25 albums that shaped my life
I don’t think it’s ‘Cabin Fever’, but since the lockdown I’ve had some very strange dreams. They often have very surreal storylines featuring people and places I wished I’d taken more effort to try and visit, and they’re always so very mixed up. An interesting one I experienced recently was one where I travelled through a Dali-esque landscape of my past life as well as my overburdened ‘To Do’ wishlist, accompanied by a musical soundtrack overlayed with a succession of album covers.
Obviously my Facebook newsfeed was to blame for this, over the past few weeks I’ve noticed several friends making selections of a series of albums which have been important in their lives. More often than not though, they’ve restricted themselves to only 10 choices, which I would find impossible. However there needed be a reasonable limit, but instead of trying to fit into the 10 album strait jacket I decided I’d allow myself the luxury of slipping into an XL of 25 (of which one is actually an EP).
While it was fresh in my mind and thinking it would be an interesting memory lane exercise to indulge in, I thought I’d reconstruct my dream as a musical self portrait blog. There’s no particular message to accompany them, they’re just personal time capsules that spark memories, which I’ve played to death over the years, and the ones I constantly return to. There’s time aplenty right now to remember those special people, places and moments that’s been a part of one’s life, and the perfect excuse if ever I needed one to share some good memories as a musical message.
Anyway, it’s only a blog of dream inspired lockdown fun, but nevertheless I’d be more than happy to have these as company on my Desert Island. Click the links………..and enjoy!


























Golden Age of Lonnie Donegan – Lonnie Donegan
Please Please Me – The Beatles
Nice Enough To Eat – Various Artists
This Was – Jethro Tull
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
Death Walks Behind You – Atomic Rooster
Hunky Dory – David Bowie
Elgar – Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré) & Sea Pictures (Janet Baker)
Led Zep II – Led Zeppelin
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
Split – The Groundhogs
Skid – Skid Row
With a Little Help From My Friends/Joe Cocker! (Doubleback Series)
Innervisions – Stevie Wonder
Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Beethoven – The Nine Symphonies
The Art of Segovia – Andrés Segovia
Mingus Ah-Um – Charles Mingus
Rattus Norvegicus – The Stranglers
Specials – The Specials
This Year’s Model – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads
Hot Fuss – The Killers
With Love & Squalor – We Are Scientists
Two Parts Diamond – 3 Parts Dirt!
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