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Car Boot Vinyl Diaries
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Thursday, 15 May 2014
The CBVD Cloudcast has landed!
The first ever episode of the Car Boot Vinyl Diaries Cloudcast has now been uploaded to the Mixcloud page. Here you can stream nearly an hour of me playing some of my boot sale and charity shop finds, strictly on vinyl and complete with crackles!
Follow the link below to go to the page, where you can find the track-listing as well as listen, or simply use the widget:
Follow the link below to go to the page, where you can find the track-listing as well as listen, or simply use the widget:
Monday, 11 June 2012
Car Boot Vinyl Catch-Up
I'm getting a bit of a backlog of car boot/charity shop vinyl yet to appear on the blog, so last Sunday's records will all appear here, in a quick run-through in order to catch up a bit. Here goes:
A double album that includes five songs leftover from the "Darkness..." sessions, Bruce Springsteen's The River reached no.1 in the US and no.2 in the UK.
It's listed as number 250 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and I bought it for £1.50. Spotify: Bruce Springsteen – The River
Next was Flanders and Swann's At The Drop of Another Hat, bought for £1.
It features 14 selections from their musical revue of the same name which debuted at London's Haymarket in 1963. Produced by George Martin it includes such delights as The Gas-Man Cometh and Song Of Patriotic Prejudice .
An Elvis compilation is always a good thing to have around and at £1.50 this collection of 40 songs was a good £s to hits ratio:
On double gatefold pink vinyl, it looks good too:
Also for £1.50 was Fire Brigade by The Move:
It's a compilation of Roy Wood et al's hits including Blackberry Way and Brontosaurus .
Finally for £1 was Pelican West, from eighties popsters Haircut One Hundred:
Nick Heyward and co's debut album of brassed-up new wave includes the singles Fantastic Day and Love Plus One. It still had the "free booklet and 2 Bandfax cards" tucked inside the sleeve. I got Graham and Les (Les!).
Spotify: Haircut 100 – Pelican West Plus
In addition I bought a copy of Bruce's Darkness On The Edge Of Town for £1.50 to send to my brother.
Six great albums including two doubles, all in great condition for a total spend of eight of your English pounds, a sunny couple of hours spent rifling through records with other keen vinyl hunters, plus a jumbo hot dog on the way out - my favourite way to spend a Sunday morning!
A double album that includes five songs leftover from the "Darkness..." sessions, Bruce Springsteen's The River reached no.1 in the US and no.2 in the UK.
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| Bruce Springsteen - The River (1980) |
It's listed as number 250 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and I bought it for £1.50. Spotify: Bruce Springsteen – The River
Next was Flanders and Swann's At The Drop of Another Hat, bought for £1.
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| Flanders & Swann - At The Drop of Another Hat (1964) |
It features 14 selections from their musical revue of the same name which debuted at London's Haymarket in 1963. Produced by George Martin it includes such delights as The Gas-Man Cometh and Song Of Patriotic Prejudice .
An Elvis compilation is always a good thing to have around and at £1.50 this collection of 40 songs was a good £s to hits ratio:
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| Elvis' 40 Greatest (1978) |
On double gatefold pink vinyl, it looks good too:
Also for £1.50 was Fire Brigade by The Move:
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| The Move - Fire Brigade (1972) |
It's a compilation of Roy Wood et al's hits including Blackberry Way and Brontosaurus .
Finally for £1 was Pelican West, from eighties popsters Haircut One Hundred:
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| Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West (1982) |
Nick Heyward and co's debut album of brassed-up new wave includes the singles Fantastic Day and Love Plus One. It still had the "free booklet and 2 Bandfax cards" tucked inside the sleeve. I got Graham and Les (Les!).
Spotify: Haircut 100 – Pelican West Plus
In addition I bought a copy of Bruce's Darkness On The Edge Of Town for £1.50 to send to my brother.
Six great albums including two doubles, all in great condition for a total spend of eight of your English pounds, a sunny couple of hours spent rifling through records with other keen vinyl hunters, plus a jumbo hot dog on the way out - my favourite way to spend a Sunday morning!
Monday, 18 July 2011
Rain, what rain?
I rolled up early at my local fortnightly car boot sale yesterday only to be greeted by a sign reading "cancelled - too wet" and an empty field bathed in glorious sunshine. Either the organiser hadn't seen the forecast for a dry morning or was referring to the state of the ground, which may well have been pretty soggy from Saturday's downpour. Anyway, we set off up the coast to another boot sale and I got this first for just 50p:
I got two more albums yesterday; I'll post them later in the week when I've had a chance to listen to them.
Flanders & Swann - At The Drop Of A Hat (1957)
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann wrote and performed brilliantly comic songs in the 50s and 60s. The comedy duo Armstrong & Miller do a loving pastiche of them in their TV sketch show (see youtube) with the same level of charm and wit but much ruder!
This live performance was recorded in 1957 at the Fortune Theatre, London to an enthusiastic audience. Songs include 'A Gnu', 'The Reluctant Cannibal' and my favourite, 'Design For Living' which is laugh-out-loud and still holds true today.
Spotify link: Flanders & Swann – Design For Living
Next I got History - America's Greatest Hits for £1:
History - America's Greatest Hits (1975)
This American Folk Rock band had their biggest hit with the Neil Young-apeing 'Horse With No Name' but there is much more to them than this radio favourite. Here are two of my faves:
America – Sister Golden Hair America – Daisy JaneI got two more albums yesterday; I'll post them later in the week when I've had a chance to listen to them.
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