recent vinyl finds
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Assorted album finds in the last few weeks.
A curious find but a dull listen (more than once). This copy is an American pressing which isn't surprising considering the stars on it but the same disc was also released in the UK too on Stateside Records. It would have found it more interesting if they had picked British stars for that one like Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock or Sean Connery, but I'll be impressed if you actually make it through the whole record I've linked below.
I'm not the biggest fan of Herb (apart from Spanish Flea of course) but I'm a sucker for a Taiwanese red vinyl pressing.
Fine find in the same box for £4 each were these 2 early Prog albums from 1969. I am unfamiliar with the bands work but after listening through I am still not converted. However, Fatboy Slim sampled what is probably the best track on the Vertigo release called The Kettle for his track Ya Mama and it's also on Block Rockin' Beats by The Chemical Brothers, so they must have made a few quid from both of them.
Their debut album on Fontana.
I had to pick this up despite never seen or even heard of the film before. It came out in 1968 and as well as starring Connery and Bardot in the main roles it also features the curious pairing of Eric Sykes and Honor Blackman. A great trailer for it below features no dialogue!
I picked this up as it has a lot of harp on it, I am still on a bit of a harp tip and tbh I can go for hours listening to nothing else, and this one is superb. Beautiful, gentle Irish melodies from the 17th & 18th century played by Derek Bell alongside fiddles, pipes and whistles, I can highly recommend tracking it down if this is your kinda thing.
A cheap punt on a white sleeve/white label, in the run-out it has VIRUS 84 so I knew it must be interesting and it turns out to be The Last Temptation Of Reid by Lard, mmmm... Lard.
Another punt which it turned out to be a pretty nice listen, according to the sleeve-notes Shake is so named as he was a student of Shakespeare, hey, it might be true.
Sweet find in The Kingdom of Fife a few weeks ago. This Scottish compilation released in 1981 features a rare track by Electronica composer Janet Beat who many years later would have a compilation of her music specially released on Trunk Records. To cap it all she's only gone and signed the back of it.
A classic giant killing match between Colchester and Leeds Utd in 1971. Nicknamed "Grandad's Army" Colchester stunned Don Revie's star-studded side (who featured 10 internationals and led the First Division at the time) by taking a 3–0 lead. Leeds rallied but it finished 3:2 and is still one of the classic giant killing matches. I do have quite a few football records and certainly not the biggest collection in Scotland, that honour goes to my friend John Steele who has a book about his collection coming out soon. However much he tries to persuade me to part with it I do have one he really wants and he would do a great deal for it as John is a huge Rangers FC fan. It is the world's oldest football record, a 78rpm from 1907 that I found a few years ago that features the first Old Firm Derby on disc, but I did scan it for him to feature it in his book.
