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Quad5point1 1st Oct 2019		CD Album The Who - Live Noblesville, Indiana August 25, 2002	Discogs have it listed HERE as Eel Pie with Phonographic Copyright (p) – Hi-Spot Ltd. Copyright (c) – Hi-Spot Ltd.
Quad5point1 1st Oct 2019		CD Album Delirious? - The Mission Bell	Nod to gregs45s, all remaining booklet scans added. Track 2 "Now Is The Time" composer should be Matt Redman, Delirious? Correction submitted
Quad5point1 29th Sep 2019		CD Single Ride - Leave Them All Behind	Added barcode
Quad5point1 29th Sep 2019		CD Single Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner	Release date for this ranges from June 1999 - September 2000. They sure tried hard with this one
Quad5point1 29th Sep 2019		CD Single The Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows (Radio Edit)	Nod to original poster, Added barcode, date, composers and all outstanding scans. Release year should be 1995, correction submitted
Quad5point1 29th Sep 2019		CD Single Strangelove - Beautiful Alone	Image 2048680 needs deleted. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 29th Sep 2019		CD Single Big Room Girl Featuring Darryl Pandy - Raise Your Hands (Rhythm Masters Remix Edit)	Cat# has been entered into the "Title" field and needs deleted. Correction submitted. Barcode, Cat#'s and date added from Promo sticker, Also added cover scan inside case with promo sticker
Quad5point1 28th Sep 2019		CD Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Nod to Beggars Road, I've added the two missing sleeves for completeness sake, also added brighter, more readable disc images for CD 1 and the Blu Ray Audio disc.
Quad5point1 28th Sep 2019		CD Album Carpenters - Only Yesterday: Richard & Karen Carpenter's Greatest Hits	Added PDO pressing variant
Quad5point1 28th Sep 2019		CD Album Space [UK] - Tin Planet	Nod to TrippyDippy, Complete set of hi-res scans added
Quad5point1 26th Sep 2019		CD Single Terry Hall - Ballad Of A Landlord	Nod to Paul Vinyl, I added a slightly tidier/sharper disc image, also added dated promo sticker
Quad5point1 26th Sep 2019		CD Single ABC - Skyscraping (Radio Edit)	Nod to original poster, complete set of scans added. Label for this should be "Blatant" and not "Deconstruction". Correction submitted
Quad5point1 26th Sep 2019		CD Album Amazing Blondel - Evensong / Fantasia Lindum	Nod to original poster, all scans added
Quad5point1 25th Sep 2019		CD Single Girl Thing - Last One Standing	No Cover Inlay for this just a stickered case
Quad5point1 25th Sep 2019		CD Single Gala - Let A Boy Cry (Motiv 8 Radio Mix)	Added jewel case promo stickers
Quad5point1 24th Sep 2019		CD Single Bonnie Tyler - Making Love (Out Of Nothing At All) (Schnauzer Plus)	Nod to original poster, all scans added + Barcode and secondary Cat#
Quad5point1 24th Sep 2019		CD Single The Mike Flowers Pops - Light My Fire	Nod to original poster, all scans added + secondary Cat#
Quad5point1 23rd Sep 2019		CD Single Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing	Nod to duckeggs001. Full size, higher res cover scan added. Also added all outstanding scans, barcode and hyphenated Cat# from the disc
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		CD Single Super Furry Animals - The International Language Of Screaming	Nod to kab2112, added front cover scan with dated promo sticker.
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		CD Single Michael Jackson - Who Is It? (The Most Patient Mix)	Nod to duckeggs001, I've added a full size front cover scan + all outstanding scans. Also added barcode and completed date
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		Blu-ray The Magic Christian - Fabulous Films	Rated 10/10 Extract of online review from HERE If you are not familiar with the film or its source material, The Magic Christian is essentially a “High concept” movie – it follows the exploits of an eccentric multimillionaire, Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), who takes a homeless young man (Ringo Starr) under his wing, and together the pair set about concocting a series of increasingly elaborate pranks and challenges in order to demonstrate that “everyone has their price”, having much fun at the expense of officious traffic wardens, arts snobs, privileged upper class twits, bigots, and the terminally trendy. Along the way, they use cash bribes to sabotage the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, that epitome of elitism and fair play, take a well-aimed shot at the world of advertising and boardroom yes-men, and we are presented with a memorable scene of the lovely Hattie Jacques discussing sex crimes and Nazi war atrocities, which I’m fairly sure never happened in Sykes. Its mischief-making theme, with its frequent overturning of class and social sensibilities and surreal detours, has a lot in common with Cook and Moore’s Bedazzled (not least the pulchritudinous presence of Welch) and feels more like a series of comedy sketches than a movie with a long-form narrative. Its sketchiness is no surprise when one takes into account the influence of its star, Peter Sellers, a man for whom the adjective ‘difficult’ may have been invented; it’s well-documented in Python biographies that the Python sketch ‘The Mouse Problem’ was originally written for this film, but rejected by Sellers because, according to popular anecdote, his milkman didn’t find it funny. It was Sellers who brought in Cleese and Chapman to assist with scripting The Magic Christian, after his endless impetuous tinkering had seen the film go through, in John Cleese’s words, “thirteen drafts by the time it got to us, Graham and I managed to put the script into shape in three or four weeks” before further interventions by McGrath (“A very nice man who had no idea about comedy structure”) saw the film “end up as a series of celebrity walk-ons.” For his part, Ringo Starr is basically playing the version of himself that had been honed in numerous TV interviews and newsreels, not to mention the two Beatles movies, as a laconic, dreamy layabout prone to droll asides and non-sequiturs. It’s the kind of unaffected performance you only get from non-actors with natural charisma who are at ease in front of the camera (his dumb-show when demonstrating facial exercises [“Silent scream… Tiny mouth”] before an increasingly apoplectic Spike Milligan is worth the entrance price alone). If you are a Python-head, The Magic Christian is also noteworthy as a small stepping stone between their pre-Python TV work for BBC, Rediffusion and Thames, and the Flying Circus. Cleese and Chapman both appear in the two self-written scenes that survived Sellers and Southern’s interventions, the former as a Sotheby’s employee aghast as Ringo vandalises a Dutch master, the latter looking ruggedly handsome as an oarsman for the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, but the film is strewn throughout with the kind of scenarios that became recognisable tropes in Python’s first BBC1 series when it aired later in 1969, most of them retained from Southern’s original novel: Eccentric behaviour in restaurants and art galleries, an upper-class hunting outing that soon gets wildly out of hand, a boardroom meeting full of fawning toadies constantly on the backfoot as they attempt to make the right noises in response to a mogul’s flights of fancy, and a brace of gags playing on drag and homoeroticism (It’s worth bearing in mind that such gags may seem reactionary now, but were transgressive in 1969 – it’s called progress). Another proto-Python element is the casting of broadcasters (in this case, Michael Aspel, Alan Whicker, Harry Carpenter) appearing as themselves, in the same way Python would later employ Reginald Bosanquet, Richard Baker and David Hamilton. Keen-eyed connoseiurs of queer cinema will also appreciate a cameo from Leonard Frey, aka Harold from ground-breaking gay drama The Boys In The Band. Fabulous Films DVD release of The Magic Christian is, to all intents and purposes, a clone of the decade-old Universal mid-price DVD (right down to the packaging and menu screen), and as such offers no tantalising extras, not even an original trailer. The Magic Christian is a real curio of its time, with enough celebrity cameos and ‘60s British Cinema, Beatles and Python connections to appeal to a cross-section of fandoms for cultural and historical interest alone. And it’s good fun: Daft, silly, flawed, patchy, but rarely dull, with Sellers and Starr carrying the film with their infectious personalities alone – for better or worse, a shining example of “They don’t make them like that any more” and “Drugs in the sixties must have been REALLY good 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		CD Album Various Artists - Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal	I tend to think of "Remasters" as a series rather than a label
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		DVD The Magic Christian - Universal	Rated 10/10 Extract of online review from HERE If you are not familiar with the film or its source material, The Magic Christian is essentially a “High concept” movie – it follows the exploits of an eccentric multimillionaire, Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), who takes a homeless young man (Ringo Starr) under his wing, and together the pair set about concocting a series of increasingly elaborate pranks and challenges in order to demonstrate that “everyone has their price”, having much fun at the expense of officious traffic wardens, arts snobs, privileged upper class twits, bigots, and the terminally trendy. Along the way, they use cash bribes to sabotage the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, that epitome of elitism and fair play, take a well-aimed shot at the world of advertising and boardroom yes-men, and we are presented with a memorable scene of the lovely Hattie Jacques discussing sex crimes and Nazi war atrocities, which I’m fairly sure never happened in Sykes. Its’ mischief-making theme, with its frequent overturning of class and social sensibilities and surreal detours, has a lot in common with Cook and Moore’s Bedazzled (not least the pulchritudinous presence of Welch) and feels more like a series of comedy sketches than a movie with a long-form narrative. Its sketchiness is no surprise when one takes into account the influence of its star, Peter Sellers, a man for whom the adjective ‘difficult’ may have been invented; it’s well-documented in Python biographies that the Python sketch ‘The Mouse Problem’ was originally written for this film, but rejected by Sellers because, according to popular anecdote, his milkman didn’t find it funny. It was Sellers who brought in Cleese and Chapman to assist with scripting The Magic Christian, after his endless, impetuous tinkering had seen the film go through, in John Cleese’s words, “thirteen drafts by the time it got to us… Graham and I managed to put the script into shape in three or four weeks” before further interventions by McGrath (“A very nice man who had no idea about comedy structure”) saw the film “end up as a series of celebrity walk-ons.” For his part, Ringo Starr is basically playing the version of himself that had been honed in numerous TV interviews and newsreels, not to mention the two Beatles movies, as a laconic, dreamy layabout prone to droll asides and non-sequiturs. It’s the kind of unaffected performance you only get from non-actors with natural charisma who are at ease in front of the camera (his dumb-show when demonstrating facial exercises [“Silent scream… Tiny mouth”] before an increasingly apoplectic Spike Milligan is worth the entrance price alone). If you are a Python-head, The Magic Christian is also noteworthy as a small stepping stone between their pre-Python TV work for BBC, Rediffusion and Thames, and the Flying Circus. Cleese and Chapman both appear in the two self-written scenes that survived Sellers and Southern’s interventions, the former as a Sotheby’s employee aghast as Ringo vandalises a Dutch master, the latter looking ruggedly handsome as an oarsman for the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, but the film is strewn throughout with the kind of scenarios that became recognisable tropes in Python’s first BBC1 series when it aired later in 1969, most of them retained from Southern’s original novel: Eccentric behaviour in restaurants and art galleries, an upper-class hunting outing that soon gets wildly out of hand, a boardroom meeting full of fawning toadies constantly on the backfoot as they attempt to make the right noises in response to a mogul’s flights of fancy, and a brace of gags playing on drag and homoeroticism (It’s worth bearing in mind that such gags may seem reactionary now, but were transgressive in 1969 – it’s called progress). Another proto-Python element is the casting of broadcasters (in this case, Michael Aspel, Alan Whicker, Harry Carpenter) appearing as themselves, in the same way Python would later employ Reginald Bosanquet, Richard Baker and David Hamilton. Keen-eyed connoseiurs of queer cinema will also appreciate a cameo from Leonard Frey, aka Harold from ground-breaking gay drama The Boys In The Band. Fabulous Films’ DVD release of The Magic Christian is, to all intents and purposes, a clone of the decade-old Universal mid-price DVD (right down to the packaging and menu screen), and as such offers no tantalising extras, not even an original trailer. The Magic Christian is a real curio of its time, with enough celebrity cameos and ‘60s British Cinema, Beatles and Python connections to appeal to a cross-section of fandoms for cultural and historical interest alone. And it’s good fun: Daft, silly, flawed, patchy, but rarely dull, with Sellers and Starr carrying the film with their infectious personalities alone – for better or worse, a shining example of “They don’t make them like that any more” and “Drugs in the sixties must have been REALLY good 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Quad5point1 22nd Sep 2019		CD Album Jackie Evancho - Heavenly Christmas	The CD Tray Insert spines only have SYCO Music / Columbia. That's what I would've run with myself
Quad5point1 21st Sep 2019		CD Album Humble Pie - Town And Country	Composer for track 6 should be Frampton, Johns, Ridley, Shirley. Track 8 should be Montgomery, Petty. Track 11 should be Frampton, Ridley. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 21st Sep 2019		CD Single Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me	Nod to Jake Smarm, sharper disc image added
Quad5point1 21st Sep 2019		CD Single Bryan Adams - Let's Make A Night To Remember (Single Version)	Nod to Jake Smarm, I've added the J Flap with barcode and sharper disc image
Quad5point1 20th Sep 2019		CD Album Various Artists - Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal	Whooooops!!. Will submit correction. Thanks Mod edit: done.
Quad5point1 20th Sep 2019		CD Album Various Artists - Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal	Wrong date selected, should be 2009. Correction submitted
Quad5point1 18th Sep 2019		CD Album The Chemical Brothers - Surrender	Nod to Collsrt, I've added a complete set of scans for this issue

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