Thereās always a few who ruin it for the rest of us
Donāt be getting all prissy because you canāt read the original post properly.
Not my favourite album, but the album I have owned for the longest time. For those of you of a younger persuasion KTel was the Spotify of the 1970s releasing compilation after compilation. My sisters bought me this record in 1976. They got it in Woolworths in Waterford and it cost them 50 pence or 50 new pence as we still said then or 50 new which was what the cool dudes said.
The record has stuck with me through thick and thin, through countless moves and intervals in storage and seen many record players. It has multiple signs of wear (like myself) but it still plays. The sound quality is not great but that was an occupational hazard with KTel and an inevitable consequence of pushing 70 minutes of music into a format designed for 35.
Over the years I googled the title but never came up with a match. There was a Gold Rock released by KTel in the Netherlands but it had a completely different track list. Finally I had the brainwave of Googling the label catalogue number and I solved it. It was released in 1975 as British Gold (Jimi Hendrix was too dead to object) and in Ireland in 1975 putting the title British on anything was a sure fire ticket to no sales, so it was renamed Gold Rock and repackaged for the Irish market.
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Again not my favourite album
But it is my favourite Bob Marley album. Just ahead of Exodus. Mostly because it contains Could you be loved which is my favourite Bob Marley song cc @feck_it.
Anyway the back story here is I bought this record more or less on its release in 1980. I used to wear a denim jacket festooned with Bob Marley badges so it was an entirely consequential purchase. For various reasons the record ended up in my mothers house in the mid 1980s.
The record then disappeared never to be seen again. I long suspected a sibling in connection with this disappearance. This sibling ended up living in a continental European city sharing a house with Jamaicans. Said sibling always denied any wrongdoing. However I bore a grudge for over 30 years.
Anyway in a bout of clarity of thinking probably brought about by the pandemic, I decided to buy a new copy of Uprising. It was delivered yesterday. I am playing it now. It is as good as I remember it. Grudge gone. Though I will stick the sibling for the ā¬20 the replacement the cost me somehow or other.
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Grudge not gone.
Great shoutā¦
Iād put Stir it Up ( 1972 version) just ahead of Could you be Lovedā¦The bass alone 
36, thirty fucking six when he died. Was just starting to go to gigs when he played Dalymount in '80, remains a major regret thatI didnāt go
You only got your first record in 1976? Youāre younger than I thought so
Itās an amazing album (the cover of which I will at some stage get as a tattoo) music wise it changes from survival but all their albums have a different sound. Guiter work from junior Marvin and Al Anderson combine brilliantly and the barrrts & Downey as always are immense. Could you be loved is a great track tbf but work, coming in from the cold, we and them just as good. You should give a listen to uprising demos, which are actually better
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Iām here listening to Sadeās Promise while enjoying a coffee. I love this lady and I love this album.
Sensual is the word that comes to mind ā¦ Itās smooth but uplifting. Chilled but got rhythm. She just has a way of speaking to my soulā¦ thereās a melancholy to it that speaks to the Irish heart but itās delivered in black smoothness.
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Unreal.
I bought this album completely by accident. I thought it was by another band of the same. And the mistake is one of my favourite albums ever.
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Came across 2 thst I listened to regularly during the 90sā¦the doors box set and reisevor dogs sound trackā¦ Two cracking albums imo
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
The kind of late night fare youād get on the MTV 2 show ā120 Minutesā - which was the greatest music show to air on tv ever. Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada et al would appear next to Nirvana, The Pogues, Nick Cave, Groove Armada etc. etc.
Anyway - the album is a solid 9/10. On one hand It does sound a tad dated, which adds to the joy of it, but itās also something that could have been made yesterday. I wasnt really into this type of electronic music in the 90s, preferring the more exuberant hardcore/drum n bass in my youth, yet this album takes me back to those days when electronic music as a whole went mainstream. Itās an uplifting nostalgic treat and has one of my favourite pieces of electronic music on it - xtal.
big shout out to all the retired ravers out there, oi oi.
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No Disco with Donal Dineen was the best music show ever, it was actually essential viewing
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