Space Ghetto

I got this for the Pink Floyd cover version (a collecting side hobby if ever there was one) but turns out to be not that different from the original (!?) I was hoping all the tracks would be sung by kids, especially Going Underground but it’s more like an old TOTP album of dodgy cover versions. The only copies I could find online were on brown vinyl (appropriate for such a shit album) but for some reason this one is on white vinyl.

 

I was best pleased with this great pair of compilations of weird garage and freak out 60’s singles linked with samples from trash movies & TV, one was a test pressing too.

 

 

 

I got this for the stupid sleeve, the model is Patti Boyd girlfriend of Beatle  George at the time (clue was on her nose!)

 

 

I got this for the sampling possibilities.

 

 

Other album & single charity shop finds.

Rare first UK pressing from 1970 with no EMI logo on the label.

 

 

geddit?!

 

 

A classical 8 piece group recorded in Ambisonic UHJ surround-sound, sounds like Radio 4 closedown music.

 

 

A one sided promo of electronica & spoken word some copies came with a book, this one doesn’t.

 

 

An excellent, lost funk & soul gem released on Holyground in 1972. This is John as in John Paul Joans eccentric Led-Zep-member-name-nicking Northern comedian, who made the Top 30 with The Man From Nazareth.

 

A Beatles cover version which went to #1 in Australia by Elvis Costello’s dad, yes really!

 

 

In 1979 John Lydon dismissed the writer/performers of this song (aka Hudson/Ford, The Monks, Strawbs etc) on the TV show Juke Box Jury and they tried to get their own back with this lame tune first issued that year. For some weird reason they changed their name 9 years later and reissued it with a B side featuring a faithful cover of John Otway’s Oh My Body (Is Making Me), it was still crap.

 

 

Lovely 4 track E.P.

 

 

Lindsey Moore : I Start Counting
Wilson Pickett : Land of 1000 Dances
Toots & The Maytals : 54-46 Was My Number
Chicago : 25 or 6 To 4
DJ Shadow : The Number Song
B-52’s : 6060842
Smashing Pumpkins : 1979
Kraftwerk : Numbers
The Beatles : Revolution #9 (remix)
The Doors : Five To One
Kate Bush : Pi
Danny Kaye : Inchworm
Pixies : Number 13 Baby
Lene Lovich : Lucky Number
The Who : 5:15

I have been digging through an awful lot of 7″s (+ one 5″) recently, a few of which I found on my trip down south a week ago when I picked up the signed copy of Ziggy Stardust for £25 which is now hanging in my front room.

 

A great new second hand record shop that’s just opened in Northampton.

My mate minded my stall while I had a wander about, I got rid of loads of stuff as I tend to accumulate too much stuff, but I am cheap and ruthless at culling.

Odds and ends that came into my orbit in Bucks/Northants.

I had no idea about this one but it turned out to be a 1978 Xmas oddity by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye produced by Todd Rundgren.

 

I’d not heard of this either but liked the name of the band.

 

Released in 1980 a private pressing from Southampton found in Northampton, the name of this band is Talking Reds.

 

Also from the same year this debut by a Milton Keynes band, who I remember seeing live several times back in the day.

 

Schools 7″ from 1969 featuring the voice of Eira Heath who worked with Benny Hill and others.

A sweet wee American 5″ yellow vinyl sampler for The Yellow Magic Orchestra album Multiples which has a fold-out poster sleeve.

 

Computer mag flexi freebie from 1988 cunningly titled C-Rap.

At the Milton Keynes record fair there was a dealer with a load of Beatles singles at a fiver a pop which were all pretty tatty tbh, but one caught my eye as it seemed unusual to the others. Turns out to be a ridiculously rare Oriole Contract pressing, distinguished by it’s solid centre – 99% copies are push out, but due to the explosion in sales Parlophone called in other pressing plants to cope with demand and these pressings are highly prized (and highly priced) just for having no push-out middle, crackers really. I was aware of it’s existence but had never seen one in the wild and the guy who sold it obviously had no idea about it, but hey the cats out of the bag now I have posted about it but good luck finding one!

This charity record by a Scottish beat group issued to raise funds for Aberdeen University was released in 1966 is pretty rare and there were 2 copies of it in the same box! It features a Beatles cover on one side and a great original number on the flip called Hanging Around.

 

A few of the albums I picked up last weekend, the first 2 original Hollies albums are in superb EX+ but the sweetest surprise was the Harry South album. I had a feeling it might be nice but not quite how nice, it’s like VERY nice, a good punt for all 3 at a quid a pop.