Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

GOODBYE MISTER ORBAN AND MAY YOUR HOVERCRAFT BE FOREVER FULL OF EELS

Two of my favourite Russian paintings. ‘Christ In The Wilderness’ by Kramskoy and ‘A Birch Grove’ by Kuindzhi.

The Velvet Underground (John Cale) - Loop flexi single, free with Aspen magazine, December 1966. youtu.be/hoSGrMAaD4M?...

Interviewer: “What do you think of the MC5?” SM: “I think seldom of the MC5.” Sterling Morrison - the quiet assassin.

"For me, Tarkovsky is the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, as a dream." (Ingmar Bergman)

“The world in an hour and a half” Jean-Luc Godard on Bresson’s ‘Au Hasard Balthasar’.

Revisiting this fairly recent discovery, a collection of recordings by Kerry Leimer from the late 70s and early 80s. It’s a real oddity - kind of ‘Kosmische light’ (Cluster poss the closest reference point) but some of it could quite easily be from BOC’s Music Has The Right To Children.

earlier @frozenreeds.com post reminded me of the inexplicability of pat metheny's hair

Fave 4 Bergman films: Honourable mentions for Cries & Whispers, Winter Light, Autumn Sonata and Summer Interlude.

#NowPlaying Everytime I listen to this, I question every greatest albums of all-time thing that I've ever read. This is such a perfect listen.

Talking with a friend this morning about how great and pertinent this song is: great Lowrey organ, early use of rhythm machine, lyrics inspired by another American mess, Vietnam. (B side of single, Funky Me, is ace too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ38...

Can’t unsee and can taste from here.

Ron Asheton by Leni Sinclair, 1969.

Abandoned Planetarium (Pink Planet House, Solnechnoye Sanatorium, USSR, 1965.

Bronco Bullfrog, 1970.

Le Diable Probablement, 1977.

Sessions going well on the new Clientele album.

Beth Gibbons photographed by Martyn Goodacre for the NME, 1993.

Rough, Dalglish, Hansen.

The Marvelette Underground. Utterly spine-tingling.

Meshes of the Afternoon is such a great film, partly because it’s made by someone delighting in their discovery of a whole new language - the vocabulary of cinema - with all of its possibilities, but also because Maya Deren looks like a vision from the future. It’s hard to believe it’s from 1943.

Stanley Kubrick by Arthur Rothstein, 1948.

November 1983, poster for a gig at Paris' '120 Nuits'. Sold at auction for £320 last year

Fave album this year so far. Looking forward to seeing her at Kelvingrove in June. #AldousHarding

Saint-Nicolas Church in Hérémence, Switzerland, by Walter Maria Förderer, 1971.

Lovely shot of Kate & Anna McGarrigle - with some of their kids: Sylvan (Anna’s child), Rufus and Martha (Kate’s children with London Wainwright) c. 1981

Record collecting. A story in two parts.

Happy Easter from Glasgow.

This has to be one of the greatest records ever made, effortlessly combining VU, Isaac Hayes, Shangri-Las, Quicksilver, Ricky Nelson, Bongwater, Blue Oyster Cult, glam, psychedelic doo-wop, garage punk, surf guitar and old crackly R&B into one spellbinding whole, enslaved to its own inner logic?

See ya in April.

#NowPlaying Miles Davis - Black Satin From the 1972 album On The Corner

Heard this playing in Fopp on Renfield St today and was reminded just how great it is. It still sounds miles ahead of its time. youtu.be/0ZVge1AAPjk?...

Graphic designer James Taylor’s marvellous imaginary album sleeves of football legends.

Who up and about to throw on the greatest dub side ever

Minor role, but one of my favourite ones. RIP Robert Duvall.

Thread First off, those sleeves. The Kinks’ Seventies album covers are among the worst sleeves I’ve ever seen. Sleepwalker and Misfits are horrible and those are two of the better ones. In descending order of ugliness, I would go: 10. Sleepwalker 9. Lola 8. Misfits 7. Preservation Act 1

Wow!

Tonight I shall , yet again , be enjoying the IMO greatest album of all time , Veedon Fleece . I was at a mini- Record Fair today and found the reissue CD version from 2008 with the two bonus tracks . “It aint why why why , it just is ……” 🖤💚 Also One other great find I’ll post soon .

Display an album that was important to you when you were 19. Are you kidding me? This record built a land and seascape that I've lived in ever since.

In that zone where trombones wrestle with flutes and piccolos and fiddles; acoustic guitars laugh alongside double bass and wonky honky-tonk piano. Where Astral Weeks and Big Pink and Basket Of Light and Heavy Metal are king. That zone. It looks a bit like this.

Not long til summer now. Just ask Terry Wogan and Dermot Desmond, and leave space - quite a bit of space - in your drawer for a few pairs of walk socks.

Rare 2 minute clip of Faust playing live at Wümme, 1971. youtu.be/MbMvXFZ-20E?...

Tim Buckley - Morning Glory, Live 1968. youtu.be/c1Z-uRmaEfU?...

Happy birthday to Maceo Parker. Enjoy his fab sax solo here and watch the full recording of James Brown's Mother Popcorn from Music Scene in 1969 at youtu.be/9qjY8J5lVVU?...

Morning.

10 Man In The Hills - Burning Spear 9 Ramones - Ramones 8 Modern Lovers - Modern Lover 7 Curtis - Curtis Mayfield 6 Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart/Magic Band 5 Propaganda - Sparks 4 Psychomodo - Cockney Rebel 3 Autobahn - Kraftwerk 2 Paris 1919 - John Cale 1 Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt

Raw Power Golem New York Dolls Modern Lovers Horses Teenage Head Fear Ramones Veedon Fleece The Faust Tapes