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So, what music related goodies did Santa bring you this year?

I was pleased to find the following under the tree.

CDs

Optimisme - Songhoy Blues
American Head - The Flaming Lips
Digging Deep: Subterranea - Robert Plant

Book

John Lennon 1980: The Last Days In The Life - Kenneth Womack

Nothing music-related, though I could possibly use an empty whisky bottle as a slide to play some blues.

Arthur Lee and Love - Live box set
Dire Straits - The Studio Albums box set

Books on: Nick Lowe; Chris Bell; and various musicians telling all about their worst ever gigs.

Music by: Roxy Music (For Your Pleasure); and Alan Price (Between Today and Yesterday).

A wireless speaker for a laptop, a shirt, a bottle of port, a whisky glass, a rabbit calendar, chocolates.

Jules

Music-Bob Marley & Johnny Cash box sets (see Listening To thread)

Books-Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (because I love Shetland, the series) and a guide to some lesser known and hidden gems in New York City

Libation- a bottle of Ardbeg 10

Personal-an infuser and a collection of seasonal scents to use with it.

Joy Division “Closer” Clear Vinyl
CDs
The Walkabouts “Ended Up A Stranger”
Nick Cave “Idiot Prayer : Alone at Alexandra Palace”
Dyble Langdon “Between a Breath and a Breath”

Filled a couple of gaps in the collection:

J. Geils Band: Best of
Nilsson: The Essential

The new album by Stables - Silhouettes. Stables are an off-shoot of The Keston Cobblers Club  great stuff.

Trees box set
Edward II - dancing tunes

V. happy with both

Nothing music related...But plenty of socks and chocolate... ;D

It does remind me of receiving record vouchers as a kid in the 70s at Xmas though, and really missing those times... :'(

Out of my own Xmas pocket money though, I did purchase the following CDs... ::)

Strange News- Tradarrr.
The Visitors- ABBA.
Band of Joy- Robert Plant.

A bottle of Glen Keith whisky, a set of 3 x 25cl Penderyn wisgis, a Guinness gift set - there's a theme here!

And to honour the memory of David Bowie, I managed to consume a box of Heroes in just one day.

 ;D

Jefferson Starship - Touchdown (The Full WNEW Broadcast from Central Park, NYC July 7th 1976)
Johnathan Hulten - Chants from another place
Fleetwood Mac - 1969 to 1974
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing and other stories
Lauren MacColl - Strewn With Ribbons
Spirogyra- Bells, Boots and Shambles
Fairport Convention - 4 Play
Molly Drake - The Tide’s Magnificence

Finally managed to persuade my family that even though I buy CDs for myself, I don't mind if they buy me more for Christmas  :D

Very happy with:
Runrig One Legend, Two Concerts - Live at Rockpalast 1996 & 2001
Steeleye Span 50th Anniversary Tour
and
Tide Lines Eye Of The Storm

CDs - Show of Hands - Now We Are Four
Pogues at the BBC
Tim Minchin - Apart Together (bit curate’s eggish varying from excellent to not so sure)

Subsequently treated myself to Tradarr, Nick Cave and Dirty Knobs albums.

Vinyl - Bellowhead - Hedonism
Bob Marley. - Uprising Live
Prince. - Sign of the Times

One very happy bunny!

Steve Wynn - Decade. 11 CDs from the ten year period following his relocation from LA to New York in 1995. Seven albums beautifully remastered plus 57 unreleased songs. Wonderful stuff.

Nikki Sudden - Groove/Crown of Thorns. First CD issue for this pair of mid-90s albums originally only on vinyl.

That's a nice present.

Jules

 ;D

Chris Frantz' book Remain In Love.

Psycho Killer was the first song the three of them wrote together with Tina contributing the French lyrics in the middle. There are then some lyrics Chris wrote for a song that ended up on the Heads' second LP. David Byrne tried to take the credit for the whole song which I think was a bit of an ongoing problem in the band. Looking forward to reading Chris' take on such things.

The kids got me the box set of "Delicate sound of thunder" by the Floyd, the good lady wife got me a new watch( Citizen eco drive)
And Marion Fleetwood sent me a copy of Strange news by trad arrr which arrived today😎

Well I was a bit behind on the Trad Arrr front, because I was given Cautionary Tales (already had the second one and did not even know that there was now a third !).

Also given Rick Wakeman's Red Planet (excellent), which I followed up with 3 Ages of Magick by Oliver Wakeman & Steve Howe (also really classy).

Very happy with my music based presents, this year:

Three CDs: Eagles - Live At The Forum MMXVIII, Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains and the recent Rock Candy re-release of Black Rose's 1980 album, featuring Cher & Les Dudek. All excellent.

Also received Chris Hillman's autobiography and a new electronic keyboard. Happy days!

Ultravox - Vienna Deluxe boxset
Colosseum - Live At The BBC boxset

And a pair of Clinton Heylin books, one about Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and one about Fairport Convention!

Vienna (the single) was released 40 years ago yesterday, in the UK.

This means nothing to me.

Jules

That also means that "Shaddap you face" is also 40 years old.

On holiday in Turkey a group of us were singing along to Ultravox in a bar. At the chorus one of the girls sang "Oh Piano" very loudly. "Why Piano" we asked "Coz that's what he sings, innit? Ooooooohhhh Piano" even louder...
Many face palms  ::)

We still sing Piano when it's on the radio  ;D  

It's a-not so bad.

Jules

A resurrection of this subject -
Regina Spektor - Home, before and after (a sublime collection of songs)
Carolyn Heston - Troubadour ( great collection of songs )
Lady Maisery - tender ( harmonious wonders from a sublime trio)
Labi Siffre - My Song ( completist collection of albums)
Eliza Carthy & The Restitution - Queen of the Whirl (from the queen of folk)
Paul Brett - Stone Survivor (4 cd box from eclectic guitarist)
Toyah - Anthem (2 cd and dvd classic Toyah)
Joan Armatrading - whatever’s for us ( surprising overlooked class album)
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - Cruel Sister (brilliant early album)
Kevin Coyne - Sanity Stomp (1980 virgin Coyne album I can’t understand how I missed this)
Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit (3 cd set of class album).

Quite a good haul I think

Just the big Caravan box set.  Keeping me occupied!!

Not much music-related this year. The youngest son bought me a copy of the new FC book, but I had already got myself a copy, so he replaced it with John Kirkpatrick's Wassail album from a some years back.

My swag:

BOOKS
Bob Dylan - The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Stanley - Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop
Matt Berenson - Secret Stars: The Greatest Underdogs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era
David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day

CDs
Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Neil Young - "I'm Happy That Y'All Came Down!": Live at the Los Angeles Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, February 1, 1971
Roxy Music - Siren

OTHER
Bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin
Plaid shirt
T-shirt depicting Christmassy rabbits (!)
Donkeys calendar
Crocheted scarf
Crocheted slippers
Crocheted bowl (!!)

Jules

Like this?

Trust ‘im  ;D

No.

Jules

On the CD front just Dave Bainbridge - To the Far Away. It's had really excellent reviews, so I'm looking forward to it ...

It's a good album - enjoy!