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How unique is your music collection?
Seems to me we represent a very broad taste in music on this site judging from the selections on randomiser as an example. It got me thinking about whether my own music collection is that unique or not. How many of us have even one or two cd's that no-one else contributing to the site possesses? Given the wide variety of artists spoken about on here it would be quite difficult to name a cd that no other contributor owns. I will have a go - I saw a band called The Dempseys in Memphis a couple of years back. Absolutley stunning live set and I bough their 2 cds at the venue namely 'Drinking songs for your grandparents' and 'Radio friendly hits for your DJ to play'. In truth neither of them matched the intensity of their live set which is a kind of psychotic rockabilly with a lot of showmanship. Anyone got anything they believe to be unique to their collection?
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Middle Of The Road's greatest hits
I can't believe anyone would even admit to it, let alone own it.
Some Polish Seventies' funk
Lots of German and Dutch pop hits
Otherwise I think there will be some crossover with someone somewhere on here.
Middle Of The Road's greatest hits
I haven't got it, but I wish I had. Can you tape it for me?
It's all off itunes
If you're serious!
quite a few
I like to think of myself as a fan of the underdog. I've got a few releases by the following, I think I'm probably the only one here who has them.
The 45s (Aqualung's first band)
Zombina & The Skeletones (Liverpudlian pop punk)
13 & God (alternative / post rock / pop band)
Vib Gyor (anthemic Irish band)
Aughra & Mosh Patrol (ambient / post rock band)
Tapage (electronic / dubstep)
Ctrlaltdelete (a fondly missed post rock band)
If anyone else has these, then props to you.
Cooder Graw
They were a Texas band. I believe they've now split. I heard a song by them when we were in the USA and I've bought their album Shifting Gears.
I may be the only person round these here parts who owns Gingersol's Nothing Stops Moving. I read a piece about them in No Depression I think. Listened to a sample and bought the album on import.
I'll wager
that no one else has any Jody Raffoul (singer/songwriter - Windsor Ontario) or Hoover The Dog (session folk from the Welsh borders).
Of course - I might be surprised
Hoover The Dog
I've got all their CDs! Then again, their main man John Hymas just happens to be my brother-in-law (but they ARE fantastic anyway).
A Small World
I am much less well connected - but I thought Tony was the "main man" . They are wonderful - I shall have them on rotation on the Ipod today
Main man?
Well, it's John who writes (pretty much all of) the music. Tony does do a bit of singing, though (Beeswing often given an airing live).
Modesty Blaise -
From Bristol I believe and they're quite big in Japan apparently.
I've got their cd "Modern Guitars With Amplification". A fine album full of good songs which makes you wonder how many great bands writing great songs remain undiscovered.
Pen, not guitar
I've not heard of them, let alone heard them, let alone own an album by them.
But I did read all the Modesty Blaise books back in the day, if that counts.
Can't remember its name…
… but I've got a CD compilation of punk bands from Okinawa. I'd be surprised etc…
.
Unique?
I have all the official albums (20 and counting) by the Nits (best band in my world) plus the complete catalogue of Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub (German krautpop legend - ask Tony Visconti!).
Phillip Boa
I remember the video to Container Love by the latter from Snub TV in about 1989. It has proved rather difficult to shift from my memory despite it being absolutely awful...
Kilopop!
I guess the uniqueness comes with the combination of albums. I looked through the latest randomiser a few days back and there wasn't a single entry (except mine!) that could have spewed forth from my ipod. There were lots where I have 4 of the tracks but never a full house.
Having said that, has anyone else got any or all the Chris Butler solo albums including the one that actually pretends to be by Kilopop!?
Spaced Out
The Greatest Hits of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy.
Possibly the finest two pounds I ever spent.
i've got that!
it's suprisingly excellent!
Damnit
It is very good. My personal favourite has to be 'Spock Thoughts'.
Although this now means I am not unique on here. Hmm.
Ditto
and William Shatner/Ben Folds CD "Has Been" - promo copy.
Yep, I've got that.
Very enjoyable, if only to hear the sound of session musicians losing the will to live.
Passion Puppets
Curiosity has got the better of me here. I played guitar in the band. We were signed to Stiff in the eighties. We've just been added to Spotify this weekend. I still wager I may be the only member of the massive who owns any!
Now that you've blown your cover, I feel I can post this...
LOL
Thanks Fraser - I thought you might have something to say.
One song
I can claim to own one track from a Stiff box set. I'm hardly going to claim collector status though.
Google whack
When I started reading your post, I thought it was going to be a google whack kinda thing where you have 2 CDs in your collection that no-one else can possibly have together.
I have The Future is Medium by Compulsion on CD.
U2?
I've got several U2 and Simply Red cd's so if previous comments on this blog are anything to go by, that makes me a unique The Word reader!
I've also got some Randy Burns' records plus a fantastic single called "Happy Birthday Sweet 16" by Clive Pig and The Hopeful Chinamen (big in St. Albans when punk rock broke).
Clive Pig
I have that single in all its pink-and-white fold-out picture-sleeved glory. A great record and a favourtite with Peelie, as I recall.
If we're on to singles I'll venture Short Stack by the Waitresses and Robert Takes the Road To Liebenawash by Tin Huey, both on the Clone label from Akron, Ohio c.1977. Or Shirley/She Smiled Wild by the Mirrors on Hearthen (1976?).
Now I'm insulted
I thought everyone had a copy of Short Stack! OK - I lied - I think I've only ever seen 2 copies - mine and the one on display in the magnificent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland.
Some less well-kent faces
The Hellcats : Cherry Mansions. Memphis gems , from Lorette Velvette & friends.
The Stooges : The Complete Fun House Sessions. Essential and fabulous.
Johnny Restivo : Shape I'm In. A fabulous slice of pop rockabilly
James King & The Lonewolves : So Alone. Glasgow's finest? Certainly up there.
Lorna Lavelle : A Million Miles Away. Scottish folk singer.
More Glaswegian items
Anyone got the LP by Chou Pahrot? Or the Buzgo Tram Chorus EP, with the incomparable "Lemons"?
The "Afters" LP by the Hatfields?
(waits for someone to shout 'snap'...)
Chou Pahrot
I have something of theirs somewhere.
Afters
Yup, I've got the amazing Hatfield's "Afters". Someone told me it was very rare as it was withdrawn by Virgin soon after release. Sadly, Pip Pyle died a couple of years back
Dominator
Sub-Whitehouse Power Electronics Band. Lead singer dead (I believe). Not particularly edifying as a listening experience.
Cable
Since hearing a track on Steve Lamacq, I have picked up their 3 LPs, plus a live EP and a number of CD singles.
Anyone else got the debut CD by Nut? Came out in 1996, very good, but nothing since.
How about Salt Peter by Ruby? Another excellent LP but not much from her since.
Lesley Rankine and Ruby,
great album. Remember them doing Paraffin on Jools Holland. Liked the stuff she did with Martin Atkins Pigface combo.
Parrafin
I've got that single. Got nowt else by them though.
I am Nutfan!
I used to participate in a quiz site, and my username was Nutfan - needless to say, nobody got the reference. If only you'd been there! I love that album, especially Giant, which is just perfect. Her real name is Cat Goscovitch, and she does have a myspace page these days.
Nut
I have the Nut album and also her album as Billy Rain. I even met her once.
Cable
I have a few bits by them. Their manager is a mate.
Nice to see
a few others have sampled the wares of Cable, Nut and Ruby..!!
The Return of Johnny Bravo
By Barry Williams of The Brady Bunch.
Oddly it has not found it's way onto my ipod.
All 23 albums
by Australian no-marks The Church. I love them dearly.
...anyone?
Snap.
How about "Temperature Drop In Downtown Winterland" on 10 inch though?
Only 2 or 3
I have 2 OR 3, but neither all 23 nor even the most recent "Untitled #23". I must try harder.
No-marks?
What does that mean? I think I've got all of them.
Even
A qUICK sMOKE aT sPOTS?
I haven't got a lot of the
I haven't got a lot of the Church stuff but am very fond of 'Heyday' which I would imagine most Churchophiles would consider sub-U2 crep. Opinions please.
What is Unique?
Fine sketch by Smith and Jones but not on YouTube anymore.
My Friend Acker (no ,Not that one) has a massive collection of cassettes that bands sent to The Old Vic in Brighton in the late 80's hoping to get a gig. He doesn't have any of his own records. So i would say his collection is unique.
Mine ?
Records i have i'd be amazed if anyone else had,not mp3s but records, are
Marta Kubišová-Denně Čekám (anyone who had a heart)
Marta Kubišová-Červánky(it's not unusual)candyman fave
Janice Nicholls-i'll Give It Five/The Wednesbury Madison
Millie- My Boy Lollipop (In German)
Here's Janice
Phil Campbell - A Fresh New Life
Great debut album from 1997 that was overlooked at the time.
His subsequent White Buffalo albums and some of the recent solo albums are also worthy of investigation.
a goodly proportion
of my vinyl is african stuff collected in africa as opposed to earthworks, world circuit etc reissues
then there is the aussie stuff
Sting - Acoustic Live In Newcastle
Bought this from Ainleys in Leicester for £8.99 years ago , and i've never seen it anywhere since.
The Buddle
Was this his invite only gig at The Buddle ?
Sting at the Buddle
yes that's the one - it's on the a&m label - recorded 20th april 1991.
five tracks:- mad about you,ain't no sunshine, island of souls, the wild wild sea, the soul cages.
I would be surprised
if anyone had anything by Belgium industrial/post-punk band, 'Bedtime for Bonzo'. I have, lurking somewhere, their debut, 'The Ultimate Refreshment', which contains the legendary track, 'The Bloody Violation of Mickey Mouses's Virginity on 59th St'....ah those were the days.
OK, anyone have these?
Self titled debut album by Stanislav Sojka
Innocenti by Elisabeth Valetti
Blue For The Most by Abraham (not quite so obscure, I did hear them on the radio)
Skinwalkers Dance and Sweet Mother Nature's Child by Chris Chavez
Panchpuran by Bill Jones
Several albums by Tamara Williamson
the middle one
Blue For The - Abraham I have. it always comes up first on my iPod.
Guilt Trip - Emily Druce/Lissenn - Mik Artistik
Former is a wonderful Holmfirth blues singer, latter is a hilarious cross between Brian Glover and John Cooper Clarke
Negativland
Lots of their stuff - like, about 30 various CDs, LP and box sets - including double CD issues of their radio show 'Over the Edge', most with free posters, keyrings, badges etc.
Also a record by a mental east-European guitarist called Uwe Kropinski.
Lots of very avant-a-clue musique concrete early electronic stuff too.
Little Symphonies For The Kids
by (Birmingham-based) singer/songwriter Mickey Greaney - rather good.
The Melanie Susuras Band Live at Lilt - a combo from Denver much loved by my Sis, who follows them.
She also sent me 'More Fun In The New World' by 'X', a favourite from her days in California (but not one of mine). I may have 'lost' this recently....
Helen Watson - Blue Slipper - I only have this on tape cassette - wish it was on CD.
The Bowles Brothers - 'Roger Buys A Fridge'
The Bowles Brothers
Remember seeing them at the Nashville Rooms - got the album too
Blue Slipper
I also have the cassette. Years since I've played it but very good. I think I have her second album somewhere as well, seem to recall there is a duet with Andy Fairweather Low on it.
does this list suggest that
we all still have a hell of a lot of crap in our collections?
Everything
Almost certainly. But don't we all keep EVERYTHING? "Just in case"?
Lucky Dip!
I don't know if anyone was as stupid as I was when visiting record shops 20-odd years ago. On several occasions I would fork out a pound for five 7" singles vacuum-packed together. I could see the front one and the back one but the three in the middle would be an enticing mystery. As a result, I have many, many singles that I'll wager no-one else has. Yes, they saw me coming.
However, these were genuinely bought-on-purpose and I would surprised etc...
Change Your Mind - Gary Numan and Martin Platt (from Shakatak).
Twenty First Century Boy - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
When I was a Lad - Bobby Thompson
Holiday Rap - M C Sven and Miker G
Yep...
...except Bobby Thompson, I have that lot.
Gary Numan and...?
Bill Sharpe from Shakatak.
Ah yes, thanks
I couldn't remember his name but I know that he was a dead ringer for Martin Platt in Coronation Street.
I have an album
by the band Dots Will Echo. It's called Dots Will Echo. Track number 5 is called Dots Will Echo.
I seem to remember it as quite good.
Some more
Anyone else got:
Aereogramme: A Story In White
http://open.spotify.com/track/2n1EfjeWB67vSPRnQWFNxK
Oval: 94 diskont
Boxcutter: Oneiric
Baptist Generals: Dog
Tarbox Ramblers: Tarbox Ramblers
Michael Head: The Magical World of the Strands
Michael Head!
He's a star - I've got this and a couple of other Shack albums
Me too. And he is.
Me too. And he is.
Another Shack collector.
Make that three.
Shack stampede?
And another.
Boxcutter
I don't have "Oniric", but I do have some other other stuff:
Arecibo Message LP
Glyphic LP
Brood VIP / November 12"
Aereogramme
Got nearly everything that Aereogramme released, except the 'Livers and Lungs' e.p., which some git nicked. Have yet to find a replacement copy that's not going for a ridiculous price!
Immense band, saw them live a few times. There's a new project, 'The Unwinding Hours' on the go by two of them (Ian & Craig, I think) that sounds pretty good.
Yep, yep, yep
no, no, yep. I actually have everything Boxcutter's released and a couple of things he hasn't ;) Met him at a gig this year, he's one of the nicest musicians I've come across lately, which is doubly shocking given his incredible precociousness - he's what, four amazing albums in and only 21 or something?
The Strands
Absolutely superb - I bought a Pale Fountains album last week based on the brand that IS Michael Head. Sahnd!
how about these?
Riddim Et Bleu by The Little Big Band (a Manchester busker who also released a CD single on Factory)
Salad Days by Billy Rain (see comments above about Nut)
I hope...
...I'm the only person here who owns Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne's Let's Have a Party album (on cassette, mind).
'From A to B'
by Octopus.
And 'Radio Jarra Slax' by Mike Neville and George House.
Sorry!
I do have the Octopus album, though it's ages since I listened to it. Alan McSevenny from the band used to do the sound at the Kashmir Klub and Marc Shearer use to play there regularly.
What you've done there
is mention a friend of mine.
Marc Shearer. A fine and lovely man who made my stag night an utter joy. He opened up his old studio in Stoke Newington and we jammed on guitar, bass and drums into the small hours.
And an anagram of his name is Arse Charmer. But I don't think he's too fond of that.
"Now Then"
by Jeb Loy Nichols...
Anyone?
Saw him supporting Richard Thompson (2005, I think...)
Really liked the single guitar / voice versions of the songs. Thought the album was overproduced and too MOR for my taste.
Never seen him mentioned here.
Yes...
...quite a bit. His manager is a close friend.
He had a new album out this month
very jazzy, quite nice, a bit dinner party, but good as these things go.
He is a good writer / singer...
Needs the Rick Rubin treatment.
A little Jeb Loy
goes a long way I find. Pleasant enough - but its sort of summat and no'mat as my Zummerzet friend says
This might be his best song...
Jeb Loy Nichols – Painted My Dream House Blue: http://open.spotify.com/track/0Il8fwnXcLy75TFW3zGacG
Whatever happened to all the things you were gonna do? Why could you never see them through? There is one job you did, one chore from which you never hid... You painted our dream house blue... Brilliant...
Edi Niederlander
Ancient Dust: a 1986 album by this sadly neglected superb South African guitarist/singer/songwriter. This reminds me to track down some more.
(I first heard her play at an annual "Free People's Festival" on a uni campus in apartheid South Africa around 1972.)
Nino Rota
I have about 50CDs and maybe 20 vinyl albums of his music, mainly soundtracks from Fellini movies
Ooh... maybe you can help me...
I absolutely love Nino Rota's music (particularly from the Fellini films) but have no CDs by him. Is there one definitive compilation that I could get?
Best Nino Rota compilation
There's one called Tutto Fellini - google it - it's a 2 CD set. Start there.
Jim Carroll
Am I the only one who owns, and still plays, all Jim Carroll's albums? (Wouldn't be surprising as only Catholic Boy is really worth it).
What about The Curse Of The Higsons? (pre Fast Show, that one).
Hipsway?
Slow To Fade by The Red Guitars?
The Leyton Buzzards?
Patrik Fitzgerald?
Wasis Diop?
Vieux Diop?
Agricantus?
All favourites.
I've got a Wasis Diop single
that I picked up in Terrapin Records in Crouch End.
'Promotional Copy Not For Resale' I think it was called.
Catholic Boy
It's the best of the bunch, and the only one I generally play, but the Runaway EP is good.
I've got the Higsons single - "I Don't Want To Live With Monkeys"
Yes
to Higsons and Hipsway
Who stole my bongos?
I have The Higsons' single Conspiracy.
Aguaviva
This 1971 Capitol LP ought to be heard to be believed, if only it weren’t so obscure. Vocally, the politicised twelve-piece Spanish group stray into the sunshine pop of the Free Design, or – more appropriately - Os Mutantes. If you can't buy an LP at a thrift shop with an opening track called "Robot" on spec, where is the fun in life? Federico García Lorca’s poetry is set to music and the Rolling Stones are cited as revolutionary emblems. Some bright spark decided to include translations for the North American market, a normal enough practise, but the late actor Raul Julia intones these over the tracks. You simply cannot go wrong with "My brother... Yours is the farm... the house, the horse, and the gun... Mine is the ancient Voice of the Land". I didn't even think of Gomez Addams until Side 2.
Doubly
Whoops. Double-posted there. Speaking, no doubt, on behalf of all the other Aguavivites out there.
SSION -Opportunity Bless my Soul
I saw this band called SSION support the YeahYeahYeah's in the U.S.A about 5 years ago ,the music was on a backing track and they had "instruments" cut out of cardboard ,girls on rollerskates and lots of visuals projected on a backdrop.
I've never seen a support band put on such a show, they were very funny and highly entertaining so i bought this cd.
This song is'nt off the album but it's them live.
I would be surprised, but very happy if any of you have records
by:
- Armitage Shanks
- Anaal Nathrakh
- Radio Zumbido
- Kontakte Der Junglinge
- Ben Sharpa
- MDK
to pick from CDs directly visible from where I'm sitting.
Anaal Nathrakh
"In the Constellation of the Black Widow" and "Hell is Empty" are just IMMENSE!
Wa
HEEEYYY! \m/
I'm very fond of Mistress 'In Disgust We Trust' too....
Have rushed over to emusic
and am about to download them immediately. Sound great, thanks for the recommendation!
It's basically the same people
but doing grindcore instead of symphonic black metal.
There are certain times in life when nothing in music hits the spot like listening to really disgruntled Brummies.
Armitage Shanks
Sing and Play Twenty Punk Hits of the Seventies
I'm not alone!
How about:
Symphonies Of Destruction by London Punkharmonic Orchestra
Lawnmower Deth/Metal Duck (1 LP, 1 side each)
Zion Train - Natural Wonders Of The World In Duband
2 LPs and a clutch of singles by The Tygers Of Pan Tang
Lawnmower Deth/Metal Duck
I've got that along with most of the Dethhies stuf - have even got a copy of the Mowdeer demo cassette knocking around somewhere. They're back you know - played Download this year!
The Squares
I own all the records produced by this Leeds band from the late 1970's, including the rare "Buddy Holly" on Airbeat Records. There were only 1,000 pressed and I paid 25% of the cost of producing them and stuck some of the sleeves together.
They were briefly signed to Sire, produced by a Ramone, toured with The Undertones and then disappeared. More recently the track This Is Airebeat surfaced on a New Wave compilation CD in the USA.
Considering the levels of pedantry
usually recorded around here, it's amazing that no one has pointed out you can't have degrees of uniqueness. It is or it isn't.
Someone's going to point out it's 'uniquity' or some such, aren't they?
Speak for yourself
My record collection is 42.73% unique.
well if there's a 'norm' ...
... for the average Word reader music collection, then anything standing apart from the norm would be 'deviant'? (My own deviance encompasses tracks from the musical episode of Buffy, tracks by All Saints, Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen and tracks off Pop by U2) (say it loud, deviant and proud)
3/4
Apart from "Pop" I have those tasty selections. Buffy's musical was great, All Saints were the best female pop group by a country mile, and Queen are not to be laughed at.
You are not alone... I am here with you... though you're far away... etc
I'm offering....
Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room", an Ono-esque avant garde recording of a man with a stutter playing back and re-recording subsequent passes of him reading an essay until it turns into unintelligible feedback.
Gilbert Harding & Hermione Gingold's croaking of "Takes Two To Tango".
A collection of 100 pieces of world music recorded from shortwave radio broadcasts.
A 1969 recording of Michael Aspel reading colour television procedures for installation engineers.
"Birds Do It", a selection of music from German sex education films of the 1970's.
A homemade "tv-to-vhs-to-cassette-to-mp3" bootleg of Roger Webb's soundtrack to the 1970 film "Bartleby".
Riz Ortolani's inexplicably beautiful soundtrack to '70's horror film "Cannibal Holocaust" (which nonetheless sounds like John Barry with syndrums).
and "Don't Need Your Money" by Raven, perhaps my favourite New Wave of British Heavy Metal moment.
Oh, and by the way, man-of-soup, I have "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle Of The Road on my mp3 player too, but I'm always reluctant to play it in an urban setting just in case I'm either iPod-mugged or run over. The humiliation would be more than my family or I could stand.
Surprisingly, Lucier's
"I am sitting in a room" and Ortolani's score are both available on Emusic, which is where I got them. Wonderful pieces they both are too.
I have
"Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" as a 7" single, and somewhere, the lyrics cut out of one of those little collections of lyrics you used to get in the 70s, pasted into an exercise book.
Falco anyone?
I have three Falco albums, starting with '3' which has Rock Me Amadeus and his lounge singer version of It's All Over Now Baby Blue. Gave them a play yesterday - all right.
Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggieri
One former household name, one ace guitarist and co-composer. They made an album about ten years ago called Where Rivers Meet. It's beautiful beyond belief, and I'd be surprised if she's ever made a better album. I didn't see one review, and I've never met anyone who's even heard of it, let alone got it. Please, someone tell me I'm not alone.
Kiki and Carmelo
I bought their Walk of Faith on the strength of hearing their pared down version of "Running Up That Hill". And then promptly forgot all about it. Lord alone knows where it's got to now. But luckily the miracle of Spotify is at hand - both that and Where Rivers Meet are there
Kiki and carmelo
sounds like a new brand of haaaagen daaaz.
Let me know what you make of Where Rivers Meet
I saw them do it live a few years ago, with some superb Indian musicians (the music is very Indian flavoured), including legendary tabla player Pandit Dinesh. Memorable concert.
will do
- not had a chance to have a proper listen since your post - as bit time-pushed at mo - but will do
"Children Wonder Why"
by The Highlanders. Anybody?
A 12" single released early 90s sort of moody and soulful - bit like The Adventures "Broken Land" in feel/tone
Phantom 309
A Sinister Alphabet. Picked it up on spec at an Oxfam many years ago. I doubt even the band have a copy...
I've got the original 7" of Mel Blanc doing "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat"
East Bay Ray (former Dead Kennedys guitarist) Trouble in Town 12". THe "Wedding March a Go-Go" instrumental on the b-side may be, pound for pound given the context, the worst thing ever committed on vinyl.
And casting an eye over the record collection I've still got one, at-the-time-very-popular record, that I doubt many have held onto. Red Box - The Circle and the Square. Anyone remember their top ten singles?
Blimey -just looked 'em up and they're a going concern, looking to release a new album this year!
Fantastic Something / Celtus
Music only video. I was convinced this was early Ian Broudie - but it snot. Anyone else got the 12" version?
First heard on a free Mojo CD. Even saw them perform this live in their brief career.
Hoor de Vogel EP
Yes, an EP of birdsong bought at a Sally Army shop in the 70's, as was Lord Flea and his Calypsonians and BBC Sound Effects Vol.15 I think; the one with "Tumult of War' on it. Please stop me before I kill again.
Overjoyed...
...to see some metal/grind get a mention. Anyone else have CDs by Nasum or Rotten Sound?
Also, I would love to know if ANYONE else out there has any Woven Hand records (I know Sheev checked them out the last time I was banging on about WH).
And the Johnny Thunders & Patti Paladin duet album, 'Copy Cats'. Heard it all on Peel back in the day and only found a CD re-release recently.
copy cats
check
Nothing mindblowingly amazing but...
I do have original pressings of Funhouse, Velvet Underground and Nico, May Blitz' first album and the original German pressing of Amon Duul II's Tanz Der Lemminge.
I've also got a Who vinyl bootleg called The Who vs. Bizarre Mr. Pig which has an alternate version of I Don't Even Know Myself who's only official release so far was on a Japanese pressing of Then and Now and a whacked out early electronica album I got from my dad called the Wozard of Iz featuring Mort Garson on keyboards who went on to record an album called Black Mass under the name Lucifer and is rumored to include Nancy Sinatra singing on I've Been Over the Rainbow, credited in the liner notes as Suzy Jane Hokum.
Suzi Jane Hokom
She was/is a person in her own right! The Nancy Sinatra confusion derives from the fact that Suzi Jane was once the girlfriend of Lee Hazelwood and also sang on some of his records. What's more, she was the producer of the Safe At Home album by (Gram Parsons') International Submarine Band.
Here she is:
The Poozies
'Infinite Blue' 1998.
Anyone? Did a big audit of my CDs yesterday. Wondered if anyone else rates them. Haven't spun it for a while though, will play it later.
Let's go Dutch
Gruppo Sportivo anyone? I believe they are away to Ajax this coming weekend...
Only 7" singles
Somewhere in my collection, although I have seen them "Live in Leeds", as they say. I even had an uncensored version of the Back To '78 badge.
Correction: they are away to Maastricht this coming weekend, according to their MySpace page!
Was in Amsterdam
a couple of years back and picked up a couple of CD's of theirs, each containing 2 albums.
Still brings a bit of a smirk to the face, if no longer the full blown smile.
Saw them at Bradford Uni when the first album came out, probably a similar time to you. They were a strange looking bunch so lord knows what they look like 30 years on.
Pub Rock
I saw them at Keele around 30 years back too - probably the same tour. They seemed to think they were a bit wacky but they weren't. I can't remember what it was that made me think they may be good but they were just a pub rock band got almost lucky.
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The Doctors Children
King Buffalo (EP/LP?) - saw them supporting Green on Red in 1985, and so impressed I bought everything by them, which is this. Lead singer/guitarist looked like an extra from Withnail and I, but this was Americana when it was still called Indie and grouped with the Mighty Lemon Drops....
John Fahey's
Christmas Album - beats the arzz off most Christmas albums (except Phil Spector's, natch) and gets me all sentimental after a few Riojas on the 20th of Dec.