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Ken Freeman's excellent soundtrack to The Tripods TV series.

ABC and the BBC orchestra doing The Lexicon of Love live at the Royal Albert hall, 8th of April 2009.
From FM radio to a torrent near you, sounds superb

Benge's Twenty Systems - a well presented electronic catalogue.

Two 80's albums that were missing from my collection:

English Garden - Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club with a young Thomas Dolby. However, his keyboards are way back in the mix and the album comes up like a New Wave guitar-driven sound of '79. A couple of songs featured here were to become hits on The Age of Plastic by The Buggles. Geoffrey Downes' keys are well in the mix and makes this a memorable release.

David Bowie's CD version of Glass Spider, which is a pretty good concert apart from the chants of Up The Hill Backwards which are not necessary. David's greatest hits shows are probably his best and I wonder why the Sound and Vision Tour has not been released yet.

Jean Michel Jarre's Solidarnosc. As opposed to Glass Spider, the DVD is more impressive than the CD.

John Foxx's My Lost City , a great record to relax to.

Time Pie - Yamo , there is the Kraftwerk spark in there but it is all drowned by housey music from his collaborators on this project. Elektric Music's Esperanto and even Karl Bartos' Communication are closer in sound to Kraftwerk. Still not a bad record.

Chris

Siouxsie & The Banshees (again); Voices on the Air (BBC Sessions), Scritti Politti; Early and right now - Ultravox; Vienna (Definitive Edition)

Pet Shop Boys: Yes etc.
I like it and I'm impressed by 'This Used To Be The Future'. Great title for a great track.
So I went out to buy the remaster of 'Actually'. To add to my PSB collection. A lot of people I know laugh about them, but that makes me even more stubborn in buying their albums.
And because I've never heard a bad PSB album of course ...

Pete Doherty's debut; Grace/Wastelands - on initial hearings it's superb. Bound to bring new followers, very upbeat and much more adventurous than Shotters Nation.

Last of the English Roses starts of like Straight to Hell-era Clash with slow dub drums and melodica, but then the chorus comes in and it's Village Green...-era Kinks - and it all holds together so well.

If you loathed him before (and many do) give him a go;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIO-AJlFoU&feature=related

A fantastic catalogue. My favourite among them is Kaleidoscope but its a close call. The Scream is an awesome debut

Thats a show that would have really appealed to me if I’d been a child watching at the time, surely worth a repeat on TV. I only ever caught some of the shows where the children were slaves in the alien city, and one of the boys accidentally discovered just how fragile the bodies of the aliens actually were.
Interesting when you get the background to something.

For me its got to be the Juju album, next to The Garden it had to be the most played album of 1981 in the student house I lived in at the time