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Member	Item		Review/Comment
sladesounds 6th Feb 2014		Vinyl Album The Cast Of Fawlty Towers - Fawlty Towers (1981)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 5th Feb 2014		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees' Greats (1971)	I have amended the release year to 1971 which seems to fit in with the Polydor cat. This album is pretty much the bulk of the "Idea" album (582036) (8 out of 12 tracks).
sladesounds 5th Feb 2014		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - Idea (1968)	This record has printed on the label "Made in Holland" however to the best of my knowledge it is a UK release, also I think the mono version was only issued in the UK. Of course if anyone knows better let me know. If I am right that this is a 100% UK releas, were many records being pressed in Holland for the UK market in the late 60s? If so any idea why?
sladesounds 2nd Feb 2014		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees (1975)	Recycled sleeve picture - here is the earlier one
sladesounds 1st Feb 2014		Vinyl Album Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (1986)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 28th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Love You (1977)	Can any Canadian expert let me know what the "C" under the Cat# on the label signifys? Is it "Canada"? or the pressing plant (Cinram plant in Ontario?) or something else?
sladesounds 28th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)	Images 43522-43525 stereo re-issue from the mid 70's.
sladesounds 25th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Richard And Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey (1975)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 25th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Endless Summer (1974)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 22nd Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Pot Luck (1962)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 21st Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe (1987)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 15th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album The Microscopic Septet - Beauty Based On Science (The Visit) (1988)	A slab of Experimental Big Band [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 6th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari (1962)	Thanks for the scans with the track details - if you check your PMs you will see that I sent you a message yesterday and nearly deleted this entry as it is/was so incomplete. As it is I will add the "missing tracks" to the entry but can you please ensure that you only created an entry if you have the full details taken from the album and are prepared to enter them all - saves lots of retrospective work - ta. PS: NO NEED TO SHOUT IN YOUR COMMENTS :grin:
sladesounds 5th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Blue Mitchell - African Violet (1977)	Phil Thanks for the info. Just getting more and more into jazz and this is one of the first Impulse records I have acquired (£3 yesterday at a local market stall). I will change it over as it now starts to make sense why it was stamped. Steve
sladesounds 5th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Blue Mitchell - African Violet (1977)	You will see from the front cover scan this has been stamped MCA Impulse. ABC Impulse was taken over by MCA around 1978 I believe. I have added some information from Robert May in the ABC Impulse biography which gives some information on the label's history. This is not a bad album however it's a little bit too jazz-funk/jazz-fusion for my liking when compared to some of his excellent 60s recordings. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 4th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Bad Company - Bad Company (1974)	The debut album by Bad Company. Produced by Bad Company, the album was recorded at Headly Grange in November 1973 with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio.
sladesounds 4th Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile (1974)	Supposedly named thinking of Yes' Fragile album. Unlike Yes' sound being Fragile, BTO though their music could be dropped and kicked around hence "Not Fragile". This, BTO's third album, was the first to feature Blair Thornton who replaced Tim Bachman in early 1974. Rolling Stone review
sladesounds 3rd Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Neil Young - Time Fades Away (1973)	At the time of this album's release it was almost unprecedented for an artist to put out a live concert recording of previously unreleased material. The album was released at a time Neil was under going a change in his music style, he was becoming darker, heavier and this tour's effect on some fans was compared to that of Dylan going electric in 1966 at the Royal Albert Hall. On a BBC Radio 2 interview in 1987 (transcribed in the Shakey biography) Neil stated "My least favourite record is Time Fades Away. I think it's the worst record I ever made - but as a documentary of what was happening to me, it was a great record. I was onstage and I was playing all these songs that nobody had heard before, recording them, and I didn't have the right band. It was just an uncomfortable tour. It was supposed to be this big deal - I just had Harvest out, and they booked me into ninety cities. I felt like a product, and I had this band of all-star musicians that couldn't even look at each other. It was a total joke."
sladesounds 1st Jan 2014		Vinyl Album Bachman-Turner-Bachman As Brave Belt With Chad Allan - Bachman-Turner-Bachman As Brave Belt (1975)	Prior to the recording of the 'Share The Land' album in 1970, Randy Bachman left 'The Guess Who' and after recording a solo album titled 'Axe' he formed *"Brave Belt"* with his brother Robbie on drums and keyboardist Chad Allan (originally part of The Guess Who). They later brought on board CF (Fred) Turner. Though Turner's name appears on the jacket of their first album (1971's self titled "Brave Belt"), Turner actually had nothing to do with the album as it had been recorded by the time he joined. In 1972 Allan left the group and was replaced by Tim Bachman. The second album Brave Belt II didn't sell as well as expected and the group ended up switching labels to Mercury and, owing to management insisting on a name change, Bachman Turner Overdrive were born. Following the instant success of *BTO*, Reprise re-released Brave Belt II, as seen here, under the title 'Bachman-Turner-Bachman as Brave Belt'.
sladesounds 31st Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Shirley Brown - Woman To Woman (1987)	Country changed, wasn't too sure so I initially covered all options with Europe :grin:
sladesounds 29th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Kris Kristofferson - Me And Bobby McGee (1971)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 27th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Kelley Stoltz - Double Exposure (2013)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 26th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)	Sorry about the scans, this copy of mine still sealed and unopened. Please replace with better as and when another comes along.
sladesounds 22nd Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Was (Not Was) - Was (Not Was) (1981)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 20th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 1 (2013)	[YouTube Video]
sladesounds 19th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side (1983)	Ref Notes: Also pressed in France - see my label scans.
sladesounds 18th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Anhrefn - Dragons Revenge (1990)	[YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video]
sladesounds 17th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927, Volume 1 (2013)	Ok this retails at $400.00 and to order and get it to the UK cost me £380.00 with shipping and custom fees. Worth the money? Well look at what you are getting. To start with it is big, this complete package weighs in at 25lbs. The box is solid oak measuring 16" x 18" x 6". All the fittings on the box are solid metal including the badge on the front. If you haven't realised the design is based on a 78rpm player made by the furniture part of the Paramount company. The 6 albums are heavyweight vinyl housed in a white birch LP folio. The folio, front, spine, back is crafted from one piece of birch and has been embossed/burned by hand. And the music! Nearly 100 years old and sounding wonderful considering they have come from 78rpm recordings. The USB player housed in the box contains 800+ tracks from the Paramount label, loads of scans and tons of information regarding the recordings. The Jobber-Luxe software that plays them is top rated too or you can use your own mp3 player. Chuck in a hardback book and a "field guide" along with some reproduction music sheets and adverts. Having paid around £300 last year for the Beatles Vinyl Box Set this IMHO is worth the money. It is a wonderful thing to own and look at, a piece of art in it's own right.
sladesounds 15th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album The White Stripes - The White Stripes (2002)	All Music Review by Chris Handyside Minimal to the point of sounding monumental, this Detroit guitar-drums-voice duo makes the most of its aesthetic choices and the spaces between riffage and the big beat. In fact, the White Stripes sound like arena rock as hand-crafted in the attic. Singer/guitarist Jack White's voice is a singular, evocative combination of punk, metal, blues, and backwoods while his guitar work is grand and banging with just enough lyrical touches of slide and subtle solo work to let you know he means to use the metal-blues riff collisions just so. Drummer Meg White balances out the fretwork and the fretting with methodical, spare, and booming cymbal, bass drum, and snare cracks. In a word, economy (and that goes for both of the players). The Whites' choice of covers is inspired, too. J. White's voice is equally suited to the task of tackling both the desperation of Robert Johnson's "Stop Breakin' Down" and the loneliness of Bob Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee." Neither are equal to the originals, but they take a distinctive, haunting spin around the turntable nevertheless. All D.I.Y. punk-country-blues-metal singer/songwriting duos should sound this good.
sladesounds 14th Dec 2013		Vinyl Album The Raconteurs - Live At The Ryman Auditorium (2013)	First album looks black until you hold it to the light where it is smokey brown with some dark swirls

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