The Thrills album IS a good album, hence its ubiquity in charity shops. It sold a ton, then like so many hot properties before it, it fell out of fashion or favor. Much like vinyl copies of No Parlez.
Just bought Suede’s Singles. A shame that they are not arranged chronologically, but for £1 I’m not complaining.
That sets you up for hours of fun - how many attempts would it take for the random play function to play them in chronological order?
I've been after the first few albums for years! The only Aswad LP I own is Hulet from 1979. I got that in a charity shop in Newcastle years ago. It's a good one but I'd like more. I've heard their first album and it's excellent.
Just some LPs today, £1 each. Camberwick Green on MfP, and an Oscar Peterson comp. Both need a good clean. The Peterson gatefold was taped up.
Sarah Vaughan - No Count Sarah (1959 UK Mercury LP). £4. I'm just about to clean this up. It looks OK so hopefully it will play well. I'm pleased to get this one. I like Sarah Vaughan and this is regarded as one of her best.
A good way of disguising the drop off in quality I recommend the Sci-Fi Lullabies compilation. All the B-sides from the Butler era plus Coming Up, in chronological order, in a lovely late-era fatboy case. It conveniently aligns exactly with the period of Suede in which I’m interested. Their B-sides were often as good or better than album tracks. I’m fairly convinced that the reason the band foundered a bit after Coming Up was because they’d blown all their material on B-sides, including a mighty 16(!) from Coming Up alone, which spawned single after single, many of them 2CD sets.
Pretty much : Richard Oakes effectively had two years from joining to pen the album and 16 b-sides as well as tour for a year. So given that the band had a year to write and record 26 songs, it's surprising how good some of them are! It took them five years to write and release the 38 songs with Bernard.
That Camberwick Green LP is a real gem and I treasure my copy. Thanks for the tip. I will look out for Sci-Fi Lullabies. I love B-side collections. This is why I love this thread! It is the best topic on the forum, I’d say. A random post about a lunchtime purchase prompts discussion of probability and the merits of the group’s back catalogue. Details of charity shop adventures and spin-off debates are endlessly fascinating to this reader. I learn a lot here.
I have it already, as well as the BBC version on the Roundabout imprint, but it will make a fun gift for someone come Christmas.
The last three months my pickings have been almost non existent, hopefully Sunday will be dry and yield something, in the meantime I've been going through stuff at home, found a couple of mislaid soundtracks, a spare Graham Collier LP I didn't realise I had and an expensive rock LP that can likely go, plus a pile of other bits, no traveling no competition and guaranteed to turn up something, you can't beat home digging.
On that...by my reckoning there are more potential random sequences of the 21 tracks on that Suede singles collection (5.1*10^19) than there are jackpot-winning sequences of numbers on the National Lottery (4.5*10^7). To be fair, the CD was cheaper than a lottery ticket.
few nice scores today - Cancer Research - Portishead~Dummy/Portishead - 50p a pop Oxfam - Joanna Newsom~Have One on Me - £1 Children's Hospice SW - The Power Station~S/T - Pat Metheny Group~Still Life (Talking) - quid a pop been a real struggle finding anything remotely interesting recently...
I've only ever came across one charity shop here in Vienna that had cd's and they had a box with 20 or so in it!
Arthur Kell - See you in Zanzibar. Looks like a CD private burn type release by an American jazz bassist with his group. Bass, tenor sax, guitar and drums. £1 at Sue Ryder.
Took some 10p punts at my local. Beck - Guero Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther Solti/Chicago - Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 “Pathetique” Beck annoys me 50% of the time, so we’ll see. No idea about Midlake. I know I like Tchaikovsky mind, and don’t have a pathetique! This looks like an early pressing, smooth sided case, disc says PDO Hanover in the matrix.
The Midlake is good, but I don't like it nearly as much as the follow-up The Courage of Others, which is one of my all time faves.
I really liked that album at the time. Roscoe was the single...it channels that 70s west-coast vibe, albeit a little darker than usual, and vocals aside could be from Rumours. EG.