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Joe Crow: Compulsion - 12-INCH SINGLETitle: Compulsion Artist: Joe Crow Label: Dark Entries Product Type: 12 INCH SINGLE UPC: 730669337598 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2015 05 05 Number of Discs: 1 JOE CROW is a post punk musician from Birmingham, England. He was a member of legendary Brum band THE PREFECTS, and hung on long enough after the name change to appear on a couple of early NIGHTINGALES singles. In 1981 Joe began his solo career and recorded a 2 song demo "Compulsion" and "Absent
Title: CompulsionArtist: Joe Crow
Label: Dark Entries
Product Type: 12-INCH SINGLE
UPC: 730669337598
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2015-05-05
Number of Discs: 1
JOE CROW is a post-punk musician from Birmingham, England. He was a member of legendary Brum band THE PREFECTS, and hung on long enough after the name-change to appear on a couple of early NIGHTINGALES singles. In 1981 Joe began his solo career and recorded a 2-song demo "Compulsion" and "Absent Friends." Joe sent copies of the finished recordings to Cherry Red, who thanks to Lawrence of Felt, ended up releasing the single in 1982. An edited version of the single would later appear on the compilation Pillows & Prayers that collected songs which originated as 45s or EPs. Martin Gore of Depeche Mode subsequently covered "Compulsion" on his Counterfeit EP in 1989 forever solidifying it's status in the cannon of UK melancholic synth pop. "Compulsion" and "Absent Friends" were originally intended as a double A-side. Composed, performed and recorded by Joe on an 8-track reel-to-reel at Sinewave Studio, Moseley Village in February 1981. Joe plays everything: guitar, bass, Boss Dr. Rhythm, Bee Gees Rhythm Machine, Wasp synthesizer, bongos stuffed with towels and an old tin tray for a snare drum. Everything was borrowed. "Compulsion" is an imaginary suicide note, a meditation on loss and grief. It's dark twin "Absent Friends" is an anti-song: no verses, choruses or middle-eight, some willfully odd chord progressions and plaintive yet melodic keyboard motif. Both songs are a spectral hybrid of alternating childlike and cynical vocals over lo-tech basement electronics with profound lyrics. This expanded 12" reissue adds 3 unreleased bonus tracks on the B-side taken from a mini-album of nine songs, recorded at the same time as "Compulsion". Originally titled "Ken Blagdon Sings" with music by Joe Crow and lyrics by photographer Brendan Jackson, as a birthday present to the latter's girlfriend, Jacqui Neave. The whole session lasted one day and the line up was Brendan Jackson (alias Ken Blagdon; vocals/percussion), Joe Crow (vocals/bass/guitar/Boss Dr. Rhythm/Wasp synthesizer), Mark Rowson (drums), Helen Rowson (alto saxophone), Eamonn Duffy (Nightingales bassist; squawks) and Legs Akimbo (technicals). All songs have been remastered from the original master tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is an exact replica of the 1982 edition enlarged for the 12" format, featuring front and back photos of Joe from a dawn beach shoot at Hayling Island, Hampshire, England. Each copy includes a two-sided newsprint insert with lyrics, never-before-seen photos and liner notes by Joe Crow and Robert Lloyd of the Nightingales. These songs are perfect new wave / post-punk tracks, full of attitude and dark romanticism.
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Format: Paperback
This book has a few pieces of good advice, but its buried under mountains of weird and amateur level musings. Example: Paul Singman advocates for eliminating ETL entirely. How? Just reprogram the applications to which you may or may not have the source code to handle your data processing. He calls Intention Data Transfer 🥴 Thanks for the advice Paul, I'll get right on that.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Good starting point. But can't find the code.
Format: Kindle
Reading chapter 3. It was so far so good, but can't find the code in the repo. "All the related code can be found in the repository under project/hooks-notification." And in the repo I see no project folder. Please help!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Good overview of the leading Agentic Framework. Will become outdated quickly.
Format: Paperback
3.5 Stars rounded up.
Not a bad place to start if you need to get up to speed fast with Claude Code, understand its vast feature set, how it works under the hood, best practices, and the various agent primitives and how to get the most out of them. Agentic frameworks (Claude Code in particular) are quickly becoming table stakes for anyone working in tech, so it's best to start now.
I appreciated the author's ability to flesh out areas where Anthropic's documentation is lacking in depth and nuance, and for some not already working with Claude in their own repos, the fact that he provides "toy" repos where one can experiment with the tools without fear of consequence.
Where the book falls short is that most of the stuff in here is already covered pretty well already in Anthropic's docs, or even better so in their free "Skilljar" courses. What's more, some areas are given a bit of a shallow treatment, while others are a bit better done. So it's a bit inconsistent in that sense. Also, I can see how this book will quickly lose its currency in a few months at the pace things are going.
Ultimately, for me, the price of this book was a bit rich for my liking given the criticisms above. Still, I feel like I got valuable info that rounded up what I already knew from working with this agentic framework.
Recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Practical AI Engineering Beyond Prompts — One of the Better Books on Agentic Coding
Format: Paperback
This book is not another “AI coding hype” book.
A lot of books talk about agents at a very high level. This one actually explains how things work when you try to use them inside real development workflows. That was the biggest difference for me.
What I liked most was the focus on context engineering, memory, MCP, hooks, subagents, and workflow orchestration instead of just “prompt better.” The author spends time explaining why long-running agent systems fail, how context grows over time, and why most AI coding setups become messy without structure.
The examples also feel practical — The HookHub project, Next.js setup, GitHub workflows, Claude memory files, and MCP integrations make it easier to connect theory with actual implementation.
From my retail domain experience perspective, I could immediately connect this to forecasting and pricing workflows.
For example:
* agents helping analysts generate specs before model development
* automated code review for promo forecasting pipelines
* isolated subagents for pricing, promotions, assortment
* persistent memory for business rules across teams
* MCP integrations to pull context from internal systems safely
The section around context isolation and subagents especially stood out because that is very similar to how enterprise forecasting teams already operate in reality. Different teams own different decision spaces.
One thing I appreciated: the author does not oversell AI.
There is a strong focus on constraints, context pollution, hallucinations, performance degradation, and workflow reliability. That makes the book feel grounded instead of marketing-heavy.
This is not for complete beginners though.
If someone has never worked with Git, APIs, coding agents, or LLM workflows, parts of the book may feel overwhelming early on. The author clearly says this is not beginner-level content.
Overall, probably one of the more practical books I have read recently on agentic coding systems.
Good for:
* software engineers
* AI engineers
* enterprise architecture teams
* technical product teams
* analytics leaders trying to operationalize AI development workflows
Especially useful if your organization is trying to move from “AI demos” into actual production workflows.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026
★★★★★ 5
A Good Reality Check on How AI Agents Actually Work in Enterprise Systems
Format: Paperback
Most AI books stop at prompts.
This one goes deeper into how agent systems actually behave once you try to use them inside large workflows with memory, tools, permissions, automation, and multiple agents working together.
That part felt very relevant for healthcare and enterprise environments.
The book does a good job explaining why context engineering matters and how poor context handling creates hallucinations, inconsistent outputs, and degraded performance over time.
Honestly, that is one of the biggest problems organizations underestimate right now.
In healthcare workflows, context matters a lot:
* prior interactions
* business rules
* auditability
* escalation logic
* safety constraints
* tool permissions
* workflow boundaries
The sections on persistent memory, scoped context, subagents, and structured workflows connected strongly to that reality.
I work in enterprise analytics, and while reading this book I kept thinking about use cases like:
* pharmacy workflow automation
* prior authorization support systems
* coding assistants for healthcare engineering teams
* AI copilots for operational analytics
* agent-based escalation systems
* claims and workflow orchestration
The MCP chapters were also useful because they explain integration challenges clearly instead of treating tooling as magic.
What made this book stand out for me was the balance between implementation and architecture.
The author explains:
* why long contexts fail
* how context poisoning happens
* why isolation matters
* when parallel agents help
* when they actually create more complexity
That level of honesty is missing in many AI books right now.
Another thing: the examples are not overly academic — The Next.js project setup, GitHub automation, Claude desktop workflows, memory systems, hooks, and subagents make the learning process feel practical and hands-on.
One limitation: this book assumes technical background.
Someone completely new to coding agents, LLMs, Git, or development workflows may struggle in the first few chapters.
But for engineers, AI teams, enterprise architects, and technical leaders trying to understand where agentic coding is actually going, this book is worth reading.
Especially for organizations trying to operationalize AI safely instead of just experimenting with chatbots.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2026