So, it's time for the great record clearout. Here, listed for your delight, are the entire contents of my dusty box. Does anyone want them? Or I'll stick 'em on Freecycle...
(NB these do not entirely accurately reflect all my catholic musical taste. Girls have a great facility for suddenly passionately caring about the bands that their current boy of choice are into... I never realised, for example, that I had so many chin-stroking 'nice' jazz albums, for example. Then I remembered who it was that I was trying to impress back in the day.)
Anyway, can't bear to offload them to the charity shop, so they're free to a good home. You will have to pick them up though. Or we can meet and have a drop off. DJ Del, I have put aside the Spacemen 3 for you.
Billie Holiday – The Lady and the Legend
Led Zeppelin 3 – (complete with magic cover!)
PJ Harvey – Dry
The Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
Astralasia – Sul E Stomp (I’ve no idea)
Jah Wobble – Visions of You 12 inch
The Best of Little Walter
The Pixies – Come On Pilgrim EP
Dinosaur Jr – Bug
Happy Mondays – Step On
Sly and the Family Stone Greatest Hits
Al Green Latest Hits
The Goats – Typical American 12 inch (did I ever post about the Goats? Remind me to sometime)
Urban Species & MC Solaar – Listen 12 inch
Robert Johnson Delta Blues
Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses
Cry Cisco – AfroDizziAct – a house 12 inch which samples The African Queen, I seem to recall.
Happy Mondays – Bummed
Funkadelic – Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
“i” AR Kane
Spacemen 3 – The Perfect Prescription
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
Un-named live album by Spacemen 3
John Lee Hooker – Urban Blues
Led Zeppelin II
The Best of Kid Creole and the Coconuts (he was much underrated, oh look, fuck off, alright?)
Bjork –Debut
Grace Jones Island Life (she was much – oh fuck off.)
Stevie Wonder Innervisions
Sister Sledge Thinking of You 12 inch
Disco Nites – 16 Giant Disco Hits!
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Smash Hits
Atlantic Soul Classics – 16 Hit Tracks
Throwing Muses – House Tornado
Mary Margaret O Hara – Miss America
Portishead – Numb EP
Abba – Greatest Hits
Blondie – Parallel Lines – actually I think I might have to keep this one.
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Bomb the Bass (remember when they had to change the name during the bombing of Iraq first time around? Also Massive Attack had to change to just ‘Massive’ hahaha!) – Bug Powder Dust 12 inch
Depth Charge – Hubba Hubba Hubba EP
New Order – Blue Monday 12 inch
Lou Reed – Transformers (I’m 15 again! Dancing around Cathy’s bedroom to ‘Makeup’ whilst applying eyeliner very badly!)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are you Experienced
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Charlie Parker Memorial Volume 3
Elmore James – Red Hot Blues
Definition of Sound – Now Is Tomorrow (remember ‘Wear Your Love Like Heaven’?)
Tricky – Overcome 12 inch – He looks very fetching in a wedding dress on the cover
Furniture – Slow Motion Kisses 12 inch
13th Floor Elevators – The Bull of the Woods
The Bessie Smith collection
A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It? 12 inch
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers
Slanted and Enchanted – Pavement
The Sugar Cubes – Life’s Too Good
Bessie Smith – Empty Bed Blues
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Method Man & Mary Jane Blige - You’re All I Need To Get By
Sonny Rollins Quartet – Worktime
Stravinsky – The Rites of Spring (how did this get in here?)
G Love & Special Sauce – Cold Beverage
L7 – Pretend We’re Dead 12 inch
Fugees Blunted on Reality
Louis Armstrong - Sensational Satchmo
The Breeders – Last Splash
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
My Bloody Valentine – You Made Me Realise EP
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Spacemen 3 – Playing With Fire
Piano Music of Eric Satie
Portishead – Dummy
The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
Tricky – Maxinquaye
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Lee Perry – The Heart of the Congos
Red Snapper – Reeled & Skinned EP
20 comments:
Oh, that's so sweet, getting stuff to impress the opposite sex. Well, I've done exactly the same thing, and continue to do so... I remember when I had a huge crush on a girl who works for Kerrang. I suddenly loved lots of heavy rock...
This is exceedingly generous of you. I'm already excited just by the put aside Spacemen 3 record.
To be honest, I would happily take the lot. But that's unfair, so I will only list the things I really want here so other people get a go. (And I've starred the stuff I would actually kill for!)
PJ Harvey – Dry*
The Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
The Pixies – Come On Pilgrim EP*
Dinosaur Jr – Bug
Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses
Happy Mondays – Bummed
Spacemen 3 – The Perfect Prescription*
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything*
Un-named live album by Spacemen 3*
Bjork –Debut*
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Smash Hits
Throwing Muses – House Tornado
Portishead – Numb EP
Bomb the Bass – Bug Powder Dust 12 inch
New Order – Blue Monday 12 inch
Lou Reed – Transformers
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are you Experienced
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground (if by that you mean the 1969 release, rather than the Banana "& Nico" which I already have)
Slanted and Enchanted – Pavement
The Sugar Cubes – Life’s Too Good*
John Coltrane – Blue Train
L7 – Pretend We’re Dead 12 inch
The Breeders – Last Splash*
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
My Bloody Valentine – You Made Me Realise EP*
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Spacemen 3 – Playing With Fire (I own this, but my copy is very battered!)
Portishead – Dummy*
The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
Tricky – Maxinquaye*
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
God, I've still put loads. Sorry everyone else! Do shout if you want stuff I've bagsied.
I can only say it's a compliment, that is a stunning collection of music. There's nothing there I wouldn't want. Even the doubles we have between us would be gratefully accepted by my DJ friends.
Hurray! that makes me very happy.
i hate that i live in dublin. you're a tease, Annie.
This is indeed a very impressive collection. I'd offer to fight Del for the Spacemen 3 albums, particularly as I lost mine (by entrusting them to a friend when I left university in 1993, and never seeing that friend again), but I get the feeling Del has the right equipment for playing vinyl, and thus will get more use out of them than I would!
Mary Margaret O'Hara?
Were you trying to seduce your local priest?
Rosie, I'm sorry petal. When are you (and Annie) coming to visit the big bad smoke then? If you can hang on for a bit, I might even be able to offer you a sofabed...
There's a picture, an expectant Patroclus fighting the (very tall) Mr Del. Aw, that's very sad. I'm pretty sure all of Spacemen 3 is available on Soulseek if you don't have a record player...
Istvanski, really she's a Canadian. Sister of Catherine O' Hara (who is in Beetlejuice, film fans) and barking mad. But very talented. She never released another album after this one. You can find some of her stuff on Youtube.
I can happily transfer stuff to mp3from vinyl if anyone wants it (although, as you say, other sources will be much quicker and probably better quality!)
And even I wouldn't stoop to fighting a pregant woman. Let me know when the baby drops and we can reschedule.
Well I like the sound of the Kid Creole. He was indeed underrated.
Also bagsy the MMO'H and the Lee Perry if nobody else needs it...
Too late to offer to post the Throwing Muses/MMOH vinyl on a fan site! Folks'd kill for that, but it looks like it's going to a good home.
Tim, they are yours, but will they get to Thailand in one piece?
Bowleserised, I suddenly feel like this episode of the Twilight Zone featuring Mark Hamill out of Star Wars, when he's a little boy a goblin tells him to hold onto all his toys and comics as they will make him rich, then when he's a really old man, a collector discovers him and his collection of really old toys and comics, they auction them all off and he becomes a millionaire...
I love Mary Margaret O'Hara.
And Spaceman 3.
you'll regret saying that.
i might be over on the weekend of the 16th... i'll keep you posted.
The Goats! Enough to make me de-lurk. I saw the Goats live when I was at uni. They were supporting Fishbone and Bad Brains. That was a crazy show.
It's been a long time since I was capable of playing vinyl. I don't even have a CD player anymore (well, I do but it's in the loft). It's all MP3, all the time round my way. Stitch that, Neil Young!
Have to agree with Del, that really is a sweet collection mate. I'd love to have some of it but I don't even have a turntable anymore.
Rosie - no no I won't.
Hey Shane - me too! Possibly we were at the very same show! Or even the same uni. Are you my Telegraph visitor? I thought you were someone else entirely. Reading the stats is like trying to read tea-leaves.
Thanks Rad, that gives me a warm glow.
I saw them at the UEA in Norwich. But I imagine they played unis across the land...
Yep, I'm your Telegraph visitor. Well, I'm A Telegraph visitor. Maybe you have lots.
Me too! I was at UEA. It's a small blog world...
Wow. That's a bizarre coincidence.
That gig must have been late 93 or early 94? A scarily long time ago, at any rate.
And I would have been going to gigs at the UEA then too. But Therapy?, Skunk Anansie and one of the Manic Street Preachers' last gigs with Richey. Sigh.
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