James made a video this year of his favourite vinyl records (didn't even mention Lifeblood or Lipstick Traces!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy01vJOVswE
If you wanted to listen along, I've made a Spotify playlist of all the tracks (about 98% were available)
James's Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3p...R9asTgIac_uFmQ
The songs/albums were:
01 - Big Flame - Rigour (not available) - used the song Debra
02 - The Skids - Woman in Winter (Song)
03 - Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver and Angels and Devils (songs)
04 - Bodines - Therese (song - not available)
05 - Husker Du - Sorry Somehow (song)
06 - The The - The Beat(en) Generation (song - inspired Boy From the Plantation)
07 - The Wah - Story of the Blues, Pt. 1 & 2 (song - produced by Mike Hedges, A Design for Life's sound)
08 - Diana Ross - My Old Piano (song)
09 - R.Seiliog - Doppler
10 - The Cult - Dreamtime
11 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
12 - Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade (one of Richey's favourite songs)
13 - Rush - Moving Pictures
14 - Simple Minds - Waterfront and Hunter and the Hunted live in Newcastle
15 - Victor Jara - Manifesto (not available, added most songs individually)
16 - Demis Roussos - Forever and Ever
17 - Tom Jones - I Who Have Nothing
18 - Time Zone - World Destruction (song)
19 - That Petrol Emotion - V2 (song)
20 - Ernst Busch – 6 Songs For Democracy (not available, added separately)
Also mentions
21 - Shop Assistants - All Day Long (not available)
22 - Ultramagnetic MCs - ?
23 - Sly and the Family Stone - ?
24 - The Jasmine Minks - ?