Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation, 1980.
Mine’s a 1986 UK pressing on Virgin sublabel Dindisc.
Via Dyno Records in Newburyport (pre-covid).
“Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday . . . ”
Tag: vinylfinds
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‘Til Tuesday, Voices Carry, 1985 on Epic.
‘Til Tuesday, Voices Carry, 1985 on Epic.
My first exposure to Aimee Mann through MTV at the time.
Via Planet Score Records in St. Louis MO
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O Positive, Only Breathing, 1985 on Throbbing Lobster records.
O Positive, Only Breathing, 1985 on Throbbing Lobster records.
Boston based alternative band from the 80s – whose singer now teaches entertainment law at The Northeastern University College of Arts, Media, and Design
Saw them open for Sinead O’Connor circa 1990 at Great Woods (I think)
Via In Your Ear Allston
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Blancmange, Don’t Tell Me, 1984 on London Records.
Blancmange, Don’t Tell Me, 1984 on London Records (uk pressing).
12″ single, b-side is “Get Out of That.”
Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe, my favourite electropop duo named after a gelatinous milk dessert.
They aren’t on Insta but see http://blancmange.co.uk/ for updates on new music and tour dates
Via The Thing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (pre-covid)
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Bob Dylan, New Morning, 1970 on Columbia
Bob Dylan, New Morning, 1970 on Columbia
Via Academy Records in NYC
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Various Artists, Bonnie 2ropical, Paradise Palms 2017.
Various Artists, Bonnie 2ropical, Paradise Palms 2017.
Followup to Bonnie Tropical (2016) – on the house label of Paradise Palms – a bar/vegetarian cafe/record shop in Edinburgh.
“A collection of tracks from acts near here”
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Lomond Campbell, Black River Promise, 2016 on Triassic Tusk
Lomond Campbell, Black River Promise, 2016 on Triassic Tusk
It has since been issued by Heavenly Recordings
Lomond Campbell aka Ziggy Campbell was part of Edinburgh art collective FOUND who created “a moody, egotistical robot musician called Cybraphon whose musical style changed according to how many people were talking about it online” and won a BAFTA
Then he moved to the Scottish Highlands, renovated an old school into a modernist house / artists retreat and recorded this album.
It’s beautiful. Check out his work at lomondcampbell.com
Via Paradise Palms, Edinburgh
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Now This Is Music, 1984 on EMI out of the Netherlands.
Now This Is Music, 1984 on EMI out of the Netherlands.
First in a series of Dutch copilations which appeared between 1984 and 1989 – basically the Dutch version of “Now That’s What I Call Music”
Great time capsule, with U2, Duran Duran, Queen, UB 40, but also Malcolm McLaren, Flying Pickets, Blue Nile and The Special AKA
Via Metro City Records, Manchester NH
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Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers.
Bonnie Raitt, self-titled, 1971 on Warner Brothers.
Raitt’s debut album, recorded at an old summer camp on Enchanted Island in Lake Minnetonka
Mine’s a later repressing based on the labels – 1973 to 1978 sometime.
Fantastic beginning to a career still going strongVia Dyno Records in Newburyport, MA
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Snide Rhythms, self-titled, 2012 on The Bonjour Branch.
Snide Rhythms, self-titled, 2012 on The Bonjour Branch.
Picked this up at Paradise Palms in Edinburgh late last year, mostly just because of the cover.
What a great find – they get called art rock, post-rock, post-punk meets electro – I just dig it, whatever it is.
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Fleetwood Mac, self-titled, 1975 on Reprise.
Fleetwood Mac, self-titled, 1975 on Reprise.
Mine’s a 1977 pressing – sound is great.This is their second self-titled, and the first with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks (making a strong debut with Rhiannon and Landslide).
Via Listen Up Music in Natick, MA.
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The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, 1984 on Sire.
The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, 1984 on Sire.
Third Pretenders studio album, recorded after the deaths of James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon.
Middle of the Road, Chain Gang, My City Was Hone, 2000 miles.
Via Music Connection in Manchester NH
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Slash: The Early Sessions, 1983 on Slash Records.
Slash: The Early Sessions, 1983 on Slash Records.
The Blasters, X, Rank and File, Violent Femmes, Fear, The Germs.
Great cover art directed by Lou Beach.Via Planet Records in Cambridge
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Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis.
Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978 on Chrysalis.
Their third full length, with: Hanging On the Telephone, One Way Or Another, Heart of Glass.
Via Academy Records
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Hootenanny, 1990 on Cooking Vinyl (UK)
Hootenanny, 1990 on Cooking Vinyl (UK).
Label sampler with Bruce Cockburn, Boiled in Lead, Weddings Parties Anything, and the Colorblind James Experience and others.
Cooking Vinyl is still an indie UK label
Via Elvis Shakespeare in Edinburgh
On my 50th birthday, an album from the year I turned 20.
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Art Tatum, The Essential Art Tatum, 1962 on Verve
Art Tatum, The Essential Art Tatum, 1962 on Verve
Tatum died in 1956, these recordings are from sessions in 1953, 1954, and 1956
Via Listen Up Music in Natick MA
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The Young Snakes, Bark Along With The Young Snakes, 1982 on Ambiguous Records.
The Young Snakes, Bark Along With The Young Snakes, 1982 on Ambiguous Records.
Aimee Mann , Douglas Vargas, and Michael Evans.
Extra credit for a pre-internet cat meme cover.
Via Planet Records in Cambridge
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Small Faces, self-titled, compilation, 1972 on New World.
Small Faces, self-titled, compilation, 1972 on New World.
No self-respecting Mod would be without at least one Small Faces record.
Track A6, which is supposed to be “What’s the Matter Baby?” Is actually not even Small Faces, but Adam, Mike and Tim’s “Little Pictures,” a Decca single from 1965.Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Ian McLagan
Small Faces evolved into Faces when Marriott left to form Humble Pie, adding Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart from the Jeff Beck Group
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Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra.
Koerner, Ray & Glover; Blues, Rags and Hollees, 1963 on Elektra.
My copy is a 1969/1970 repressing, and the outer sleeve has seen better days but the record’s in good shape.
Three Minneapolis boys made good as part of the blues/folk revival of the early 60s. Ray died in 2002, and Glover in 2019, but through the 90s they still sometimes played together. I got to see them at the Times Cafe (I believe it was) in 1996.
Via @daddykoolrecords in St. Pete
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John Vanderslice, Life And Death of an American Fourtracker, 2002 on Barsuk
John Vanderslice, Life And Death of an American Fourtracker, 2002 on Barsuk
My copy is from the 2009 repressing by Afternoon Records
Kyoto Pond is only on the vinyl release
