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Title: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: davidmjs on November 03, 2025, 02:01:55 PM Has anybody ever attempted to collect everything Ashley has released?
Apart from the obvious (Discogs etc., which are always unwieldy, often inaccurate/incomplete, and sometimes difficult to interpret when the releases are so plentiful) what is the best published one? There's a sort of discography in the Free Reed box if you piece together the partial one (incidentally, does everyone else's copy of the book within it have multiple repeated pages in it?)...but I think it's far from complete. But has anyone else attempted a personal one? Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: Jules Gray on November 03, 2025, 02:04:48 PM This was the best Ashley discography I ever found. But no, I never attempted to collect them all.
https://mainlynorfolk.info/guvnor/records/ Jules Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: davidmjs on November 03, 2025, 03:42:47 PM This was the best Ashley discography I ever found. But no, I never attempted to collect them all. https://mainlynorfolk.info/guvnor/records/ Jules Oh that's fab...thanks, Jules...don't think I've seen that site before... Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: Jules Gray on November 03, 2025, 04:03:09 PM Oh that's fab...thanks, Jules...don't think I've seen that site before... It's a good resourse. Lots of detail on folk song variations, for instance. I use it quite often. Jules Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: RobertD on November 03, 2025, 04:30:05 PM It is a very good resource to second Jules. Except when you are looking for resources away from err…mainly Norfolk such as I am doing now for a new project. But seriously it is very helpful, well curated and a good jumping off point.
For a while there I felt like I was keeping up with Ashley’s releases but they got away from me gradually and I couldn’t even tell you the last one I bought. Don’t get me started on that Free Reed set. A lot of duplication from The Guv’nor series and the arrangement was IMHO a disaster. It should have been chronological showing the range of Ashley’s multiple and often simultaneous projects. Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: davidmjs on November 03, 2025, 04:47:39 PM Don’t get me started on that Free Reed set. A lot of duplication from The Guv’nor series and the arrangement was IMHO a disaster. As a put on a CD and sit back and enjoy experience, you're absolutely spot on (but then I think that with quite a few of the Free Reed boxes). Just stabilising the volume levels would have been a start.... ;D Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: RobertD on November 03, 2025, 06:11:33 PM Don’t get me started on that Free Reed set. A lot of duplication from The Guv’nor series and the arrangement was IMHO a disaster. As a put on a CD and sit back and enjoy experience, you're absolutely spot on (but then I think that with quite a few of the Free Reed boxes). Just stabilising the volume levels would have been a start.... ;D Indeed. I mean collectively Free Reed unearthed a lot of great stuff in all the boxes, including the Martin Carthy one, and I will accept some range of lo fi if the tracks are cohesive and worthwhile to the collector in me. I didn't mind the themed approach on the 2 Fairport sets, Richard's, Peggy's, and Swarb's but for some reason I find this one irksome! Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: Jules Gray on November 03, 2025, 06:22:54 PM but for some reason I find this one irksome! It was for sure the weakest one, but then I don't much care for Ashley's music post 1980. Jules Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: davidmjs on November 03, 2025, 06:44:02 PM Incidentally, how does 'Five' fit in with the rest of the Guv'nor series? Why is it not part of that series? There's some really good stuff on it...
ps And the deeper one delves, the more insane the task looks... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236028988127?itmmeta=01K95GWBJEKBJH0M3MJHM9AHMD&hash=item36f46c8adf:g:gqEAAOSw9Mln6TPu ;D Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: PaulT on November 03, 2025, 08:17:01 PM What! You haven't got a copy of "Folk Aerobics"?! Shame on you, David!
I nabbed a cheap copy some years back - the (ahem) "vocal" tracks don't get played too often (OK, just once or twice)! Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: RobertD on November 03, 2025, 08:55:48 PM Incidentally, how does 'Five' fit in with the rest of the Guv'nor series? Why is it not part of that series? There's some really good stuff on it... ps And the deeper one delves, the more insane the task looks... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236028988127?itmmeta=01K95GWBJEKBJH0M3MJHM9AHMD&hash=item36f46c8adf:g:gqEAAOSw9Mln6TPu ;D I feel the same way. If memory serves corrected the label that produced Guv’nor folded, but 5 was in the works and Talking Elephant stepped in? Don’t quote me on that, just going off memory Title: Re: Ashley/Albions Discography Post by: davidmjs on November 04, 2025, 08:07:15 AM Incidentally, how does 'Five' fit in with the rest of the Guv'nor series? Why is it not part of that series? There's some really good stuff on it... ps And the deeper one delves, the more insane the task looks... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236028988127?itmmeta=01K95GWBJEKBJH0M3MJHM9AHMD&hash=item36f46c8adf:g:gqEAAOSw9Mln6TPu ;D I feel the same way. If memory serves corrected the label that produced Guv’nor folded, but 5 was in the works and Talking Elephant stepped in? Don’t quote me on that, just going off memory He must be one of the most reissued artists ever, especially by Talking Elephant (who themselves always seem to change covers every few years). |