Vinyl 🎧

If you’ve ever joined me on a Teams call from my home office, you’ve likely noticed the wall of vinyl records behind me. This post aims to answer the most common questions I get on calls, offering a glimpse into my music collection and the technology used to play it. The Collection My vinyl collection is more than just a backdrop; let me give you a tour: The Main Attraction The wall you see behind me during video calls is just the beginning:...

2023 has been an extraordinary year for music, showcasing an eclectic mix of genres, styles, and artistic visions. This list of 17 albums represents the year’s rich musical landscape, each offering a unique perspective and sound. From the psychedelic choral pop of The Polyphonic Spree’s “Salvage Enterprise” to the introspective and nuanced melodies of Jenny Lewis in “Joy’All,” these albums traverse a spectrum of emotional and sonic experiences. The list includes revered artists like Peter Gabriel with his album “I/O” and new interpretations of classics like “The Endless Coloured Ways (The Songs Of Nick Drake)” by Various artists....

A little late, but there are my top 20 records of 2020, as per previous years these are all ones which I have purchased on vinyl. bdrmm - Bedroom↗ Doves - The Universal Want↗ Pure Reason Revolution — Eupnea↗ Orb — Abolition Of The Royal Familia↗ The Smashing Pumpkins — Cyr↗ Andy Bell — The View From Halfway Down↗ Ulver — Flowers Of Evil↗ Church Of The Cosmic Skull — Everybodys Going To Die↗ Jim Bob — Pop Up Jim Bob↗ Matt Berry — Phantom Bird↗ Working Mens Club — Working Mens Club↗ Crippled Black Phoenix — Ellengast↗ Bruce Springsteen — Letter To You↗ And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — X: The Godless Void And Othe Stories↗ The Pineapple Thief — Versions Of The Truth↗ Ozric Tentacles — Space For The Earth↗ Abel Ganz — The Life Of The Honeybee Other Moments Of Clarity↗ Sparks — A Steady Drip Drip Drip↗ EOB — Earth↗ Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes↗ Katatonia — City Burials↗ Kavus Torabi — Hip To The Jag↗

It has been 270 days since my last post, so what I have been doing with my time? Well, I have been busy writing, just not this blog. Not only have I wrote and released Learn Ansible↗ , but also I have updated the Second Edition of Mastering Docker↗ bringing it up to date with the release of the Third Edition of Mastering Docker↗ which is now available from Packt Publishing↗ ....

So here they are, my top ten albums of 2016. Like last year they are all ones I physically own rather than stream or have brought digitally … The full list is below (I know there are 30) … David Bowie — Blackstar Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool Knifeworld — Bottled Out Of Eden British Theatre — Mastery Charles Bradley — Changes Kate Bush — Before The Dawn The Anchoress — Confessions Of A Romance Novelist Matt Berry — The Small Hours The Sea Nymphs — On The Dry Land Crippled Black Phoenix — Bronze S U R V I V E — RR7349 Iamthemorning — Lighthouse Three Trapped Tigers — Silent Earthling Gong — Rejoice!...

I have been writing a lot again this month so not a lot to post, however, I have been listening to a lot of music … You can listen to it all here …

Its been a while since I have posted a playlist, so I thought I would do one of all of the coloured vinyl I have been playing over the last few months … Here are some pictures of them in their full glory …

Here are my top ten and bit albums of 2015 (yes I know one is a remake, one was first released in 2014 and one is an EP). Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.↗ Vennart The Demon Joke↗ Charlie Barnes More Stately Mansions↗ Leon Bridges Coming Home↗ Sweet Billy Pilgrim Motorcade Amnesiacs↗ Nordic Giants A Séance of Dark Delusions↗ Gary Clark Jr. The Story of Sonny Boy Slim↗ Julia Holter Have You in My Wilderness↗ Dave Gahan & Soulsavers Angels & Ghosts↗ New Order Music Complete↗ Public Service Broadcasting The Race for Space↗ Faith No More Sol Invictus↗ Coheed and Cambria The Color Before the Sun↗ Monster Magnet Cobras and Fire↗ Crippled Black Phoenix New Dark Age↗ Cleft Bosh↗ There are also lists for 2014 and 2013....