew the brilliant Muppets song was a cover of a track from a 1969 Italian film? Or that it was first performed by the Muppets on the 14th episode of Sesame Street in 1969, before being used on the first episode of The Muppet Show in 1976? Well, you do now.

#WeekendSingles #MidweekMoan Number 2 The second one is a quiz. How was this LP graded on Discogs?

#WeekendSingles #MidweekMoan Number 1 Why? Why, why, why?? Why put an unmovable sticker on the front of a sleeve with the name of the artist and song on it, when it’s already printed on the sleeve in much bigger writing?!?

#WeekendSingles #12InchTuesday It’s still 12” Tuesday. Forgot I’d bought this Angel Olsen one this morning

#WeekendSingles #12InchTuesday Hey, it’s Tuesday and I’ve just cleaned 2 new 12” singles. So here they are.

#WeekendSingles Part 2 of my highest placed singles on the chart every 1 May since 1958. Had to decide whether to cheat and photo the highest placed good single, but I decided to accept the yellow cards. I own one Shakey single… Details are in alt. text. Should have said that last time.

#WeekendSingles As it’s the May Day bank holiday I had the idea of posting the highest charted single I own from every May Day BH since 1958, but who knew it only became a bank holiday in 1978? So here is part 1 of my (occasionally v. problematic) highest placed single in the chart for every 1 May

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Been too busy flogging my Pet Shop Boys promos, so forgot to post these albums from artists who’d been at it for 20+ years. Difford’s solo albums are excellent, Macca’s best album since Band on the Run, Nick Cave getting better and better, Nick Heyward’s always great…

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Some fab albums from long into the artists’ careers. Dylan remembers he can sing, Johnny Marr realises he can sing, Eddie Chacon appears from out of nowhere, Numan & Marianne just got better and better and Bill Pritchard releases my favourite album of 2026…so far.

#5debutalbuns7579 Moon - Too Close For Comfort There are so many classic debut albums from 75-79 that my top 5 will all be very well known. But I’m posting this one because, whilst it won’t make my top 5, I think more people should hear this fantastic funk-rock album. Give it a try, it’s brill.

#WeekendSingles I sold nearly all my vinyl in the 90s, but about 5 years ago my brother-in-law gave me his old turntable. He hesitated, cos he knows what I’m like. He was right! All my money now goes on records. I promised myself, that my 1000th LP would be this beauty and it arrived yesterday.

#WeekendSingles Greetings from a coach on the way to Luton Town away. I’ve bought a frankly silly amount of new singles recently. Here’s some of them.

@jo-bartlett.bsky.social I picked this up the other day. I thought the B-Side was a cover of a Pinky and Perky song, till I realised the B-Side was at 33rpm.

#WeekendSingles More new ones, including some crackers. Old Red Eyes is Back is the only post-Housemartins song by Paul Heaton I like, which is a shame, as he’s a decent bloke…despite being a Sheffield United fan.

#WeekendSingles Some new ones.

#5DebutAlbums1519 4 that will be in my 5 Fin by Syd (from The Internet) - fab contemporary R&B Neospection by Xordox - could be the soundtrack to a John Carpenter film Something Blue by Blocks & Escher - superior drum & bass Avantdale Bowling Club’s self-titled debut - jazz rap from New Zealand

#WeekendSingles Really, REALLY, overdone it buying new singles recently (the piles in the foreground are some of them), so my living room is a bit of a mess at the moment. “Where are you going to put them all”, my daughter just asked. A question, I must admit, that has been going through my mind…

#WeekendSingles #12inchTuesday 5 new 12” singles - a Prefab Sprout RSD one, a fantastic sounding Kraftwerk 12”, a lovely Marc Almond picture disc and a Wreckless Eric one with an oversized paper label that stopped me from putting it into my Knosti. The other one is Brainfreeze by F**k Buttons.

#WeekendSingles I’ve bought a crazy amount of singles over the past couple of weeks. Here’s a pile of cheap new Elvis ones. Buying singles is good for the soul. And they sound great, especially 50s and 60s singles. BUT, they are bad for the knees, having to get up off the sofa every 3 minutes!

#WeekendSingles #EasterSinglesQuiz I read someone’s Wiki page a while back and it mentioned that a well known song was written about her. So here it is, along with 15 other singles written about someone specific. So, without cheating (you wouldn’t feel good about yourself!) who are they about?

#WeekendSingles Here’s 16 singles to give you a timeline of my favourite new bands from the age of about 6 up to 20. Since the age of 11 my favourite band has been The Beatles, and that will never change, but this is a timeline of my favourite contemporary bands that I’ve obsessed over.

#5debutalbums1519 Ashley Henry - Beautiful Vinyl Hunter Loads of great jazz coming out of the UK over the past decade or so and this is one of the best.

#WeekendSingles #12inchTuesday A new version of Kiss Me. A European issue. The only one that has the blue border. Bought online from Vinyl Tap, giving me the excuse to go and plonk myself in their basement for the day.

#WeekendSingles I spent 6 hours in Vinyl Tap’s bargain basement on Friday. It’s why I struggled to sleep last night cos of my neck pain. Stupid timing too, as I have my annual neurologist review tomorrow. But among the [amount redacted] records that came home with me was this, a square record!