Alan Hull’s Pipedream: A Forgotten Classic｜Vinyl Monday
I’ll let it thunder, let it whistle, let it blow…
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Alan Hull’s remarkable solo debut, Pipedream (released 1973) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 2:15
Alan and Lindisfarne – 7:36
Pipedream – 19:37
thanks for watching! – 48:08
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Thanks to Ethan Alexanian of Fans On The Run for this week’s thumbnail! Listen to my guest spot on the show here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/47KhXPW4QeExMR3rGSb8AS?si=3f5ae9e057754501
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@abigaildevoe
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
many thanks to ethan alexanian of fans on the run for another SICK thumbnail! 🕯️
what’s your favorite forgotten classic album? comment below!
@billchristian9395
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
I’m so glad you discovered this album. It has been one of my faves since it came out. However, his NEXT solo album – The Squire (1975) – is EVEN BETTER. I’m sure you will love “One More Bottle of Wine”, “Golden Oldies” and “Squire”. The worst song is a cover of a rock standard – odd choice in my opinion. I’d love to hear your review of this album.
I’m off to listen to all my Lindisfarne and Alan Hull records now. ❤❤
@ChrisLeeW00
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
If I see an album with surreal artwork on the cover, its an instant buy from me. 😊
@martintabony611
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Alan was born in Benwell Newcastle upon Tyne, a couple of streets from me. Glad to see you spread the word on a local hero.😀
@channelswillbethedeathofyo5925
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
The trite influencer masquerading as critic.
@sirhenners204
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
bought this album at an antique shop a year or so ago for little to nothing, it was £5, knowing nothing about it and just buying it for the cool cover. was worth it and didnt expect to see it on here!!! hell yeah
@birdoftime
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Great to see Alan Hull featured on your Vinyl Monday video slot, I saw Lindisfarne many times back in the 70s, used to sing 'Fog On The Tyne' in the glasshouse in the Ormidale Hotel on the Isle of Arran, great times!
@blackmichael75
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
What do you think of Gazza's version of Fog on the Tyne?
@seattlemusicnerd
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
*GASP*!!!!!
Looking forward to next week’s video! One of my absolute favorites and contains my favorite song.
@057wolf
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Outstanding album. United States of Mind is superb.
@alansmith1989
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Lindisfarne named themselves after the small island that lies a couple of miles of the coast of Northumberland (Where Newcastle is situated) in the North Sea. Two tracks were taken from the album as singles in the U.K `Numbers` (Travelling Song) and `Justanothersadsong` (That`s how the title is written on the record) Sadly, neither charted. Lindisfarne did actually reform and scored a No 10 UK single in 1978 with `Run For Home` In 1990 they teamed up with UK Soccer Legend `Gazza` (Paul Gascoigne) to reach No 2 on UK charts with `Fog on the Tyne (Revisited) `
@DieGroteske
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Thanks! Would love to see you tackle Bruce Haacks "Electric Lucifer" 🙂
@MikeSmith-Chicken-Shack-2024
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
By the look of it, you might be doing John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band next. Or, it's might be Yoko Ono 's "Plastic Ono Band", since both albums almost look the same.
@PeteJones-d9q2u
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
The tour you mentioned was put to together with three bands on the Charisma label.
@justinblumberg8101
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
loving half of he Lamb Lies Down on Broadway has me beat by…half🙃
@thomasschlegel7811
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
My heavens! I don’t think I have thought about Lindisfarne since the 1970s. Thanks for bringing the memories into this old brain!
@AndyClayton-f5x
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Loved Lindisfarne. Acquired their first three albums and loved them . I have a couple of the later ones, post split, the odd decent track but they lack the humour, warmth and humanity of their earlier stuff.
I also have Pipedream. It's up there in the top 5 of my favourite albums. Such a varied collection of tracks, all brilliant in their own way. Quirky. Tongue in cheek. Soulful. Meaningful. Wistful. I like them all.
You didn't mention that the final two tracks, Blue Murder and I hate to see you cry, are joined musically. The sequence of bass notes ending the first song getting replaced by the piano chord of the second on the sane beat. It's a nice touch.
I saw Lindisfarne in late 1972, when they were on tour with Genesis as support. I enjoyed seeing them, but read later that they hadn't been happy with the gig. They didn't play an encore which surprised me at the time.
Shame this album didn't do better, it is a great compilation of songs. Another solo work of his called Squire, linked to a film he acted in, isn't a patch on this one.
Glad you reviewed it, it's worthy of a little love now and again.
@reckonedopinions
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
[writes up request for Shoot Out the Lights]
[watches video]
[blinks, shows himself out quietly]
@coopdawgpogman
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
god what a good album. i’ve been dying to get this one on vinyl, so jealous of you yet again LOL
@jeffxpmdisc
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
I found it on cd a few years ago. Meh.
Can you do a video on Bill Fay, maybe.
@timjonesvideos
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Adventurous choice, love it! How about some more Simmons and Garfknuckle?
@david.leikam
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
I wonder if that is where Blue Murder got their band name from!? 🤔
@KenCrosby-w2g
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Goodness me. My parents met for the first time in the Rex Hotel, Whitley Bay, back in the mid fifties. Uncanny to see it appear on this channel, of all places.
@blahblahblah5816
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
It's "Shoot Out The Lights"! And a Fairport Convention album with Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny would be stellar. "Unhalfbricking" is a favorite and "Heyday" is a collection of BBC Radio sessions covering many American and Canadian folk tunes by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and others.
@tonykehoe123
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Looking through the window pane
once you’re leaving me again
@katem1472
March 11, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Love this album ❤
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