A place called home

Highlighting unknown, obscure or simply excellent musicians

A small personal website with the aim to share detailed release information for a number of artists, but also to highlight some items from my collection

Previous Stuff

  • メトロノーム updates

    Some more メトロノーム releases have been added today and they are all the singles that were still missing all these years. They are セルフコントロール (2002), 一週間 (2004) and コンピュータ (2004).

    I also added 三つ数えろ, a 2003 release which was only available at three concerts and through mail order.

  • New Mirrors promo CD

    10 years after its release I stumble upon a promotional CD release which I never saw before! This is a UK promo for Mirrors’ debut (and to date only) album Lights And Offerings. It isn’t a great or interesting looking release, but hope you are as exited as I am!

  • メトロノーム incoming

    It’s been a while (over a year!), but I haven’t forgotten this website. I got some “new” メトロノーム releases lately which I will slowly add to their discography page.

    The first three I added are some early releases with the most interesting one being a demo cassette from May 1999 (in three days it’s been 22 years since it was released!). It’s the demo tape for 東京バビロン and I am happy to have added it to my collection. The other two releases are for their 2001 CD-single release プラスチックーモデルス / PLASTIC-MODELS. More to be added in the upcoming days!

  • More メトロノーム updates

    Last update for the year which is again for メトロノーム. Today I added details for the 2004 single 妄想トリック and two fairly recent concert-only releases being しゃーたん＆めとたん (2017) and 東京バビロン (リクエスト再録ver.) (2018).

  • メトロノーム updates

    This evening I added the last few new releases by メトロノーム which were still missing from the website. They are albums 廿奇譚AHEAD and 確率論≠paradox and single Catch me if you can?.

    Three more releases will be added in the next few weeks once I have received them.

  • メトロノーム continue

    It’s been a while, but I decided to add the last few releases by メトロノーム and started with CONTINUE, their first album since they ended their hiatus in 2016 and 弊帚トリムルティ, a single from 2018.

    Two more albums and a single will be added in the next few days.

  • Latest collection feature

    McCartney uncut

    Ex-Beatles member Paul McCartney released around 100 singles in the UK throughout his career as of 1971. Either solo or with his band Wings.

    Among these singles were two called We All Stand Together and Dance Tonight.

    We All Stand Together was released in 1984 during a time when his career was deemed to go in a downward spiral. Mainly due to some private mishappenings, but also his negatively received Give My Regards To Broad Street movie. In comes this release, as it brought him back into the charts (number three in the UK). It was released as a 7″ single and a 7″ shaped picture disc. As with most shaped picture discs, an uncut test pressing was initially made which is shown in the photo on the left.

    Moving forward to 2007 brings us to the single for Dance Tonight. A nice song in my opinion, just as the one from ’84. This one was released as a download and again a 7″ shaped picture disc. The 7″ oddly features the song on both sides so there is no proper B-side. An uncut test pressing also exists for this release. However, there is also a single-sided test pressing which features the regular images on both sides, although only side A contains music. Does this mean that they initially intended to release this as a single-sided disc? I guess we’ll never know. The double-sided disc is shown in the photo on the right whereas the single-sided one is at the bottom, with the blank side facing upwards.

    Both discs are 12″ in size with 7″ grooves which contain the music. All three only come in a clear plastic sleeve.