What vinyl are you listening to?

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

First Aid Kit - `The Lion`s Roar`. Love this. They`ve got a new album out next month!

I'm considering buying this album, the track The Lion's Roar is a wonderful piece of music..

 

[survivor]

First Aid Kit - `The Lion`s Roar`. Love this. They`ve got a new album out next month!

I'm considering buying this album, the track The Lion's Roar is a wonderful piece of music..

Sure is BBB! Also in case you haven`t heard it, a track called `Ghost Town` from first album `The Big Black and the Blue` is my favourite song by them so far and I highly recommend it. Only have first album on cd at moment but it`s being re-issued on vinyl next week. Hurrah!

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

A selection from:

Zen Arcade - Husker Du

Smile (Sessions Box) - The Beach Boys

Time Fades Away - Neil Young

Planet Waves - Bob Dylan

Goo - Sonic Youth

And song of the moment :
Stay On These Roads - A-ha.

 

[survivor]

Neil Young - `After the Gold Rush`

 

[Waxy]

Jimi H - Electric Ladyland

Steve Hillage - Fish Rising

Baroness - Red Album

 

[DIB]

The mighty 'Hogs last hurrah before getting wiped away by punk.

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[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

 

[survivor]

The Smiths - `The Queen is Dead`. Inspired by BBB`s post above. It`s one of those album covers that when I see it I just have to play the album!

 

[guidewell]

On New Year’s Day, my wife gave me a present in the form of a New Year Resolution – make a list of all the vinyl records I wish I could have – those I could never afford in my youth, my teens and my 20s, in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She is getting well down the list, buying from Amazon, Ebay, EIL and Sweet Memories Vinyl amongst others. Some of our family and friends have also chipped in with some contributions. Here is an extract from my list of those I have been ‘listening’ to.

But here’s a catch – there’s one heading on my list under which are discs that exist in real life, but also another for those that very nearly existed (and may yet come to light one day) and another for wild flights of fancy and fond memories that I can only hear in my imagination inside my own head. Can you guess which are which and separate fact from fiction?

Shirley Abicair
3 LPs of children’s and folk songs from New Zealand and Australia recorded between 1960 and 1962

Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patton et all, aka The Liverpool Scene
The Incredible New Liverpool Scene

Original cast recording featuring Cliff Richard
Oh Boy! Recordings from the 1958 ITV television shows

The Shepherds Bush Comets
Greatest Hits

Muckram Wakes
Live at the BBC

Pentangle
Live at Coventry Cathedral 1968

Colosseum and the New Jazz Orchestra featuring vocals by Chris Farlowe
Live at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry 1968

The King Bolden Band
Buddy Bolden’s Blues and other hit songs

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra featuring Bing Crosby
Original Soundtrack of the film King of Jazz

George & Ira Gershwin, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, with Gertrude Lawrence as Kay and a pit orchestra featuring the Dorsey brothers
Oh Kay! First Night Original Recording at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, September 21st 1927

Edible Fungi
The Fantastic Plastic Cucumber Machine

SO – HERE ARE THE SOLUTIONS[/b]
I hope you had fun trying to tease out real from imaginary. Here are the stories behind this list.

Yes, Shirley Abicair did record three discs between 1960 and 1962 but so far I have been unable to unearth even the titles! The BBC record library, usually a good source for rare recordings, only has two discs by Shirley and these are 45rpm singles of Botany Bay and Little Boy Fishing.

Of all the discs released by this scratch group of Liverpool beat poets and their friends, The Incredible Liverpool Scene is the only one that I have not been able to get hold of.

You can actually find two LPs of the same music from Jack Goode’s seminal rock’n’roll show – the original recording and a Music for Pleasure label re-release.

The Shepherds Bush Comets was a real band that recorded three singles on the Sonet label in the early 1970s: but they never released enough material to make an LP and none of the numbers were hits. The band plays instrumental versions of old spiritual songs in a style reminiscent of Johnny & The Hurricanes and I just adore their 12-bar rocking rendition of Amazing Grace and wish I had had the idea to do it this way.

Muckram Wakes preformed a great deal for BBC local and national radio (including Jim Lloyd’s Folk on Two) and released three studio LPs between 1970 and 1980 featuring the most popular songs and tunes in their repertoire (which I have sourced): but sadly their BBC sessions are unreleased. Are they still in the vaults or was the tape wiped and reused? We may never know. Unless the Corporation requests private recordings during one of its amnesties as it had done for other radio and TV shows that have been collected and re-broadcast, they may never see the light of day.

Pentangle actually recorded their live LP (half of the Sweet Child double) at The Royal Festival Hall, London though I wish there was a recording of the magical concert our headmaster’s son and I got leave to attend.

Both Neil Ardley’s New Jazz Orchestra and the band Colosseum have recorded live albums but never together. There was no mobile recording unit at the Lanchester Poly concert that Saturday afternoon I was allowed out of our boarding school to see.

“Buddy” Bolden was incredibly popular just before the advent of popular sound recording. There is a rumour that somewhere in the world there is one early (c1901?) 78rpm disc of the band playing the song Buddy Bolden’s Blues but I have never seen or heard any hard evidence for this.

I once recorded King of Jazz on VHS video on one of its rare television broadcasts but the tape (and the machine) are worn out. As far as I know, there isn’t actually tape or disc release of the film or an LP transcription of the music.

Sadly, there were no original cast recordings of Oh Kay! (though there are LPs and CDs of Brunswick acoustic and electric discs cut for publicity purposes for shows in which Fred and Adele Astaire, Jack Buchannan, George Gershwin and others appeared in London in the late ‘20s ): but if I ever get a ride in a time machine that is one theatrical performance I would love to attend. The musical was revived in London as a concert performance as part of the Discovering Lost Musicals season at The Barbican Centre in 1997 – I wonder if someone somewhere has a recording taken from the sound system there…

The last ‘disc’ on my list is a piece of wish-fulfilment – Edible Fungi was my sixth-form band – leader Geof Gullick on bass, Tony Salter on drums, Phil Mason rhythm guitar and me playing lead. The title was only one daft number we came up with to spoof the prog rockers of the day. Once, we even made a primitive reel-to-reel tape of ourselves. Where are you now, band-mates?

 

[DIB]

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[survivor]

Saxon - `Wheels Of Steel`. Friday night and time for a bit of Saxon!

 

[Waxy]

Deep Purple - Fireball

Yusef Lateef - Detroit

Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

Spiritualized - Pure Phase

 

[DIB]

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[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

The Breeders - Pod

Lynyrd Skynyrd - One From The Road

Louis Armstrong - Greatest Hits

 

[Marvindodgers]

Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

Janet Jackson - Control

Blondie - Eat To The Beat

Jaki Graham - Breaking Away

stil to come

Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap

ABC - Beauty Stab

Roxy Music - The Fifth Roxy Music Album

Kate Bush - Never For Ever

An eclectic afternoons listening, which was the result of a productive search of the bargain bin at the local record shop.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

During the last few days I've enjoyed listening to these:

Zen Arcade - Husker Du

One of the best noise-pop double albums ever made, surely?

The Fox Jumps Over The Parson's Gate - Peter Bellamy

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Made In Japan - Deep Purple

7 Skies H3 - The Flaming Lips

Elgar Cello Concerto - Du Pre/Barenboim

Stay On These Roads - A-ha

Time - ELO

Trans - Neil Young

In Rock - Deep Purple

Moving Pictures - Rush

Psyence Fiction - UNKLE

Everything's Fine - Willard Grant Conspiracy

Is A Woman - Lambchop

 

[Jim-W]

During the last few days I've enjoyed listening to these:

Zen Arcade - Husker Du

One of the best noise-pop double albums ever made, surely?

The Fox Jumps Over The Parson's Gate - Peter Bellamy

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Made In Japan - Deep Purple

7 Skies H3 - The Flaming Lips

Elgar Cello Concerto - Du Pre/Barenboim

Stay On These Roads - A-ha

Time - ELO

Trans - Neil Young

In Rock - Deep Purple

Moving Pictures - Rush

Psyence Fiction - UNKLE

Everything's Fine - Willard Grant Conspiracy

Is A Woman - Lambchop

Yes, Charlie, a thousand times, yes. Nice eclectic bunch of stuff.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Buddy Rich Big Band - Big Swing Face

Beatles - Abbey Road

REM - Out Of Time

Television - Marquee Moon

 

[Jim-W]

Holiday...nice; going back after half-term, although God knows why, to teach Drama and English. I just want to help this train-wreck academy which is being closed in 2016. When I was full-time it was a lovely, friendly small school; it still is but an expanding local academy, the local authority and the DfE have combined to force it to close. Too sad for words.

Listening over the last few days to:

Bill Evans Trio-'Explorations.' Still my favourite record.

Jackie McClean-'Bluesnik.'

Lee Morgan-'In Search Of The New Land.' Brilliant Blue Note record.

Rickie Lee Jones-'Pirates.'

Osibisa-'Osibisa.' D'ya know, there's times when this lot sound like the Allman Brothers! Oh, and Jethro Tull! Wonderful record.

Blossom Toes-'We Are Ever So Clean' and 'If Only For A Moment.' Featured in this month's 'Record Collector.'

John Martyn-'Solid Air.'

Sidsel Endresen-'So I Write.' (ECM with Django Bates amongst others.)

 

[Jim-W]

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Great photo of a lovely, and no doubt lovely- sounding record player. Bet it hammers out those Groundhogs with some force and finesse.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Holiday...nice; going back after half-term, although God knows why, to teach Drama and English. I just want to help this train-wreck academy which is being closed in 2016. When I was full-time it was a lovely, friendly small school; it still is but an expanding local academy, the local authority and the DfE have combined to force it to close. Too sad for words.

Listening over the last few days to:

Bill Evans Trio-'Explorations.' Still my favourite record.

Jackie McClean-'Bluesnik.'

Lee Morgan-'In Search Of The New Land.' Brilliant Blue Note record.

Rickie Lee Jones-'Pirates.'

Osibisa-'Osibisa.' D'ya know, there's times when this lot sound like the Allman Brothers! Oh, and Jethro Tull! Wonderful record.

Blossom Toes-'We Are Ever So Clean' and 'If Only For A Moment.' Featured in this month's 'Record Collector.'

John Martyn-'Solid Air.'

Sidsel Endresen-'So I Write.' (ECM with Django Bates amongst others.)

Yes Jim, too sad for words. The plight of schools in this ideologically right-leaning climate is a cause for much regret. To make matters worse Thursday's local and no doubt today's European election results will reveal even more support for the BNP-in-blazers brigade. And what truly characterises that "support"? A paucity of joined-up thinking. UKIP are the seemingly simple but wrong answer to a nuanced question. That's a dangerous and toxic brand. I don't want to hear Miliband or Osbourne for that matter giving succour to Nigel Farage by trotting out the "we need to listen to the people" (who support UKIP) and draft policy accordingly. No!!! Let the idiots have it with both barrels. Educate, agitate and organise, as thsoe fun popsters That Petrol Emotion once put it.

No apologies to the apathists (not the playwrights of the same name) and fruitcakes out there. The dog has truly gone to the country, to speak in their argot.

I hope your next half-term is gratfiying, within the context of being "academised". Our HR manager genuienly and openly uses that phrase in a non-pejorative manner in meetings. When I challenged her she accused me of pedantry, and then of "socialism". Yes, accused of socialism. Theres's a song in there somewhere. Already a Billy Bragg B-side, no doubt.

I think your playlist "out-eclected" me. Like it!!!

 

[Jim-W]

Holiday...nice; going back after half-term, although God knows why, to teach Drama and English. I just want to help this train-wreck academy which is being closed in 2016. When I was full-time it was a lovely, friendly small school; it still is but an expanding local academy, the local authority and the DfE have combined to force it to close. Too sad for words.

Listening over the last few days to:

Bill Evans Trio-'Explorations.' Still my favourite record.

Jackie McClean-'Bluesnik.'

Lee Morgan-'In Search Of The New Land.' Brilliant Blue Note record.

Rickie Lee Jones-'Pirates.'

Osibisa-'Osibisa.' D'ya know, there's times when this lot sound like the Allman Brothers! Oh, and Jethro Tull! Wonderful record.

Blossom Toes-'We Are Ever So Clean' and 'If Only For A Moment.' Featured in this month's 'Record Collector.'

John Martyn-'Solid Air.'

Sidsel Endresen-'So I Write.' (ECM with Django Bates amongst others.)

Yes Jim, too sad for words. The plight of schools in this ideologically right-leaning climate is a cause for much regret. To make matters worse Thursday's local and no doubt today's European election results will reveal even more support for the BNP-in-blazers brigade. And what truly characterises that "support"? A paucity of joined-up thinking. UKIP are the seemingly simple but wrong answer to a nuanced question. That's a dangerous and toxic brand. I don't want to hear Miliband or Osbourne for that matter giving succour to Nigel Farage by trotting out the "we need to listen to the people" (who support UKIP) and draft policy accordingly. No!!! Let the idiots have it with both barrels. Educate, agitate and organise, as thsoe fun popsters That Petrol Emotion once put it.

No apologies to the apathists (not the playwrights of the same name) and fruitcakes out there. The dog has truly gone to the country, to speak in their argot.

I hope your next half-term is gratfiying, within the context of being "academised". Our HR manager genuienly and openly uses that phrase in a non-pejorative manner in meetings. When I challenged her she accused me of pedantry, and then of "socialism". Yes, accused of socialism. Theres's a song in there somewhere. Already a Billy Bragg B-side, no doubt.

I think your playlist "out-eclected" me. Like it!!!

That's a mighty fine rant, Charlie and very much along the lines of Owen Jones' thinking...and mine for that matter. A socialist and a lover of last century's finest audio technology; I think we may be a dying breed, Charlie. There'll be a knock at the door in the middle of the night and that'll be that: forced to read 'The Thoughts Of Michael Gove' and listen to mp3's for the rest of our lives.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

So this morning after a barrel of beer over at a friend's house last night, I awake to two hangovers. One alcoholic, one political.

Fruit and tea for the first, Chris Hitchen's Orwell's Victory for the latter. My two little boys are jumping around to Keith Richard's reggae-stomp Too Rude and Kratwerk's remixed The Robots. Life, glorious life, will carry on however much Nigel and his hideous French friends try to re-configure it into a hateful, suspicious, petty-minded place.

 

[Marvindodgers]

We're way off topic, but why'll we're on the subject, I too fear for the direction this,"I voted for UKIP as a protest against the political elite," idiocy is going to take us. There is much wrong with the EU and it needs massive reform, but being outside of it shouting in is not the way to go.

sorry, had to get that off my chest.

 

[jamesrfisher]

After a weekend away for the rugby back to my other passion

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Tinariwen - Emmaar

Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

Prefab Sprout - Crimson/Red

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow