Sunday afternoon listening: Voodoo Party by James Last

Easy listening bandleader takes on tropicalia, funk, psychedelia, folk and soul - often at the same time. Expect Santana, Marvin Gaye and Sly Stone covers.

Sunday morning listening: Forever Changes by Love

When I saw Shack last week they did an excellent cover of A House Is Not A Motel, which reminded me that they were briefly Arthur Lee's backing band in the early 90s.

Time to enjoy the original though. Perfect listening for a sunny day (or any day for that matter).

Sunday morning listening: Resonance by Yumiko Morioka

Japanese ambient/new age piano music from 1987. Tranquil.

Friday afternoon listening - Tone Float by Organisation

Kraftwerk before they called themselves Kraftwerk. It doesn't sound anything like the Kraftwerk we know and love, in fact for the most part it doesn't really sound like music. Still, at least it gave OMD a title for their second album.

Original copies go for hundreds of pounds. Thank god for bootlegs.

Sunday morning listening: HMS Fable by Shack.

I've waited 25 years for this to get a vinyl release and it's finally here. With its glossy production and big choruses, it divided opinion amongst Shack fans, but to me it's their best album. It has Comedy on it - one of the greatest songs ever.

Vive Le Rock

It's safe to say that Adam Ant's Live Aid performance hasn't gone down as one of the all time greats. He was only allowed to play one song, so he chose his latest single, Vive Le Rock - a worldwide audience of 1.5 billion people helped it peak at 50 in the charts. Anyway, I thought it was great. It's parent album, released later that year, was mostly ignored. Rockabilly and garage rock weren't what the public wanted from him but it did, if I recall, get a rave review in Kerrang!

I bought it a few months later a a knockdown prices. It's still a slightly cheesy but fun listen.

Lament at 40

Happy 40th birthday Lament. This was my favourite album as a teen and is still up there now.

The sleeve design, by Peter Saville, featured a photo of Callanish standing stones (also where the video from One Small Day was filmed), which would stick with me as much as the music - just ask my daughter, who was named after them.