the widow's world

Well, here we are, at the very end of Not an A-Z of my CDs and the entry for Z. But we're not going to end on a low, oh no. Instead, we...

This week it's an eighties double header with The Only Way Is Up by Yazz and The Race by Yello (albeit a 2007 remix version). Don't ...

And so we reach X... I must confess that I had almost given up on choosing a track for this week. Having done various internet searches, con...

So, after a break, here we are at W... and I've chosen The Waterboys and "The Whole of the Moon": Andrew

An album I wanted some years ago, and probably flirted with getting on more than one occasion, was The View's Hats of to the Buskers. Al...

And so we reach the tricky end of the alphabet but somehow this entry for U was not at all difficult. Here for your delectation is the unriv...

For this week's entry you almost got Bruce Springsteen until I realised I'd covered S last week. The Boss is going to have to wait u...

Suede are a band that I'm slightly ambivalent about but, like most people my age, their music was part of the backdrop of my formative y...

And so we reach R, and a choooon from a band who did have other hits but will forever be associated with today's song - Reef. Actually, ...

There was never - despite seeking alternate candidates from my followers on Twitter - much dispute about who would be featured artists for t...

This week: Prince. But, for my first choice, I'm taking liberties with my own rules... I've gone for When Dove's Cry but Quindon...

When I was home a couple of weeks ago, I noticed an old cassette (younger readers should click here for further information) of Roy Orbison...

This week here's a bit of New Order for your aural pleasure: Andrew

I recently had today's entry for this series in my head at work the other week and it prompted this exchange with one of my young collea...

And so we reach "L" and a track from an album I once had a taped copy of. This reminds me of my brief career at University and, in...

A glaring omission in my CD collection is the lack of anything by today's featured artists - Kings of Leon. This is obviously something ...

...courtesy of James. I couldn't stop at Sit Down, so here's Laid. If you're now expecting "Say Something" to be post...

This week I feature a band whose music takes me back to the latter years of my schooldays.... James. And while they had a number of anthems,...

I feel like I've already posted an entry for this as I didn't have anything to post for the letter "I" when I was doing my...

This week's entry is a song from my mum's era which always reminds me of my grandad. It was also a Number 1 hit in 1988 when I was 1...