My goodness; I can't believe what you score from the shops. That is a very clean copy of Lust For Life. Agree, David Bowie albums indeed. Feel better, Alan.
Thanks, Mark. I don't find things as often as I used to, and often come home empty-handed, so it's nice to score something a bit special every now and then. Cheers.
Happy Mondays, technically when you listen to those inane shiny trousers noise generators no day is going to be Happy, is it!! Scorpions, 50p for one of their vinyls is 51p more than they are worth. At least you got Lust for Life, I have that, although in my teenage crates..
Haha! Yes, I think paracetamol and aspirin are not really strong enough to get a happy buzz from The Mondays. I'm too middle-aged to try something stronger... I had not listened to Lust For Life for many years. The loudness and production took me aback. More enjoyable than I was anticipating.
Hello Alan👋🏻I truly hope what is coming at you doesn’t stay around or come at all!!!😕🤧🤒good to you and once again your charity finds puts our goodwill( equivalent ) wow that Eddie Henderson looks great....take care my friend 🙏🏻✨
Thanks, Lis. Yes, hopefully, the lurgy will not materialise fully... The Eddie Henderson was a very nice find and, in some ways, the pick of the bunch. I wasn't going to show most of these, but they are not easy to come by in original pressings, and there's always something exciting about finding them in charity shops. And it's getting much, much harder to do so nowadays.
@@statictraveller hehehe I guess I don’t watch and type as well as I use too! 🙄🤭😲it is good to see you Alan and your charity finds puts our goodwill finds to shame! Shame I sez!! Hehe take care
You would probably spend over 100 pounds in a normal record shop, great find, I've had a few charity shop hauls which was good but lately it's been dull
For me, record shops are too expensive these days. I still like finding the bargains. However, like you, it has been a while since I found a really good collection in the charity shops.
Wow! Great finds! Lovely pills thrills, Iggy, Ramones! I’m knee deep in Jimmy Shand, Moira Kerr and James Last up here. Anything half decent is ludicrously priced. Was wondering if these were recent finds or picked up over the years?
I quite like the typography of that McCullogh cover, though Mac looks unusually boyish. You showing The Idiot made me listen to it again. Very strong songs I think and the ultimate alienation / depression tune Mass Production out-Lows Bowie’s Low.
I think the McCulloch cover seems to look OK on camera, but when one considers all the artwork that could have been used for an album titled 'Mysterio'.... I was going to mention that I think Bowie's tunes on Iggy's albums are probably stronger than his self released material from the period. It would be fascinating to know his process and decision-making at the time. I wonder what the songs would have sounded like with his lyrics and vocals instead?
Hi Alan Glad you've found another honey hole for vinyl. I played that Dick Gaughan album the other week and then watched a video on UA-cam where he's a speaker at a Labour party office ( I think early 90s)..interesting guy and spoke really well..but agree, his music style isn't anything original. I used to have Lovedrive, always liked the opener ' Loving You Sunday Morning'. Hope you feel better soon. All the best. Rob.
Thanks Rob. Not being very original is a funny thing thing to write on your own album. He probably meant he was more traditional... Sometimes, a bit of heavy rock clears the cobwebs and the dust from the mind. A dose of air guitar and a leap about and you're ready for anything. Though these days, it's more likely to be a good sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit to recover...
Have to admit I like the cover of Mysterioso (though I probably won't like the music - was never a Bunnymen fan). I have Handful of Earth - decent album but not a classic - preferred him in Five Hand Reel. For me The Scorpions only did one decent album - their first Lonesome Crow. Hope the illness isn't as bad as it could be and you're feeling better soon.
Yes, these Scorpions albums have great moments, but although very listenable are not sustained from start to finish. The folk world has many good albums but few truly great ones. I suppose that is true of all genres. You will be pleased to know that I am not going to start ranking videos to prove my point anytime soon...
Alan, Great finds - you must be living 24/7 in the charity shop back room cupboard so getting all the first dibs. I don't bother going in charity shops now. Ramones - teenage music, great comment. My mate sent me a superb 70's promo picture of The Scorpions all topless and in shorts, it really made me cry with laughter. Shame the Virgin Killer is not the original cover! How did they get away with it back then? Cheers, Paul
Thanks, Paul. Yes, charity shops are getting to be extremely hard work. I really don't want to see that promo pic. Your description has unfortunately formed an indelible image in my mind. The real thing might just send me off to the nut house. 🤪
Catching up here sir...great charity finds as always. The Iggys are not easily found, anymore at least here that is. I'm with you on the Ramones as much as I love them. Feels like an oldies act at this point.
Hi Dom. Iggy records are quite scarce here, too. And Blue Notes rarely pop up, either. I think the Ramones are the sort of band which leads people to other bands. They would probably have been great to experience live.
Alan, thanks for making this video, you are a real ''trooper''. You could have just called in sick. I'm the head of the VC Human Resource department, I would have excused your absence. The Happy Mondays cover is a ''rip- off'' of the collage work of Mimmo Rotella, who used torn advertisements in his early work, and is one of the big influences on Street Art. The music reminded me of The Stone Roses, '' Kinky Afro'' was a classic like, '' I Wanna Be Adored'' I never really listened to The Ramones, to me, they sound like The Beach Boys on steroids. ''Trumpet poop on the ground, with peanuts''- Captain Beefheart
I didn't know you were head of VCHR. I will bear it in mind if I need to fake a sickie in the future. The boys liked the rip off/torn joke there. Had them in 'tears' of laughter. One day, you are going to have to compile a book of Beefheart quotes for use at parties. His phrases are regularly and rightly, the mot juste.
Good to see finding some records. You don't often see Iggy Pop records about. I like the brief EP he did with Underworld. I See Big is quite touching and worth a listen. Hope you feel better soon. I'm having a bit of an electronica and trance phase. I saw Orbital with my son last summer. The last time I saw them live was 1995! I think I'm having a midlife crisis. It is ace. Take care, Steve.
Do you know, I don't think I had ever heard that Iggy Underworld EP? Even though I listened to Underworld a fair bit in the 90s. I was playing a few trance 12"s the other day: nothing quite hits the spot in the same way. It's the first time I have ever heard anyone call a midlife crisis ace! I applaud you for it! I honestly feel like I have been having one since I was 26.
Not a patch on the stuff you show, Dave- but good for charity shops round this vinyl desert. And it was good to hear you say on the livestream that you have a better doctor now and things sound like they will be getting sorted.
Thanks to the weeklies I got into the Mondays quite early. Rushed out on a Monday to get ‘Pills Thrills’ and was a bit crestfallen. Compared to stuff like ‘Voodoo Ray’ or even 808 State & whatever house stuff was kicking around at the time it sounded a bit clapped out. That was an unhappy Monday. The Idiot is probably more influential than people give it credit for. May have invented goth & Nine Inch Nails. Those are both bad things. But I like The Idiot. Get the Lemsips & Lucozade (seventies version) in Alan!
Hmm, yes I can see how Pills wouldn't have compared with House music- a completely different and more languid animal altogether. If I went to university as a mature student anytime in the near future, I would write a thesis on how Goth music truly started with the theme from The Addams Family and how it was all downhill from there. Ah, the seventies Lucozade. I have a very clear memory of being very ill in bed as a young boy with mumps or measles or something and my mum bringing in that cellophane wrapped wonder. A whole bottle for little old me which I drank on and off through bouts of fitful sleep and delirium. You knew things were serious if you got bought a bottle of Lucozade back then. It was the one and only time my mum ever bought me one. Most of the time you were sent to school to be sick into your desk and told to shut the lid so nobody would notice.
I'm after those two Iggy Pop albums, Alan. Don't tell me you bought them for a song!😂I hear you on the Miles Davis comment. Sacrilege, I know, to the jazzers but his playing was never very incendiary. Clifford Brown: a whole different level.
Sshhh... I am not a huge jazz nut, and I am probably not qualified to say such things. Fortunately, most of the real jazzers keep themselves to themselves in their lofty corner of the VC and avoid philistines like me. Thank goodness. ;-)
never seen that henderson in the wild or even here on YT. looks like he only wrote one track in that one which may explain the mediocrity--his two records on Capricorn are solid and mostly his and maupins compositions.
I have Inside Out. I think this one is a really strong album and it gets great reviews. It is just let down by his Dark Shadow composition to my ear. I was probably being too tough on it...
Ah just what the vinyl doctors ordered in my book I've got a cold too so enough of these tags I want Alan laying into and 'deconstructing' well loved and established acts. I've never owned any of them I don't think. Fusion is a bit wanky (note: not wankers passé) just proggy jazz and not for me. The Ramones never do it for me either surely one album by them is enough. Believe it or not I had the McCulloch one on LP but I must've Mc(CULL)ed it haha. Record shop days we got chucked loadsa freebies there was a Cohen cover on there no? From a Cohen covers album I reckon. Happy Mondays I've still all my 12"s never had the album so rather jealous of that. I've got the Black Grape album though that's a corker and I drank a huge amount of beer once whilst at a gig seeing them amazing I didn't fall from the upper circle really. Scorpions mmmmm well nice bit of euro rawk is ok. What's the best cold remedy then? Must be whisky up there or fisherman's friends.
Hmmm. Perhaps a classic album deconstructing vinyl tag could work? I'm up for it. 'You only need one album by this artist' vinyl tag? I'm down with that. 'I once owned an album by this artist, but culled it' vinyl tag. I'm all over it. 'I once owned an album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song on it' vinyl tag. My excitement level is through the metaphorical roof right now. I have yet to try it, but apparently a surefire remedy for a cold up north is go to bed beneath a tartan duvet after drinking 2 bottles of whisky and having stuck a deep fried haggis up each nostril to stem snot flow. Perhaps you could give it a go and report back on its efficacy? I look forward to your detailed report.
I am not sure watching OBC videos will help in the healing process ;-) Though I did watch some of the livestream yesterday where they announced free worldwide postage on any sized order- which was quite impressive. Now, all I need is the money to buy the records...
My goodness; I can't believe what you score from the shops. That is a very clean copy of Lust For Life. Agree, David Bowie albums indeed. Feel better, Alan.
Thanks, Mark. I don't find things as often as I used to, and often come home empty-handed, so it's nice to score something a bit special every now and then. Cheers.
Mysterio! Lover lover was a good one... had the cassette tape back in college... nostalgic
Nostalgia is one of the many joyful aspects of record collecting.
Happy Mondays, technically when you listen to those inane shiny trousers noise generators no day is going to be Happy, is it!! Scorpions, 50p for one of their vinyls is 51p more than they are worth. At least you got Lust for Life, I have that, although in my teenage crates..
Haha! Yes, I think paracetamol and aspirin are not really strong enough to get a happy buzz from The Mondays. I'm too middle-aged to try something stronger... I had not listened to Lust For Life for many years. The loudness and production took me aback. More enjoyable than I was anticipating.
Hello Alan👋🏻I truly hope what is coming at you doesn’t stay around or come at all!!!😕🤧🤒good to you and once again your charity finds puts our goodwill( equivalent ) wow that Eddie Henderson looks great....take care my friend 🙏🏻✨
Thanks, Lis. Yes, hopefully, the lurgy will not materialise fully... The Eddie Henderson was a very nice find and, in some ways, the pick of the bunch. I wasn't going to show most of these, but they are not easy to come by in original pressings, and there's always something exciting about finding them in charity shops. And it's getting much, much harder to do so nowadays.
@@statictraveller hehehe I guess I don’t watch and type as well as I use too! 🙄🤭😲it is good to see you Alan and your charity finds puts our goodwill finds to shame! Shame I sez!! Hehe take care
I’ve never listened to Lust For Life or The Idiot except for the singles.
I think you would really enjoy them.
Wow!!! Can’t believe you found the Eddie Henderson LP, I don’t have that release but have several others.
Yes. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I think the cover could be easily overlooked among lots of easy listening albums.
You would probably spend over 100 pounds in a normal record shop, great find, I've had a few charity shop hauls which was good but lately it's been dull
For me, record shops are too expensive these days. I still like finding the bargains. However, like you, it has been a while since I found a really good collection in the charity shops.
I wish I could find that in a charity shop.
Yes. These are not super rare or anything, but it's nice to find originals in a charity shop.
Wow! Great finds! Lovely pills thrills, Iggy, Ramones! I’m knee deep in Jimmy Shand, Moira Kerr and James Last up here. Anything half decent is ludicrously priced. Was wondering if these were recent finds or picked up over the years?
Hi. Yes, I come across a lot of that kind of stuff myself. All my charity shop vinyl finds videos are of my most recent finds.
I quite like the typography of that McCullogh cover, though Mac looks unusually boyish. You showing The Idiot made me listen to it again. Very strong songs I think and the ultimate alienation / depression tune Mass Production out-Lows Bowie’s Low.
I think the McCulloch cover seems to look OK on camera, but when one considers all the artwork that could have been used for an album titled 'Mysterio'....
I was going to mention that I think Bowie's tunes on Iggy's albums are probably stronger than his self released material from the period. It would be fascinating to know his process and decision-making at the time. I wonder what the songs would have sounded like with his lyrics and vocals instead?
Yes that would be fascinating. Bowie was certainly not short on inspiration at the time.
You do a terrific jazz trumpet! Hope feel better very soon, Richard
Thank you, Richard. I could have taught Dizzy Gillespie a thing or two.
Hi Alan
Glad you've found another honey hole for vinyl.
I played that Dick Gaughan album the other week and then watched a video on UA-cam where he's a speaker at a Labour party office ( I think early 90s)..interesting guy and spoke really well..but agree, his music style isn't anything original.
I used to have Lovedrive, always liked the opener ' Loving You Sunday Morning'.
Hope you feel better soon.
All the best.
Rob.
Thanks Rob.
Not being very original is a funny thing thing to write on your own album. He probably meant he was more traditional...
Sometimes, a bit of heavy rock clears the cobwebs and the dust from the mind. A dose of air guitar and a leap about and you're ready for anything. Though these days, it's more likely to be a good sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit to recover...
Have to admit I like the cover of Mysterioso (though I probably won't like the music - was never a Bunnymen fan). I have Handful of Earth - decent album but not a classic - preferred him in Five Hand Reel. For me The Scorpions only did one decent album - their first Lonesome Crow.
Hope the illness isn't as bad as it could be and you're feeling better soon.
Yes, these Scorpions albums have great moments, but although very listenable are not sustained from start to finish.
The folk world has many good albums but few truly great ones. I suppose that is true of all genres. You will be pleased to know that I am not going to start ranking videos to prove my point anytime soon...
Alan, Great finds - you must be living 24/7 in the charity shop back room cupboard so getting all the first dibs. I don't bother going in charity shops now. Ramones - teenage music, great comment. My mate sent me a superb 70's promo picture of The Scorpions all topless and in shorts, it really made me cry with laughter. Shame the Virgin Killer is not the original cover! How did they get away with it back then?
Cheers, Paul
Thanks, Paul. Yes, charity shops are getting to be extremely hard work. I really don't want to see that promo pic. Your description has unfortunately formed an indelible image in my mind. The real thing might just send me off to the nut house. 🤪
@@statictraveller Yeah, that photo has given me nightmares. I also suddenly want to wear platforms, tank tops and loon pants again.
Wow! I can’t move for Jim Reeves, Perry Como and Harry Secombe in the charity shops down my way. Great finds!
It's mostly that rubbish here, too. These days, 1 in a few thousand records is actually worth picking up.
Catching up here sir...great charity finds as always. The Iggys are not easily found, anymore at least here that is. I'm with you on the Ramones as much as I love them. Feels like an oldies act at this point.
Hi Dom. Iggy records are quite scarce here, too. And Blue Notes rarely pop up, either. I think the Ramones are the sort of band which leads people to other bands. They would probably have been great to experience live.
Alan, thanks for making this video, you are a real ''trooper''. You could have just called in sick. I'm the head of the VC Human Resource department, I would have excused your absence. The Happy Mondays cover is a ''rip- off'' of the collage work of Mimmo Rotella, who used torn advertisements in his early work, and is one of the big influences on Street Art. The music reminded me of The Stone Roses, '' Kinky Afro'' was a classic like, '' I Wanna Be Adored'' I never really listened to The Ramones, to me, they sound like The Beach Boys on steroids. ''Trumpet poop on the ground, with peanuts''- Captain Beefheart
I didn't know you were head of VCHR. I will bear it in mind if I need to fake a sickie in the future. The boys liked the rip off/torn joke there. Had them in 'tears' of laughter.
One day, you are going to have to compile a book of Beefheart quotes for use at parties. His phrases are regularly and rightly, the mot juste.
@@statictraveller ''the party of special things to do''- Captain Beefheart
You have way better charity shops than the ones near me! PS I'm a whole lotta people disagreeing with you about the Ramones.
I would have lost all respect for you if you didn't! 😂
The cover on that Iggy is in great shape - wow. Feel better Alan ✌
Cheers, Chance! Great to hear from you.
Good to see finding some records. You don't often see Iggy Pop records about. I like the brief EP he did with Underworld. I See Big is quite touching and worth a listen. Hope you feel better soon. I'm having a bit of an electronica and trance phase. I saw Orbital with my son last summer. The last time I saw them live was 1995! I think I'm having a midlife crisis. It is ace. Take care, Steve.
Do you know, I don't think I had ever heard that Iggy Underworld EP? Even though I listened to Underworld a fair bit in the 90s. I was playing a few trance 12"s the other day: nothing quite hits the spot in the same way.
It's the first time I have ever heard anyone call a midlife crisis ace! I applaud you for it! I honestly feel like I have been having one since I was 26.
Been looking for those Iggy Pop LPs. Great scores as always Alan. Hope you get to feeling better.
Not a patch on the stuff you show, Dave- but good for charity shops round this vinyl desert. And it was good to hear you say on the livestream that you have a better doctor now and things sound like they will be getting sorted.
Charity shops are starting to bear fruit up there Alan I see. Hope you feel better soon...
Thanks, Dale. Yes - and it's about time, too!
Thanks to the weeklies I got into the Mondays quite early. Rushed out on a Monday to get ‘Pills Thrills’ and was a bit crestfallen. Compared to stuff like ‘Voodoo Ray’ or even 808 State & whatever house stuff was kicking around at the time it sounded a bit clapped out. That was an unhappy Monday. The Idiot is probably more influential than people give it credit for. May have invented goth & Nine Inch Nails. Those are both bad things. But I like The Idiot. Get the Lemsips & Lucozade (seventies version) in Alan!
Hmm, yes I can see how Pills wouldn't have compared with House music- a completely different and more languid animal altogether.
If I went to university as a mature student anytime in the near future, I would write a thesis on how Goth music truly started with the theme from The Addams Family and how it was all downhill from there.
Ah, the seventies Lucozade. I have a very clear memory of being very ill in bed as a young boy with mumps or measles or something and my mum bringing in that cellophane wrapped wonder. A whole bottle for little old me which I drank on and off through bouts of fitful sleep and delirium. You knew things were serious if you got bought a bottle of Lucozade back then. It was the one and only time my mum ever bought me one. Most of the time you were sent to school to be sick into your desk and told to shut the lid so nobody would notice.
Mum appearing with Lucozade was a 3 day school absence minimum. The cellophane wrapper 😆 @@statictraveller
I'm after those two Iggy Pop albums, Alan. Don't tell me you bought them for a song!😂I hear you on the Miles Davis comment. Sacrilege, I know, to the jazzers but his playing was never very incendiary. Clifford Brown: a whole different level.
Sshhh... I am not a huge jazz nut, and I am probably not qualified to say such things. Fortunately, most of the real jazzers keep themselves to themselves in their lofty corner of the VC and avoid philistines like me. Thank goodness. ;-)
Get well soon Alan, missed these videos 👍
Thanks, Peter. I uploaded one before Christmas of rare singles, but, yes it has been a while since I showed some LPs.
Haven't seen good finds like this in US charity shops in some time - great finds! How does one remove bubble gum off the b00b, anyway?
I believe chewing helps.
never seen that henderson in the wild or even here on YT. looks like he only wrote one track in that one which may explain the mediocrity--his two records on Capricorn are solid and mostly his and maupins compositions.
I have Inside Out. I think this one is a really strong album and it gets great reviews. It is just let down by his Dark Shadow composition to my ear. I was probably being too tough on it...
Ah just what the vinyl doctors ordered in my book I've got a cold too so enough of these tags I want Alan laying into and 'deconstructing' well loved and established acts. I've never owned any of them I don't think. Fusion is a bit wanky (note: not wankers passé) just proggy jazz and not for me. The Ramones never do it for me either surely one album by them is enough. Believe it or not I had the McCulloch one on LP but I must've Mc(CULL)ed it haha. Record shop days we got chucked loadsa freebies there was a Cohen cover on there no? From a Cohen covers album I reckon.
Happy Mondays I've still all my 12"s never had the album so rather jealous of that. I've got the Black Grape album though that's a corker and I drank a huge amount of beer once whilst at a gig seeing them amazing I didn't fall from the upper circle really. Scorpions mmmmm well nice bit of euro rawk is ok. What's the best cold remedy then? Must be whisky up there or fisherman's friends.
Hmmm. Perhaps a classic album deconstructing vinyl tag could work? I'm up for it. 'You only need one album by this artist' vinyl tag? I'm down with that. 'I once owned an album by this artist, but culled it' vinyl tag. I'm all over it. 'I once owned an album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song on it' vinyl tag. My excitement level is through the metaphorical roof right now.
I have yet to try it, but apparently a surefire remedy for a cold up north is go to bed beneath a tartan duvet after drinking 2 bottles of whisky and having stuck a deep fried haggis up each nostril to stem snot flow. Perhaps you could give it a go and report back on its efficacy? I look forward to your detailed report.
Why are "Charity Shops" umpteen times better than "Thrift Shops"?
I still have to wade through 1000s of crud records to occasionally strike gold, Ed.
Based on your intro, you've been ill for a year now. Bundle up and rest up, and watch the OBC videos.
I am not sure watching OBC videos will help in the healing process ;-) Though I did watch some of the livestream yesterday where they announced free worldwide postage on any sized order- which was quite impressive. Now, all I need is the money to buy the records...
Dont really agree here.
Ian McCulloch album isnt so bad looking and a happy Iggy Pop was cool when it come....
It's funny, really. I also think the Ian McCulloch looks a lot better on screen since uploading this. And, Iggy is the epitome of cool. 😎
what ??? you bought all this garbage and left Herb Alpert and James Last albums behind??? ARE YOU INSANE? P.S. Get Well Soon
Haha! Cheers David.