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Snow Day for me today. Made it to work yesterday, but my trains home got cancelled, so it was bus back to nearest town and then a 40mins walk over snowy fields to get home. DIdn't fancy doing same again today, so I took a day's leave. Which has, in turn, given me a bit of free time to sort through recent acquisitions. Have to say, I've spent most of the day making sure our garden was welcoming to the birds, never seen so many on our back garden and some very infrequent visitors.
Anyway, back to the round-up of vinyl. These are from the last month or so and, due to my turntable going kaput, they've all been backed up a bit. Usual sources of lengthy waddles round charity shops, regular visits to Rob's Record Mart, Grantham Market, Anarchy and so on.
The above selection all came from a long slog round charity shops last week. Think I'll keep the Dankworth LP, but the others are all destined for my next freebies selection (hopefully Easter weekend). The BBC LP is all choir stuff and the Musical Abilities one will most likely be useful for dialogue samples.
From the same afternoon chazza trawl. Can't really resist a bit of Trouble Funk and it still riles me that Go-Go isn't better regarded. The 12" is War 'Galaxy', probably destined for my mate. The Ray Bryant is a bit too jazz-funk / Howard Moon for me, so that's heading for one 'Out' pile or the other. And the Roots LP is obviously just one of those where I wanted to give the charity a quid so that I could pad out my next round of freebies on here.
Four more from the chazzas last week. Ann Odell is one of those early/mid 70s UK SSW albums with all the right session bods and is nearly there, but ultimately wimps out. One decent track I reckon, but the rest is a bit too wilfully 'quirky'. Don Lusher was a purchase with the VV nostalgia button being pressed - will be in the freebies too!. Tubby (a later pressing) and Tony, though nice to find in a chazza, will both be off down the market I would imagine.
The above were all from Rob's recently, over the course of a few weeks. The Barbara Dickson is a spare copy of the cheapo method of getting some of her early folky / funky stuff, as Rob chucked it in for free for me, I'll punt it on for free too. Haven't seen the Little Richard LP for ages, so I'll hang on to it this time.Giving the Radiophonic one more chance, but don't be surprised if it ends up as a trade. Due to turntable issues, haven't had chance to listen to Terry Reid yet. I'm exercising caution.
Also from Rob's. Not exactly rarities, but I'm enjoying accelerating my 80s 12"s purchases.
These were from Rob's yesterday. Obviously, managed to nip in there before getting my bus out of Nottingham. Vinyl comes before self-preservation! Not had chance to listen to any of it yet. However, I've already got the MFP version of Terry Reid (which can now be punted on) and the 12" is Zapp 'More Bounce to the Ounce', which I'll give to my mate.
The two on the left came from Rob's. Not had chance to check Ram John Holder yet, but I had the 'Brixton' one years and years ago. The other two came in trades from the market (which I can pretty much guarantee won't be taking place tomorrow morning!), that copy of the Black Album is the exact same issue I had when it first appeared (no idea where it went), proper Proustian rush on seeing and hearing it (Fiona Clements, where are you now?!)
Also acquired from the market (in trades). Making Depeche Mode one of my 'missions' as well. Not a universally popular choice, but they also bring back a lot of memories.
The Traffic (Pink Rim) came from Rough Trade's tiny second-hand section and was very cheap, considering. The other three came from Anarchy last week. Not convinced by the Polish LP, but will give it another go before deciding. Harry Roche was, again, a total VV nostalgia purchase and will probably be recycled round these here parts. Nirvana, well, I ummed and ahhed (it was more than the psychological barrier price of a tenner), but then it actually came on the radio in the shop while I was mulling it over. That spooked me enough to take the hint.
And I found this in the garage of the offices where I work. Strange timing as I'd just had to sell mine (for parts / repair), so I contacted the lady who was storing the stuff and she was willing to sell it to me. What she asked for wasn't realistic, based on condition and how much I've got to spend to get it up to spec (I've already spent £60 on various bits), but she was happy enough with my considerably lower offer. So, with a few more hours of fiddling about and using on-line tutorials and advice, I should be able to get this set up pretty well to at least tide me over til I can afford summat higher spec / brand new. Will see how it goes. Sounded pretty good when I got it going last Sunday though, just needs to get back into regular use again I reckon.
Hope everyone is doing Ok, despite what the storms are throwing at us. Let's be careful out there.
Anyway, back to the round-up of vinyl. These are from the last month or so and, due to my turntable going kaput, they've all been backed up a bit. Usual sources of lengthy waddles round charity shops, regular visits to Rob's Record Mart, Grantham Market, Anarchy and so on.
The above selection all came from a long slog round charity shops last week. Think I'll keep the Dankworth LP, but the others are all destined for my next freebies selection (hopefully Easter weekend). The BBC LP is all choir stuff and the Musical Abilities one will most likely be useful for dialogue samples.
From the same afternoon chazza trawl. Can't really resist a bit of Trouble Funk and it still riles me that Go-Go isn't better regarded. The 12" is War 'Galaxy', probably destined for my mate. The Ray Bryant is a bit too jazz-funk / Howard Moon for me, so that's heading for one 'Out' pile or the other. And the Roots LP is obviously just one of those where I wanted to give the charity a quid so that I could pad out my next round of freebies on here.
Four more from the chazzas last week. Ann Odell is one of those early/mid 70s UK SSW albums with all the right session bods and is nearly there, but ultimately wimps out. One decent track I reckon, but the rest is a bit too wilfully 'quirky'. Don Lusher was a purchase with the VV nostalgia button being pressed - will be in the freebies too!. Tubby (a later pressing) and Tony, though nice to find in a chazza, will both be off down the market I would imagine.
The above were all from Rob's recently, over the course of a few weeks. The Barbara Dickson is a spare copy of the cheapo method of getting some of her early folky / funky stuff, as Rob chucked it in for free for me, I'll punt it on for free too. Haven't seen the Little Richard LP for ages, so I'll hang on to it this time.Giving the Radiophonic one more chance, but don't be surprised if it ends up as a trade. Due to turntable issues, haven't had chance to listen to Terry Reid yet. I'm exercising caution.
Also from Rob's. Not exactly rarities, but I'm enjoying accelerating my 80s 12"s purchases.
These were from Rob's yesterday. Obviously, managed to nip in there before getting my bus out of Nottingham. Vinyl comes before self-preservation! Not had chance to listen to any of it yet. However, I've already got the MFP version of Terry Reid (which can now be punted on) and the 12" is Zapp 'More Bounce to the Ounce', which I'll give to my mate.
The two on the left came from Rob's. Not had chance to check Ram John Holder yet, but I had the 'Brixton' one years and years ago. The other two came in trades from the market (which I can pretty much guarantee won't be taking place tomorrow morning!), that copy of the Black Album is the exact same issue I had when it first appeared (no idea where it went), proper Proustian rush on seeing and hearing it (Fiona Clements, where are you now?!)
Also acquired from the market (in trades). Making Depeche Mode one of my 'missions' as well. Not a universally popular choice, but they also bring back a lot of memories.
The Traffic (Pink Rim) came from Rough Trade's tiny second-hand section and was very cheap, considering. The other three came from Anarchy last week. Not convinced by the Polish LP, but will give it another go before deciding. Harry Roche was, again, a total VV nostalgia purchase and will probably be recycled round these here parts. Nirvana, well, I ummed and ahhed (it was more than the psychological barrier price of a tenner), but then it actually came on the radio in the shop while I was mulling it over. That spooked me enough to take the hint.
And I found this in the garage of the offices where I work. Strange timing as I'd just had to sell mine (for parts / repair), so I contacted the lady who was storing the stuff and she was willing to sell it to me. What she asked for wasn't realistic, based on condition and how much I've got to spend to get it up to spec (I've already spent £60 on various bits), but she was happy enough with my considerably lower offer. So, with a few more hours of fiddling about and using on-line tutorials and advice, I should be able to get this set up pretty well to at least tide me over til I can afford summat higher spec / brand new. Will see how it goes. Sounded pretty good when I got it going last Sunday though, just needs to get back into regular use again I reckon.
Hope everyone is doing Ok, despite what the storms are throwing at us. Let's be careful out there.
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