Wonderful surprises and Bargains at flea markets

My top bargains: "Fantastic Voyage" by Lakeside, about 25p. "Burn Rubber On Me", the Gap Band, ditto. "Shame", Evelyn Champagne King, about 15p. "Double Dutch"/"Lookin Like A Hobo", Malcolm McLaren, £1.

It's not so much about finding things and going "Ooh, that's worth loads and it's only 20p" because when you get it home you'll just realise it's not worth anything at all. Just buy stuff you want and take the opportunity to discover stuff on the cheap. Take a chance with things you wouldn't pay £16 for.

Ooh, one more: The Supremes & The Temptations "Taking Care Of Business" TV show live recording for £1. Great fun and incredible pictures of their oufits on the sleeve.

Toppest bargain of all: wondering about who owned the records in the first place, why is there so much P-Funk in the St Michael's Hospice shop, etc.

also got a sealed copy of america eats its young for a buck at a video store in dartmouth, nova scotia.

have also bought heaps of useless unlistenable crap because it was under 3 bucks and I couldn't resist.

(And does this also explain why so much that was ON the label was so good?)

Yesterday I bought Babe The Blue Ox's "People" for a buck off the street.

best finds at car boot sales: spiritualised's first album (just after it was released) and the best of tommy steele (one of these was later STOLEN at a party, guess which).

i used to leaf through the stereo demonstration lps and bert kaempfert records in thrift shops looking for something interesting to buy. these days i just buy the stereo demonstration lps and bert kaempfert records. its less effort.

Lilya, everyone that I know from the Ukraine moved here ages ago (thirty years at least) so they know British music I suppose. Have you moved to London to stay or are you planning on going back home?

Mail me privately with your address, Anthony, and I'll get to work, or at least I'll *try* ...

Aural Exciters - "My Boy Lollipop / Paradise"
Computer - "Come and Dance"
Love Robot
Beatmaster - "Lip Service"
Digital Boy - "This is Mutha F**ker"
Cheyne - "Call Me 'Mr Telephone'"
Rori - "Wild Girls"
Ave Maria - "No Sex Until Marriage"
Stars on Long Play II
Royalle Delight - "I'll Be a Freak for You"
X Factor - "Chemical Romance"
Madhouse - 8
Montreal Sound - "Music"
Colour Box - "Breakdown / Tarantula"
Devo - "Peekaboo"
Sparks - "Beat the Clock / Tryouts for the Human Race"
Janice Christie - "Heat Stroke"
Norma Jean - "Saturday"
Cerrone - "Supernature"
Badazz - "Honk Honk Beep Beep / Hot Box (You Gotta Get Hot)"
Sly and Robbie - "Boops / Don't Stop the Music"
NV - "Let Me Do You"
X - "Wild Thing (Long Version)"

gggggghhhhhaaaaa!!

Rori sounds like Prince and Madonna is full breathless joyfunk explosion, produced by David Kershenbaum?? allmusic says he did a lot of Joan Baez albums. whatever!

aw

both this and Love Robot are on AB Productions, what the hell is up with this label, they rock?? All songs on both albums by "J.F. Porry" (genesis p. orridge?? couldn't be, the label looks French) and "G. Sals". Slightly Numan-esque disco-rock. Heavy on the "disco" though!! Computer do a cover of "the Loco-Motion"!!

so is NV

GAZEBO!! whoa guyz and laydeez this is the original Eurosleaze!! "I Like Chopin", "Masterpiece". God this is EXACTLY what Christopher Walken's "The Continental" has cued up on the phonograph the moment before his unwitting date arrives. "Vodka and lemon? Or else do you want a bloody mary? And she said, 'hey man, I want a Manhattan. Touch me now.' Do you want some shampane? '"sham-pan-yuh" you mean.' Ha ha 'shampane.'" The thicket of quote marks indicate the absurd level of involuted fantasia going on here.

Martin S and Kogan, "B Beat Girls" reminds me of you.

Dan Perry will be jealous of my Extended Mix of "99 1/2" by Carol Lynne Townes.

Ewing may potentially be jealous of my new 12" of "Come on Eileen" but he's probably already got it or some serviceable substitute.

"Der Kommissar / 99 Luftballoons" split single

Machine - "There But For The Grace of God"

RH Factor - "Glued to the Tube" (a disco medley of Bonanza, M*A*S*H, Batman, Star Trek, Mary Tyler Moore, Perry Mason, I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, The Addams Family, The Odd Couple, Peter Gunn, William Tell, The Untouchables, and Dragnet)

if "rock, paper, scissors" had cheerleaders this would be their treasured anthem

it's a very odd song, it keeps feeling like it's going to "kick" but it never happens, it feels spare and incomplete and most open to angled intrusion UNLIKE the other songs on the alb which are quit locked-down, thank you, and single-minded (like "the Continental"). this one just wants to sustain some diaphanous moment and perhaps toy with it a bit, which immediately puts it in company with the dance and techno that would come along 5-8 years later

Cerrone and Faltermeyer trade their drums for ludes

"wrap the rock!" "cut the paper!" "smash the scissors!"

Prince - "Gett Off" single
Robert Wyatt - "Nothing Can Stop Us"
Jah Wobble / The Edge / Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer
Vanity - Wild Animal
Wendy and Lisa - s/t
Sagittarius - Present Tense
X - Live at the Whiskey a Go Go
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
Malcolm McLaren Presents the World famous Supreme Team Show

Torch Song - "Prepare to Energize" maxis single
Freur - Doot Doot (LP)
Golden Palominos - Heaven 12"
David Lindley - Very Greasy
Triffids - Calenture
What is This - Squeezed (features Jack Irons and Hillel Slovak of the RHCP, but didn't know that until right now...weird!)
Restless Sleepers - Big Boss Sounds
Allan Sherman - My Son the Nut

But the best thing of all:
Inside a Communist Cell by ex-counterspy Karl Prussion. Still sealed! http://www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/iacc_main.html

The liner notes on the back cover --reproduced on that website-- are hilariously paranoid: "If you call yourself a 'Liberal,' Karl will prove to you, vividly and convincingly, that the label "Liberal" is as much of a misnomer as the words "Maple Syrup" on a bottle of arsenic." I can't wait!

hahaha wtf??

Appears to have been really slammed on AMG... is it really horrible?

Finger Trips Vol. 1 - "12:00 Beats," "Yo Chuck," by Hardhouse and "Don't Stop" by Swan Lake (all prod. Todd Terry); "Finger Trip Theme" by Chrome (prod. Kenny Dope) and "Mondolay," "Papa Beats" by MAW (prod. Todd Terry) (Loud House Records, 1990)

"Betcha Won't Hurt Me (Special Edits)" and "Love Hangover (1st Take Remix)" by ??? (J.V.S. Records, Inc.)

Nitro Deluxe - "On a Mission" b/w "Mission (Say Your Love)" (Cutting Records, 1987)

Tribal Son - Rhythmic Rituals - "Spearchucker," "Basic Body Movement," "High Tech Groove," "High Tech Groove (Reprise)," "South Bronx Burnout," "Tony's Outburst," "Tribal Warfare" (Easy Street, 1986)

Stimulation - "Shattered" (prod. Bob Blank) (Infuture Records, 1986)

Latin Rascals - "Macho Mozart" (Tin Pan Apple, Polygram, 1986)

Ramos - "Jackin National Anthem" (prod. Mickey Oliver & The Dragon Child) (Hot Mix 5 Records)