Apparently, I buy too many records

My wife Helen, like every other woman i've ever lived with, believes that I buy too many records.

Which, as every record-buying man knows, is a ridiculous belief.

I will concede, however, that I do indeed buy a lot of records and that I don't afford them the same amount of listens and attention that I did 20 or 30 years ago.

To this end, I have decided to blog about the records that I buy, in order to help my appreciation of them - and perhaps to show Helen that I don't buy that many records after all.

Because i'm crap with deadlines the blog posts will be sporadic and probably be about a month or 2 behind but that's just the way i am! The posts will not necessarily be actual reviews (most likely comments, at best) and will generally be pretty damn short due to the reasons outlined above. As a writer in a previous existence i have decided not to worry about writing as art in the pieces but, instead, to attempt to convey feeling over semantic (and often grammatic) perfection.

And 'OCRB'? It stands for 'Obsessive Compulsive Record Buying' - a little known mental health affliction that is potentially damaging to the bank account but ultimately life-affirming. It is sad.......but a nice form of sad.

Friday 13 May 2011

Zounds: Curse of the Zounds (Ruin Nation)

Bought at The Mob/Zounds gig in Bristol in April for an amazing £6. Not the original album release but a 23 track double album filled with pretty much their whole output. It was lovely to revisit songs such as 'Dancing', 'Biafra', 'Did he jump?' and ' Cant cheat Karma' again and remember what a brilliant band Zounds were, and still are. They were miles away from the rest of anarchist punk bands (which, to be honest, was because they weren't really an anarchist punk band) in that they had great melodies, subtle instrumentation, intelligent lyrics and a great lack of swear words. Still, i will file this in my 'Punk' part of my collection merely 'cos it is pure punk in spirit, if not in expectations - which, of course, makes it punker than most.
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