bickster Posted March 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2021 47 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I got paid today and still weighing up if I buy lots of cheap records or an expensive couple of records. That wasnt cheap was it? Thats moving along the Jamican music line from Calypso to Rocksteady, the big R is coming! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, bickster said: Thats moving along the Jamican music line from Calypso to Rocksteady, the big R is coming! Oh god no, not that or anything similar. My list is a heady mix of 70s country and marc almond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 47 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I got paid today and still weighing up if I buy lots of cheap records or an expensive couple of records. That wasnt cheap was it? To be honest, I had it a little on the cheap side. I think its about £27 / £28 on the Rough Trade website, I think I paid about £23 and didn’t have to pay postage so i had a little result on that one. Interestingly, I’d have thought the Israel Nash before it was closer to your liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2021 Just now, chrisp65 said: To be honest, I had it a little on the cheap side. I think its about £27 / £28 on the Rough Trade website, I think I paid about £23 and didn’t have to pay postage so i had a little result on that one. Interestingly, I’d have thought the Israel Nash before it was closer to your liking. It's £24 on the Soul Jazz site 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: To be honest, I had it a little on the cheap side. I think its about £27 / £28 on the Rough Trade website, I think I paid about £23 and didn’t have to pay postage so i had a little result on that one. Interestingly, I’d have thought the Israel Nash before it was closer to your liking. Showing an interest as you mentioned it. Its not for me I will guess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Seat68 said: My list is a heady mix of 70s country It's just reggae with out the rythmn and the cool vibes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: It's just reggae with out the rythmn and the cool vibes As salesmen go, I have dealt with better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 25, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 25, 2021 As it happens, it made me listen to this Which includes... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 17 minutes ago, bickster said: It's £24 on the Soul Jazz site The reason I was a little vague, I’ve paid £46 for that, the Israel Nash, and postage, it got slipped in the same package and the postage stayed the same. She’s lovely, but the price suggests I’ve either had a random discount on an album, or on the stamp! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 26, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 26, 2021 I've been listening to Siouxsie quite a bit lately, usually albums proper but tonight I've gone for the classic first singles collection. Once Upon A Time I played this to death for years when it came out, it was always often in my DJ Boxes for certain clubs (Planet X etc) Still plays almost flawlessly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I’ve been down the garage on a fool’s errand. I’d been tipped off that Specials singles with a blue label were worth crazy money. Found mine, looked it up, £3. But in the meantime, I did dig out some oldies for a bit of stock rotation... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2021 Just now, chrisp65 said: I’ve been down the garage on a fool’s errand. I’d been tipped off that Specials singles with a blue label were worth crazy money. Found mine, looked it up, £3. But in the meantime, I did dig out some oldies for a bit of stock rotation... Last of the classic OMD albums. I have it myself (Yellow sleeve not blue) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2021 This is a hoax but it's still great to listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2021 New Tomahawk! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 I don’t have Spotify type data, but one of my three most played records. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I don’t have Spotify type data, but one of my three most played records. That has a great version of Uptown Top Ranking on it. Except its not really Uptown Top Ranking because of the way reggae works. As far as I'm aware the provenance of the riddim goes like this... Alton Ellis' I'm Still In Love was then rerecorded by Trinity as Three Piece Suit. Althea and Donna then record new vocals for a rerecorded version of that riddim that became Uptown Top Ranking, which obviously became a huge hit and everyone thinks is the original. I have no idea where the Angola Crisis dub that appears on that album fits into that provenance but suspect its after UTR as both are out of the Joe Gibbs stable, whereas the Alton Elllis tune was a Duke Reid artist (I think). And that there is the very essence of Jamaican music, they invented recyscling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2021 Just realised that album is from 74 so predates Althea and Donna by a good three years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, bickster said: That has a great version of Uptown Top Ranking on it. Except its not really Uptown Top Ranking because of the way reggae works. As far as I'm aware the provenance of the riddim goes like this... Alton Ellis' I'm Still In Love was then rerecorded by Trinity as Three Piece Suit. Althea and Donna then record new vocals for a rerecorded version of that riddim that became Uptown Top Ranking, which obviously became a huge hit and everyone thinks is the original. I have no idea where the Angola Crisis dub that appears on that album fits into that provenance but suspect its after UTR as both are out of the Joe Gibbs stable, whereas the Alton Elllis tune was a Duke Reid artist (I think). And that there is the very essence of Jamaican music, they invented recyscling Yep, that’s the fun of it, every now and again you pick up an album of randoms, and there in the middle of it all is that same hook. Then you can pick through it and see who had it first and see all those same names popping up, Perry was working for Lee, but Lee needed a tune for Jammy... so they’ve all had a dabble. It must have been a hell of a time. Angola Crisis was pretty much my gateway dub in that classic mish mash of late 70’s early 80’s listening to someone else’s mixtape of all the usual Clash and Dead Kennedy’s and now and again something like Angola Crisis dropped in. On the tape I had, someone had put the usual Small Faces and John’s Children and all that, then some Dub... and random birdsong. I never really picked up on the birdsong, but I worked out the dub was Angola Crisis and I was up and running. Although me being me, I’ve taken ‘Angola Crisis’ and in my head, by the time I’ve got to the shops I’ve seen a Joe Gibbs record called ‘State of Emergency’ and thought hmmm crisis emergency, yeah that must be it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Of everything played recently, this has been the least conducive to helping my concentration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 31, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Of everything played recently, this has been the least conducive to helping my concentration. But you still enjoyed it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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