SS Quah's Anything Goes

I was going through some of my old records today when I spotted an album that I hadn't played for quite some time. It was More Today Tha...

I've been back from Kuala Lumpur for several days now and while trying to settle back into my normal routine, I bumped into an old YouTu...

The past few weeks have been rather surreal for me. Looking back, quite a lot has happened in a relatively short space of time, and I am sti...

I was going through my record collection again the other day when I came across two Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young records which, at first...

I felt like listening to a bit of classical music today and pulled an old Deutsche Grammophon LP from the shelf: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 ...

I must have been seven, eight or perhaps nine years old when my father brought home these two Chipmunks records from Wing Hing Records, his ...

Some time ago, while browsing through a stack of records in my collection, I realised that I had two albums that, in their own very differen...

Over the years, I’ve accumulated what many people would probably describe as a fairly decent record collection. Once in a while, someone wou...

So there I was with this Bakat TV 1971 record in my hand. Until that first moment when I placed the record on the turntable, I was mainly i...

During my recent slow stretch away from the blog, I found myself revisiting something from the early 1970s that came back to me quite unexpe...

I’ve noticed over the years that films critics dismiss can sometimes be received quite differently by ordinary audiences. That thought came ...

Every now and then I come across a significant album that I need to talk about. Getz/Gilberto is one of those. I’ve known it for years but ...