Yeah, they were expected to be big, but I can't remember a thing about them! I'll just get my ticket... A couple of weeks later. I miss those days...
Great times I was in a charity shop today (first time since pre-Covid) and saw a wrecked copy of the House Of Love's Butterfly album CD. This was another favourite gig - not my ticket, but I do have one somewhere. Set list was Never / I Don't Know Why I Love You / Happy / Salome / Shake & Crawl / Safe / Se Dest / Nothing To Me / Blind / Hannah / In A Room / Shine On / Destroy The Heart / Man To Child / Christine / Love in A Car
Yes, think was reviewed in some places as Fontana. Wish it would get the 3CD treatment. EDIT - while queuing up for the following year's gig (March 1990), a guy kept going up to people and shouting "In the garden there's a COCK OF ARMS". I don't think he went inside.
It was F10-D-A, which I realise probably isn't representative, but I listened to the samples from the rest of the 'So There' album at Amazon, and thought yes, I really like this, so shelled out £7 for that. It was then that, as I say, I went a bit mad. When I saw all those deals at MusicMagpie I couldn't think which ones to get and in the end just thought "sod it, I'll get them all".
It is a shame all those extra tracks were not on the CD. My old cassette is long gone and I miss some of those tracks to this day!
Alas, no chance to get out CD hunting. I guess I could hit Morpeth this morning if I was feeling keen…
I have never ever seen an RCA Bowie CD in the wild and I am a bit of a charity shop addict! Have had plenty of finds like a solid blue triangle Dark Side of the Moon LP (complete and Ex cond.) for 50p though! That was a few years ago now.....
The Beloved's Bandcamp page has a ton of digital editions of their albums/singles. I can't remember if this matches or contains all the extra cassette tracks: Blissed Out (Bonus Version), by The Beloved EG.
CDs and DVDs were 4 for £1 in the Sue Ryder shop, Garstang, this morning, and I came out with The Doors - Morrison Hotel (remastered) Experience Hendrix comp The Cosmic Rough Riders - Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine Good Morning Vietnam comp (not the original movie soundtrack) I snatched up a Sex Pistols' Never Mind The ..., but it was only a CDr :-(
David Bowie - The Next Day £1 The Police - Synchronicity £1 Bruce Springsteen - The Essential 2CD £1.50 Motown 50 3CD - 50p! Roy Wood - Boulders - £1 Paul Morley - The Age of Bowie Simon Goddard - The Smiths: Songs That Changed Your Life Both £1.50 each
Six weeks on from that and things are a little better: BHF: somebody or somebodies most have offloaded a load of stuff 'cos there was a lot there and a lot I hadn't seen before, not just the usual suspects, a load of classical, but still mostly priced at £2.99 or £3.99. Shelter: two crates on the floor, nothing of interest to me, but at least it wasn't all David Gray, Dido and the Verve. Cancer Research: must be cutting down, because nowhere near the amount of CDs they used to have. Oxfam: terrible, the same old Robbie Williams and Scissor Sisters CDs that were there the last time I was in. I guess they're sending the decent stuff to their specialist book, CD and vinyl shops. Anyway, I ended up with a kind of Charles Ives overview 'An American Journey' (San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas) which I suspect might be more interesting than entertaining and 'First Impressions of Earth' by the Strokes which I suspect might be not that good, but had a nice cut-out mint condition digipak cover for £1.49 each from BHF, and 'I Speak Because I Can' by Laura Marling, which could go either way, since I have never knowingly heard even a hemi-demi-semiquaver of her music before, from Cancer Research for a £1. Must remember to take empty my little wasabi bowl of change into my pocket next time I go on a chazzer visit. I've paid with cash so little over the last year, I keep forgetting about it. I almost didn't buy the Laura Marling because I knew I would get all flustered and apologetic about paying £1 with a credit card.
The Smiths book is excellent. The Bowie book less so and I have to admit I didn’t finish it. Kind of wish I had now as I generally like Paul Morley.
It really seems it's against the law for all charity shops not to have these nightmares infesting the shelves.
I was totally unaware of Laura Marling until a friend invited me to a Folk festival where she played an unannounced set and was very good, since then I've bought most of her records, they are often cheap new, and I enjoy them, the friend who invited me to the festival absolutely hates her, though mostly because she can sound American so hardly a rational dislike.
Some CDs from the last two days, I'll post some of them in more detail in the Early Pressing thread. Most of them came from a visit to Milngavie, a wealthy suburb North of Glasgow, this morning.
Wouldn’t mind finding that Cure one. If only it had the bonus tracks that the cassette version had. I’d buy it new if it did.
I never used to but in the last month I’ve picked up 80s masters of Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography, Japanese Whispers, Kiss Me x 3 and Disintegration all for a couple quid each. I know I won’t see any more now.
The first four tracks on the Strokes album are up there with their best work, but it's downhill pretty quickly from there.
