The LP “He’s A Rebel” by The Crystals, with a painting of a goofy biker boy
Holy monophonia, just plucked this from a thicket of James Last records and it’s in damn good shape
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The cover of the LP "Civilian" by Frank Tovey, showing a black and white photographic image of the side-on silhouette on a man with a peaked cap on, walking past a chain link fence with some skyscrapers vaguely visible in the background.
Somehow I never listened to Civilian by Frank Tovey till today and folking hell, it turns out to be a completely brutal (complementary) listen, right up there with the first Fad Gadget album in rage and rhythm.
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The album cover for Safetyzone by M-Band shows a guy standing on one leg dressed in a white suit, white shoes, white bow tie, black and white shirt and socks, and black leather gloves. Next to her a women wearjng only black stockings and high heels, lace gloves and a fascinator walks away from the camera. The two touch hands. The floor is a black and white checkerboard. Glowing white palm leaves are visible.
I went to a record fair at the weekend. There was a seller with boxes of miscellaneous Japanese records at £1 a go, the inevitable occurred, and now I am committed to listening to a pile of stuff like Safetyzone by M-Band (1986)
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EP cover showing Joe Dassin standing with a guitar in its carrying case Writing on the cover: EP 5675 ÇA M'AVANCE A QUOI? (you were on my mind) COMME LA LUNE COMBIEN DE TEMPS POUR T'OUBLIER? LE TRICHEUR JOE DASSIN
Nice Joe Dassin EP featuring “Le Tricheur” which is an unexpected French language version of Bob Kuban’s “The Cheater” (don’t think I’ve ever heard another cover)
“En garde, c’est le tricheur!”
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Husband Hunting by Liz Anderson shows a bride with a pistol held in her garter
I love super-literal album covers
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The cover to “No Mystery” by Return To Forever (featuring Chick Corea) shows the four band members amidst the cosmic blobs of a psychedelic light projection show
Holy moly this is some *mind meltingly* heavy funk, not the jazz odyssey I was expecting but something miles beyond.
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The cover of Eberhard Weber’s “The Following Morning” is mostly white but has a small square drawing showing two white bulls facing one another under a tree.
Been a while since I dug any ECM zingers out of a charity shop, but this is just awesome. No drums, just soundscapes with Weber’s fretless bass taking centre stage. Perfect.
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Album cover showing a wooden carved Jesus with a crown of thorns made of multicoloured wires studded with resistors
Finally acquired a copy of “A Moog Mass” by Caldara, the precursor of Tonto’s Expanding Head Band. Another weirdo gap filled.
Deliciously delirious cover art.
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20 albums displayed, including Morton Gould's Coffee Time; Paul Weston's Carefree; David Carroll's rePercussion; Eddie Layton's Caravan and Better Layton Than Ever; Jan August's Accent (Latin Piano); Alan Black's Harmonica Hi-Fi-Lites; Dick Hyman's Keyboard Kaleidoscope, Provocative Piano, and After Six; Joe Harnell's Piano Brilliance; Richard Hayman's Campfire Songs, Roy Smeck's Magic Ukelele and Melodies With Memories; Joe Bushkins' Listen To The Quiet...; Guy Lomardo's Twin Piano Magic; Horst Jankowski's So What's New; and three Cha Cha/Mambo albums by El Boriquen Orchestra, Rene Touzet, and Esy Morales.
Oops I did it* again
*purchased a pile of weird and wonderful US "space age pop" albums from a UK charity shop
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Cover for The Best Of TV Themes Boogie+ The Entertainer by The Google Boys shows images from 70s TV programmes plus an enormous semi-removed label
The Best Of TV Themes Boogie Style by The Boogie Boys - on Emerald Gem!
The chas-n-Dave-ification of the Van Der Valk theme is a joy, but likewise for Crossroads, Upstairs Downstairs, The Ondein Line, Hawaii 5 0, Cannon, etc etc etc
5 stupids (complimentary) out of 5
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45rpm vinyl single of Drives You Mad, with “Pugsley” written on a piece of masking tape stuck to the label
Proud owner of Pugsley’s copy of “Drives You Mad” by The Gun
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LP cover showing a photo of lanes and lanes of tarmac stretching. Into the distance. At the front of the image a green hard with red fingernails is in view pulling back the whole image as though it is curling off the cover - very meta
Surroundings by Claude Larson and His Computer-Controlled Oscillators
This is sick as hell electronic library music from 1979, thick layers of fast sequenced cheesy lines and FX that just sound angelically good
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Azul Y Negro - Suspense: the cover art shows a bestial personage slashing their way with their pointy finger claws through a cavas showing a blue room with a doorway into darkness in it
Azul Y Negro pictured, the duo dressed in a kind of casual Mad Max get up, featuring neck scarfs, fake leather and a bullet belt
Lyrics: Funky Punky girl I am feeling sad don't know what to do never looks at me she is in love with herself. Laughter's in her eyes she was made to dance she's the fastest chick in town please give me a dance. Well I think that you like it. breaking my heart I really can't take it It's tearing me apart Think I must fight it. make a new start You're. you're. you're. you're a funky punky chick You're. you're: you're. you're a funky punky girl You're. you're. you're. you're a funky punky chick You're. you're. you're. you're a funky punky girl She's looking nice she has got blue hair She wears chains, studs and leather and the people stop and stare.
Azul Y Negro - Suspense
This is the cheesiest imaginable Europop circa 1984, truly fabulous. Check out that cover art, that band image, those lyrics…
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Stumbled on a copy of “Things Aren’t Right” by Wazmo Nariz (1979), who I vaguely knew as the guy with the wearing two neckties gimmick, and I’m in extreme wacky new wave clover.
Still not available via streaming
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Seven inch vinyl single with black injection moulded labels, designed for use in jukeboxes.
Loser by Beck, 7” UK jukebox pressing - same track both sides
This morning’s car boot digging threw up some interesting stuff
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Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt LP
Ruth is Stanger Than Richard by Robert Wyatt LP
£5 each for these long time wants, incredible luck
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Albums cover for The Klowns showing the band members in their clown get-ups, white suited with various piping, Pom Pom, frilly, fringy and spotted bow tie type accompaniments. And clown make up.
Interior of the album gatefold showing The Klowns in close up pulling wacky faces. Yikes.
The Klowns - S/T
Pop group put together by Ringling Bros + Barnum and Bailey for nefarious purposes, utter nightmare fuel
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LP cover showing square teenage party action 228 MUSIC FROM THE SOUND TRACK WARNER BROS PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND TROY DONAHUE CONNIE STEVENS TY HARDIN STEFANIE POWERS ROBERT CONRAD ANDREW DUGGAN JACK WESTON CAROLE COOK JERRY VAN DYKE WARNER BROS. RECORDS 1519 TECHNICOLOR WRITTEN BY EARL HAMNER, JR. PRODUCED BY MICHAEL A. HOEY DIRECTED BY NORMAN TAUROG
Rockin’ teenage party cheese including tracks like Hurricane Twist, Shilly-Shelly, and Go, Go-Devil… the Modern Folk Quartet show up with banjos in tow, but that’s a brief distraction from the ya ya dance craze action
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The cover of Lambent Flame by Black Sun Ensemble, largely covered with a big library sticker saying Please Return Promptly STEREO on it. Doesn’t look like it got taken out.
Through nefarious means I have acquired a BBC Gramophone Library copy of “Lambent Flame” by Black Sun Ensemble and it really whips the llama’s ass or whatever it is the kids say these days
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Album cover looking down the neck of a crisply drawn spaceship shaped like a guitar, drives switches on as it heads towards a looming planet.
Shame about the sticker damage but still, I am very taken with the guitar-spaceship on the cover of Holograf III (Romanian hard rock from ‘88)
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Album cover with multi coloured doodles that look like the kind of thing you create by scratching lines in one of those etchable in which a black coating covers the colourful background. The name of the band, in Japanese, is in a purple shape, and so is the name of the album, in English, which is Ohh!!!
The Voice And Rhythm - Ohh!!!
This is a fun, deeply obscure post-punk angular scratchy funk Japanese album from 1985, it goes off at all sorts of weird mutant energy angles…
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Album cover for Lazy by stock Diamond, pictures the band dressed in white sitting on clouds, next to a rainbow. A crystalline UFO hovers overhead in the distance.
Love stumbling over cheesy Japanese rock records… this is awesome, 70s naff rock infused with hard rocking guitar and driving solos at 200mph
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Visit Armenia, an Intourist publicity/souvenir record on Melodia from 1974, 7” 33rpm. Glorious vocal and choral stuff here.
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Cover of The Twang Machine by The routes, pastiche of the cover of The Man Machine by Kraftwerk, the band is dressed in Kraftwerk’s red and black look, clutching their guitar/bass/drums
Why I love charity shops #351
In the middle of an avalanche of Shadows albums, just found an album of Kraftwerk covers by a Japanese surf rock combo, god this rules.
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An LP cover, a headscarf wearning woman stands amid blurred car lights. The BOTTICELLI Orchestra ....The Sound of Today The World's Greatest Stereo DECCA
A late entry in the Phase 4 Stereo catalogue (1977), the Botticelli Orchestra looks like a hellish soporific string orchestra effort.
But no! Fooled! It contains some massive easy-disco funk stylings including the opener absolute banger, “The Botticelli Theme”. Gold. #RotateyDiskers #vinyl
