De gustibus etc etc. No need for coats. Well, raincoats at the moment.
Einar, the trumpeter/vocalist isn’t a bad sort, though he gave me a rather hard time when I first met him in 1988. He has done an awful lot for music and culture in Iceland over the years and was even, for a while, a prominent Reykjavík City Councillor. Siggi (Sigtryggur Baldursson), the Sugarcubes’ drummer, was/is a fantasitic bloke and when I was in Reykjavík last month I met up with him completely by accident and we spent a bit if time together. He now advises the government on music and culture and runs the body Music Iceland. He’s coming over here next month and I am looking forward to seeing him again.
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Actually, I am being a little unfair, I think it would have made a very decent single album, I just found the weaker tracks too off putting.
It’s a bit like Guns ‘n Roses Use Your illusion 1 and 2. If they had cut the fluff they could have had one excellent double album
but there was just too much bloat in two doubles.
If they had cut all four discs, there’d be room for a better band. Did I say that out loud?
Ummagumma – Pink Floyd
The Beatles – The Beatles
Tago Mago – CAN
Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
Physical Graffiti AND The Song Remains The Same – Led Zep
Trout Mask Replica – Captain Beefheart
Songs In The Key Of Life – Stevie Wonder
The poor old Clash’s tired pub-rock doesn’t stand a chance! 
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And the best record ever made is of course Sandinista.
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Well, I met him at the bar at one of their Brix Academy shows and he was a really nice chap. We even shared a beer together. I told him to look out for that little pixie on stage. We laughed and went our separate ways.
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Actually, it wouldn’t. One of the things that makes The White Album great, and gives it its quality of White Album-ness, is that it includes some filler amongs the gold. But as an art object, it must be contemplated and consumed whole, complete. You can’t change anything about it, from the song selection, the running order, the production, the cover… if you removed anything from it, even the outright trash like “Piggies” or “Obla-di…” it wouldn’t be The white Album, and therefore it wouldn’t be The Greatest Album Ever Made.
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“Greatness” is in the ear of the listener
I have the same issue with The Lamb Lies Down, I really like some of it, but can’t stand the rest
Two-CD, 25th anniversary edition of one of THE great albums of the 1980s…
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Vinyl rerelease. I think Martyn thought this his best?
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys
Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth
The revolution will not be televised
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Sign of the times, Exile on main street, The River, Blonde on Blonde…
Plenty of alternative choices.
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Eric Clapton - The Road to Yokohama, this radio broadcast gives many official releases a run for their money.
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The HU - The Gereg (Deluxe Edition)
Ah, some good old Folk-Metal Mongolian throat singing. Great album! Honest 
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