Someone at my work is selling these records. What should I buy?

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Prior to ebaying, I get first dibs. Prices will be negotiable and cheap. I'm probably going to take the cocteau twins stuff. Any gems you think I'm missing?

Garlands x 2 Cocteau Twins
The Spangle Maker, Pearly Dew Drops & Pepper Tree Cocteau Twins
Sunburst and Snowblind Cocteau Twins
Peppermint Pig Cocteau Twins
Lullabies Cocteau Twins
This Mortal Coil Cocteau Twins
Rain x 2 The Cult
Love The Cult
Love Like Blood Killing Joke
Body & Soul Sisters of Mercy
Temple of Love Sisters of Mercy
Confusion New Order
Blue Monday New Order
Love Will Rear Us Apart Joy Division
Red Roses For Me The Pogues
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues
The Tube – Compilation
Rebel Yell Billy Idol
Love Will Rear Us Apart Joy Division
PIL Public Image Ltd
Dr Mabuse Propaganda – LP and Single
Night Time Killing Joke
Just Like Honey The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psycho Candy The Jesus and Mary Chain
Crocodiles Echo and The Bunnyman
Seven Seas Echo and The Bunnyman
Bring on The Dancing Horses Echo and The Bunnyman
Heaven up Here Echo and The Bunnyman
Songs to Learn and Sing Echo and The Bunnyman
September Song Ian McCulloch
Steel Town Red Guitars
Room to Live The Fall
Phantasmagoria The Damned
The Best of Generation X
Love Kills Sid & Nancy
Meat is Murder The Smiths
The Trumpton Riots Half ManHalf Biscuit
Speaking in Tongues Talking Heads
Lifes Hard and Then You Die It’s Immaterial
Revenge Eurythmics
The Head on The Door The Cure
London 0 Hull 2 The House Martins
Ain’t That Far From Boot Hill The Boothill Foot Tappers
All About Eve
Baby The Stars Shine Bright Everything But The Girl
Love Not Money Everything But The Girl
Julia Fordham
Suzanne Vega
Different Light Bangles
Road to Nowhere Talking Heads
Brand New Friend Lloyd Cole
Hymm to Her The Pretenders
Holding Back The Years Simply Red
Pata Pata Miriam Makeba
Jazz Club Various
The Legend of Billie Holiday Billie Holiday
The Best of Julie London Julie London
Maxi Maxi Priest
78 - People Will Say We’re in Love Alfred Drakes & Joan Roberts
Distant Thunder Aswad
Dog Eat Dog Joni Mitchell
Soundtrack – Cry Freedom
Stan Campbell
Winnie The Poo Read by Alan Bennet - BBC records
Do they know it’s Christmas Geldof/Ure
The Other Side of the Mirror Stevie Nicks
Rock a little Stevie Nicks
Greatest Hits T-Rex
Adventures of The Heart Frank Sinatra
No Secrets Carly Simon
Beat Runs Wild Various Artists
True Blue Madonna
Through the Barracades Spandeau Ballet
Popular Classical Various
The Essential Jose Carreras Jose Carreras
Inside The Kremlin Ravi Shankar
Several LP’s Classical – Some Folk Songs Serbo Croat, Russian & Chinese
Moondance Van Morrison
Beautiful Vision Van Morrison
Avalon Sunset Van Morrison

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

There are some obvious no brainers on there (joy division, PiL, blue monday). I'm not too clued up on the rest of it.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

London 0 Hull 2 The House Martins
that's only the half time score! Or maybe the record's snapped in half? (*awaits "best thing for it" response*)

get the Madonna, the T.Rex and the second and third Cocteaus

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

haha

love will REAR us apart

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

This Mortal Coil is not an album by the Cocteau Twins (though they play on the first one).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

I would definitely get all the Stevie Nicks, Moondance/Van Morrison, the Julie London, the Joni Mitchell.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

If it's the 12" of "Love Like Blood" by Killing Joke (with the disarmingly homoerotic sleeve), OF COURSE you should get it. Sheesh!

I too would buy all the ones Masked Gazza cited....just so I could snap them in half.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Pogues, J & M Chain, B. Holiday.

― steve-k, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

How cheap is cheap? Many of those albums are £5 or less in Fopp type back catalogue sales.

Assuming you mean really cheap, for starters I'd say:

Obviously take all the Cocteaus stuff.
Psychocandy is a must have.
Body and Soul is a worth-having Sisters EP, for Train and Body Electric.
The two Pogues albums are generally recognised as their two best, though Red Roses For Me is a bit patchy for my liking.
Bunnymen stuff is a tough call. Some good albums but if you're not a big fan you might be better off just getting the compilation (Songs To Learn and Sing)
Yes to Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and The Smiths, Joy Division and PiL.

You can always resell/trade anything you don't like.

(Bear in mind that much of this stuff may be slskd, not that I advocate that sort of thing).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

I love you Alex.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to start buying vinyl again so it's a bit good that this has come along right now.

I'm checking ebay prices to get some sort of comparison and almost all this stuff is in the £1-2 bracket.

I have psychocandy already. is the other one decent?

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Propaganda'd go high on e-bay.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Just Like Honey was a (very good) single from the Psychocandy album, and is probably worth more than the album.

Your colleague may mean "Honey's Dead", which starts brilliantly but isn't really that good thereafter.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

If it were me:
The Spangle Maker, Pearly Dew Drops & Pepper Tree Cocteau Twins
Sunburst and Snowblind Cocteau Twins
Confusion New Order
Blue Monday New Order
Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division
Red Roses For Me The Pogues
Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues
PIL Public Image Ltd (patchy, but when it's good it's great)
Dr Mabuse Propaganda – LP and Single
Just Like Honey The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psycho Candy The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Best of Generation X (the early stuff is underrated if you ask me)
Meat is Murder The Smiths
The Legend of Billie Holiday Billie Holiday
The Best of Julie London Julie London
Greatest Hits T-Rex
Moondance Van Morrison (but NOT his other two on this list)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Van Morrison - he who made one great album followed by 30 dud albums with one great track on each.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Winnie The Poo Read by Alan Bennet - BBC records

this is surely a must have.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

All the Killing Joke and all the Jesus and Mary Chain.

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Rum Sodomy & The Lash The Pogues

I would get this and the Billie Holiday if you don't have any already in your collection.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I would make him an offer for the whole lot. Then you get to listen to it all, decide what you want to keep and ebay the rest yourself. You'll probably be able to get an even better deal that way as you'll be taking it all off his hands at once and saving him some trouble.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I just want room to live.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Stan Campbell, wasn't he the vocalist on Free Nelson Mandela? If so I'd like to hear that album.

Are these all vinyl btw, cos if they're cd's the It's Immaterial album is worth a few bob on ebay. Otherwise do as Walter says and sell/bin/keep whatever you want.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

"I would make him an offer for the whole lot." OTM

That shit is 90% gold, so you might as well. Then you can sell the ones you don't like yourself.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I would say buy the bunch too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

If it were me I'd get (and those in italics are essential I assure you, although I'm a bit biased about the Cocteaux because I'm a bit of a completist when it comes to them and lurve their earliest offerings immensely):

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

"I would make him an offer for the whole lot." OTM

That shit is 90% gold, so you might as well. Then you can sell the ones you don't like yourself.

Actually, they're right.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

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