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Hello!

Great theme.

I am lucky in that as a vinyl purchaser I can pick up some serious bargains in the second hand and charity shops. On a well know auction site I bought my most recent turntable and it turned out to be from an auld fella (not Glen Miller) who had kept it in pristine condition with the original packaging and leaflets. Serious bargain.

LP

£2.99 Lynard Skynrd - One More From The Road,mint condition brilliant live album. Crossroads or Freebird would be great. Did not realise how superb this band were until I got this album.

£0.99 Rodney Crowell. Great album. Shame On The Moon

£5.00 Gene Clark No Other (with the poster - priceless). No Other.

£2.99 Bobbye Gentry - Delta Sweete. Not available on CD. Big Boss Man is superb.


Singles

£0.99 The Kinks - Better Things its been played before but what a cracker

I could go on......

Lynrd, sorry.

Don't want to get all fan-girly, but that picture is a massive improvement on the previous one. Maybe it's the sepia tint.

Cheapie bargains.

The George Michael/ Wham tape I got from our local Shelter shop was obviously brought back from somewhere exotic - everything about it screamed pirate. But it was for a good cause. Me.
I especially enjoyed the lyrics so thoughtfully included on the insert - English clearly not the translator's first language, they'd done their best. Some absolute clangers, but priceless.
Every time I hear
Careless Whisper
that memorable line is -
"Quilty feet have got no feeling"
(Well, I still find that funny if noone else does)

Apart from that, I bought a copy of
Free's "Free"
when I was about 16 - again, from a charity shop. A cheapskate through and through, worth every penny.
Mourning Sad Morning

Back in the day (Glen's tuned out already, another Sunday Post, he sighed) when I had a part-time job and 2 expensive weans, most of my experimental listening came from the Greenock library. Clearly whoever got to choose the stock had a fairly free hand as there would be 7 or 8 from the one band and none at all from others. It was a bit like GIO, you know, lots of Smiths and no Frankie Miller, only in the libray's case it was lots of Van Morrison and no Ten Years After. Anyway, it was pretty good really, just like GIO, :0)(sook) and 3 of the CDs I had out repeatedly were Blood and Rain, Blues for a Buddha and Seconds of Pleasure. We all absolutely loved them, me and the 2 expensive weans and when the CDs were tossed from the library I got the 3 for a fiver. Best I ever spent, there's not a dud song on them and I would be thrilled beyond measure if you'd play

Cellar of Dreams - The Silencers

it's a belter and while it may not be as well-known as, say, the Real McCoy, I don't think it will disappoint

THURSDAY

I picked up a CD copy of 'For Your Pleasure' for a fiver at Tesco. (Other supermarkets are available).

'In Every Dream Home a Heartache' - Roxy Music



Are we gonna do D on Friday, or resume the alphabet thingy on Monday?

We should be telt!

Good to hear John Prine tonight. Thank you, Bryan & Babs!

FRIDAY or possibly MONDAY

DEATH!

#2

My favourite rendition of 'Freebird', and the one which never gets played on the radio.

"Play it pretty for Atlanta."

Ronnie Van Zant

SG that was not a co-incidence.

My family are in the habit of buying me gift cards for a shop I don't especially care for.I put them in my wallet and I forget I've got them.

Earlier this year I was walking through the town and stumbled across one of their stores,remembered I had these gift cards in my wallet and went in. One of the gift cards was so old, it couldn't register with the till.

Anyway, I bought a bundle of current cd's and to use up the change I picked up " We Started Nothing" by The Ting Tings for which I was charged £3:00. I didn't know anything about them.

Seldom have I derived so much pleasure from something I didn't intend to buy for £3:00.Fantastic. Not a bad track on it.The perfect pop album.

How about: 'Shut Up And Let Me Go' or 'That's Not My Name' or 'Keep Your Head' by The Ting Tings.

Great show tonight, against the odds,it was populated by tracks which weren't especially obvious.

There is another theme around this: recently I went to replace my cd of 'All You Need Is...Love & Money'.The cheapest I could get was £29:00.

Lesley Duncan's 'Sing Children Sing' has been selling for £250:00 +. Original vinyl copies of 'Two Virgins' cost £000's, though god knows why.

Expensive rarities?

regardez youse

henri

I'm not sure if this is eligible, but I discovered Melody Gardot thanks to a free i-tunes download: Baby I'm a fool.

Joe
Linlithgow

Montage suggestion:

Bargain - The Who

My Dad was wont to buy LPs from bargain bins (for 49p sometimes) and sometimes picked things that just weren't his bag at all...so I got them instead, stuff like...

Compilation LP called 'Happy To Be Part Of The Industry Of Human Happiness' with the likes of Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Humble Pie.

'Water On My Fire' - Albert Lee


'The Trojan Story' - 3 LP compilation...calypso, through bluebeat and ska to reggae and lover's rock. The start of my love affair with those types of music. Just so, so much good stuff on this one...Laurel Aitken, Derrick Morgan, Blues Busters, Skatalites, Lee Perry, Alton Ellis, The Maytals...

Sugar Simone - 'King Without A Throne'


I acquired a copy of the single 'Many Rivers To Cross' by The Original Animals for nothing but It's worth paying for.


More recently I bought David Gray's Greatest Hits for £3
'Sail away' or 'Please Believe Me'


My best charity shop find is 'Drag' by k d lang for £1.50
'Smoke Rings' or 'My Old Addiction'

#13 or Cheapskates - The Clash

Great track Julie!

Cowboy Junkis - 'cause Cheap Is How I feel?

#16 'Meanstreak' - AC/DC

Money Made You mean - Indigo girls

'Low Down Dirty Mean' - Allman Bros

Cyprus calling... Alphabet month "Ur havin' a laugh" Got to be the lamest theme idea yet!!!

What possible amusement can it give you to mock our simple pleasures?

Whit are you doing outta bed???? Not a lot but wuz hoping for something more stimulating on day 10... But hey it's the letter D therefore some Dickies no doubt... Aff back tae the sun bed an 32 degrees in shade, oh for the simple life & it's pleasures!

For Thursday - I picked up The Best Of Tony Christie at a charity shop for 75p

Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast



Theme suggestion for Friday

People or things that are Dangerous



#20 - #22 - How ironic that we're having Alphabet themes and madmacfraeclydebank has learned how to say "same again" in Greek!

;o)

My best value buys were a long time ago!! From the days that you could go into Biggars and ask the guy to play an album for you in one of the sound proofed booths for you before you decided to buy. The guy was usually grumpy because we would spend whole Saturday mornings asking to hear different things- and not often buy anything.

For me the 'promotional sampler' albums that were out at that time were fantastic value. About half the price of a normal album. And they had enough people you had heard of to draw you in. But some of the people you hadn't heard of became your favourites - and you might even save up to buy their album next.

I liked Rock Machine I Love You. It had everyone from Simon and Garfunkle to Grace Slick and Blood Sweat and Tears to Lenard Cohen.

But my biggest favourite was Picnic - A Breath of Fresh Air (showcasing the Harvest record label). I bought it for 29/11 (£1.50 in new money). It was a double album including Deep Purple; Barclay James Harvest; Pink Floyd; the Pretty Things; Kevin Ayers; Syd Barrett; Roy Harper and the Third Ear Band.

There is no chance that you will play my favourite track from Picnic (Maybe My Mind (With Egg) by Tea and Sympathy from the album An Asylum for the Musically Insane).

So instead, how about either Postcards of Scarborough by Michael Chapman or Old Gopher by Edgar Broughton Band.

Woops, I've got a bit carried away!

If all this is too inaccessible then I could suggest Stoned Soul Picnic by Laura Nyro or You ain't Goin' Nowhere by the Byrds from Rock Machine I Love You.

I think I'd better go for a lie down now.

Best cheapie - being persuaded by a market stall guy in Kingston Upon Thames in 1974 to buy the album "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight", in fact he threw it in for free with some other stuff (some now embarassing), so title track would do nicely.

#25 Should also confess that at the time of the purchase I had no idea Richard Thompson was the guy from Fairport Convention of who I had heard of.

D theme for Friday/Monday(?): Dreams

Could be as in what you see when you're asleep or as in what you'd like to happen. My suggestion would be If I had a million dollars by Barenaked Ladies, since the artist and the song title both fit...

#24

It was Tea and Symphony, of course (in the unlikely event that anyone is looking for it). You Can All Join and Nice Enough To Eat were packed full of gems.

From a miscellaneous pile in Woolworth's I picked up Skip Bifferty's eponymous 1967 album "Drastically reduced" to 72p. It is now a collector's item. They became Heavy Jelly and their 8:19 epic "I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" can be found on Nice Enough To Eat which coincidentally cost 14/6 or 72p.

Cheapies: ~

CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE was 50p when it was first released.

TROPICAL FISH/SELENE from CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE by GONG

Ye'll have had yir supper.......

#24/28

There was a similar sampler on CBS called 'Fill Your Head With Rock" which was a bit of a bargain too.It was about 15 shillings, I think.

It had Al Stewart's 'Small Fruit Song' amd Argent's "Dance in the Smoke' and Laura Nyro's 'Gibsom Street' among others I've temporarily forgotten.Moondog.. Taj Mahal..Flock..

We had the 'Small Fruit Song' (much to the team's disgust) recently, Argent were played last night, so, if you don't fancy my Ting Tings request, I 2nd Andy's request to hear the much ignored Laura Nyro.

Though it would be good to hear Blowin Away because everyone will instantly realise where Marc Bolan got the idea for 'Hot Love' from.
Try it. You'll see.

regardez youse

henri
regardez youse

henri

#29 you was robbed, Fred. A guy over on that other place got it for 49p!

#31

'enri

Rekon you'd appreicate this bargin I found "Happy to be a part of the industry of human happiness" on Immediate Records

#33. see #14!

#32

I know - I saw him with it when i got back to school and I was well miffed when he told me.

Lots of freebies from Sounds, NME etc over the yeras as well with great material on them!

I have quite a few of these things one of the best is:

NME’s Big Four

Tom Waits Downtown Train (NME Version)
The Jesus and Mary Chain Some Candy Talking
Husker Du Ticket To Ride
Trouble Funk Let’s Get Small

I also remember some good flexi singles given away with flexipop! The Jam had one with two tracks including a great early version of Boy About Town and a track called Pop Art Poem. Both of these resurfaced on the Extras compilation.

I should confess that Toyah had one as well and both these tracks turned up on CD re-issues.

#34/33/32 etc

Obviously, a lot of work going on this afternoon....I wish I'd had that album, and that Trojan records one, Julie. Have you heard the Paul Davidson rendition of Midnight Rider - it's on Trojan?

I've remembered that I bought a copy of MOJO a couple of years ago (maybe longer) and it celebrated Macca's Glastonbery performance by issuing a free CD of tracks he was listening to at the time of the interview.

There was some astonishing stuff on that and it's still one of my treasured possessions.... and I got it for absolutely zilch...well the magazine was a couple of quid, I suppose.

Going Somewhere - Colin Hay

regardez youse

henri

Colin needs the exposure what with plaigerism cases to settle etc etc

Henri are you me? Glastonbery? ;o)

Young Norrie is right - your version of plagiarism puts him in the shade.

#34

Credits yours Julie, didn't mean to cross yer thread. I'll take my punishment at the soirée LOL.

#38/39

Mixture of lazyness and need for speed today (that's fast typing due to time constraints.)

Apologies, will endeavour to do better in future:-)

#40. That's not a problem to me at all Mac! There seems to be a 6 CD set of the same name too.

Theme Suggestions for The D List

Dreams
Death - might be too depressing but loads of good songs!
Dancing
Dads
Dumping Someone/Being Dumped

Despair

The best Album I picked up was for free. Somebody I worked with gave me the War of the Worlds complete musical soundtrack on Vinyl. It is my most prized record now, not only is the music stunning, but the artwork is also really really good.

Ali

Some good 'freebie' CDs from Q magazine:

Gomez - 'Bring It On'

Wilco - 'Can't Stand It' (I love the album Summerteeth but didn't realise I had this, my favourite track from that, till well after I'd bought the album).

D - Don't

I didn't know you had a stammer.

D - Don't mock the afflicted.

>8-D

Cheap buys

I bought Cheap Trick I want you to want me on vinyl for £2
I still have it somewhere but don't have a record player anymore

Gordon

Aaaw! Peter Skellern...Adam will be pleased!

Send it to me Gordon.....

Peter Skellern was the highlight of the night for me.

#48 / 49 It's more of a stutter.

#52

Me too - I love Peter Skellern.

I've been nuts about brass bands since Martha My Dear.

'You're A Lady' was made with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band - wonder if it's still on the go - it was a huge thing in the Midlands and the North of England?

Macca also brought a brass band back for 'Wanderlust' on Tug Of War.

Great track.... it's Friday tomorrow...hmmm

#54

Stoater...

>8-D

#10

Cheers, Norrie! Much appreciated!

:-)

#55 Henri - I think the Tug of War lp is excellent and thats a great track. Alarmingly though, for you, Wanderlust was the name of a boat he hired in the Virgin Islands (I think) so could this be his Dignity track??!!