Music For Your Tape Recorder

Here we are, another orbit around the Sun...

I got three CDs in the last six weeks of the year. It's a bit difficult to explain everything between March 2006 and then.

January
Simple Minds - 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall ; Sons and Fascination (1981)
Thea Gilmore - Tear It All Down ; Songs from the Gutter (2002)
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues ; Aja (1977)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five ; Time Out

February
L'Occidentale de Fanfare - Le Saut de l'Adour ; Hopopop
Talking Heads - The Book I Read ; '77 (1977)
Garbage - Medication ; Version 2.0 (1998)

March
John Foxx - The Garden ; The Garden (1981)
British Sea Power - Oh Larsen B ; Open Season (2005)
Roxy Music - Avalon ; Avalon (1982)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Avenue ; B-Side (1984)

April
Metallica - Orion ; Master of Puppets (1986)
The Kooks - Naive ; Inside In/Inside Out (2006)
Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator ; Computer World (1980)

May
Ultravox - The Thin Wall ; Rage in Eden (1981)
Philip Glass - Vessels ; Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

June
Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of ; Dare (1981)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things ; Transparent Things (2006)
Charlotte Hatherley - Kim Wilde ; Grey Will Fade (2004)
Joe Stummer & The Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed ; Global A Go-Go (2001)

July
Falco - Der Kommissar ; Einzelhaft (1982)

August
Philip Glass Ensemble - Train/Spaceship (Live, 1982)
Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce ; The Royal Scam (1976)
Skee-Lo - I Wish ; I Wish (1999)

September
David Bowie - A Better Future ; Heathen (2002)
The Sundays - Wild Horses ; Blind (1992) : Buffy S3
Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers ; Milk and Honey (1996)

October
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Andrew Gold - Never Let Her Slip Away ; ??? (1978)
The Jam - The Bitterest Pill ; single (1982)
Telex - Moskow Discow ; Looking For St. Tropez (1978)

November
Simple Minds - 20th Century Promised Land ; Sister Feelings Call (1981)
Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk 5 ; Chosen Lords (2005)
The Skids - Working For The Yankee Dollar ; Days in Europa (1978)
The Human League - Austerity/Girl One ; Reproduction (1979)

December
Simple Minds - Premonition ; Real to Real Cacophony (1979)
Ultravox - I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) ; Rage in Eden (1981)
Charlotte Hatherley - Rescue Plan ; Grey Will Fade (2004)
Jerry Martin - South Bridge ; SimCity 3000 Soundtrack (1999)