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.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Maserati - Inventions for the New Season (Temporary Residence)


Remastered, repackaged and reissued in splendid multicoloured vinyl, this 2007 album absolutely kicks it in terms of driving hard instrumental rock music. Starting off slow, first track 'Inventions' ushers in proceedings and then the motherfucker really takes off and continues rocking for the duration.

As previously mentioned in my last Maserati review, this band produce such exciting music that it's really difficult to merely listen to it passively - it makes you want to do stuff whilst it's playing. I downloaded the free mp3 and burnt it so that i could listen to it whilst driving and found it really hard to stop myself flooring it to keep up with the inducement of the music.

It goes 'bang bang bang bang dugga dugga dugga dugga wah wah wah wah' for about 45 minutes.....and then you play it again. And again.

It's THAT good.

Really. 

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