The Raincoats - S/T album cover

This is such a joyous record, and includes one of the greatest cover versions ever - definitely a contender for #5DebutAlbums7579

I once grabbed this for 50p and in my excitement I didn’t check the record. It had a cheapo 70s comp in. Sold the sleeve for £50 on eBay & it turned out the record the guy had matched my sleeve!! (Same name & address sticker on label & sleeve!!)

NP - bit crackly but the magic shines through.

Billy Harper - Trying to Make heaven My Home

🖤🙌 highest recommendation

NP - Normil Hawaiians - More Wealth than Money 🙌🖤

Postpunk masterpiece that transcends the genre.

NP - one I never thought I’d own in its original form.

Simply one of the greatest pieces of black metal art ever made.

Immortal - Pure Holocaust 🖤🙌

Next up - a bit of a splurge on a massive Blue Note favourite.

Ike Quebec - It Might as Well be Spring, Mono 1st.

The word laconic was invented for Ike’s tenor sax playing on this. It’s a perfect Sunday record. Freddie Roach’s bubbling organ was tailor made for this kind of record, too.

🖤🙌

Ha ha, wonderful!

When @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social gives you a US psych recommendation, you’d better listen up. Pick-up from a lovely day in Bristol 🖤🙌

Hollins & Starr - Sidewalks Talking

Out of Chicago this has everything you’d want from an obscure 1970 psych record, from fuzz to flute & superfluous drum solo

No, Jeff Buckley is not the best singer ever. In fact he’s not even the second best Buckley.

Milky Chance

NP - Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

🖤🙌

Absolutely. Any Oasis song would do it for me. Hell even one of the brothers talking would work. Almost any Queen song too, but especially Radio Ga Ga.

Radio Ga Ga would be a very close contender.

As Buckley is Andrew’s kryptonite, the whining Manc brothers are mine.

That’s a very solid choice, would be high on my torture list too, but almost any Oasis song would be at the top.

Next up - Kathe Green - Run the Length of your Wildness

Shame about the cover, but the record is lovely. Sumptuous baroque pop/folk 🖤🙌

Next up - Davy Graham “Midnight Man”

Fantastic album, sounding glorious in original Mono. 🖤🙌

NP - Fraction - Moon Blood

Do you like the sound of a trippy Christian (in a weird & wonderful way) spaced out private press psych rock from 1971 (aka the best year for music) fronted by someone who sounds like he could be Danzig’s biggest influence?

Originals go for over £4k [this is a boot]

Also cheap heat!

NP - Duke Ellington “The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

🖤🙌

An absolute masterpiece. An overused word, but in this case it scarcely does the record justice.

❤️

It’s soooo good!

I’d almost successfully wiped that remake from my memory until I just read this.

Thanks Tom. 😂

Grail 🙌🖤

NP - Sam Gopal - Escalator

Phenomenal

Georg Riedel - Riedaiglia (1967) YouTube video by KidSkinkIdSkin

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Three Spanish record shop digs 🙌🖤

Top left is Georg Riedel

Indeed. It’s one I’ve looked for an original of but that seems elusive and/or stupendously expensive.

Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat & tote bag from Vinyl Kakis, Singapore

Keiji Haino in Vinyl Khakis

Single vinyl purchase (& cute tote bag) from amazing little record store in Singapore (Vinyl Kakis). The owner Jason is great - his shop stuffed with extreme metal, noise, jazz, city pop & soul & Keiji Haino has been in the little store (see second pic)!

#5DebutAlbums9094

This is made for metal.

First up 1991 and Norway. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey. Essentially a death metal record and one of the best from what would go on to be one of the greatest black metal bands. 🙌🖤

NP - some great cheap heat with a killer sleeve!

Turkish Folk Music