Vinyl Albums - Comments by Lee Wrecker

Vinyl Albums - Comments by Lee Wrecker

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Lee Wrecker 11th Feb 2022		Vinyl Album The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966)	All of the blue Decca labels posted since I uploaded this entry would predate my red (dark orange) labels. My copy was bought between 1976 and 1978 with 1976 being the year red boxed Decca label replaced the blue boxed Decca label (1970? - 1976). The original release of this album had an unboxed red Decca label so when that shows up it should go first.
Lee Wrecker 8th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits (1976)	You can sit down and be corrected if you like Magic. All of these Linda Ronstadt Greatest Hits compilations linked below and on the net that I have seen definitely have the words "with The Stone Poneys" on the inside sleeve notes for the track B1. So given the the guidelines indicate entering titles as they appear on the medium it would mean this track should be entered as Linda Ronstadt with The Stone Poneys. The original single of Different Drum was released as by The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt. So historically there has always been a delineation between the singer and the band. Other releases on the linked pages will confirm that. There seems to a lot of autocorrecting going on on the site but it might pay to remember that on 45 Worlds we enter things as they appear on the medium warts and all. We do not correct spelling mistakes or add first names to composers or correct composer credits if they are wrong or missing. We enter everything as it appears on the copy at hand and refrain from showing off our superior knowledge. If we know better and some of us do the place for informing others is in the comments.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Jan 2022		Vinyl Album The Universal-International Orchestra - The Glenn Miller Story (1959)	Thanks PhilMH, looks like August 1959. Someone gave me this one and if it actually played I'd keep it. While the cover and label look alright the record has some significant scratches. I loved this movie as a kid and the Louis songs added on are great if only the dang thing played nicely I'd be over the moon.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Jan 2022		Vinyl Album XTC - Mummer (1983)	Checked everything properly this time and linked to other copies on the site. Back on form for "22.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Jan 2022		Vinyl Album The Universal-International Orchestra - The Glenn Miller Story (1959)	Slightly different running order to linked 1961 UK version and a different cover. Release date unknown, any ideas PhilMH?.
Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Bread - Baby I'm-A Want You (1972)	Images added, cover is a bit tatty but better than nothing.
Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Love - Forever Changes (2015)	Thanks ppint. No kneed to transmutilate yer corresponderings fuh me though.
Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate (1971)	Added images for this one but note the labels list the composer as L. Cohen not Leonard Cohen as entered here. Correction sent.
Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Slade - Slade Alive! (2022)	russh29 you are right it is a minefield. The international category as it stands on this site is different to that of Discwrongs (as I call it) so the information from that site doesn't fit the 45 World's entry procedures well at all. Basically, here we consider any release that is available for retail in more than one country (ie. Australia in this instance) and or region (we'll go for the EU as is the case here) is international. There are a lot of problems with this system that have been debated for years but regardless that's how we still do things. It is more accurate when things are correctly entered but it is difficult to know whether the product you buy is the same product I might buy way down here in Australia. So, we have a lot of entries on the site that don't meet our own guidelines but there are some give away signs on EU produced releases that will help you out. Anything on BMG that says BMG Rights Management which is usually followed by brackets with a country in it is international. It is an international label that produces product usually in the Czech Rep. by GZ Media specifically for international release. So all of those Slade re-releases are international and available all over the world. This also applies to sub-labels of BMG like Sanctuary and here's one I've entered correctly from a few years back. This one I entered incorrectly a bit earlier on but the same way you did here. I call this the "what's on the tin method". Nothing wrong with it but just not quite right with the guidelines of this site. If we on this site can nut something out that works we'll be the first in the world to do so because as you know everywhere else on the net is still using the place of manufacture as country/region of release. Either that or we could change the guidelines to reflect how most users put things which is the way you entered this album.
Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Love - Forever Changes (2015)	Thanks for chiming in Sir ppint. The specific album I refer to in my comment is from a small independent label in Australia called Flightless. The actual record is available in four other coloured vinyl variants with the same same cat#. These were only available online via the Flightless store and in small runs of a thousand to two thousand. None of these had a bar code at all so we could just (if any arrive) add them to the retail version I have uploaded and amend the notes to say "All coloured vinyl versions available from the Flightless online store have no bar code but the bar code for the retail version is 9332727109409". We would then need to remove the bar code from this entry and it would match the precedent set in the link I provided to the X-Ray Spex album. All I'm suggesting is that in that particular case we follow that lead and remove the bar code from the entry so as to avoid the ensuing calamity of assigning numbers to items that don't actually carry those numbers. The case here is different though with two specific barcodes for two different products on a major label - so two entries. Small quirky independent label runs of multiple colours aimed at niche collectors are a different thing or are they not? I have sent a correction to have the bar code removed forthwith and supplied an appropriate comment to the entry I made a few days ago. I hope this is to your satisfaction my liege. Straight up though thanks for helping me nail the fine detail here ppint. Well not here but on my other entry ahh you know what I mean.
Lee Wrecker 18th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Slade - Slade Alive! (2022)	This will be available in Australia six days later on the 28/01/22. Will that require a new entry on the strength of the differing release dates? Or is this just another BMG international release like nearly everything BMG manufactures in the EU. Here's a link to Slade In Flame that is also available here as normal retail product. Nearly everything released by Universal, Sony, BMG, Warner Bros and even independentity things under the Sanctuary banner are all international these days. Even the 100 year old industry copyright differences between the USA and Europe are disappearing as these multi-transnationals centralise production and maximise distribution. The USA and Japan will be last dominoes to fall but we're already very close to a one world one product situation in terms of music distribution. Here's an album I cheekily entered as Australian a few years back. Now you all can see it's an EU produced product but how do I know it was released in the EU. I'm not there and can't look in the shops or read the local music press. All I can be certain of is that it was released in Australia as I bought it in Australia from Warner's Australian website. So That is why it should an Australian release until someone can prove otherwise. So far no one has bothered so it is correctly listed even though I know it is wrong. If I had listed it as an EU release that would also be correct but still wrong because I bought in Australia from Warner's Australian website. So obviously it's an international release and that is correct but it's very hard to determine that from where anyone sits in the world and in particular the EU for obvious reasons.
Lee Wrecker 18th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Love - Forever Changes (2015)	You're most welcome russh29. Thanks for replying it made me look at what I'd said and realise that there were some minor errors which I have now corrected. That makes me happy! I'm easily pleased you know ... well sometimes.
Lee Wrecker 17th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - KG (Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Vol. 2) (2020)	There are many versions of this LP. Not as many as McCartney III but I don't anything can compete with that marketing extravaganza. This one comes in five ways (so far) with different colour vinyl, different tints on the artwork and different outer brown paper envelopes and cover stickers. This version that I have uploaded is the standard retail black recycled vinyl edition but all of the releases mentioned above have the same cat#. All of the other versions have no barcode and one version I've seen has no cat#. Yes they are all from the same place and time so I think they should all be clubbed together on this page rather than have six or seven versions of the same release. If other versions arrive on the site we will need to remove the bar code from this entry details and amend the notes to reflect this as per this example already listed on the site. Correction sent and a little wave to Sir ppint for helping me fine tune this entry before calamity ensued and numbers were given to innocent peace loving products that didn't deserve them.
Lee Wrecker 17th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Love - Forever Changes (2015)	Hello Magic and russh29 the bar codes are different but like a lot of recent Rhino re-releases only visible on the cover sticker or shrink wrap as is the case on your copy Magic. So I presume you've lost or binned that sticker or bought a second hand copy russh29. No worries it is 081227971151 which is different to this version. You'll also note that russh29's copy is international and was released in the USA as well as the EU. The white version may be an EU only release but who can say? The new mono version is available here in Australia now so who knows how far and wide the white vinyl version traveled. . There are some albums that have multiple barcodes contained on one entry page on the site like this but the barcode category left blank and that information tagged on as more variants pour in. My preference in this case would be for separate entries to be created. I don't know why because the next entry I do I will suggest the opposite. I think if there are a lot of colour variants with the same cat# it's best to keep them together if there is a black and one coloured vinyl version only with different bar codes keep them separate. We'll call this Wrecker's Wrule. What do you Wreckon Magic???!!!!
Lee Wrecker 15th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Gruff Rhys - American Interior (2014)	I still have the T Shirt for this release but will scan it when it's a crumpled rag.
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Michael Franks - The Art Of Tea (1976)	...but not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Easterhouse - Waiting For The Redbird (1989)	An unfortunate accident brought this one to my house. It's in perfect condition except for the content. Goes for a mighty 3 Quid these days I hear, I just wish it would go somewhere else.
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Easterhouse - Waiting For The Redbird (1989)	The Australian version has an obi strip hyping the band. Either way I couldn't get through the first song. Will upload and pass on to an unsuspecting by passer by hopefully. Absolutely dreadful is my assessment of this one.
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Tom Waits - Blue Valentine (1978)	Added 1980's (maybe late 70's) reissue labels. Anyone want it, I'm giving it away?
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Al Green - Explores Your Mind (1975)	Hey Phil, my copy looks like an old pressing but it's not. The feel of the vinyl is definitely post oil crisis thin like only Australia could do and early 80's at the latest in my opinion. Strangely though for the 180gr 220gr buffs this vinyl most likely less than 100gr sounds great. I'll weigh it to prove a point. Hmmm... 98grams and sounds immaculate. Heard much much worse as remastered 180 and above re-releases .
Lee Wrecker 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - First Edition (1982)	Released in Australia as well. Just picked up a copy and will enter and link.
Lee Wrecker 7th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Sex Pistols - Flogging A Dead Horse (1986)	"Do Know Wrong" A4 is really "Did You No Wrong" but is misspelled on the cover and label. Linked to the UK original release (below) which has the correct spelling of track A4 but the same Cochran, Capehart cock-up for "C'mon Everybody".
Lee Wrecker 3rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album David Bowie - Another Face (1981)	A candidate for the worst looking label any David Bowie product ever appeared on? Rainbow didn't even remove the Decca logos from cover but sure did their thing on the label. Atrocious!
Lee Wrecker 3rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Scientists - Weird Love (1986)	Often overlooked but a highly regarded Australian outfit from the late 70's to mid 80's. I even missed this one when I entered my LPs ages ago but stumbled across it again last week. That accounts for the marks on the labels. This is sort of a greatest hits (they didn't really have any) or more a collection of the band's strongest material originally recorded in Australia but re-recorded with the intention of introducing the band to new markets in the UK and USA. It's a phenomenal slab of vinyl (released on Big Time in the USA) and it's no wonder the SST and Sub Pop grunge merchants often refer to this band as an influence. How to describe them - well dark and danceable is alright but perhaps Bo Diddley goes Goth, bumps into Captain Beefheart at a Luau and they jam into the night the Scientists see and hear it all and decide to concoct a dynamite cocktail of their own.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops (2019)	Linked to your entry Dr. Doom but no bonus single for us here in Australia. My opinion on this is side one not much different to the debut album side two is much more interesting and if this was produced to any sort of reasonable standard this album would be great. There are issues with the sound on every version of this which is a shame as the content is very good.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Can - Soon Over Babaluma (2014)	Barcode is listed here as it appears on the actual back cover but is 0724596942413 on the cover sticker provided. By the way this version imitates the original's metallic silver laminated cover and the back cover shot is a photo rather than a scan (a first for me). The cover shot on the other hand is pilfered from I not where or at least I'm not saying. I will say that this cover is not easy to either scan or take a photo of.
Lee Wrecker 3rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Motörhead - Motörhead (1977)	No you aren't Fokeman. Is the devil at play? Or is it just some black arts carry on from carryonsidney? Kind of appropriate in a way.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive (1981)	Scans show Reggae-Mylitis is in fact correct. All my days.
Lee Wrecker 2nd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread & Alive (1981)	Finally got around to it and did up the cover shots and label scans. Checked out the linked German release (below) and noticed that there are a few track differences. This USA version has "The Poor Man Feel It" and "Cold Blood" as tracks A4 and A5 whereas the German release has "Rok With Me" and "Oh Bumbo Klaat" instead.
Lee Wrecker 30th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Dr. John - Dr. John, The Night Tripper (1987)	whitewhale1965 you can check it out here and LouisSidney is right. "Guilded" as it correctly spelled on other versions of this album linked below is incorrectly spelled as "Gilded" on this issue on the label and back cover. This Alligator reissue also has different back cover artwork to the original ATCO release. It's still a great album even though Alligator were a bit sloppy with the back cover and spelling.

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