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The Cramps: Big Beat From Badsville
Sometimes the second hand record store turns out a real treat. What happened to Sheena after she was a punk rocker? It’s all revealed here pop-pickers. A solid chunk of Crampy nonsense to bring joy to our lives - and on tasty white vinyl to boot.
I had no idea this was even a thing - it was the Radio Soulwax Bowie mix that alerted me of the Lulu cover of MWSTW with Bowie playing sax. It is a gem.
The Flaming Lips: Concert For Peace (onboard the international space station) One my favorite records. A fake “live” album made from re-engineered demo and alternate recordings for the Oczy Mlody album, mixed in with crowd sounds. It is so convincing - the artificial crowd cheers when the songs change instruments. It seems the fictional crowd aboard the international space station like a bridge. There is only one tune that does not appear on Oczy Mlody but the versions used here are quite different. There Must Be Unicorns features alternative vocal elements making it the stand out track. Watch out for The Castle, it’s a very beautiful but sad song. The sleeve art extends the quality of the disk, topped of with lovely red vinyl.
The Residents: Diskomo / Goosebump Diskomo (side 1): Is your life incomplete without remixes of the Residents? Mine was. Each of the remixes are quite different revealing something about the decade they were made. You could probably play this at a party. Goosebump (side 2): You could play this at a party too but the revelers might riot. It's pretty much The Return Of Santa Dog; toy instruments and sinister versions of nursery rhymes bring a mild domestic horror to your turntable. Hats off to anyone who uses Farmers as their first dance at a wedding.
David Bowie: Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74) This is bonkers. In a good way. I'm not usually that into live albums but this is something else. Having started his first foray into dance music and abandoned Ziggy our chap had the problem of an already massive back catalogue designed for rock music. Not a problem, chuck a load of soulful groove at it and hey presto you have Funky Dory. Magical. Bowie inventing the 80's six years before their time. Some of the song reinventions work better than others - but it captures a moment perfectly. And it is packaged in a delightful triple album gatefold. Yum yum.
Various Artists: Nuggets - Come To The Sunshine Not to be confused with the classic Nuggets. There's a reason why Lenny Kaye didn't include these songs on the original Nuggets compilation forty years ago. I think it may be something to do with how bland they are. Not so much summer of love as summer of change the record Chas, this one's giving me the shivers. Oh well. If you like Mellow Byrds then maybe, in the right mood, you'll like this. Having lobbed a deserving wave of scorn at Come To The Sunshine it should be said it is a beautiful album, from the tangerine vinyl to the pocket sleeve configuration. But I don't see me playing it much.
Monks: Black Monk Time The "gold" re-issue on Light In The Attic label. The original album is spread over two disks with extra songs from demos & singles and packaged in a glorious gatefold. I discovered the band via the Fall's "Extricate" which featured two Monks' covers but didn't buy my own copy until after I saw them perform at the Dirty Water Club in London about 15 years ago. They were great - their pre-punk antipathy from the sixties translated perfectly into their grumpy old men reality of fifty years later. Not enough bands have a six string banjo and sing songs called "I Hate You"
Placebo with David Bowie: Without You I'm Nothing Another Record Store Day special - this time remixes and a picture disk. I like the Unkle remix the most. The obligatory mug shots one side 1 are the Ronseal of picture disks, I like the cityscape on the other side more.
The Johnny Cash Children's Album. Bags of fun, nonsense and things most kids like, such as dinosaurs and hand clapping games. And then Old Shep. NOT A LOT OF FUN. Old Shep is grim stuff. It makes 'Up The Junction' sound like Black Lace doing 'Good Day Sunshine'. Except it's about a boy and his aging pet dog. And Johnny's performance is so emotive - you can hear the tears in his eyes. High quality but heavy. I expect there will be more requests for side one than side two from the under fives. And the over fives.
The Pretty Things: The French EP’s 64-69 box set. Ah! The box set. The perfect gift. The ultimate symbol of excess in a record collection. Did I need this? Of course not. Is it tasty? Absolutely. The reproductions of 7" EP’s are very enjoyable. More sleeve art than you can throw a stick at. A good representation of the early blues material up to SF Sorrow. I bought it mostly out of interest in the records between these periods. Turns out there’s a reason why they are less popular. Oh well. As I have a few original early singles the best bit is the SF Sorrow EP, I especially like Baron Saturday because it sounds like The Fall.
Flamin' Groovies / Dylan Gardner: Shake Some Action The Side By Side releases are possibly my favorite part of Record Store Day. The vinyl on this one is a different colour on each side in addition to having different labels. It's always an extra bonus if both versions of the track are top notch. The Dylan Gardner take on Shake Some Action is contemporary with a big satisfying slice of glam rock. The original is a gem which I am glad to have rediscovered. I like them both.
The Smiths: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (demo) Not an essential but certainly a very nice to have. The vocal delivery and sounds are different, more so on Rubber Ring on the B-side. If anything, it shows how complete the ideas were by the time they were committed to demo tape. It's a lovely package though, the photo of Albert Finney fits perfectly into the style of The Smiths' sleeves.
Prince:Little Red Corvette b/w 1999 An irresistible picture disk. Two great songs, two great images. The hole in the center of the record does make it seem that Prince is wearing a Jaffa Cake for a pendant in this picture. Maybe I shouldn't have photographed it on the kitchen table.
John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers EP Another Record Store Day oddment. I had no intention of buying this record. I like Eric Clapton but not enough to include him among my main music obsessions. I picked up the record because the bloke I was chatting to in the queue before the shop opened mentioned how much he wanted it. There was only one copy in the store so I grabbed it for him but could see he was busy rummaging away. By the time I extracted myself from the throng by the 7" records he was nowhere to be seen. The shop was very busy but he was tall enough to easily stand out. Gone. So I bought it anyway. I’ll bring it with me to next year’s RSD and if I see him in the queue again he can have it.
The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane Given the amount of love and attention these songs received in the studio when originally recorded and mixed I'm not certain how much the world needed a re-engineered stereo mix of them. Hang on. I'm going to play my copy off of Magical Mystery Tour then the new seven inch. OK the drums on Strawberry Fields have moved from left to centre, while the guitar has moved from centre to right. Is the remix a parody of modern politics? Even if the tracks were not marginally different this was still a nice pick up on Record Store Day. The sleeve art is good with a curios scallop edging where the disk pops in and out. Of the two songs I prefer Penny Lane - it typifies the still-life vignette sort of song that many other 60's bands attempted and often failed to reach without becoming twee. And you can sing along to it easier.
Patti Smith: Hey Joe / Piss Factory A Record Store Day re-release from this year. I almost didn't pick it up as I have the original (pictured here too), but a nice clean copy was too tempting. The Hey Joe cover is pretty good but Piss Factory is immense. Up there with Birdland. I first encountered the song on a complication album belonging to my sister called 'New Wave' when I was a teenager but at the time I was more interested in the Damned and Ramones tracks. Years later I used to do the first verse of Piss Factory as part of a medley in the middle of the V.U.'s Rock and Roll when I'd cite a bunch of New York bands. On the very few times we performed it was my favorite bit of the set (with the possible exception of Moving Day by the Holy Modal Rounders and a song about German goal keeping legend Oliver Kahn to the tune of a Violent Femmes number ("Owen will never get past me")).
Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters There are some cracking songs on this record - some are disturbing. No, actually they are all disturbing. I once heard Jello Biafra say in an interview that the idea of the band was to make horror movie music about real life horrors. And yet the tunes are so catchy! Halloween, Buzzbomb and Moon Over Marin are top ear-worm fodder. Bleed For Me is less catchy, but that didn't stop me from using it as a ringtone.