DJTees Blog — Johnny Recommends...

This might just be BOC's best album The band's second record was, at the time, called 'intelligent heavy metal' and that feels like a good description. It's not heavy metal as we know it today, of course - but it is heavy in its own way and is very accessible. Always been an interesting band [...]

There's such an analogue warmth to this record. It feels like sitting beside a roaring fire on a winter's afternoon. I return to Caravan most weeks because they ooze a lovely spirit mixed with restless invention This is possibly their best album, though in truth all of them are high quality adventures in progressive rock. [...]

This has always been my favourite live album by Jimi. Wonderfully wild and loose, and with a wonderful photo gracing the cover, it should be held in higher regard than it often is. Wisdom has it that his last performance in England wasn't very good and was too shambolic but this record disproves that long [...]

Never as big as Skynyrd or the Allmans, especially in Europe, ARS were nonetheless a fantastic southern rock band and this was their big hit album. It featured their top 10 single So Into You - a lovely mid 70s smooth song that even made it into the Easy Listening chart. Don't be fooled though, [...]

I fell in love with this aged 14. Maybe I was an odd kid, but I loved its blizzard of guitar mixed with spirituality. I knew it was like nothing I'd heard in my short life and now I'm 54, it's still like nothing I've heard before or since. Everyone who plays on the record [...]

A 1970 double live album that was disliked by the music critics but loved by the fans. I love it. The cover sums up the music, somehow - full of raw, wild energy. This was the only record of their to chart in UK, making 29 on the charts. It peaked at 5 on the [...]

Deep Purple MKII singles collection gathers together the 7 releases onto one record but it's the purple vinyl that makes it collectible. This is in Record Collector at £20, I picked it up for £10 and am delighted to put it on the shelves alongside the black vinyl version. You could have a huge record [...]