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.

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Murcof - The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)


Bought at the same time as 'Cosmos', this is altogether a different beast. When i told Ambient Steve that i'd bought this one, he informed me that this was the only one not recommended by him ("unlistenable shit" was his exact description) - which shocked me, as he likes Jacob Kirkegaard's Laburinthitis, quite possibly the most impossible-to-sit-through album in the history of music. But i think he's wrong. Sure, it's played on 17th century baroque instruments like the harpsichord and the viola de gamba and sure, it lacks any beauty whatsoever and, equally surer than sure, it's as dark as hell and quite unsettling. But i quite like that.
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