Recent Vinyl Finds

[Head Gardener]

Fresh things I've found charity shops and one thing I bought in a proper shop



A sweet flexi find on the front of an old Private Eye








Teach yerself ballet kit with added paperwork



including a quite strict returns policy





From the same box, the artwork on the sleeve of this German pressing makes it another dance related LP




A fairly obscure library music album on Oak, however it really doesn't sound in the least bit African






A red label Trailer Records collection of Ye Olde Geordie songs


I have found a right hotchpotch of weird singles recently and certainly none weirder than this!



A one-sided, white label test pressing from the early 70's at a guess : download the beast
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7t753tk2ts9ma15/Suck_The_Cats_Brains_Out_MP3.mp3







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G61EOq6vN8g







A pair of football records I don't think I already have, the Brighton one is a 12" btw








I probably paid more for this lovely new picture disc than all the other records above put together

[Head Gardener]

a nice find out & about today



turns out to be a scarce, early issue with the track Livin' Lovin' Woman mis-credited as Livin' Lovin' Wreck
I imagine Peter Grant blew a fuse when he discovered that cock-up!

[Head Gardener]

I am totally perplexed by this one sided 7" with a handmade sleeve, I can't find anything about it anywhere, does anyone know more?
both tracks here: 

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/19x0r4zf4bwe5pn/MUTHA_Track_1.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/file/xtspg1xl70lax74/MUTHA_Track_2.mp3



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[Head Gardener]

picked up a stash of signed vinyl

[Head Gardener]

picked this up in a charity shop today, despite my initial excitement it turns out to be a very good bootleg, still it sound fine!
Originals were with green & white labels, this isn't.



clever buggers these bootleggers



I went to this Glasto too - this is the programme & schedule on the day

[Head Gardener]

s'more oh so sexy inner sleeves I have found whilst digging through the racks

[Head Gardener]

this week I got me some new old vinyl along with new new vinyl treats



Space Age pop from '58 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi3OGE6t7ws



I had to "sit" to listen to this.





"G" string sadly long gone but the outline of one is still just visible on the sleeve.



Quite nice Xian folk from '79 by Brian Wilson but my guess is not the Brian Wilson.


It wouldn't be a good week without finding a few flexi-discs










and some unexpected delights I had not come across before



The original version as used recently on TV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1ZdVDffCs

ooh, those cheeky loco's



A nice pair of albums I can recommend that I have picked up online



https://sdzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rose-mercie




https://www.aciddad.com/

[phantom_power]

Hounds of Love for a quid in a local charity shop. Fucking well chuffed

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I've been looking for some Kate Bush out in the wild, so far no luck. Well done on your dig.

[phantom_power]

It was right at the front of the box of records in a crappy little charity shop that is usually all Perry Como and Brass Bands. I only went in there because I was early picking someone up nearby. It makes all those hours trawling through musty crap worthwhile

[sevendaughters]

found a re-issue of Third From The Sun by Chrome, it's harder to find those good Helios/Damon Chrome records than I'd like, but a nice place to start.

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It was right at the front of the box of records in a crappy little charity shop that is usually all Perry Como and Brass Bands. I only went in there because I was early picking someone up nearby. It makes all those hours trawling through musty crap worthwhile

Funny enough I managed to pick this up at the weekend from a car boot. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Kate_Bush_-_Never_for_Ever.jpg from an odd bloke who has been doing the Milton Keynes bowl boot. He seems obssed by orginal pressings and his prices a really steep. This was in his £2 box, i'm not really a condition collector, in fact I quite like the scratches, just as long as it dosnt skip Im good. Are there really people out there that go to car boots and are prepared to pay over £60 for an orginal pressing of an album?

[phantom_power]

I am the same as you. I like having the album as an artefact as much as for the music within, though of course I like the music as well

[Head Gardener]

Are there really people out there that go to car boots and are prepared to pay over £60 for an orginal pressing of an album?

yes, and then some - I have recently shifted 2 classical records for over £500 just because they are first pressings, it makes all the difference to some collectors
even if they have been re-issued countless times, they want THE one, which is usually the first pressing

[Head Gardener]

some recent super seven inch finds



A curious find in a charity shop bin, more info here http://www.45cat.com/record/dlc6791






suitably creepy (crawly) sound effects





With relegation from the Premiership looming for WBA it was all so different 50 years ago







hilarious



A great organ and fuzzy guitar tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE32sBDR7oQ






I have tried playing this bizarre 3 holed copy but it's the middle one that still works best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fuIxKW83I





nice UK promo of the Spaghetti Western whistler - produced by the German Jack White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlA5cDvps00




A reggae tune about getting a headache from smoking too much weed, probably





find of the week was this single I had never come across before, a catchy cut from the Mothers at Fillmore East LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n67MBqbhfM

[Head Gardener]

more seven inches, mostly from the first car boot of the season - hurrah!




A great Mick Ronson cover version from 1980 in an exclusive German picture cover.






Late period Slits





The sound of old aeroplanes on a mini-lp in a fold-out sleeve and promise of a poster, sadly missing









This is the first time I have seen this BBC themes mega-mix (credited to Tony Blackburn's producer Phil "the collector" Swern)






The same goes for this Glammy Pop which I completely missed out on at the time

listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9py8fryy_8




A KB 7" that never seems to crop up very often

listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVcrFTzZMs





A mysterious one sided acetate with no info only a folky tune on it





the only single ever released by C.O.B. which stands for Clive's Original Band - Clive Palmer that is






Probably the rarest find of the week was this theme to the Sherlock Holmes movie from 1965







The same song that Cliff came 2nd with at Eurovision in 1968 - how strange that the label name checks the festival

listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdCc-HuTn30






Written and produced my the late Bill Maynard - the BMA logo was no doubt separated at birth with



listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJPOMrXaWA











4 track official bootleg from 1978



listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uwI8qdXTXo





A football record I had never seen before, in an ad heavy gate-fold sleeve








LFC piccy disc with a promo sticker, blimey!

[Head Gardener]

I only went to one car boot this morning but it was a local village garage sale that came up trumps with a big haul
of rock albums at £2 a pop including Sabbath, Yes, Floyd etc, to find all the Led Zeppelin back catalogue in one box
was a first for me. They were not the best finds of the glorious sunny day but I was glad I dragged myself up and out at 6am.




All in lovely condition and an In Through The Out Door I didn't have which makes it 3 down 3 to go.
Swansong released the LP in 6 different sleeves - you got it in a paper bag so never knew which one would be in it.





There were several Who albums too, the smartest of the bunch was this UK first pressing with booklet.





The sweetest of £1 garage sale finds (the guy literally went into his garage and pulled out a pile of LP's from a cupboard)
was this beautiful UK original of their debut from '65, it's a keeper!







The same pile had this boxed album sitting on the bottom, it even came with the original drumsticks,
"I bought it for my son in the 60's but he never used it"



Back of the box lists a mind-boggling amount of other releases on the same label








Early 60's TV space show theme, I wasn't too fussed it didn't have the original picture sleeve



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEC__idnUI

[Delete Delete Delete]

Thats a sweet Zepplin find. I've been meaning to ask, whats your opinion on Modern reissues. I've been getting a few because I think I'm not going to get these albums in the wild for as good price as I'm not a dealer. Is there a big difference in pressing qualities?

[Head Gardener]

not an awful lot, the first pressings might sound louder on high end decks but first pressings usually have the poster/inner/extras
that the later ones don't - I am a sucker for first pressings

[Sebastian Cobb]

Thats a sweet Zepplin find. I've been meaning to ask, whats your opinion on Modern reissues. I've been getting a few because I think I'm not going to get these albums in the wild for as good price as I'm not a dealer. Is there a big difference in pressing qualities?

I'm fine with reissues normally, and I've got quite a few that I'd never have been able to get originals of. An issue that can come up with some of the present-day ones, since vinyl has become in demand again is that some of them are cut with basically no proper mastering process on cheap czech digilathes and sound wank. That can be the case with new releases as well though.

Seems to be more of an issue with labels that are releasing vinyl again, rather than ones that never stopped though.

[Head Gardener]

lovely finds at the car boots/charity shops/record fair this week



This selection of 3 for £1 mostly Punk/New Wave 7"s including an original New Rose and various Sex Pistols, Clash etc
had only just come into RSPCA, the lady said she put the box on the floor 10 minutes earlier so it was just lucky timing really,
When she said "oh, the man also dropped a lot of LP's off too, are you interested in those"? it was music to my ears.




There were The Stranglers, Cure etc but a few I didn't already have including this LP with the sticker intact.



I have the Rezillos albums but not their other spookily similar incarnation.



The pick of a handful of Reggae albums



A nice MM compilation featuring some previously unreleased tracks






I nearly left this in a 50p box but curiosity got the better of me and I flipped it over to find it signed by Tommy, Tony & Pete!







A 2nd hand record shop was clearing out of it's stock at 50p a pop but I found only a couple of 7"s of interest,
this one is a tribute disc released after the Kings Cross fire of 1987, signed on the front by one of the victim's father.







The other single was by someone cursed with a similar name to a famous guitarist, and came with a signed picture
of him + his merry band meeting HRH The Queen Mother.









Best buys of the week were at the local record fair when a chap came in with a box of LP's and walked
straight up to me and asked if I was interested in any, there were various Simon & Garfunkel, Byrds etc
but pick of the box was this first pressing, no EMI label credit, mono, top opening beauty - I made him a fair offer and he was happy.
The other nice one was this first Transatlantic pressing of BJ's debut gracing my deck below.

[phantom_power]

A charity shop near me just had a load of hip hop 12"s, albums and breaks and beats records so I picked up BDP By All Means Necessary and The Great adventures of Slick Rick for 3 quid each and the first Ultimate Breaks and Beats for the same price. A couple of Super Breaks double albums for a fiver each as well

[Head Gardener]

Just got this lovely 7" picture disc which came with a game called Foto-Finish in the late 50's. It features commentary of a horse race
on each side in which six horses are named. There are six near-identical tracks (and six start-points on the edge of the disc) so that the race is run
but you have no idea of which horse will win until the end of the race. So (in the game or on its own) you can bet on the random outcome.
It's similar to Totopoly and was made in South Africa but have little other info.

[Head Gardener]

Had a great sunny tromp around the car boots this morning, finding all sorts of goodies, including some
punk 7"s folk oddities and even a Beatles flexi-disc. But the best score by far was a whole lotta Jazz from
a couple of old boys who were knocking them out at a £2 each, they were happy to see them go as they "hate Jazz"
but even though I am no expert I could tell they were all minty so just hoovered them all up and strangely no-one else
there was interested in buying old records, it's been one of those days!



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Some good pick ups for me going round the circuit in Brackly, Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnaell.

[Head Gardener]

bits & bobs picked up at a couple of garage sales yesterday



there were not many albums about but the ones that were made a very early start worthwhile



VG+ condition on this was good enough for me



3 early K&TG LP's in the same box





not my cuppa tea but when they are cheap I..can't..leave..them





a bunch of these beautiful vinyl/slides sets, of course now I have to find volumes 2 & 5 to collect the set, damn!








there were some pretty odd sevens, this one I could find absolutely nothing about on the net







I'm a sucker for the cheesy ones, good on them for tackling Beethoven on side 2







pretty much all the records on this imprint are rare and this one from 1968 is a real oddity








a couple of new additions to my football vinyl collection

[Head Gardener]

Took a trip to Milton Keynes earlier today to sign a 25 year lease on Radio CRMK - which makes me now the
proud owner of a radio station* I found a few things on my adventure round the City of Trees (* with another bloke)



stopping off at Stadium MK home of the MKDons, it seems 100 AA vans couldn't fix them getting relegated last week



some of the charity shops seem to be on a different pricing structure to my planet




luckily I found a great bin in one which turned up a treat, which was actually sitting right at the front!



it may have been skipped over by other diggers as even I had to look twice as I'd never come across
this debut album by a pre-shades/bearded Jeff Lynne before, complete with creepy inner gate-fold.








shopping trolley + vinyl = double win! including this double album on advice for the nervous



and a very early tatty but playable Stockhausen album from 1962



all in all a worthwhile trip out of town

[Delete Delete Delete]

Did you pop down to Bletchley? Theres a good run of charity stores there as well as Bulldog Music. I spoke to the guy the other day said he was moving into the Agora in the next couple of weeks and will be unearthing a load of stuff in storage.

I find it intresting we both live in the same patch, I enjoy seeing your finds. That £5 James Last has to be a joke right? I wonder why so many of his records are out there, was he really big or did his records sell for pennies?

[Head Gardener]

the trolley pic and James Last were in Bletchley, home to something like 12 charity shops on one street!
Eddie is the guy who runs Bulldog and he's a lovely chap, he used to have a shop in Wolverton too, tell him you know Shane
and he'll give you 10% discount. The JL album was for real, I actually announced in the shop "who priced these up?" and a
lady (the manageress) said "me" so I told her "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING WOMAN??!!" and she said sorry.
erm, not really she just went on about how she looked them all up on the internet, I despair sometimes...

[Swoz_MK]

Found some gold in Bulldog before but rarely find anything to my tastes these days, not their fault I guess.
I work in Newport P and often dip into the charity shops but other than the Three Amigos soundtrack I've not had a decent find in months.