Staying Alive - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Various Artists

This sequel to the immensely popular 2 x LP ‘Saturday Night Fever’, many say this film lacks the box-office clout of the original and the soundtrack album was likewise a disappointing seller, but it actually contains some of the better Bee Gees work of the '80s, notably the sad ballad Someone Belonging to Someone. While SNF not only made John Travolta a star, it also escorted the music to new levels, discotheques, nightclubs and into the glare of the mainstream music.

Music for the Miracle – Various Artists

Music for the Miracle collects mid-'80s pop and rock hits from the era in a one album only which as enjoyable to listen to after so many years. The Eighties were an age of big hair, bigger snare drums and massive hits. Music videos gave rise to a flashy new class of pop stars, leaving the baby boomers that weren’t fit enough to make it on MTV.

Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs

Linda Perhacs is a California based singer/songwriter whose first 1970 obscure record now regarded as a psych-folk masterpiece has become a huge collector’s item and is responsible for influencing many artists of the modern generation including Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom etc.

Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley

There have been some great debut albums in the world of popular music. But this one, to me, stands the tallest. Elvis Presley’s eponymous 1956 album consisting of some 12 songs in all of 28 minutes is a watershed moment in the history of modern music.

Long Road Out of Eden – 2 LPs - Eagles

This is indeed the last studio album of Eagles, featuring some excellent tracks with great lead guitar work and intricate harmony vocals.

The Man - Machine - Kraftwerk

We often spare time indulging in EDM music. Whether our listening preferences be inclined towards Rock, Jazz, Classical or Pop, one cannot ignore the popularity of EDM music that’s widespread worldwide.

Masoom – Rahul Dev Burman / Gulzar

I brought in RD Burman’s 82nd birthday this Saturday by watching Shekhar Kapoor’s brilliant debut, ‘Masoom’.

Tindersticks – Tindersticks

Tindersticks are an original UK indie band that gained a cult following in the early 90s with the release of their first couple of eponymously titled albums. Tindersticks is the band’s second self-titled album released in 1995.

Space Hymns and Glass Top Coffin - Ramases and Sel

Spinning this Friday afternoon an intriguing pair of albums by a husband and wife duo, Brits [Kimberley Barrington Frost], Selket [Dorothy Frost] who went by the names of Ramases and Sel, although the album artiste is “Ramases”

Pure Dylan – Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is someone, about whom one cannot write anything more, can one? So much has already been written. But then, he is also someone you can keep on writing about? The man has so many layers, phases and lives.