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a while back i left the following on a train

stranglers album

television album

N.W.A. album

anyone lost or mislaid any albums - hey did anyone find these albums (ha yeah right)

― born clippy, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i haf lost METAL MACHINE MUSIC: it shd be in my house but it is not -> who did i lend it to? i cannot imagine...

(when i find it ilm will vanish in a puff of would-be hipster scoffage)

― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, i am quite sure that if you did indeed leave MMM on the train, it'll STILL be there. heheh Unless I end up on that train.

― nathalie, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes, I mislaid the last Beta Band record at my parents' home. It's somewhere in the million Northern Soul comps that my dad has now. hahaha

― nathalie, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Going out in Luxembourg about ten years ago I must have dropped Mercury Rev's first album "Yerself Is Steam" after having had too many Chimay Bleues (a delicious dark killer beer with around 12% alcohol) in Club 5. In the meantime I rebought the album and was a little disappointed when relistening to it. In my memory it was much spacier.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Things I have left on trains - a SuperNintendo (in its box), a piece of original artwork by Jack Kirby, the 12" of 'Bizarre Love Triangle' by New Order, and a copy of the first Dredd Foole and the Din alb. This was all before I was a heavy toker, too!

I got the SNES and the artwork back from lost property - I've never been able to find another copy of the Dredd Foole rec, sadly...

― Andrew L, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have lost not 1 but 2 copies of "Fall in a hole" the first (£22) as a 17 year old on a train coming back from Manchester after drinking 2 cans of lager and overdosing on adrenylin after seeing the Sugarcubes. The second I actually left in the shop where I purchased it (£18 I think) and when I returned the next day the guy in the shop refused point blank to admit I had left it even though it was back up on the wall In the same place it had been taken from when I bought it.

I finally managed to hang onto a copy about 4 years ago which I ended up paying £32 for.

― Kris England, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I left a cassette copy of The Velvet Underground w/ Nico at a party. I forget what was on the other side, but I think it was something else good, maybe an X album.

I accidentally left a Mohammed Abdou (Saudi Arabian singer) bootleg in the back of someone's car when I was briefly involved with some political activism. I've been too embarrassed to ask for it back since I was such an unrealiable uncommitted activist, but it's probably irreplacable. (By now it has been most likely taped over with Noam Chomsky or something.)

― DeRayMi, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I found a tape on a train about six months ago and listened to it... to my joy it was full of absolutely cracking tunes, none of which I have been able to identify to this day. With the exception of one... imagine my disappointment when I found out it was by Groove Armada.

― Matt DC, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt DC maybe you could re-evaluate Groove Armada based on the fact that you a) liked it and b) er...

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha i read that as "taped over BY noam chomsky")

(noam chomsky what is on yr walkman?)

― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Noam needs a blank tape." "Oh, here, he can tape over this awful Arabic thing that deadbeat left in my car."

Mohammed Abdou serves the Saudi elite!

― DeRayMi, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm let me see

the redskins

elvis costello

music for pleasure vol 2 (stereo sounds)

and some gabba

― noam, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never lost anything on a train ... but my original copy of Method Man's "Tical" was destroyed in a car accident on the M23 down to Brighton.

― phil, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Somewhere in the International District is my lost copy of OK Computer that I rested on the roof of my car when I was loading some stuff into it- I just stuck it up there for a minute, then forgot about it & drove off. I've never lost any music on a train, though, because Amtrak can't be bothered to give us any useful train service out here.

― lyra in seattle, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The night the bar I used to work at in NYC was changing hands, the owner informed me that there was a box full of singles taken from the jukebox throughout the 80s and early 90s in the basement. I found all sorts of treasures down there, most of which I'd bought. All sorts of stuff-from Prince and Madonna to Young Marble Giants and DAF. I used to have to go to Bleecker Bob's to have holes punched into the UK 45s-what an ordeal. Anyway, I was thrilled. So thrilled I left them in a cab on the way home. Idiot!

― Arhur, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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