The Vinyl Randomizer
Been down the town today to pick up some books for the holidays and popped into a charity shop to see what was about, and so this afternoon I will mostly be listening to Sinatra & Count Basie at The Sands (lordy that monologue takes up a lot of side two), Bryan Ferry's In Your Mind (Chris Thomas to Chris Spedding "Whike you're here, there's a band called The Sex Pistols who need a bit of guitar doubling up"), The Hothouse Flowers (soundtrack to a particularly splendid Lake District summer holiday back in the days when a cassette tape went in the car and didn't come out again for two weeks at a stretch), Lonnie Donegan Putting On The Style (manager Adam Faith rounds up Ronnie Wood, Rory Gallagher, Mick Taylor, Brian May, Ringo, Elton and Leo Sayer for a bit of a hoedown) and The Go Betweens 1978-1980 (is there a better summer song that Streets of Our Town?). I can also confirm that the new rack-congester in Oxfam shops (previous title holders include Leo Sayer's Endless Flight and ELO's out of the Blue) is Art Garfunkel's Fate For Breakfast. There's a good half a dozen kicking about in case anyone's missing a copy. What's wafting through your back garden while the washing dries? Leo's on the Lonnie album as well, incidentally.
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Vinyl too
Have been on the vinyl - many inspired by recent threads - an Old Grey Whistle test compliation (with the fantastic "Give me a reason" by Dave Mason on it), Johnny Winter And studio album, Tull - Stormwatch, Herbie Hancock "Headhunters", Princess, numerous old singles including "Watching the river flow" and "In a broken dream","Is that all there is" by Cristina, SYSLJMF - Q Tips, Buick 88 - Jools holland (from when he was pretty cool), Walk in the night - Jr. Walker. Love vinyl.
Luxury
"a cassette tape went in the car and didn't come out again for two weeks".
Bloody heck, you had a top-of-the-range car cassette deck then, did you? You lucky sod.
I was lucky if I EVER saw the things again except as spewers of plastic spaghetti.
Charity shop rack fillers
Alison Moyet - Alf
Some guys in ponchos - A Tijuana Christmas
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
David Bowie - The World of David Bowie
The Shadows - 20 Golden Greats
Blondie - Parrallel Lines
The Pretenders - The Singles
And anything by Nana Mouskouri, Andy Williams, Slim Whitman, Thompson Twins, The Barron Knights and Don Williams.
Cash converters...
Their CD rack is groaning under the weight of multiple copies of...
"Popstars" by Hear'Say (I wasn't counting but it was a clear winner)
Both All Saints albums
"Schizophonic" by Geri Halliwell
All the albums by Steps, Louise and S Club 7