Television - Marquee Moon

Strange how NME reviewers always call this art-punk when there's nothing punk about it. It's all nice winding down music. The title track has some errors on my copy, interrupting a nice instrumental break. I like this... Why is it No. 1 on the Babble Top 100 I'm not sure, though..... Sure, it's nice and all but where is the innovation?

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Had this on cassette ages ago. Abrasive punk-funk at its best. Looking back, Primus seems to base its career on developing the riffs here. All that RHCP should be.

PIL - Metal Box

Like this slightly less than Flowers of Romance. Its ambience is a bit like Paris in the Spring although the chanting here is much more hypnotic. Jah Wobble's basslines here are not as good as some of the out-takes on Flowers.

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Still dig the more accessible and catchier tracks - Picture Book and Last of the Steam-Powered Trains. The others take longer to grow on me, but I have the time.

Wire - Pink Flag

Pretty groovy post-punk though I would have preferred better hooks. Got chairs missing? as well, but haven't heard that yet.

The Beach Boys - Love You

This is a strange album. Mostly the hooks and nothing else. Not much melody, just the catchy bits repeated ad infinitum. A nice return to form for Brian, sure, but the tunes are better on his first solo album.

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

This is marvellous. Fey, melancholic, complex and completely unlike any prog I've heard. 21st Century Schizoid Man is also no indication of the goodies here. "Confusion will be my Epitaph."