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- fooler2
This was one of my first punk rock tapes I ever bought (way before Evan Dando became a teen pop star). They re released it for Record Store Day this year and I wanted it bad. Not bad enough to stand in line at 6am like a 100 other people at my local record shop. I waited until the lines died down and went to 2 shops with no luck. I even called a friend in the mid west that runs a vinyl shop and he said they only got a few and they were sold out.
I checked Ebay and people were flipping them for twice the price.
At first I was pissed and didn't want to pay but then I thought "Fuck it, I just paid someone $25 bucks to get up early and stand in line for a few hours for me"
The best part was when I got it in the mail yesterday it was shipped from 2 miles away in my same town.
- Gardener2
This recent find of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love had mixed
blessings, the slightly oversized outer sleeve is for the US
promo edition which originally came with a bio/photos and
the LP was even pressed on marble coloured vinyl, all tied up
with a pink ribbon.
Alas the copy I found in an animal charity shop (for £2, cheers!)
has the outer fold-around cover + ribbon but the album inside is
a UK stock issue with original inner/insert and not the fancy
coloured version which I can assume the previous owner had
swapped for this one and kept the other, but it's nice to have
this outer sleeve and all even if it only just fits on my shelves.
- Gardener1
I'm back down south for a few days and after digging in a
handful of local charity shops came away with some curious
singles.The first stop though was an antique centre where 7"s
were £1 a pop, I'd actually have been tempted by more if they were 50p...
I was the most likely chap in town to snap this one up,
initially thought it was a joke disc, but no it's for real
Debut disc by a power-pop duo called France/Angleterre
titled Carte De Visite in a signed fold-out sleeve.
Odds 'n' ends found elsewhere I've not listened to them all yet, but they took my fancy.
Orange/silver 2 x French EP released on Stampa Alternativa in 1987.
Nicest find in a 50p box at the tip-shop was this old acetate
featuring 4 covers of rock 'n' roll tunes by an unknown/forgotten
band from the early 70's.
- Gardener0
I've picked up some strange odds and ends in the past few
weeks, I dunno if it was a karmic payback for dropping a load
of albums and singles at my local Shelter but I came across
a lovely stash of folk and classical albums in a charity shop
warehouse just hours afterwards, so I like to think what goes
around comes around.
No doubt quite a story behind how these 2 Scottish paper bag
and video ad cards turned up inside a South African album sleeve.
I have 4 of these South African albums somewhere but this one
goes up to 11 and includes an unusual choice of Lennon cover.
I love discovering unusual Scottish singles I never came across in Northampton.
Another nice find to add to my football vinyl collection.
Best find was a EX+ copy of this Trojan album by
Tommy McCook & The Supersonics which has at least
half a dozen stunning standout tracks.
A John Hassell private pressing of a meditation record
from 1966, it looks unplayed and came with a card insert.
I'd never seen or heard of this odd album from 1975
which is hit + miss but I think the right word is "interesting".
- Gardener1
As well as lots of flexis finding their way into my racks recently
I also came across an unusual market stall with boxes and boxes
of 7"s for a £1 a pop. I picked out all sorts of things which were
hit and miss but I kinda went with my gut feeling rather than
knowledge as several of them I'd not seen before.
Belgian
Funky & Jazzy
Daphne Oram & Vera Gray EP from 1962
Miles & Coltrane play Monk
Acid Pysch from 1970
Martin (Williams) & Derrick (Morgan) released in 1962
(still in stunning condition)
early 60's beat group on a label I'd never seen before
JW produced the same year he released his own War Of The Worlds
tatty sleeve / lovely disc
this never had a hope in heck of ever troubling the charts,
it would have been nice to see the vid on TOTP though
Hong Kong EP from '64 by 張露 obviously
specially etched / one sided debut
- Gardener2
vinyl finds at a car boot, a tip shop and an auction lot win.
I'm quite into folk music but this global lot are really Inter folk!
This curious looking pair caught my eye in a 50p box
but they both turned out to be line dancing records, damn.
A tune still used today to plug things in Corby even though
it's steel industry is long gone, it came in a nice swirly paper
sleeve but I doubt that originally came with it.
An unusual white label 12" from 1986 sent by Alex Pascall
who was the organizer of the Notting Hill Carnival at the time
to his friend John, it features 2 songs to promote the Caribbean
Focus Festival, I could find no other info on this so if anyone knows more?
Released in 1969 this was 1 of only 2 records released by the
SCS the other was a year later and called Songs From Irish Pubs.
Dear old Mike certainly loved his idol Winifred Atwell and was an incredible pianist.
To find this LP in a charity shop in Bletchley, Milton Keynes
is probably just as freaky as this 1966 album.
I have a tidy copy of Ravi's first UK album from 1956
but the vinyl on this, his third one from 1959 looks unplayed.
- Gardener2
Picked up some unusual BBC records I'd not come across before
earlier this week stuffed at the back of a box of Mantovani and James Last albums. They all have what sounds like easy
listening background music on, they are not muzak as such,
more light orchestral instrumentals.
I guess they were issued to radio stations in the late 60's early
70's? but there is little info on them online to confirm.
- Gardener2
I have discovered the joys of Scottish auctions this week
which has turned up all sorts of things and not just records,
I won a couple of boxes of folk albums of varying quality but
pretty much all in tip top condition. However, when the kind
gentleman from the auction house loaded them into my car
told me to make room for the other stuff I'd won which confused
me as I assumed I'd only won records but it seems part of the
lot included paintings, crockery, mirrors and other stuff I never
wanted.
So the lesson I have learned is that I have to watch the "additions" to lots I bid for as I was left with a car full of some
dead persons belongings that I had to make a trip with straight
to the nearest charity shop, apart from a couple of really nice plant pot holders..jpg)
I found quite a few Scottish singles in the charity shops
(probably no surprises there) but there were some interesting
ones (to me) like this pair celebrating the opening of the Tay road
bridge in August 1966 turned up among the albums.
The blue bags hanging from the railings were full of sweets and
crisps (not poo) and are dotted along the bridge, not sure if these
have been left to try and dissuade folk from leaping off but it's
possible as there are lots of warning signs not to jump.
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The legendary rail bridge is in the distance, it was as grey a day as it looks too.
Charity shops and SNP HQ side by side.
A cool minimalist sleeve for a disc by a folk duo released in 1963
and how nice to "come by" a whistling EP by the great Jimmy Shand.
Does it get any more Scottish than these three?
yes it does...
- Gardener2
Mixed picking in my first week since moving to Scotland,
I'll be heading back to my regular haunts in sunny England
once every 6 weeks or so but considering how most of the
charity shops are shut and the car boots are yet to kick off
up here it hasn't been such a bad week.
Scottish law demands that face masks be worn from this week
too so I covered up and headed into Arbroath and Forfar..jpg)
The Serge connection was enough for me to take a punt on this
French EP from 1960.jpg)
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Nice surprise find of the week was this single that I'd not heard of before but looked interesting.
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Rarest find was this Xian Folk 7" which originally came free
with a Scottish bands privately pressed album in 1978 sadly
there was no LP in the box but this is quite lovely.
- caterpus2
woof. Dat Aside...
- Gardener0
finds from a weekend trip to Dundee and a day out in Reading.
Perhaps the only place I was ever going to find a fully sealed
England football LP was going to be a charity shop in Scotland.
Bizarrely these 2 old rockers were in the same box in an Age Concern shop.
Weirdest find was this album of salesmen seminars by the
Combined Group Of Companies, complete with booklet insert.
A great double LP of Poe stories with excellent gruesome sound effects.
No nasty sound effects on this album that simply explains how
you can win your scouting badges, zzzzzzzz......
No sexy sound effects here but a couple of good Donna Summer covers.
Mildly interesting unknown fact from a lifelong LFC fan :
The day he retired in 1974 my parents brought home a new pet,
a myna bird who I named Shankly in tribute to the great man.
One of several excellent albums I have enjoyed
after buying a big Jazz & Blues collection recently.
I found a handful of singles too and this one is a stand out oddity.
An over sized 78 flexi stuck onto card available in exchange for chocolate wrappers.
- Gardener2
With the open air car boots winding up for winter, though there
is a local one determined to carry on until the end of November,
I have had all sorts of records turn up near the turnips (possibly)
including these flexi-discs I found out in the fields, no really.
Chris Gunning has been involved in hundred of musical
projects since the 60's from film scores (Man About The House)
to working with artists as diverse as The Gods, The Hollies and
Cilla Black, however on this he threw his skills into an egg advertising campaign.
This is sadly not the hostess of 60's TV show Ready Steady Go
talking about ghosts and spirits but hair colour, damn.
Typically tasteless one-sided flexi from JK and it was all an act
on the sleeve as he actually preferred schoolboys.
One white promo flexi for a German textile company oh yes,
but there were apparently 2 discs in this original release, oh no!
This pretty gold disc came free with Isle of Man Colour Holiday
Book and features excerpts from the LP The Wonderful World
of Man which I still have somewhere...
The great voice of 70's kids TV show Animal Magic
plugs the long defunct holiday firm.
Brian Matthew has an enviable discography for voicing flexis
on Discogs but not this one, so it must be worth a lot then!
Another giant of the free flexi-disc voice over, Jack usually
worked for Readers Digest but here he adds his dulcet tones
to help sell Websters Universal Colour Dictionary.
A disc from the late 60's promoting the famous beer,
which is still getting folk pissed and singing since 1829 bless 'em.
Released in the early 80's to promote one of their finest
albums this features four excerpts including the lovely title track.
- Gardener0
I picked up some nice and unusual 7"s in a couple of charity
shops this week some familiar and several I'd never heard of
before, including these demos.
Some other odds and ends
- Gardener0
An EP in a beautiful sleeve featuring songs from the 1930 film
released somewhat belatedly in 1957
Since I discovered one of the rarest Ron Grainer related records
a few years ago pre-releasing any of his soundtrack work)
I seem compelled to seek out all his other records and this was
one I'd not seen or heard of before.
This oddity (still in it's beautiful purple sleeve) features brothers
Tony & Keith sharing the one disc, there are versions on the
same record with Keith taking credit for both sides but maybe
that was because Tony was being kind as he was the more
famous of the two as drummer in The Shadows, there might
even be a signature on one of the labels too, though it's hard
to tell which brother did it.
the fantastic flip side (despite what label on video says)
This guy only made a few singles including this demo from
the mid 70's but he was still making music as recent as 2015.
Another demo from the same box as the Meehan bros 7" was
by the composer of the Hell's Angels '69 movie soundtrack.
A mid 70's acetate by The YC's of Hendon North - who I assume
are the Young Christians of that parish, I tried in vain to work out
quite which Sir Ian they are singing their praises to but it's either
ex BBC director general Sir Ian Trethowan or Gandalf,
I'm more convinced it's the former unless anyone knows more download here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/rr…
This Spanish band were so chuffed that someone bought
their single they all kindly signed it on both sides.
I was best pleased with this pair of thoroughly Scottish EP's
featuring songs and spoken word, there are 6 in the set in seems, hoots!- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
https://www.youtube.…Gardener - Holy shit @ that Hooker Street track. Wow.scruffics
- sorry this is the vid for Darkness Of My Life
- Gardener2
Lovely sunny weekend of car booting (next to a ballooning
festival) has turned up some nice vinyl gems.
Some balloons were quite discreet, passing by at a safe distance.One box turned up some original 60's albums in tip-top condition.
This old library album didn't have a sleeve but looked interesting.
Proof (as if it was needed) that I sometimes buy any
old nonsense and I don't even like cricket (I love it, yeah)*
*actually I don't love it at all to be honest
Some balloons chose to come far to close, but some folks
will do anything to get records these days!
This Christian folk album would be a different record altogether
with a question mark after their name.a few odd singles
A Coin Operator Release EP (for US jukeboxes maybe?)
I picked this up as I'd never come across this label before,
which features 2 schools on the flip.
I'd never heard of this before and was quite excited when
I came across it, but it turns out to be an old Bach tune
played on a synth.
- Gardener1
bits and bobs from the boots
The first release on the mighty On-U Sounds label.
I've never come across one of these Virgin 7" promo's before
(one of my rarer Virgin singles by Captain Beefheart has a special hand stamped sleeve)
Old actor Vernon Greeves wanders around even older
English castles chatting away, as he does.
A pair of budget label issues featuring Duffy Power, Al Saxon
and some really twangy guitars and 15 tracks between the two
of them!
With a US issue in a gate-fold sleeve (the UK one is only
in a rubbish single sleeve) and a Dutch version on yellow
vinyl and now this slightly s p a c e y sounding Quad version,
no doubt I probably also have the CD and 8-track of it somewhere in the cellar...
The most unusual finds this week were a couple of mysterious
albums on the EMI Central Research Laboratories label that
was completely new to me and with the words Experimental
Record on them an absolute bargain at 50p a pop,
even if they were gonna be rubbish.
The best way, other than playing it, was to check the matrix
numbers in the run out but even these proved pointless as this
one with the number CWK 3001 on one side had never surfaced
before. It turned out one side was half of the record Holiday
Album by late 70's new wavers Radio Stars, and for some
'experimental reason' the other side was bizarrely a
Best of The Mamas & The Papas.
After a bit of research on this imprint I discovered only a couple
of these discs seem to have been released before, one featured
tracks by Wings from Band On The Run and the other (probably
very collectible) had tracks from the first Queen album on it.
Well unfortunately for me this one happened to feature the whole
of this very common album by good old Manuel and His Music
of The Mountains, damn.
- Stellar haul. Looks like Diggin in the Boots pays dividends.garbage
- Gardener1
tramping across the fields ear-lie in the mornin'
has turned up some odd things including these albums
A strange one this (I liked the cover) and a really pleasant listen
mix of choir and string quintet.
This was in the same box, not had a chance to listen to it yet
but it had me by the warning on the front.
This nice pair of BBC LP's I didn't already have were cheap in a charity shop
I wasn't aware that there was a TV show called
The Comet Is Coming I had assumed the new band
of the same name had come up with it.
A tatty sleeve but the record was fine and a great selection
of themes including Record Breakers!
Now I know where Pink Floyd got their inspiration for the
heartbeats at the start of Dark Side Of The Moon (probably)
some curious singles
The first two releases on the Reflection imprint
Two signed sevens
Three releases by 70's 'comedy' legends
I've three inch 7"s, square 7"s and all manner of picture disc 7"s
but now I have the worlds first holographic 7" - and it was bloody
difficult to photograph!
- Gardener1
nothing more than a pound!
I first heard this when my dad used to play it at parties when
I was growing up in the early 70's - I always loved the cover too.
A good compilation I'd not come across before which was
alongside a pile of their original 70's albums, I picked them
up as well but this is a keeper.
A should I/shouldn't I? dilemma as it's still sealed.
An original Jamaican pressing in single sleeve, my UK copy
has a much smarter gate-fold but it's weird how it's only now
I have noticed that the background on it is all coloured in with felt-tip!
some odd singles
The music from various adverts for the ciggy company.
Dutch electronic band EP from 1980 and came with a poster.
The Swedish soprano + pianist on her only EP released in 1969.
A pair of old BBC library white labels, shame I couldn't find
a few that were actually really good.
An unusual release I had not seen before - a clincher was
that it came in this cool old sleeve, I dig the flip side more.
One of 3 copies in the same box of this Smiths cover version, still sealed.
- nocomply0
Pulled out of the $1 bin:
I bought it for the cover but I actually really like the music too.
Never heard of Herbie Mann before, but I looked him up and apparently he's a really prolific and pretty well known improvisational jazz flautist.
Love discoveries like that!
- https://upload.wikim…wagshaft
- #yazzflutewagshaft
- Herbir Mann is the shit. I am on a mission to collect all of his stuff and I’ve never seen this one before. good work!scruffics
- The one wagshaft was the first album I found in a charity shop and much like nocomply I bought it for the cover but kept for the musicscruffics
- *postedscruffics
