Oddity Archive: Episode 230.5 - Archive Thrifting #18: Shortwave Santa
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2021
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"it scared my phone's camera right out of focus" is my new "go to" line for "I've seen some shit.". 😂
4:37 That album seems to be a Taiwanese export. It's the work of a bootleg label named New Jen Seng, according to Discogs.
The subtitles appear to be in Traditional Chinese. Chinese subtitles are usually common on Taiwanese unofficial releases.
Looks like Mandarin. Definitely not Korean.
@@5roundsrapid263 Noted. I don't think Korea ever had a bootlegging (never mind the north not having a music) scene. South Korea's music was mostly ignored until the 21st century as South Korean culture orbited around the television (if you thought American boomers loved their TV, you haven't seen the culture of modern South Korea).
You mean traditional Chinese characters (Hanzi), not "Mandarin." Simplified Chinese characters (as in the Mainland) are read by over a billion folks, and Traditional Chinese characters are also read in Cantonese (Hong Kong) and transcend dialect. There's at least 56 different dialects of Chinese but only two standards of writing: simplified (develoepd in the 1950s) and traditional. There are some colloquial differences between how folks in Hong Kong and Taiwan would write out slang, but for basics they're the mostly same.
Mandarin is a spoken dialect. The record label was based out of Taipei, according to the address on the back cover.
@@darrylu.4358 Well, I know it’s not Hangul.
@@darrylu.4358 When amending the comment, I must've forgot that Mandarin was spoken, not written. Noted.
1:27 I think you may have stumbled upon the perfect tagline for the Archive. "UA-cam Comfort Food, Slightly Poisoned."
Hey I ordered that same Monkees compilation, except on CD. And like you Ben, it was for the updated version of Daydream Believer and the then new 80s recordings. And with the recent passing of Mike Nesmith, I'm seeing a lot of Monkees stuff lately.
Find a copy of the OG 1969 "The Monkees Greatest Hits" pressed by RCA.
That's what you want... trust.
Also, if you ever find OG mono versions of any Monkees Lp, snag 'em.
I dunno. I've owned mono (Colgems) LP's of the first two Monkees albums--I thought they sounded horrid. The only one I've ever sought was the mono LP of The Birds, The Bees & Monkees (for the completely alternate mixes)--found a copy once back in Denver, but it was well-scratched beyond playability...and still something like $20.
Oh man, that Grinch version, sounds like they hired a wino off the street to sing the lyrics! Anyway, you find a lot more interesting things than I do at thrift stores.
The guy singing the Grinch song sounded really drunk.
😅😅😅the the popular online j
Holy Crap! I actually had a Realistic "Astronaut 8" in the mid '70s. It was an AWESOME radio for "DX"ing the AM band in it's day. It is NOT the most portable thing ever, LOL. It's one of my favorite sets from then. If I saw one at a flea market now, I'd buy it even if It DIDN'T WORK. Nostalgia is a helluva drug!
With as much hum that was coming out of that radio, I wouldn't be surprised if there is an open capacitor.
And it's STILL a circuit board with discrete components that a HUMAN can work on. Likely an easy fix. I had one in the 1970s. I don't remember what happened to it (Probably sold off for some crap now forgotten..😢) It was actually a helluva radio in the day!
I had that Six Million Dollar Man board game! Basically anything that was a marketable property in the 70s & 80s had a board game. I’m still trying to find an Escape from New York board game that isn’t $700!
Seriously. I remember seeing a Facts of Life board game.
About that ALF puppet. Orbiters is obviously not a real baseball team. It's not even a baseball team, but rather a Melmacian sport called (get ready to groan) Bouillabaisseball, where they throw around fish. It's part of a late 80's Burger King promotion where they sold 4 different ALF puppets accompanied by cheap little cardboard records that each had a song or skit on them. I remember getting one from a relative and my dad failing to get the record to play because the needle kept slipping around, even when we weighed the record down with coins on either side, which was suggested on the package. The only video I could find about it is here:
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The recipient of the puppet has since filled me in.
@@OddityArchive Now that I remember it, as fuzzy as it was, I think I got the wrong record with my puppet. That's the one I had, but I think I got "Melmac Rock" with it.
I had the ALF comics and trading cards, which played up the Bouillabisseball angle a lot. I still have this ALF puppet! I remember the cardboard record not working also, despite lots of effort from young me.
@@bibberly It's weird how much world building there was for the character of ALF beyond the sitcom, right? I'm glad they tried to shove in so much of it in the merchandising and cartoon series. Can't believe it took me until I was an adult on the internet to even hear those ALF records. Really cheap for them not to be cassettes.
7:16 My uncle has been running a liquor store since the late 80s, I think those same dusty flash cubes are still hanging there. At least thy still were in 2009.
Awesome score on the warriors Ben
It’s one of my all time favorite movies
I always love the thrifting videos!!! :)
I only bought the first 15 volumes of "Super Hits of the 70's" back when they were first being released.
3:20 - I recommend the Paul Carrack album. Produced by Nick Lowe, it is good and solid. Linda Ronstadt covered two of its tracks on her 1989 *Cry Like A Rainstorm* album.
I kinda wish you had bought that freaky Santa sweet tray. The perfect yuletide addition for your shelf!
Save for the first two tracks, that Ronstadt album leaves me stone cold. Actually, most of her later, more Adult Contemporary stuff has that effect on me.
16:01 - Nice SCTV reference there, Benny boy.
That Alf doll comes from a Burger King promotion from the... late 80s/early 90s? I had one when I was a kid and it came with a 7" cardboard record (which ran at 33 1/3) called "Take Me, Alf, To The Ballgame." I think I could still sing the song if you gave me time to dredge up the lyrics from the deep recesses of my memory (I was a kid and impressionable, what can I say?).
On Alf's home planet Melmac they played Bouillabaseball, which is like baseball on earth but they throw fish heads instead of balls.
The song (which is interspersed with some spoken word) tells a Casey At the Bat-esque story, except of course Alf hits a blast of a home run at the end.
♫ Lob a couple of fish heads and I'll send them into the crowd.
Take me, Alf, to the ballgame 'cause I love the roar of the crowd. ♫
(Bonus points for rhyming crowd with crowd.)
There were, if I recall correctly, 4 different Alf hand puppets that one could get, each came with a differently-dressed Alf and it's own cardboard record with a related song. I had two: "Take Me, Alf, To The Ballgame" and "Cookin' With Alf."
6:53 I've used these Top Crest tapes before in the mid 2000s. Found a whole bunch at either a second hand store or yard sale. I used them to record airchecks of various radio stations in eastern SD, and I've only came across one tape that didn't record properly. The rest that did sounded rather good for recording AM/FM radio at least, and still playback decently enough.
11:09 The CD you passed on was one of the many, many Christmas music compilations sold by True Value hardware stores, and they are rather standard renditions of Christmas songs and other things sung by then relevant musicians and artists. I have three of these on vinyl; volumes 9, 15, and 23 (1973, 1980, 1988) respectively. I have a couple later editions on cassette, and True Value kept releasing these until the very late 2000s I think.
8:55 When I saw the Alf puppet, my first reaction was "You bout dat ding, really?"
That Realistic Astronaut-8 radio could be a repair candidate for shango066.
Nah. It's too black for him.
13:17 A tangentially fun fact: what was essentially the first automated programmable machine, the 1804 Jacquard machine, was a power loom using long strings of punched cards woven together into strings that held the pattern to be woven, one card per row. One Charles Babbage was one of the owners of a celebrated silk print portrait of Jacquard that required 24,000 cards to produce and planned to use punch cards in his Analytical Engine. A media tape format, in 1804. Even if in this case the content is a textile bitmap, and the tape is cardboard and string.
Gloria Estefan is AWESOME.
"Satan Claus" is a good name for a band.
Old shortwave radios are works of art.
"Marion Bright", LOL.
The audio output caps need to be replaced on that knock-off Panaphonic trans-oceanic.
...the IF chain also probably suffers from silver mica deterioration.
1, "Trans-Oceanic" was a ZENITH brand for their high end multiband radios, so any Panasonic version would be the "knock off" (Panasonic DID make some awesome multibanders though..). 2, The "Astronaut 8" was actually a great radio for the money then. I do admit that "Panaphonic" is a good name for a punk band.
I STILL have .22LR ammo that I bought at....wait for it.... $1.00 for 50 cartridges! (fired some last week, 100% worked in a 40 year old revolver!)
I actually found that Mad board game at a local antique mall not long ago. They wanted thirty bucks for it and I went ahead and pulled the trigger because in my extremely rural neck of the woods there's a good chance I'd never find it in the wild again.
Address of the seller/possible manufacturer is visible on 4:50 and I can confirm it’s from Taiwan, not South Korea.
The record company (…唱片出版社有限公司) had an office in Shilin District in Taipei and the manufacturer was in the now Yonghe District,New Taipei City!
lol love how on the record it says 100% canadian
Mad Magazine Game is a lot of fun. Not $25 fun, but fun.
The Nightmares Before Christmas. Thanks for another fun-filled thrifting sojourn, Benny. 😁
youtube always puts It's a Beautiful Day on top of the watch next list whenever i listen to psychedelic bands
15:40 That's the exact same keyboard my little sister had when we were kids, I think it was originally like $100
For a second, I didn't realize you were talking about Arista Records and thought you said AristoMonkees, much like Aristocats. I have no idea why I just admitted to that.
4:30 I would have totally picked up that TV theme album!
I couldn't help noticing the Haunted Mansion font on that Rapture album.
That Barry McGuire record you just passed is of course a Best Of compilation of Contemporary Christian songs. All the songs are sung by Barry McGuire, the same guy who did Eve Of Destruction. The Christian songs I could come up with are Bullfrogs And Butterflies and Cosmic Cowboy. Geez, the 70's was such a goofy time. And I had the tv themes record from Peter Pan Records. I found that at a store called The Village Discount Outlet in the 90's.
Edit: Bullfrogs And Butterflies is just him singing with a children's chorus.
I know. I've never cared for any of his stuff beyond "Eve of Destruction"...and even then, I could just as easily take the Turtles' version or P.F. Sloan's own version.
There are no Savers thrift stores around me, but it looks like I'm not missing out on much. What they do with those 45s is ridiculous, and I can't imagine who would want to buy those. Almost all of the thrift stores around me charge $1 for CDs, and seeing prices like $3 and $4 is just absurd to me.
The reason why some of the Arista Monkees compilations sound funky is because until around 1983 when Rhino stepped in, they used needle drops. More Greatest Hits of the Monkees is one of the worst sounding things in my collection period. Randy Scouse Git is taken from a particularly noisy needle-drop with surface noise obscuring the famous timpani intro. Always nice to hear surface noise... on a cassette. Then & Now was taken from tape sources but they did a lot of remixes rather than the original stereo mixes, including adding tinny 80s drums to Daydream Believer on some copies.
I have one of those ALF puppets that belonged to my Mom.
Oh good grief that one tree, i would've said the same thing as you
I could've used that domino dealer for my sets
I had a Domino Rally set, but I could never get the dominos to stand up. Huge disapointment IMO.
Twenty-five dollars for The Mad Magazine Game? Tell him he's dreamin'.
Greetings Ben, I was wondering since you deal with so many nostalgic items if the Mandela effect has ever affected you?
I was an oldies DJ back in the late '90s through mid '00s, working for Archway Broadcasting.
That "Super Hits of the '70s" set is amazing.
I was lucky enough to buy the entire set.
Disc three is worth it for "Beautiful Sunday" alone.
RIP Michael Nesmith....
Great episode thay one folk album is a grest find. Let us know if you can get the radio speaker back to nominal
wow a early uk now cd now 11!! how much did they want for it
@15:46 Is that a Seiko Presage you're wearing? Either way, nice watch!
Citizen.
AM, FM, AND Medium Wave?
Thought Medium Wave was AM in Europe?
might be bad Caps in the radio O>O
please let there be sergei next week
4:40 Chinese.
Cool! A Jimmy Swaggart/ Albert Camus mashup!
Satan Claus?
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Domino rally was as fun as mouse trap , ie not at all.
why were they HOLLOW
those game designers need to go to a level of hell paved with pointy lego bricks
Useless trivia: The midget actor who played Alf first appeared on The Doors album cover “Strange Days”… HA, you never thought there would ever be a Doors/Alf connection…. but there is! 😮🫨