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Member	Item		Review/Comment
albert 5th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Pixies - Doolittle (1989)	Correct info about the first UK pressing, referring to their double page advert in The Melody Maker 22 April 1989, pages 10 & 11. Available on LP, Cassette and CD. The initial pressing of 30,000 included an illustrated lyric booklet. If you bought the album at a Chain-with-no-name store then you could also get a free Doolittle carrier bag to hold you purchase in, however I happen to remember that they had so many carrier bags that generally they were given out to all and sundry purchases regardless if it was Pixies or not - I got 2 more carrier bags given to me over the later months. Also available to purchase separately were a set of 9 postcards designed with images from the lyric booklet, and likewise a set of 9 posters, these items are often cited as being free with the LP when in fact they were not, you had to buy them in addition to the LP.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)	Info on variants from StonesOnDecca website.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits (1969)	Info on variants from StonesOnDecca website.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)	Info on variants from StonesOnDecca website.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966)	Info on variants from the MASSIVELY EXHAUSTIVE StonesOnDecca website. Note that absolute first covers have a blobby 'shadow' under the AFTER-MATH.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads (1965)	More info about pressing variations from the MASSIVELY EXHAUSTIVE StonesOnDecca website.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965)	Everything you might want to know about variations can be read on the MASSIVELY EXHAUSTIVE StonesOnDecca website.
albert 14th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones (1964)	Some MASSIVELY EXHAUSTIVE notes on this release from StonesOnDecca website which includes info from a guy that worked in the pressing plant and confirming that covers and labels were stockpiled without much care as to what sequence they got used.
albert 9th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Electric Banana - Even More Electric Banana (1969)	Used for the film Whats Good For The Goose
albert 8th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 Longplay Album Volume II (1981)	this looks like a concept album, the concept being how to squeeze the most mileage out of a terrible backing track.
albert 17th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Motor Boys Motor - Motor Boys Motor (1982)	The band went on to become The Screaming Blue Messiahs
albert 17th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album The Syndromes Vs The Merciful Release All-Stars Featuring The Impossible Dreamers - Ready In The Rhythm Section (1980)	When I came down to London around 1986 I found many copies in a second hand shop that had branches in Stratford/East Ham/Barking, I scooped up all that I could, (and sold quite a few too!) Justin Adams went on to work with some big names including Sinead O’Connor and Robert Plant.
albert 14th Sep 2016		Vinyl Album Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)	The blank back sleeve copy might be a transitory edition while Virgin sorted out adding 'submission' to the sleeve, I'd like to know if it originally came with the 11 track pressing or the 12 track pressing as I've had a copy of each pass through my hands. There are tons of pressing variants regarding the lettering, some copies even state Belsen Was A Gas, I guess it was a chaotic release for Virgin. Also as an observation the often mis-quoted catalogue number "SPOTS 1" as "Sex Pistols On Tour" (which they were and did call themselves SPOTS) is actually just an identifier for the 'hype' spot sticker sometimes found on early issues with the freebie items, assumption made since Virgin put out Devo's first LP with a similar sticker notification but that one had an identifier "SPOTS 6". EDIT: got my answers on the blank back, I followed the link in previous comments, thanks PV.
albert 29th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix (1979)	Good grief, Jimi Hendrix at Marks & Spencers.
albert 23rd Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door (1979)	I think I'm right in saying that it has a magic paintbrush inner sleeve - just add water and the colours appear! (Not so great for anyone with sweaty hands).
albert 19th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. (1977)	Band listed as Heartbreakers [UK], surely a mistake. I have the remixed version of the LP from about 10 years ago, the notes state that the original LP has an appalling mix, but I don't own an original copy to verify that.
albert 19th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (1970)	The Jimi puppet seems to be an imposter, Jimi was left handed.
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (1967)	The 1970s repress is in true stereo and sounds pretty good, well worth picking up. There are differences on the labels and quite obvious next to an original 1967 pressing, the music publisher is listed as "Interworld Music Ltd" and there is no triangle with "M 33" (or a stereo pressing would be "S 33"). The front cover is not laminated and has "Jimi Hendrix" added along the top. I am fairly sure that the first 1960s pressing was only in mono so if anyone is offering a stereo 'original' then you'd better check that its not a later pressing before parting with any ££££s.
albert 16th Aug 2016		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Live And Unreleased (1989)	This got withdrawn for some reason, luckily for me I got my copy before it got withdrawn. Note that it is a radio show with tiresome talk between tracks, but most of the music on the rare tracks is complete, as far as I remember. EDIT: apparently Sting and A&M got it withdrawn because of some unauthorised snippet/quote
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album Don Van Vliet And The Magic Band - Rough, Raw And Amazing (2015)	best to avoid anything on OZIT MORPHEUS label, it always turns out to be pretty rough and unlistenable.
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Clear Spot (1972)	The plastic outer wallet on the original UK version is very fragile, the edge welding is barely existent and I suppose most copies will by now have probably lost the strip that the flap tucks into. It is made out of brittle plastic, probably not PVC. The original labels have a different layout. The American version of Clear Spot has a PVC cover, the edge welding on that version is much more substantial, but being PVC I would guess that it will have fogged the vinyl record inside.
albert 5th Nov 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)	regarding the padded silk cover: I now do remember exactly where I saw it - it was with a dealer who used to have a pitch at the London TUC Record Fair many years ago, his stall was behind/under the stairs (in front of the bogs), not a great pitch but his stall was quite large. And the record did indeed look genuine, the silk was in tatters as you would expect and the padding (I think it was cotton wool) exposed. I don't remember the silk being a lurid crimson colour like the one on the internet (which looks quite suspect to me), The one I saw had silk which I think it was very faded and may even have had a faded printed pattern, the dealer also pointed out some difference with the layout/printed images but I cannot remember now exactly what it was. The dealer did want a substantial sum, maybe £300, and I looked it up in the RRPG where it was mentioned 'matter of fact'-like, ...my opinion at the time was that 'it would turn up in better condition', alas it goes down as one of my could-have-had-it records (although I would still have baulked at the price).
albert 5th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965)	Early pressings of the back cover have some text by Andrew Loog Oldham which was later removed. The first paragraph on column 2 should include the sentence "If you don't have bread, see that blind man knock him on the head, steal his wallet..." etc, as per the scan supplied by Graham7 ...do note however that the 'blind man' text isn't as rare as people might expect, the majority of the sales (for the red 'unboxed decca' label) probably have it.
albert 5th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)	The very very rare promo of this had a padded silk border with the 3D pic in the usual place, needless to say the only copy (s) I have ever seen had the silk in very bad shape.
albert 7th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)	In Record Collector 238 page 142 there is a picture of a custom pressing made for some record company bigwig who wanted something special. The picture is in black and white but is described as a multi-coloured vinyl pressing which has a yellow cross dividing sections in green, blue and red.

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