Category: music
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Eurythmics, Revenge, 1986 on RCA
My copy is an italian pressing I got at Flashback London Always loved Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, apart or together
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Thompson Twins, Set, 1982 on T Records
Thompson Twins’ second album. In the US we didn’t get A Product Of and Set but instead got In the Name of Love, which was most of this album plus a few songs from the former.
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Two Tribes, 1984 on Zang Tuum Tumb
Zang Tuum Tumb 12 ZTAS 3, 1984. Side A: Annihilation Side B: Surrender From Flashback London
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Dr. John, the night tripper, Gris-Gris, 1986 on ATCO.
Do you walk on guilded splinters? Dr. John, the Night Tripper, Gris-Gris (1968). Rhino Records 180g european reissue from 2013 via Honest Jon’s in London
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Daryl Hall and John Oates, Rock’N Soul Part 1, 1983.
European pressing of Hall & Oates’ 1983 greatest hits collection. Includes a 1984 calendar. From Flashback Records in London
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Eddy Grant, Walking On Sunshine, 1978.
Eddy Grant, Walking On Sunshine, 1978. Yes, that Eddy Grany (Electric Avenue); no, not that Walking on Sunshine (that was Katrina and the Waves).
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Lightnin’ Hopkins, Self-Titled, 1959 on Folkways.
Reissue by Vinyl Lovers on 180g vinyl Lightnin’ Hopkins 1959 self-titled
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World Party, Private Revolution, 1986, and The Waterboys, In A Pagan Place, 1984
Two great mid-eighties albums with Karl Wallinger Picked both up at Record Exchange in St. Louis this fall.
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Last of yesterday’s finds – from Dyno Records in Newburyport
Last of yesterday’s haul – from Dyno Records in Newburyport
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Yesterday’s finds
Yesterday’s finds from Oldies in Newburyport, MA
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Finds from yesterday at Residency Records
Nice haul yesterday at Residency Records
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Nitzer Ebb “That Total Age,” 1987 on Geffen
Nitzer Ebb “That Total Age,” 1987 on @geffenrecords (US pressing). Another from my own (meaning I’ve had it since the eighties and can’t recall where I got it). Without Nitzer Ebb there would be no Nine Inch Nails or so many other wonderful things.
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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, United, 1967 on Tamla
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, from Tamla records, 1967. Mine is a repress from 2016 on 180g vinyl by Czech GZ Media but it sounds just as good as ever. From Sister Ray in Soho, London
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The Firm, self-titled, 1985
The Firm, self-titled debut from 1985 Post-zeppelin Jimmy Page with Paul Rodgers from Bad Company. “Satisfaction Gaurunteed” and “Radioactive” – but also a cover of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”
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Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, 1969 on Enterprise Records
Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, 1969 on Enterprise Records (ENS-1001). Found this at the Mill No.5 record fair back in October Enterprise was a division of Stax named after the Star Trek ship, which was Al Bell’s favorite TV show.
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If You’re Not Part of the Solution . . . Soul, Politics, and Spirituality in Jazz 1967 to 1975, 2019 on BGP Records
Another find from Honest John’s in London – a collection called “If You’re Not Part of the Solution . . . Soul, Politics, and Spirituality in Jazz 1967 to 1975” 2 LP set of mostly instrumental jazz/soul on BGP Records. Tasty and woke. Good for “cyber monday” soul-sucking consumerism.
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Independent Women’s Blues Volume 2, Big Mama’s, 1982 on Rosetta Records
Rosetta Records RR 1306 – Independent Women’s Blues Volume 2, Big Mama’s, 1982. Picked up at Honest Jon’s on Portabello Road in Ladbroke Grove.
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Wilco, Ode to Joy, 2019 on dBpm
Thankful today for Wilco’s Ode to Joy (via Rough Trade in London)