2017 - a year in wax

[gregk25]

The last day of the year and nobody has posted a list of sound carriers accumulated over the past 12 months. What's that supposed to mean?

Everybody but me finished off their wants list in 2016 already?
Your rows of "new entries" are too long to even begin sorting through?
People have finally come to realise the futility of lists?

I'd like to make a start but am too busy preparing pathetic little "snacks" for that neighborhood "party" right now. Would somebody else please go ahead? I'd hate to see this treasured tradition getting lost in a year that got rid of more certainties than are good for us.

 

[bosshoss]

Quite a slow year for me. I went for several months without even looking at lists, but picked up a little at the end of the year.
I just want to again thank Mike Markesich for Teenbeat Mayhem, which since its release has been my primo guide for all my USA purchases. Without it, I would not have even known about half of the 45s on this list.
Also thanks to Chris Bishop, Erik Lindgren and Peter Pellechia, my main sources for many of the great 45s on this list.

Fuzztones - We're In Love (Sky)
Rhythm Rogues (Staff)
Shadows Four - You'll Be The Blame (JCP)
Kaeidoscope Machine - Why (DAB) upgrade
Mechanical Switch - Everything Is Red / Spongeman (Bag One Way, PS)
Stychentymes - I Don't Mind / Crying My Eyes Out ((Rockett)
Me & The Other Guys - Everybody Knew But Me (Boss)
Piece Kor - All I Want Is My Baby Back (Laray) - upgrade
Young Ones - Too Much Lovin' - (Super Cool)
Soul Generation - I Cant See You (Dater)
Andy & Manhattans - Skinny Minnie (Musicor)
Household Sponge - Second Best (Murbo)
Lazy Eggs - My Baby Don't Care - (Sunspot)
River Styx - Bike Writer (Joey-Lu)
Toads - Stay Away (Toadstool)
Plastic Menagerie - Hold Your Baby Close (Scope)
Rejects - Just A Little Bit Of You (Cabell)
Blu-Erebus (Nomads) - Plastic Year
Dino Desi & Billy - It’s Just The Way You Are
Gass Co. - Warm As The Sun
Knickerbockers - They Ran For Their Lives
Phase II Productions - Stop
Pigeons- Stick In My Corner
Purple Haze - Love Is Fine
Thee Young Generation - Paperback Minds
Trolls - Baby What You Ain’t Got
Universal Ignorants - I’m All Here
Accents - Wherever There’s A Will
Aliens - Season Of The Witch
Bittersweets - In The Night
Blue Beats - Extra Girl
Buggs - I want To Hold Your Hand
Chateaus - The Bells Of Rhymney
Chesmann Square - Circles
Dee Jay & Runaways - Peter Rabbit
Invaders - Little Latin Lupe Lu
Jay Hawkers - Come On
Motions - Long Hair
Mouse (& Traps) - Promises Promises
Noel Thatcher - In The USA
Other Side - Writing On The Wall
Pete Klint Quintet - Very Last Day
Plant Life - Flower Girl
Polymer’s Children - Summer Rainbow (Laurie)
Power - Children Ask - MGM)
Power - Childern Ask - (Showplace)
Randy & The Rest - The Vacuum
Ricochettes - Find Another Boy
Scotland Yardleys - Some Guys Have It
Tommy Burke & Counts - Just A Little Bit
Torres - Ride On
Travis Pike / Montclairs - Don’t Hurt Me Again
Unknowns - All Over The World
Triumphs - Don't Ask Me Why (Barclay)
Jeremiah - No Sense Nonsense (Philips)
Je-Rons - I'm Going Home (Studio 4)
Tommy Jay - I Don't Care Anyway (M.O.C.)
Invaders - Little Latin Lupe Lu (Sumit)
Intercoms - Unabridged... (Impression)
Insites - Nothing Is Wrong With Love (Vague)
Inferno - Your Heart Is Too Big...(Date)
Chester Hooks - Long Route Home (Knoll)
Hombres - Let It All Hang Out (Verve)
Higher Elevation - Thoughts Of Lila (Liberty)
Hi-Notes - Without You Darling (Stroiden)
Hardtimes - Fortune Teller (World Pacific)
Nightshades - Sweet Cecelia (Gear)
Villagers - Glad You're Back (Dale)
Tragedy - The Entertainer (Panorama)
Town Criers - Anabel Lee (Meteor)
Today's Special - Krista (Decca)
Four - Now Is The Time - Clark
Thirteenth Hour Glass - Indecision - Format
Atlanta Vibrations - If You Let Me Love You - Simcor
Caesar & His romans - Green Grass Makes It Better - GJM
Camel Drivers - The Grass Is greener - Top Dog
Dickens - Inside Outside - Format
Dino Desi & Billy - Im A Fool - Reprise
First Four - Hurt Me To My Soul - Strata
Five By Five - Apple Cider
Five Emprees - Hey Baby - Freeport
Five Emprees - Little Miss Happiness - Freeport
Flameouts - Fun Girl - CWUWF
Fownds - Comin On Strong - Reeb
Fugitives - She Believes In Me - Mala
Golden Cabaleers - Come Back To Me IGL
Good Feelins - Im Captured - Liberty
Goodly Rubenson - Inside Outside - Stonehenge
Jerry Raye - Away - DeVille
Johnny Neel & Shapes Of Soul - Talking About People - Richie
Kordells - That Girl Of Mine - Young
Lyme & Cybelle - Follow Me - white Whale
M+M - She Shut Me Down - Glass
Malemen - My Little Girl - Pine Hills
Maurocks - Susan - DeLite
News - The Boy Who Smiles - Mu
Next Exit - Break Away - Warner Bros
Palace Guard - A Girl You Can Depend On - Orange empire
Poor - How Many Tears - Loma
Preachers - Girls Girls Girls - RE
Proctor Amusement Co - Call Out My Name - Laurie
Proctor Amusement Co - Call Out My Name - Scott
Professor Morrison’s Lollipop - You Got The Love - White Whale
Reactions - Lemme Hang Aroun Ya - Cloud
Reasons Why - Games - Amy
Rockin Rebellions - By My Side - Vaughn Ltd
Rogues - Dont You Wish You Were Mine - Kapan
Sandals - All Over Again
Skunks - I Need No-one - World Pacific
Sons Of The Keystone Cops - I Laughed You Cried - Pyblic
Statesiders - Patterned the Same - Providence
Steven Sargent & Pride - Nobody’s Child - Compass
Styx - Athena - Brigade
Sweet Younguns - Without You - Cafu
System - Oh How I Wish - Chanel 1
Tikis & Fabulons - Take A Look - Tower
Villagers - He’s Not the Same - Hamlet
Wind Breakers - Peace Of Mind - 20th Century fox
Wolf Pack - Wolf Pack

 

[Frantic]

I think you forgot at least one.

 

[bosshoss]

I think you forgot at least one.

Can you give me a hint?

 

[Frantic]

b.t. ...w. m.
i think it was this year.

 

[bosshoss]

Bill Taylor - Worried Mind (W.C.M.P.)
How could I forget?
It took a while, but that 45 has really grown on me. At first I thought it was a little too C&W, but really it is not at all. High energy garage all the way, with very unusual guitar styling, pounding drums and a pretty wild vocal performance. Love it. Thanks Joey!

 

[Frantic]

Bill Taylor - Worried Mind (W.C.M.P.)
How could I forget?
It took a while, but that 45 has really grown on me. At first I thought it was a little too C&W, but really it is not at all. High energy garage all the way, with very unusual guitar styling, pounding drums and a pretty wild vocal performance. Love it. Thanks Joey!

as far as I know it's still the only known copy. Superb me thinks.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

as far as I know it's still the only known copy. Superb me thinks.

Your recordings all tend to end up on youtube, gaps and all. These youtubers have no self-respect!

 

[MopTopMike]

Your recordings all tend to end up on youtube, gaps and all. These youtubers have no self-respect!

Bill Taylor - Worried Mind (W.C.M.P.)
How could I forget?
It took a while, but that 45 has really grown on me. At first I thought it was a little too C&W, but really it is not at all. High energy garage all the way, with very unusual guitar styling, pounding drums and a pretty wild vocal performance. Love it. Thanks Joey!

I give it a solid 4 out of 10.

 

[MopTopMike]

I never keep track of acquisitions to the collection, which really grew in size this year thanks to the purchase of two collections (not just garage, which was in small amounts, but '60s obscurities from all genres).

Some of my faves are:

D-Coys "Now Comes A Day" (my fave of their 45s);
Cirkit "Yesterday We Laughed" flawless near mint (long time missing want supplied by top wheeler-dealer, Peter P.);
Yesterday's Children (Connecticut) - French 4 song EP with pic sleeve, both near mint (purchased via the collection of a friend who passed away several years back);
Hangmen Of Fairfield County - "Stacy"- near mint copy upgrade;
Sleepy Hollow - "Dark Of The Nite" local Connecticut group 45 I used to have but traded away, now back in the collection;
Daedalus - "Raga For A Mountain Man" - local Connecticut 45, thee only known copy in stunning near mint condition;
Vicars -"Love Has A Way" upgrade near mint copy with picture sleeve;
Dry Ice - "Uncertain Love" VG+
Saxons - "I'll Go Wandering" VG+ upgrade
Jesters - "Just Let Me Love You" VG (black label)
Y'alls - "Please Come Back" - via ebay sale that plays VG++, after having to reject copies over the past 15-20 years that looked hi-grade but played with bad groove distortion)
Lots more, mostly things that I like muchly but not worthy of TBM Top 2000 status to most other collectors.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Cirkit "Yesterday We Laughed" flawless near mint (long time missing want supplied by top wheeler-dealer, Peter P.);

I've been trying to offload my spare copy for years! Although from memory mine's more vg+.

 

[bosshoss]

I give it a solid 4 out of 10.

That's close to my rating, but I would stretch to a 5.

 

[Frantic]

That's close to my rating, but I would stretch to a 5.

6 for me. I love the lyrics

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

a solid 4

 

[bosshoss]

A solid 4, a liquid 5 or a gaseous 6.

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Finally! (in 2017) I can't believe how long
it took to score these 45s in m/m-

BOBBY JAMESON - Viet Nam (Mira)
PALACE GUARD - Sorry (U-Doe)
THE PERSIAN MARKET - Flash In The Pan (Lightning)
RAY VERNON - Vendetta (Scottie)
THE OTHER HALF - Bad Day (Acta)
KIM FOWLEY - Flower Drum Drum (Tower)

Also, thanks to EBay:
CHANCELLORS - On Tour (D&C)

 

[MopTopMike]

Nice score on the Bobby Jameson 45, has to be as rare as the Adrian Lloyd Charger label 45.
But I'm sure it didn't cost asnywhere near as much!

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Nice score on the Bobby Jameson 45, has to be as rare as the Adrian Lloyd Charger label 45.
But I'm sure it didn't cost asnywhere near as much!

Roger that!

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

A solid 4, a liquid 5 or a gaseous 6.

Because "4" is by far the most common score for songs in my database, I've further subdivided that score into "weak 4" and "strong" 4". Musically, there's not a big different between a weak and a strong (solid) 4, but when it comes to making listening compilations, the line between what I'd include and what I wouldn't sits between the two 4's.

This subdivision of the 4 score is done in my head, and the reason I haven't just extended my rating system to 11 stars on paper, is partly because it would appear unseemly, but mainly because the difference between the two fours is so subltle as to come down to a matter of taste, and it would be better to allow other potential users of my rating system to make up their own minds. On the other hand, anything I've rated 5 or above in my system, is objectively good, and therefore not a matter of opinion

 

[Ned]

Daniel -

I completely understand your system.

For me it is a little different. MTM refers to me as "King of the threes" as that has been my most common rating score. Strangely, I have precious few "4" votes, but a huge number of "5" votes - a scarce few "6" and a load of "7". For me , a "5" means an OK side - but probably not something I need to hear often, a "3" is not something I really never need to hear again, while my "7" is a real keeper - something to have in rotation.

I find it interesting that while you have a wider scope of "4's" I made the difference that much bigger by basically dividing them in "3's"
and "5's".

Ned