Found this on an aging cassette, had to share it. This is from 1992, Mark Goodier interviewing Mark E Smith for a feature called “Personal Stereo” in which the guest chooses 6 or 7 favourites and talks about them a bit, culminating in a competion to win a Walkman with an album of the guest’s choice inside it (this is glossed over a little so the feature had presumably been running regularly for a while). It was broadcast as part of Goodier’s original BBC Radio 1 Evening Session. Smith chooses The Kinks, Augustus Pablo, Van Der Graaf Generator and Can amongst others. The tunes have been chopped out and Goodier talks way too much but this is still worth hearing.

also on spotify via compilations:

sun symphonica (anthems in eden, 2012)

eldorado (prog rock & beyond, 2017)

love potion number nine (ultimate 70s, 2022) as 'the noy's band'

that's the band's entire discography minus two songs. you have no excuse to not be listening to jan dukes de grey.

if you like folk music listen to sorcerers.

if you like prog listen to sun symphonica, then download mice and rats in the loft to hear the rest.

if you like post-punk listen to strange terrain.

if you want to hear derek at his craziest and freakiest listen to his cover of love potion number nine.

please...look how beautiful and cool he is...

No I did not forget about the poll from like a month ago here’s Drama!

tormato!

this is the first album in my bhm series! tormato is an album i slept on for quite a while, but it’s come to mean a lot to me! it feels both grand and whimsy at the same time. now rediscovering tormato, the entire album hasn’t left my most played songs for a few months now! (release, release has STAYED #1 lmao)

i chose that line from release, release because it really speaks to me, as a teacher i tend not to think about myself as much as my kids and helping THEM shine by doing my part

as corny as this sounds it makes me so happy and feels very important to me being able to combine my blackness with my very NOT black interest to make something that is personal to me and me only. i’m kind of past the era of pleasing other people, not “being black enough for this” or “toning it down for that”

anyways mini vent over funny tomato cover 😎