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Many years ago, my youngest son, aged what, 14 or 15 bought this for me, from a charity shop, out of his pocket money; "I thought you'd like this Dad".
Aside from bringing a tear to my eye every time I listen to it, just take a look at that track listing. Incredible.
Wow, that is a great selection and an even better back story! A few on there I don’t know from the titles but some fabulous tracks I’ve not heard in years. Might have to see if I can assemble a Tidal playlist to mirror that!
When I was first dating Sue in 2003 we were having a record night and I was putting on songs she liked. She tried to describe a song she remembered when she was about 3 or 4 that her auntie used to play over and over again - about the best she could manage was she remembered it had a sort of “whoop” vocal in it. Her jaw dropped when I said “Althea and Donna?” Then pulled a 7” single out and played Uptown Top Ranking!
I've got to hand it to you Alex, getting to Uptown Top Ranking (great track) from "it had a sort of "whoop" vocal in it" is beyond me. No wonder you ended up together, I certainly couldn't have done that ! :lol:Quote:
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I remember Althea and Donna's 'Uptown Top Ranking' with the "Oop", But if someone had asked what was the song with an 'oop' in it , I wouldn't have been able to suggest anything.
Well done Alex - great story.
And yet she thinks Pink Floyd is a racket! :lol:
The sad thing is I even knew that it was a green coloured label which made it easier to find (my 7” singles for some reason have never been filed alphabetically) although I did drop a point as I didn’t remember it was on Lightning! (Interestingly, just checked on eBay and it is spelled “Althia” not “Althea” on the record label itself).
Amazingly all those tracks were on Tidal so playlist created and I will give it a whirl tomorrow.
Anyway, this one’s near the end and the close of the night and bed time!
Japan - Tin Drum (1981)
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I've just bought the LP from Ebay! :)
Nice one! I see it’s on “K-Tel” - that’s a blast from the past I had forgotten about!Quote:
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We can all compare notes when you get it!
Yet another, Top 50 Album, for me.Quote:
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Wise move that man.Quote:
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:thumbsup: Never thought I'd ever own a K-Tel LPQuote:
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I'm surprised K-Tel never released a "Best of Ronco" :)
The K-Tel records always looked like good vfm because you got so much music squeezed onto a single disc - probably not the best idea for sound quality, but to release them as double albums would have defeated their budget objective.
They followed on from the old "Top of the Pops" compilations, which didn't use original artists and were frankly dire, although the cover art was always something for dads and teenage boys... a sign of the times, like the Big D Peanuts displays you'd get in pubs where you'd find a scantily clad model lurking behind the bags :)
Sorry that was quite some thread drift.
Jamm
Cheikh Lô
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Cheikh Lô is a Senegalese musician.
10cc – How Dare You!
Label: Mercury – 9102 501
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 9 Jan 1976
Genre:Rock, Pop
Style:Art Rock, Pop Rock, Prog Rock
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ABC – Alphabet City
Label: Neutron Records – NTRH 4
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1987
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop
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Oumou
Oumou Sangare
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Yes, it's an absolute belter - Ghosts has to be one of my favourite tracks ever. It always reminds me of baked beans, though... I shall explain!Quote:
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I have great memories of playing it at a girl's house in the complete dark around 1986. We'll call her "Sophie" - well, because that was indeed her name. Aside from listening to music in the dark, Sophie always said she wanted to have sex in a bath full of baked beans. :eek:
This never happened - I mean, aside from the logistics of it, there's the cost - and I was an office junior at the time! How many tins of baked beans would it take to fill a bath? And then what the heck do you do with them afterwards, how do you get them out, a large spoon and a wheelbarrow?
Anyway, Sophie decided to kid all my friends that we had indeed "done it" in a bath full of baked beans... I am sure they didn't believe her, but I went along with the story, and as far as I know, they still think it happened!
We lost touch (not because of her baked bean fetish!) and it wasn't until a few years ago that she messaged me via social media as she had found a couple of photos of me from the time. She went on to become an RE Teacher, and is now a grandmother! I have no idea if her baked bean kink has ever been fulfilled, or if she moved on to Alphabetti Spaghetti or indeed any other of the 57 varieties!
Observants
Vulkan
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Mike’s “To 50 albums” comment got me thinking - could I compile a top 50 list of albums? Not sure I could, but this one would almost certainly be in mine, I very much doubt it is anyone else’s cup of tea, though…
Line Marlin - Playing my Game (1999)
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I will undoubtedly have posted this before, because I just find it incredible that a Norwegian teenager could have written this in her bedroom when English isn’t her first language, and she only picked up a guitar aged 15 and quickly started writing this album. Yes, definitely in my 50…. For now!
I could compile a top 50 list of albums, easy peasy - only trouble is, each day it would be different!Quote:
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Well, that album was as brilliant as always, the last track “A Place Nearby” gets me in the feels (as the kids say) every time.
Let’s cheer things up a bit with some of Mike’s Magic Reggae!
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Last one.
Kula Shaker - K (1996)
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Rock on Tommy!Quote:
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Where did you find Alex's post referring to his supposed having sex in a bath of baked beans? Must be an example of AoS's notorious thead drift, but I would still like to know where it was posted - obviously not here!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Great LP by the way.
It was #4024 above, Barry!
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#4024 was Steve's reply to your post. What interests me is where was your original post, referring to a track 'Ghosts' which makes you think of baked beans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
This is not the first time that I haven't been able to find the original post which has prompted a reply.
(I think you ought to change your "I'm" signature from involvement with lilac curtains to involvement with baked beans! :D )
Well on my devices #4024 is my original post, Steve’s reply is #4030 - no idea why we are seeing them differently!
Good point on the “lilac curtains” although that was Marco’s work, not sure I can change it myself. (Nearly 7 years since we had the lilac curtains!)
Very strange. On my laptop Alex's post was #4018, my reply was #4024! No idea what's going on here :scratch:Quote:
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From now on the cover of Japan's "Tin Drum" album will make me think of Alex eating baked beans with chop sticks, while pondering what could have been with Sophie, who looks remarkably like Mao Zedung :)
Who knows? Who cares? Who’s next.Quote:
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Another excellent LP! :)
Time to kick off the evening session. Let’s party! :)
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Now we're on the same page old bean :)Quote:
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Couldn't Stand The Weather
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
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Arctic Monkeys - AM (2013)
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January Came Close
Cardinal Black
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Another new one on me, first track good so far! :thumbsup:Quote:
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Voice reminds me a bit of Teddy Swims (though that should be the other way round!)
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth (1984)
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Another one I should really be playing my vinyl copy of. Sounds fab streaming, though - “I Scare Myself” is his best track in my opinion, sounds great.
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Sticking with the same year, still have the vinyl copy I bought back then of this one too, though pretty worn I guess! Loved it the and still do.
Howard Jones - Humans Lib (1984)
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Good one Tim!Quote:
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Well 15 year old me wouldn’t have left this one on the shelf…
Frankie Gies to Hollywood- Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984)
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Frankie Say: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
Local Welsh band Alex - their lead guitar, Chris Buck is very good, well I think he is.Quote:
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I enjoyed it, will definitely play it again and check out their other stuff. :)
Purple Rain Deluxe
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Looks like I’m ending with another from 1984.
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
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Another anecdote alert: about 11 or 12 years ago when Tamzin was 5 or 6 I introduced her to my vinyl albums, and for some reason she loved Tina Turner, and this one in particular. One morning she came running into the room “Daddy, Tina Turner’s cat is in our garden!” And it was! (Well if it wasn’t, I couldn’t tell the difference either.)
I actually can’t time travel back to 1984 without including this one.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Junk Culture (1984)
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This album holds a unique honour in my collection - it is the only one I have bought new in 3 different formats. Originally I bought it on cassette - possibly the only album I have ever bought when it came out on tape, for the sole reason that we were about to go on a school geography trip for a week to the Lake District.
Even then I couldn’t face the thought of a week without music! I couldn’t afford a Sony Walkman so made do with a Sansui knock off and bought this album. I also made some copies of other albums and compilations using my dad’s Ferguson sound system, so looking back I don’t know why I didn’t buy it on vinyl and copy it, but there you go.
I did subsequently acquire a vinyl copy, and then when I finally accepted CDs were “the future” this was one of the hundreds of albums that got an “upgrade”.
The school trip to the Lakes was fairly uneventful except I was the one who was picked to go into an off licence in Kendal to buy Woodpecker cider and fags as I looked one of the oldest of our motley crew of 15 year olds. Illicit goods were acquired without a hitch or question, and maybe my heroics was what attracted Amanda to me, who I subsequently “got off” with - but don’t worry, no baked beans or other canned goods were harmed in the making of that brief relationship!