Vinyl Albums - Comments by BiggieTembo

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
BiggieTembo 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Bobby Goldsboro - Word Pictures (1968)	Gatefold sleeve, with inner opening
BiggieTembo 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Boomtown Rats - Mondo Bongo (1980)	Team-Trykk Oslo logo on sleeve reverse, 710 code on Matrix
BiggieTembo 16th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Blancmange - Happy Families (1982)	Matrix, Side 1: PACLZ 3916 A//1▽420 C 1 1 1 1 DOUBLE BRANDY Matrix, Side 2: PACLZ 3917 B//1▽420 C 1 1 1 1 SAD DAY - FOR HELEN
BiggieTembo 16th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981)	Matrix, Side 1: EMC 3372 A-1U 3 1 [Greek lyre-symbol with S.A] MICHAEL I'M ABOUT TO EVOLVE.... Matrix, Side 2: EMC 3372 B-1U 3 5 [Greek lyre-symbol] ARTHUR BOLD INC
BiggieTembo 16th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Fun Boy Three - Waiting (1983)	Swedish-pressed record but British-printed sleeve? There's usually a Sib Tryck Tumba logo on the Swedish ones, which is absent on this one, and it's a carbon copy of the UK sleeve uploaded on this site.
BiggieTembo 16th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Flesh For Lulu - Flesh For Lulu (1984)	Matrix, Side 1: POLD 5165 A//1 ▽ 420 R HEY! THIS SENDS ME Matrix, Side 2: POLD 5165 B//1 ▽ 420 R
BiggieTembo 16th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix - Loose Ends (1973)	All tracks spelled here as per the record sleeve and label (Drifters without the usual apostrophe and Lady Land as two words, etc.) I'll stick my neck out here and say that this is maybe one of Hendrix's best LPs! Sacrelige! I hear you say! A product by the evil Mike Jeffrey! Yeah, I know, but at least there's no overdubbed instruments - and we get (apart from the tacked-on Stars, which of course isn't a bad track) a bunch of rarely heard gems, and Hendrix at his most relaxed, dextrous and above all - funny! This was also re-released on a budget-priced label in the UK, entitled The Jimi Hendrix Album.
BiggieTembo 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Icicle Works - The Small Price Of A Bicycle (1985)	[YouTube Video] Saw this on Whistle Test when it was broadcast, where they'd just done When It All Comes Down and then launched into Perambulator. It was one of those moments where you see something so cool, that trancends you out of your miserable life, and you think, "what the #¤% am I doing going to school and doing homework and learning totally irrelevant stuff, when I could be doing this..." and then BBC2 started to roll the #&"#¤%/# credits, dammit, not even into the 3rd verse, then they bleedin' cut it off!!! Denied! Went to school mightily pissed off the next day, I can tell thee. Ah well... at least somebody left the VT rolling so we could see a bit more, 30 years later...
BiggieTembo 12th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Icicle Works - The Small Price Of A Bicycle (1985)	Matrix Side 1: BEGA-61-A2. 1 [written clock-like] MT. DAMONT Matrix Side 2: BEGA-61-B2. 1 [written clock-like] MT. DAMONT Inner has lyrics of Rapids on one side, and just plain purple on the other (ICE couldn't stitch a plain purple sleeve together - it got confused...)
BiggieTembo 20th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Blondie - Parallel Lines (1978)	With hats off to pantsman and camshaft, I've added some 800x800 images of sleeve and labels (85335 - 85338). The A-side is A5, but the B-side is B3. Note the Buddy Holly song on Side 2, Track 5 is published by MPL Communications - McCartney owned the Holly catalogue at the time of the 5th issue, and the label has the credit change from the first issue accordingly ;-) Plain white paper (like thin "paper bag" paper) inner sleeve for this one - no lyric sheet like UK or Germany... :(
BiggieTembo 9th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Julian Cope - Saint Julian (1987)	Uploaded scans of LP covers (respect is due nboldock), inner and labels.
BiggieTembo 9th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Julian Cope - Saint Julian (1987)	Released in a thickened cardboard sleeve, with 4-page black & white paper insert, as well as a black paper polylined inner sleeve.
BiggieTembo 4th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Leadbelly - Good Night, Irene (1965)	Thanks for your prompt reply Magic, Mmmm... Interesting... I'll investigate and report back if anything crops up ;)
BiggieTembo 4th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Leadbelly - Good Night, Irene (1965)	Hey Magic Marmalade! What does the dead wax say? Sometimes the dead wax tells if the tracks came from Moses Asch's masters, or Stinson's masters (the aluminium, acetate and other master discs were split between them after they parted ways...)... Many of the Stinson Masters were also direct transfers from the 78s and therefore were slightly dull-sounding...
BiggieTembo 4th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (1980)	Distributed by EMI Records. Came with a large, matt paper, double-sided, colour, 10 x LP-sized fold-out poster, displaying more of the Thermographic photos of the band.
BiggieTembo 3rd Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Paul Weller - Stanley Road (1995)	Also released as a limited edition box set of the whole LP on 7" singles. I have this issue, and a very nice package it is too, but am unsure of which website/category I can upload it: Vinyl Albums or 45cat... Or both? It is an LP, just issued on 7"s (like the old days when loads of 78s in a collection was called an "album"). Then again it's also a 7" box set. I vouch for both. Any comments out there?
BiggieTembo 30th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Rolling Stones - Dirty Work (1986)	Came also in red plastic shrink-wrapping (which made the cover look alot better ;-) and with a large sticker.
BiggieTembo 30th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (1971)	The 80s re-issue on the back cover doesn't list the Decca address next to the logo, and the labels have a slightly higher ring-rim around the outer edge. The same cover issue also came with a record having Decca re-designed Silver/Blue/Red/White-labels in the mid-80s too. See "Label Design 12 & 13" here
BiggieTembo 24th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat (1984)	Note: back cover spells "Here She Comes Now" as "Her She Comes Now". Also issued with a standard-80s-era Polydor red-colured label.
BiggieTembo 17th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Joe Loss And His Orchestra - Dancing Time For Dancers Number Eight (1955)	Is that Joe Loss on the cover - or Bela Lugosi?
BiggieTembo 30th May 2014		Vinyl Album That Petrol Emotion - Babble (1987)	Mine came with a bonus "Big Decision" 10" single (see sticker scan)
BiggieTembo 19th Mar 2014		Vinyl Album Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1992)	Hey Nicoldo - thanks for this - I got this record in Bath, UK, some time around 1990, from a stall in the regular Saturday antique market off Walcot Street. The guy who ran the record stall had a shop in Warminster called Drastic Plastic. This cost me £3. Like my other purchase that day - The Beatles' "Beatles For Sale" - the cover for this one is not card at all, but a thicker paper. The sleeve has been re-drawn and translated into Russian, and the vinyl - again, like my Beatles For Sale - the vinyl weighs about ½ a kilo and is as thick as a plank of wood! The sound is also superb - sounds brand spanking new, which was a great antidote to all those very worn, muddy-sounding UK copies that were circulating around that time. There is a slight drop-out in the sound, for about a second, during the middle of "Monkey Man", but otherwise perfect.
BiggieTembo 19th Mar 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Beatles For Sale (1993)	Hey I got this LP too! I bought it in Bath, UK, mid-90s, from a stall in the regular Saturday tram shed market off Walcot Street. The guy who owned the stall had a shop in Warminster called Drastic Plastic. Seriously, I got so many great records from there! This cost me £3. I have no idea how he came to have it. The cover for this one is pretty thin paper - not card at all, but the vinyl... it's heavy as hell! It must be 500g or something - it weighs a ton! The sound knocks seven bells from any Parlophone or EMI original OR repressing as well - it's so warm and smooth.

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