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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Fokeman 17th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Neva Eder - 40 Favourite Nursery Rhymes (1976)	In keeping with Hawk's aim to release the best of Irish Folk and Rock, they make the decision to release an album of Nursery Rhymes from New Zealand. Go figure!!!!
Fokeman 14th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Peer Günt - Backseat (1987)	Slightly doubtful about the existence of this although it was planned for release according to certain sources. Certainly if it was released this is the correct catalogue number for the UK issue.
Fokeman 14th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Warfare - Mayhem, Fuckin' Mayhem (1987)	The most reliable site for Neat Records online is https://thecorroseum.org/labels/neat.php which seems to be sure about the release date. So I suggest we go with 1987 until absolute proof to the contrary.
Fokeman 14th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Toy Dolls - The Toy Dolls Album (1985)	This was a reissue of 1982 recordings. I think the 1985 date was correct. The correction request stated released in July 1985. The following records on the label were released shortly thereafter.
Fokeman 14th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Warfare - Mayhem, Fuckin' Mayhem (1987)	I'm thinking that with the subtitle of Mayhem '87 that despite its recording date it was actually released in 1987. The confusing factor is the 1986 publishing date. But that doesn't necessarily equate with a 1986 release. Does anyone have any cast-iron proof that it was actually released and promoted in 1986 before several of the subsequent NEAT numbers?
Fokeman 6th Dec 2024		Vinyl Album Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne (1972)	My copy has a top opening sleeve. This must be quite unusual for records issued at the time. I suppose that Jackson Browne wanted the water bag theme for the record and so the top opening sleeve was part of that general idea, including the leather feel to the (original) cover.
Fokeman 30th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Peggy Seeger And Ewan MacColl - Folkways Record Of Contemporary Songs (1984)	The great thing about Spanish pressings is that they legally have to publish the date of issue on every label.
Fokeman 27th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Keith And Enid - Keith And Enid Sing (1963)	Cottonfields turned into a big hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival too.
Fokeman 26th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Keith And Enid - Keith And Enid Sing (1963)	Yes, I was very much hoping for some Ska myself. It is very middle of the road and not the kind of music I really want to play over and again. I wonder if it really was revolutionary when it first came out? For such a great label, it was a bit of a modest start. It was produced by Chris Blackwell himself and he went on to do some great things other artists. My labels don't have any stickers so I could perhaps add them for that reason.
Fokeman 25th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Keith And Enid - Keith And Enid Sing (1963)	I'm just playing this for the very first time. On the black label, it starts slow and gentle. Both the record and the sleeve were well used. The sleeve has split down the sides and is pretty filthy. I've just wiped years of tobacco stains off the front laminated cover. I've removed the old sellotape glue and cleaned the record. It sounds beautiful and with the lightest of crackle which is only audible between cracks. I bought it as a duo along with another very early Island LP but this time on Sue, still on the ILP catalogue numbers though... I'm wondering if it's worth me taking photos to improve any of these?
Fokeman 23rd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1979)	This same record appeared with a different sleeve that only referenced Eurodisc. If it were the record it would be dated 1976 (or 1978?) but with this sleeve it was released in 1979 (apparently). They don't make it easy for us, do they...
Fokeman 21st Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Mac Murrough - Mac Murrough (1974)	[YouTube Video]
Fokeman 19th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1985)	With all the information printed in English. No GEMA. All clues indicate a UK issue (another one) but this time printed and pressed in Germany. A UK issue nevertheless.
Fokeman 19th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1980)	UK issue but with a sleeve printed in Holland. Nevertheless NOT a Dutch issue.
Fokeman 19th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1980)	This looks like a UK issue but with a sleeve printed in Holland.
Fokeman 19th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)	Made in Italy but with the STEMRA logo was this really sold or released in Italy? STEMRA is very specifically a Netherlands rights collection agency and would not operate in Italy. So I think this needs moving to Netherlands.
Fokeman 14th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)	Also came out with the later Spaceship Labels. But this later issue was allocated another catalogue number.
Fokeman 13th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album 11. Panzer-Grenadier-Division,Conductor-Major Hans Friess - Singing And Marching (1975)	The previous two and the following catalogue numbers in this series were all issued in 1975. Other records issued in Ireland in 1975 have exactly this layout on the label. Compare with The Bards for example. This is clearly not a 1961 issue, despite the publishing date given.
Fokeman 11th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Annie Ross And The Tony Kinsey Quintet - Loguerhythms (1963)	@swbcfc ,Your images don't look like they belong here. Are they perhaps from a CD reissue? They've used the tracks from the original recording and used the image from the XTRA reissue. It doesn't look at all like a vinyl reissue. And after looking in record shops and online for about 40 years, I've never seen it, hence my belief that it is not a vinyl reissue and it is certainly not something reissued during the life of the Transatlantic label.
Fokeman 11th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Heather And Glen (1976)	Albatros released a whole host of Everest LPs. This was first released in the US on the Everest label but even saw a UK release on Ember if memory serves me correctly.
Fokeman 8th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Magma - Magma	The currently showing labels are a 1980s reissue (see other Vertigo 1980 black labels). The originals were on a blue paper label.
Fokeman 3rd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Sandy Denny - Gold Dust (2022)	Having visited a popular online site you can see that the majority of these available for sale are in the USA, so I have no doubt that it was released in the USA too. For the reasons I have already listed below and the fact that I bought it from a record shop in France, I think that at least it has a European release too. It seems to me though, that it was truly an internation release. So shall we all agree to change it to International as annaloog suggests? No criticism intended anywhere.
Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987)	Some copies came on White Vinyl, I believe.
Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Thin Lizzy - The Continuing Saga Of The Ageing Orphans (1979)	My copy very specifically says Publishing date 1978 on both labels. Is this unusual?
Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Cream - Cream (1975)	My copy has exactly the same vinyl but a slight sleeve variant with "Special Price Series" and a thick green border all around the front of the sleeve.
Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (1974)	Publishing date of 1973 on the labels and rear of sleeve. Also came on the Vertigo Swirl label with all information about tracs on the B side.
Fokeman 1st Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Sandy Denny - Gold Dust (2022)	I can't see anything that suggests that this is a US release. It is made in the EU and certainly intended for the European/UK market. Looking at the label it has BIEM/SDRM which makes it clear that the rights collection will be carried out across the whole of Europe. SDRM is specifically a French collection agency and BIEM operates throughout Europe. I have just bought this in Europe so I'm surprised that it is considered a US release? Universal Island Records Ltd. suggests a UK Ltd. Company, something that doesn't exist in the USA. I wouldn't be surprised that people in the USA were also able to buy this but I would consider it principally a European release.
Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Martin Carthy - Selections (1972)	I think that these were Pegasus recordings which were recorded by Terry Brown. See here... and were not necessarily Fontana recordings. Oh, I see what you mean. It says in the Notes "from the first two albums". I suppose the tracks were on the first two albums but these may have been separate recordings of the songs and tunes in their repertoire. What is also odd, is that the early records had no credits at all for who produced them, so in theory, this could have been the original recordings (which might have been...) produced by Terry Brown.
Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Choir Of King's College Cambridge, David Willcocks - G.P. Da Palestrina: Stabat Mater (1964)	Excellent. Thanks for your detective work, TJ. I'm always a bit wary when we find a Stereo or Mono LP on its own.
Fokeman 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Sabotage (1975)	Bill Ward, wanting to look a bit different was wearing his girlfriend's red tights for this but didn't have any underpants. So he asked Ozzy to lend him his underpants which then required Ozzy to wear his robe with nothing on underneath. It looks a bit ridiculous but they were trying to avoid just wearing normal, everyday clothes on the album cover.

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