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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 1h

#NowPlaying: Be Bop Deluxe: Axe Victim: 1974. cracking debut.

Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 2h

#NowPlaying: Atomic Rooster: Atomic Rooster: 1980. Nothing like anything they had ever released before, punk influenced NWOBHM? Still good, but sounds well dated now.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 2h

#NowPlaying: Asia: Alpha: 1983. The second album, I generally prefer the first, but this is good. After this the original line-up disbanded until... (checks online)..... 2008.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 5h

Back from the hols, sorting out mail and playing music. #Nowplaying: Arc of Life: 2021.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 8h

#1001albums: Day 275: Moby: Play: 1999. Still sounds pretty good after all these years. I was a Moby fan for a little while and we saw him at the Greenbelt Festival.

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Album Of The Day

Play by Moby

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 8h

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Friday. We're driving back home this morning, its only an hour and a bit so be home well before lunch

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#1001albums: Day 274. Neil Young: Harvest: 1972. Superb album. Neil has made so many great albums over nearly six decades, but I honestly think is his best.

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Album Of The Day

Harvest by Neil Young

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Thursday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NowPlaying: second spin for the new TFATD album, this is really good. Well done @mattstevensloop.bsky.social and the boys

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#1001albums: Day 273: Miriam Makeba: 1960. Really interesting album, beautiful songs and an intriguing life story for this artist.

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Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Wednesday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@porthcawlgas.bsky.social Morning Steve, made a start on the first of your books yesterday, looks promising so far, good story and I'm enjoying your chapter titles 😀

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NowPlaying: The Fierce And The Dead: Regional Theatre: 2026. First listen for this album, I imagine that when I get home from hols there will be a cd and a shirt waiting for me.

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Regional Theatre, by The Fierce And The Dead

10 track album

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#1001albums: Day 272: Everything But The Girl: Walking Wounded: 1996. Pleasant enough pop songs with electronica backing. A bit on the bland side.

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Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Tuesday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#1001albums: Day 271: The Dictators: Go Girl Crazy: 1975. American proto-punk from New York. I'm a bit surprised that I've never heard this band before to be honest. It bombed at the time, unsurprisingly, but it's full of raw energy and oblique humour.

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Album Of The Day

Go Girl Crazy by The Dictators

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

good morning everyone, enjoy your Monday, We're going away for a few days later, but I've got time for some music before we leave.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back to packing the suitcases later as we are off for a five day break in Burnham on Sea tomorrow. But before that, #NowPlaying my favourite album ever, Yes: Close To The Edge: 1972. Of several versions in my collection I've chosen the 2003 reissue with bonuses.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#1001albums: Day 267: Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run: 1975. My favourite of all the Springsteen albums, I think this one served him very well and rescued his career at the time. Fantastic songwriting throughout and the E Street Band really cooking.

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Album Of The Day

Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back home from the Smoke, installed in the den and sorting out some tunes.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Sunday. We're travelling home from London a bit later this morning.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

London is a right boghole isn't it? On the other hand I did have a chat with the former Archbishop.of Canterbury on the tube! Back home tomorrow 😀

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@adehodges.bsky.social Morning Ade, have you disabled replies in your feed?

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heading up to the Smoke this morning for an overnight medical conference so there won't be any more music for me today, back home late afternoon tomorrow, enjoy your weekend. 🐖🪽🏭

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Industrial Smoke Billows from Factory Chimneys

Alt: Industrial Smoke Billows from Factory Chimneys

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#1001albums Day 269: The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus: 1977. Like a lot of blokes my age I had a teenage dalliance with punk rock, some of us stuck with it relentlessly, but I moved on after a while. So did the Stranglers. 1/3

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Album Of The Day

Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Saturday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bit of a booze up at the Pale Rider this week, the local bobbies were not impressed, but the lads were just having a laugh. Meanwhile at the canal one of their mates has fallen in, prompting a rescue attempt, but I fear he's had his chips. #NGauge #ModelRailway @ngaugeforum.bsky.social

An n gauge pub beer garden scene with some drunks and a couple of police officers

An n gauge canal scene, with a man in the water and emergency services trying to pull him out.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#NowPlaying; XTC: Drums And Wires: 1979. I bought the CD/DVD version of this, I don't know why I bother doing that because I don't anything to play the DVD on? Oh, yeah, I remember, it was cheap 🤣

a stylised painting of a face with the letters XTC making the features

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#1001albums: Day 268: Black Sabbath: Paranoid: 1970. Those early Black Sabbath albums were a huge part of my teenage years, the sound is huge, raw and dripping with power. 1/3

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Album Of The Day

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

good morning everyone, enjoy your Friday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NowPlaying: The Who: Tommy: 1969. A bit more Who, I've played this a few times recently.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NowPlaying: The Who: My Generation: 1965. This came up a few weeks ago on @1001albumsgen.bsky.social so I treated myself to this deluxe edition.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Thursday. I'm taking the car to the garage to get the brakes done so back to the music a bit later.

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Foot Pressing Car Brake Pedal

Alt: Foot Pressing Car Brake Pedal

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowPlaying: Rick Wakeman: Out Of The Blue: 2001. Last of my three Wakeman live choices today, this one features the reformed English Rock Ensemble with Damian Wilson on vocals, shortly after the release of 'Out There', this line up didn't last long as Damian buggered off.

a train travels across space on a rail of piano keys

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Nowplaying: Rick Wakeman: Almost Live In Europe. From an early '90s Italian tour, these recordings were much bootlegged so in 1995 Rick and his blokes tidied them up and released this album.

Merlin rides a horse through the forest at night, preceded by an owl

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowPlaying: Rick Wakeman: Live At the Maltings: I've selected three Wakeman live albums to play this morning, starting with this one recorded in 1976 with the English Rock Ensemble, released on CD/DVD in 2013.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dammit, blew my Wordle streak of 131! Wordle 1,922 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#1001Albums: Day 266: Living Colour: Vivid: 1988. There were a couple of years back in the '80s/'90s when we were really into this band. At the time it was a fresh, new, exciting sound. I remember we went to see them in Bristol, Bad Brains opened for them and were a bit crap. 1/2

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Album Of The Day

Vivid by Living Colour

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning everyone, enjoy your Wednesday

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NowPlaying: David Bowie: Young Americans: 1975. This came up on @1001albumsgen.bsky.social a week or so ago and I didn't have a CD version so I got one from ebay

he final cover photo, a back-lit and airbrushed photo of Bowie, was taken in Los Angeles on 30 August 1974 by the photographer Eric Stephen Jacobs.[1] Jacobs took inspiration from a similar photo he took of the choreographer Toni Basil for the September 1974 cover of After Dark magazine.[9] Using that photo, Craig DeCamps designed the final cover at RCA Records' New York City office.[64][65] Sandford calls it one of the "classic" album covers.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NowPlaying: The Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat: 1968.

The original album cover for White Light/White Heat is a faint image of a tattoo of a skull.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NowPlaying: Van Morrison: Astral Weeks: 1968. I've only got three Van Morrison albums, that's probably enough isn't it? Then again this one is sublime.

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