Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno 1974

If you're going to have a favourite Eno album well why not the first one where you can still see the ties to his old band Roxy Music but you can also see the future of rock. well not everyones future but certainly Bowie and his Berlin triology and punk rock with brian Eno whining over mutated sounds. Really there is so much on this album to get into sometimes it's hard to get out.
One of my more sonic choices of the late seventies I would lie with my head on a pillow in between two speakers listening to this album. Stopping after 20 minutes to flip the record over and waiting for my two favourite tracks "Some Of Them are Old" and "Here Comes The warm Jets" it's a pity it took me 4 years after it's release to discover it.
I wouldn't of bought this album if not for the second guitarist we got in the Fiction in 1978. Joe Clarke was an English lad who came across all Brian Jones and always had his guitar and his girlfriend with him. He would play "Some Of Them are Old" on his electric guitar  and enlighten me to the album he got it off. I loved that melody so much I had to go and find it. And found a whole lot more.
Joe was only around for maybe one or two gigs. A co-headline spot with La Femme upstairs at the Crystal Ballroom which was packed and that was it. I got sick, communications broke down and we never saw him again.

I continued to explore Brian Eno albums and have a particular fondness for Music For Airports when the moment is right.

The La's by The La's 1990

If the Lemonheads were a summery band that summed up living close to the beach in Elwood then a couple of years before that we were listening to The La's whose debut album came out just as I was moving into my new house. At first, it was really hard to get past "There She Goes' which just so happens to be the perfect pop song. Once you played that song you just wanted to hear it again, And again. but I got over that and it became another summer album. And we loved talking about it because Lee Mavers who was the leader of the band went out there and slagged the album off. Which was very theatrical and dramatic and looked a bit like a pose until he never actually released another record.
And strangely enough, it reminds me of my first CD tower. My CD collection had grown to something that needs containing. So on my birthday, I received a CD Tower. This was one of the first. We'd not seen them before. And though it only held about 50 CDs it was huge. More like a sculpture than the thin wire ones that came later. And it was as tall as me.
But I digress. Great album from Liverpool. Not too far from Blackpool and a pointer to what some of the songs Oasis would sound like.

It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads 1992

I bought this album at Readings in Carlton on a fantastic bright sunny day. This is appropriate because this album just sings sunshine. I was searching around the store for music to buy for the club when I saw this CD for the incredibly cheap price of 14.95. Considering most albums were up in the 25 dollar bracket or at least 20 it made no sense that it was so cheap. The man behind the counter didn't know why either. Something about mini-album came up. But hey..it was 13 songs. But short songs.
I hadn't been to Readings or Carlton for a long time. Back in 1980 we'd meet the Mods up at a coffee shop or eat pasta at the many restaurants on Lygon Street. But since then I'd crossed the river from Fitzroy to St. Kilda. Or at this time, Elwood.
Around this time I was sharing a house with Little Murders guitarist Rod Heyward. It was a house I'd just bought a year or so back. I got him to paint the house. One morning we started painting at 7am with this album blaring out of the speakers. To warm us up. The neighbour was over before the first song was finished. The deputy mayor no less. It was a sunny morning and with all the white sheets covering the furniture and the white walls and everything we just had to play this music. Followed by the Las.
A few of the songs on this album I'd play at the Lizard lounge. Confetti, Bit Part and Alison's Starting To happen. But during the first hour when the music was really just for us. Mrs. Robinson however was a big dancefloor hit. Great album