The Playlist

Took a long walk into the city at the weekend and picked up a bunch of CDs that I haven't really sat down and listened to for over 25 years. Remarkable that isn't it? Time flies, really flies, oh man oh man; countless millions in that time will have come and gone in this revolving world, that we call Planet Earth and that I call Wobble Tilt.

It all kicked off after watching Simple Minds at the Nelson Mandela Birthday Concert that took place in Hyde Park a couple of weeks ago. I have mentioned this before, in the last post. It was not that they were any good, they weren't particularly, it was more that seeing them on TV after so many years of not knowing what it was they were doing (enjoying the riches life must have brought them?) reminded me of a time I had forgotten. Not long after seeing Kerr & Co. I bought their New Gold Dream album and not long after that had arrived and remained on my ipod for a good few days (not to mention the CD player in my Toyota) I had a list of other music from that time - the early '80s / late, late '70s -that I knew I had to get, all vinyl records long since disappeared. So take a deep breath, here is my shoppping list from that walk into the city on a sunny day in July that was not so long ago -

Tin Drum
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call
Penthouse and Pavement
Dare!
Systems of Romance

Do you need to know who they are by? Well, if you are anywhere near my age and had any form of interest in music back then, the answer is no. If not then I guess I better tell you - Japan, Simple Minds, Heaven 17, Human League & Ultravox, in that order.

I think I will write about them as and when I get the chance over the coming weeks, months, years, whatever it takes...Suffice to say that at the moment when I think about going in to buy them again I smile to myself, knowing it was a really nice thing to do, that the light was shining.