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Albums you lent to people that were so good they never returned them...
Posted by Adman on 9 November 2009 - 3:16pm.
I have just been auditing my CDs - all in order, but some obvious gaps - with the help of a web search I have made a list of missing items & am now facing the fact that I will have to buy them again, as the "people" I lent them to are no longer in touch...
*Insert sweary*
Anyhow, these are the albums that were so good I won't ever see my original copies again. These are the records I miss -
Boo Hewerdine "Baptist Hospital," "Thanksgiving," "A Live One"
Kate Rusby "Underneath The Stars"
Ron Sexsmith "Whereabouts"
Teddy Thompson "Separate Ways"
Any of the Massive got examples of friends (or former friends) who have run off with your best stuff?
(I'm never letting another album leave my house, btw...)
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If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you
Original Vinyl release. Had to wait a looooong time 'til Caravan's back catalogue was issued on CD.
I Never,
ever lent any of my albums to any of my friends. The true friends understood...
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
I've learnt that the hard way.
Somewhere in South Oxfordshire
Copies of Damn The Torpedoes and Hard Promises reside. They're not in Birmingham with the rest of the vinyl, and have recently gone and got them again on CD.
I still curse the good taste of
the thief who riffled through my record collection in 1979.
Blonde On Blonde, The Clash's first album...
...Nevermind, A punk rock boxset (5 cd's!)....all leant out to women of my acquaintance and never returned.
I also leant out Rattle and Hum to a mate, but he can keep that pile o' shite.
The other side of the coin
Back in about 1973 one of my older brother's mates lent me his copy of Mad Shadows. I have still got it and I have always felt a bit guilty. So if you are reading this Ken, would you like it back?
Well done.
Feel better?
(I've got stuff belonging to others looking at me accusingly from my shelves too... there, I got it off my chest.)
I do feel better, thanks
While I'm getting things off my chest, and safe in the knowledge MrsD doesn't read this, I threw out her Il Divo cd about a year ago and she still hasn't noticed.
That's a whole other thread!
But I'd congratulate you on striking a blow for good sense.
BryanD
How do you know she hasn't noticed?
Maybe she has noticed. Maybe she's flung out half a dozen of yours in revenge? Assuming you're like most of us here in the sense that you own many hundreds of records....would you notice?
i hope so
because if my girlfriend threw out a cd of mine because she didn't like it that would be a major problem for me, and I'd never do it to one of hers because... well I enjoy going out with her and don't want to stop doing so 9 years in because I decided to get presumptuous.
That said she doesn't have an il divo record... in fact that's one of the reasons (one of the smallest of the many reasons) I love her.
Mind you I have a lot more that she hates than she has ones that I hate. If she took the example of BryanD I might wake up tomorrow with no hip hop cd's and a number of pop records gone. Whereas she'd wake up without Dido.
That's why I felt guilty
because of the principle. In my defence we are having occasional culls of CDs that don't get listened to, of which that was one, because we have run out of space. There is a lot more of my stuff going than hers but I should have asked though and have done so since.
If she had noticed I would certainly have known about it but she has obviously shown a smuch interest in listening to it again as I have.
I listen to the stuff she doesn't like when she isn't around.
bigsteviecook is right in that there are still loads there that I would never miss.
I feel suitably chastened all the same though.
Adman
Would you happen to have a copy of Ron's later album, Cobblestone Runway? I've played mine, literally, to death - and I was wondering if you fancied doing a CDR for me if I post you a CDR of Whereabouts.
Cobblestone's a fantastic album and also has sentimental value as it was a wedding present from my Canadian cousin and I played it for the very first time on my honeymoon. Frustratingly not on Spotify...
Yep.
No probs. Will send you a message with address details tomorrow. Good to encounter a fellow Ron fan!
Thanks!
Best to email me at joe.dumont at gmail.com
Ron rules!
Best Ron Sexsmith.....
I was about to buy Other Songs on the strength of Strawberry Blonde but perhaps someone can recommend which Ron album I should start with?
They are all great...
But 'Whereabouts' is my absolute fave... the one that stays with me. Some gorgeous songs on there.
Well for me it's between
Cobblestone Runway, which Adman is kindly posting me a replacement copy of (cheers!) and the follow-up, Retriever.
Retriever contains some of his catchiest tunes and may be the most accessible Ron album. At the time he said something like he'd finally learnt how to write a chorus. Hard Bargain, Imaginary Friends, For the Driver, Dandelion Wine and Whatever it Takes are all knockout tunes.
Cobblestone Runway will always be my favourite though, probably for the sentimental reasons I mentioned somewhere up there, but it also has some of the best tunes he's written, like Former Glory and Gold In Them Hills.
I can't get on with Other Songs for some reason, but it's a lot of people's favourite...
I've spent the
last few years touring record shops replacing albums i had lent out or left in parties.
All Ron
albums are great - I have a copy of the rarities and outtakes album that has his version of 'I dont like Mondays' if anyone wants a copy burned.
Getting back on subject, cd's that went missing:-
U2 Achtung baby -dont mind that one not returning
Wilco - ep cd with Blasting Fonda on it - really mourn that one as I cant get it anywhere else.
Jim Carroll Band - Friends who have died however this was a 7" and since I no longer have a record player i may have to buy the Catholic Boy album to get it back. And then:-
My Brother in law borrowed the Leonard Cohen Live in London cd a few months back. When i hadnt seen it returned he said he hadnt borrowed it. I went into his office a couple of weeks later and it was on his desk. Just what you would expect from a Wolves fan!!
I lent a friend ....
...Come on feel the Lemonheads 15 years ago, and in return he lent me "The Queen is Dead".
Strangely I have never asked for it back. Maybe he likes the Lemonheads.
Nazz, Nazz Nazz & Nazz III
All lent to a friend of my brother way back in the 70s and never ever seen again.
I'd like to say I'd learned my lesson well....
I lost 2 Jimmy Buffet Albums
years ago to a fellow band member who couldn't 'find' them after we had split: -
'A White Sports Coat and A Pink Crustacean'
'Living and Dying in 3/4 Time'
I also lent someone my 'History of Fairport Convention' Video, and never saw it again.
I had 'The Royal Scam' nicked at some point from a house I shared in the late 1970s
Also lent and lost '1965' by the Afghan Wigs, 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley (I bought another copy) and 'Trials of Van Occupanther' by Midlake.
I am guilty of having mislaid a mate's Diamondhead Album. Hopefully it will turn up when we next have a purge of books, paperwork etc. (long overdue).
My elder sister hung on to my 'After The Goldrush' for years and it came back scratched and wrecked, as well as 'Help'.
One of my brothers 'acquired' some of my favourite singles (including Walker Brothers, Animals and a few others) after I left home and took them to the USA with him. I only found out a few years later when my mother cleared out my stuff - safe to say they won't be coming back then.