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Member	Item		Review/Comment
sladesounds 25th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin' (1984)	Recorded on February 8, 1963, at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey featuring Quentin Warren on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums. Prayer Meetin' was the last of four albums Smith recorded in a week to finish off his Blue Note contract before leaving for Verve.
sladesounds 24th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Oscar Peterson - Starportrait (1971)	No real idea on the date with this one. A strange one in that the box has German details with a German booklet yet the albums have French labels!
sladesounds 23rd Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Milestones (1973)	Basically to get what we now have at track C1 type "Surf's Up SECTIONBREAK Don't Go Near The Water" (title for break header - command for break - track detail). Same done at A1.
sladesounds 21st Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Valerie Carter - Just A Stone's Throw Away (1977)	All Music Review by Rob Caldwell Her first full-length solo album continued her musical involvement with Lowell George and the members of Little Feat, which had begun three years earlier when she was a member of the band Howdy Moon. It also featured a stellar cast of other musicians, including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and John Hall. The album is at once funky and folksy, blending a variety of styles, from the haunting acoustic sounds of "Face of Appalachia" to the jazzy blues of "Back to Blue Some More." "Ooh Child" was featured very effectively at the end of the 1979 teen rebellion movie Over The Edge.
sladesounds 19th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmy Smith - Houseparty (1985)	This was also issued in France. As far as I can see from that "other" site the French copy is marked on rear sleeve "Printed in France" and has alternate matrix numbers in the dead wax.
sladesounds 14th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Charlie Mingus - Oh Yeah (1962)	My scans are from the 2009 180g re-issue.
sladesounds 12th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - When The Wind Blows (1986)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 7th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb (1963)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 5th Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Byrds - The Original Singles 1967-1969 Volume 2 (1982)	J. McGuinn & R. McGuinn are the same person, now known as James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942). At the start of his career he was known as Jim. The story goes that he changed his name in 1967 because a guru in Indonesia said that a new name would vibrate better with the universe. The guru sent Jim the letter "R" and asked him to send back ten names starting with that letter. Because Jim was into gadgets and Sci-Fi, he sent names like "Rocket" and "Ramjet." He included the name Roger only because they use it for radio messages to indicate "OKAY." Roger was the only "real" name in the bunch and the guru picked it. Jim only changed his middle name from Joseph to Roger but used Roger as a stage name. As far as the vibrating with the universe ... he didn't notice any change and would have changed his name back to Jim (which he liked) but that would have been too confusing. Thanks to Byrds FAQ
sladesounds 2nd Jun 2014		Vinyl Album The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider (1969)	This was the eighth album released by the band. The album was named after the song "Ballad of Easy Rider", which had been written by Roger McGuinn (with help from Bob Dylan), as the theme song for the 1969 film, Easy Rider. The album title was also chosen in an attempt to capitalize on the commercial success of the film, although the majority of the music on the album had no connection with it. This worked and it heightened The Byrds' public profile resulting Ballad of Easy Rider becoming the band's highest charting album for two years in the U.S.A.
sladesounds 28th May 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World's Worst Record Show (1978)	if you really must listen to this album the link is here. But then how can this be the worst collection ever when it has a gem at B2? [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever (1980)	Yep your right - artist dies - company finds ways to sell more records :)
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Kate Bush - Lionheart (1978)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever (1980)	No expert on this but I think that the Buddy Holly album was "overdubbed" i.e. extra music etc was put on top of the existing recordings which in that case were all sorts including studio outtakes, home recordings etc., most of them being (at the time) mono recordings. End result the "full" original recording plus extra bits to "enhance" the music. With Minnie's album everything but the vocals were removed from the original recordings. I guess this was possible due to the fact that when she recorded them in 1978 there must have been multi track recorders in the studio with capability to lay down 24 tracks or more. After all but the vocal tracks were removed, new music and extra vocals were recorded and added in with the tempo of the songs also being changed. End result here original vocals only with everything else you hear being newly recorded.
sladesounds 27th May 2014		Vinyl Album Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever (1980)	Love Lives Forever is the sixth and final studio album by American soul singer Minnie Riperton. Released posthumously, it was co-produced by her husband Richard Rudolph and released on her then-label Capitol Records. It consists of unused vocal sessions, put in music and vocally completed by artists she admired or with whom she shared her musical style. Even though most of the selections are set in a midtempo rhythm, they are calm in mood. This album was the first of its kind, in that all of Minnie's vocals were stripped from their earlier, original music tracks and completely redone. Completed with new musicians, vocalists and arrangements. Producer Quincy Jones described this difficult project best as "keeping the bridge, but moving the water."
sladesounds 26th May 2014		Vinyl Album J. J. Burnel - Euroman Cometh (1979)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 26th May 2014		Vinyl Album Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man (1976)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 25th May 2014		Vinyl Album B.T. Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) (1974)	This is the debut album by the Brooklyn, New York band B.T. Express, originally named Brooklyn Transit Express. [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 24th May 2014		Vinyl Album The Undertones - Hypnotised (1980)	This record has on some other sites been credited to Nova Records. Nova in fact pressed and distributed records (especially the Sire label) in Portugal. The pressing also turned up throughout Europe. You will see from the Back Cover Scan the company details are shown. Some details of their involvement with The Ramones can be found here. [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 22nd May 2014		Vinyl Album Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (2002)	The fourth album from Bright Eyes and the 46th release on the Saddle Creek label. The album made #4 on Rolling Stones 2002 albums of the year list. [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 19th May 2014		Vinyl Album Edie Brickell And New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars (1988)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 19th May 2014		Vinyl Album Diana Ross - Diana! (1971)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 18th May 2014		Vinyl Album The Breeders - Pod (1990)	Debut album by the band put together by ex-Pixies Kim Deal. The album did not chart in the US but did reach #22 in the UK Album Charts. In a 1992 interview with Melody Maker, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain named Pod as one of the records that influenced his life: "It's an epic that will never let you forget your ex-girlfriend." [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 14th May 2014		Vinyl Album Bram Tchaikovsky - The Russians Are Coming (1980)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 14th May 2014		Vinyl Album Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man (1979)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 14th May 2014		Vinyl Album Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary Clooney At The London Palladium (1955)	Is the rear sleeve the same as the front or has the wrong scan been uploaded?
sladesounds 14th May 2014		Vinyl Album David Bowie - Heathen (2002)	bsf - does the COL 508222 1 appear on the back of the sleeve above the barcode box? I can't quite make it out from Steve's pic. Does it by any chance also appear on the spine - let me know and I will sort the notes etc out.
sladesounds 12th May 2014		Vinyl Album The Pointer Sisters - The Pointer Sisters (1973)	Thanks WB lbl :grin:
sladesounds 11th May 2014		Vinyl Album Thorinshield - Thorinshield (1967)	An obscure Los Angeles trio that had its roots in folk movement but at times drifted into a little psych rock. Tracks such as Wrong My Friend, Here Today and Life Is A Dream offer a highly commercial mix of folk-rock and soft psych. The combination of great harmonies (check out Pleasure Time), coupled with occasional psychedelic touches (nice backwards guitar on One Girl) and attractive orchestration (Prelude To A Postlude) come across as quite impressive. Bobby Ray may be the same guy who played bass on Donovan's May 1966 sessions in L.A., including Season Of The Witch, The Trip and two unreleased pieces: Super Lungs (different version) and Breezes of Patchulie. Drummer Terry Hand had previous played in a number of surf bands and released a couple of singles as a member of Everpresent Fullness. [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 11th May 2014		Vinyl Album David Bowie - Stage (1978)	Stage is Bowie's second live album, recorded during the Isolar II world tour at concerts in Philadelphia and Boston. Initial copies were pressed on yellow vinyl. Blue vinyl was used in some European copies. [YouTube Video]

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