2014 Official Year Roundup

nadorozny2001 said:
new acquisitions included the first Our Generation album

where did you find that lp ? i was offered one for a thousand bucks but turned it down
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Hi Ed - that was an eBay "Buy It Now" from the Last Vestige store in New York. Around $900 and a bit overgraded, but it came with a one-off photo and flyer, and had been on my want list for a while...
 
As a new dad, I was well behaved for the first 6 months of 2014. Then it went tits up. Quality, not quantity.

The Explorers - Blue Flavoured Lollipop
Kandy Koloured Konsiracy - One Million People
The Castaways - Ain't Gonna Cheat On Me
Fleur De Lys - Circles
One In A Million - Use Your Imagination
Holy Disciples - Trying To Make A Hundred
Kenny and the Kasuals - Journey to Tyme
Dolly Parton - Don't Drop Out
The Answers - Just A Fear
The Fire - Fathers Name Was Dad
The Action - I'll Keep On Holding On
Thursdays Children - Help Murder Police
 
That is quality! The Fleur De Lys continues to elude me. I recently got One In A Million as well....did The Guess Who do the original or cover that?
 
Yes, I have passed on a few because I thought they were too expensive and now the price keeps going up!
 
Toddophonic said:
Yes, I have passed on a few because I thought they were too expensive and now the price keeps going up!
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Aye, I got a superb copy for £500. Way out of what I should have been spending on records but it was in beautiful condition and it was basically a now or never moment. I needed to go without a few lunches anyway.

No idea about Use Your Imagination. It certainly wasn't an original One In A Million composition.

Keb, good to see you on here. There seems to be a load of garage and psych nights happening in Aberdeen these days if you're ever back north.
 
Northeastbeast said:
As a new dad, I was well behaved for the first 6 months of 2014. Then it went tits up. Quality, not quantity.

The Explorers - Blue Flavoured Lollipop
Kandy Koloured Konsiracy - One Million People
The Castaways - Ain't Gonna Cheat On Me
Fleur De Lys - Circles
One In A Million - Use Your Imagination
Holy Disciples - Trying To Make A Hundred
Kenny and the Kasuals - Journey to Tyme
Dolly Parton - Don't Drop Out
The Answers - Just A Fear
The Fire - Fathers Name Was Dad
The Action - I'll Keep On Holding On
Thursdays Children - Help Murder Police
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Killer! (well, and so are the rest of course...)
 
sonnyboypaco said:
Mixed bag of mostly US purchases, I managed to cross a few wants off my list:

*Grapes of Wrath “Cause it was her” (Vita) ($14.99 = yesss!)
*Cirkit "Yesterday we laughed" (Unicorn) [exc cover + mint record]
*The Twilights “It couldn’t be true” (Twilight Records)
*The Tasmanians “Baby” (Conda)
*Us Kids “Check-out” (Rex)
*Cykle "If you can" (Label Records) [with exc pic sleeve]
*Thackeray Rocke “Bawling” (Castalia)
*Disillusioned Younger Generation “Who do you think you’re foolin’” (DYG)
*The David “I’m not alone” / “Sweet December” (VMC) [both mint cover + record]
*We Who Are “Last trip” (Love)
*(Creation of) Sunlight “Colors of love” (Windi)
*The Mods “Days mind the time” (Cee Three)
*Sound Barrier “Greasy heart” / “I can’t explain” (United Audio) [with a niiiiiice cover!]
*The Headhunters “Times we share” (Fenton)
*Steve Peele Five “Frankie’s got it” (FGI)
*Thunderbolts "Heart so cold" (TR2)
*Burch Ray "Love question" (Sully)
*The Saints "Girl Forgive Me” / “Don't Make Me Wait" (Raydin) [cheapo yet worth every penny]
*Guess Who “If you don’t want me” (Quality)
*The Cowsills "All I wanta be is me" (Joda)

Rest of the world beauties:
*Dream “Rebellion (Can I ask you one more question)” (Havoc)
*Armando “Blow’n my mind” (GV) [not garage but interesting & rare late 60s organ fueled hard rock]
*Glass Menagerie “Frederick Jordan” (Astor)
*Nicolas Nils & Les Murators "Il faut trimer dur" (Disques Vogue) [EP / decent covers of The Seeds' "Pushin' too hard" & "Try to understand"]
*Christian e I Ragazzi di Pietra "Non dire più che te ne vai" (Revue) [superb cover of The Allies' "I'll sell my soul"]
*The Chances Are "Fragile child" (Columbia)
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Plus a couple of last minute buys...

*Brian Diamond & The Cutters "Shake, shout and go" (Fontana)
*Just Four Men "Things will never be the same" (Parlophone)
 
The Cykle record has been a big want of mine for years now. To see it sitting on Ebay at a ridiculous buy it now price year after year is painful.
 
This post is both late and early, so apologies in advance.

This morning I visited a wholesale store run by a regional charity. The place is an ex-bus garage on a local industrial estate and it's an initial collection point for items which mainly come from house clearances. From here, the goods sent out to shops or shipped abroad. One needs time and patience when hunting . My main interest in visiting this store is clothes, primarily items bearing sacred names like Fred Perry, Ben Sherman, Levi Staprest, etc. However, there is always a fair quantity of records lying around; 78s, 45s and Long Plays. Most of the stuff is MOR and mainstream pop oldies which will probably end up in landfill. However, today I dug up unplayed copies of Eddie's Crowd 'Baby Don't Look Down' on CBS; The Rats 'Sack Of Woe' also on CBS; and a beat number on Columbia by The Golden Crusaders, who sound like a Showband. Good trade material.

When I got home, the postman had delivered a long time want: Mack Banks 'Be Boppin Daddy' on Fame Records out of Houston Mississippi. Pretty meaningless to most of you on this Forum, but it's the first genuine copy I've been offered in 40 years; the others all turned out to be cleverly doctored Mariano 'repros' (fakes).

Maybe saying my prayers last night was not such a bad idea.
 
sonnyboypaco said:
I know this topic has been brought up a few times on this forum but has this guy ever sold a single record?
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Yes, but one was shockingly over-graded: otherwise it would have been a reasonable price. Like chas_kit says, some items have been reasonably priced, but you can't rely on the stated grade.
 
Outside_Lookin_in said:
Yes, but one was shockingly over-graded: otherwise it would have been a reasonable price. Like chas_kit says, some items have been reasonably priced, but you can't rely on the stated grade.
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He´s sold 225 items the last year so there is a market out there. I've bought from him (or rather back in the days when it was Alicefunk, can't remember the story) but not everything was overpriced. The rarer the 45, the more reasonable the price. At one point.
 
I'm a little late but my favourite 45s I got in 2014:

The fanatics- I will not be lonely
The Preachers- Stay out of my world
The Zeljians- You don't love me anymore
The Motleys- My race is run
Tonto & the Renegades- Little boy blue
The Thunderbolts- Heart so cold
Era of sound- Girl in the mini skirt
Boston Tea Party- Is it love
The Mod 4- Open up your mind
Tangerine Roof-back in my arms
The Cobras- Goodbye
Billy & The Kids- Say you love me
Golliwogs- Fight fire

And the really best for 2014 was to finally get my number one and favourite song The Nobles -something else

Firsts favourite 45s for 2015
Jokers wild- All I see is you
Sands of time - come back little girl
 
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