"The driver has been instructed to ignore the fact that most people chose to get this bus rather than the one of a different but largely overlapping route just behind it (which would have got them to where they want to go by now) and wait here to even out the service"

Always enjoyed his contributions on those lovely old Island Records sampler albums. Oh for the days of an LP where you'd get him alongside such disparate talents as Fairport Convention, Free, Traffic and John Martyn. Spotify my arse...

Well, I found something pink in the wardrobe.

Imagine still not quite up there with Layla and Moondance in 'great album but title track gets on your tits' stakes IMO, tho'.

Is that a yes or a no?

His last good one for my money.

It most certainly does.

Sometimes it doesn't do to try and be clever and just admit that some albums are just top class for a reason. The title track IS one of rock's most overplayed but Imagine is a great LP overall. I hope Donny Hathaway's version of Jealous Guy is top of your childishly-hinted-at-but-not-telling list!

Yeah, agreed. Madge's usual high-end game on display, apart from the naughty lifting of the title track from some hippies, but there (cough...Zeppelin...cough...Willie Dixon), these things happen. Yes, it's that era of overlong albums. Not a criticism of Madge's discussed offering per se.

Deserves a place for sure, but I must say, it was RAtM that made me realise I was a boring old fart who preferred his dad's Stones albums to contemporary rock of the day. Thank fuck for the Crowes and the Primal Scream Muscle Shoals phase. Derivative, yes, but something current I could enjoy.

A p*ss poor copy, then. The numbers add up and the content is factually correct.

I absolutely must have one. Can you post me one to Twickers?

Easily the best thing in the EC catalogue by a mile given that the D&B live thing isn't his. Deserves better than 226? Probably - if there are 225 good reasons none of which are EC releases, then maybe not. But if any one of them IS an EC release then this has been short-changed.

Nope, it doesn't. 50s rock and roll gets enough slack just for being 50s rock and roll. If the Sly Stone compilation is made to stick to the rules, so can this.

Agreed. Curiously I like Vol 4 more than this too. But it's neck and neck between debut and Paranoid for best one.

See, you've rattled me now; was about to put a bit of Hammond organ on a studio client's song. Then you said that, and with you being a tube guy, I thought of the untimely end of British organist and noted occultist Graham Bond at Finsbury Park. think I'll just have a cup of tea and call it a day.