It's at this point that Ron habitually mentions GG  - not Mr Garnett, but the fearsomely musicianly Gentle Giant, his favourite band of all.

Try Alan White's solo album Ramshackled - trust me, that will fit the bill.

Haven't heard that for years - I'm pretty sure I've got it on a cassette somewhere. I seem to remember quite liking it

"What you have to ask yourself is why, exactly, a grown person should wish to be a child? - for to use the forms of infantile or immature life, to make an art of its technical imperfections, and to exploit its natural ignorance, is, in some sense, to wish to be a child. That, to start with, it is connected with the cult of the primitive and savage is obvious. The same impulse that takes the romantic painter, Gauguin, to the South-Sea paradise, takes a similarly romantic person of to-day to the Utopia of childhood, in the sense indicated above. Only the latter has the Heaven of Childhood inside himself (it is a time-paradise); whereas Gauguin had to go a long way to reach Samoa. That is the advantage that time-travel has over space-travel.

"That was really Proust's Utopia too. And the great appeal of that author is partly because he shows a method for capturing and retaining that spirit - the recherche du temps perdu - and partly because he so feverishly expresses the will to that particular dream.

"The demented also joins hands with the child, and the tricks, often very amusing, of the asylum patient, are exploited at the same time as the happy inaccuracies of the infant; contemporary inverted-sex fashions too are affiliated to the Child-cult."

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Now that's something I heard a couple of times when it came out but never since, I remember liking it but otherwise my mind's a blank.

Now here's something that separates (for want of better terms) 'popular' and 'classical' music. In the case of the popular, it's the music that came before what one considers one's own which deserves the deepest opprobrium. In the classical world, it would seem to be very much the opposite.