Surprise, surprise - idle chatter about TBM

[EXPO67]

Barry W had a VG++ copy for sale a few months ago. It was MIN BID $200.

I found a VG+ stock copy for $125 a few months ago.
You're gonna have to dig a little deeper in your pockets to get a copy it seems.

 

[MopTopMike]

There are several pressings of the Squires, most are noted in Barry W's price guide. The manufacturing plants used different standards for quality. I recall the 100 count or more find in 1990 was the pressing which used low-grade vinyl. The 45s looked NM but played with surface noise (a swishy sound in the background), or a bit crackly. Those were priced at $40 from the source.

 

[vinyl01]

Do you need the Torkays on Coulee?

 

[vinyl01]

Here's the link in case you have not heard it as indicated in TBM.

http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/torkays-you-dont-know-about

 

[MopTopMike]

Thanks!

 

[vinyl01]

No problem.

BTW Have you heard the Losers ''shake a hand''? No label shown, but has record # LO 86.

 

[vinyl01]

Here's the link to it. I did not see it listed...do you think it would merit a mention?

Matrix is u4km-8885

http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/losers-shake-a-hand-lo86

 

[vinyl01]

Here's another by the Nite Niks on Fun. Matrix rk4m 4993
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/nite-niks-w-tommy-dee-give-me

 

[vinyl01]

How about the Sleep e Hollow?

http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/sleepy-e-hollow-i-want-to-do

 

[Darren J Wallace]

Haven't been posting much lately....life seems to be way too busy....gettin' married and all this summer.....
Anyways,here's my two cents:
So far I love TBM. I can't wrap my head around what a monumental task it must have been to create such a book. I don't collect the actual 45's but I love the music, and learning about the history of the bands. There's a ton of music here I've never even heard of so it may proove to be interesting to search out some (if not all) of the top 1000 songs.
I've only scratched the surface of the book so far,but what I've read is very cool.

Thanks Mike for the opportunity to have this book!

By the way....It's been an interesting read regarding everyone's comments on how the top 1000 songs came to be in the order they are,what made it, and what didn't.

Maybe someone could shed some light on some questions.
I remember Joey. D writing on the forum regarding the red labeled Denise single. Is the a-side that has been comped the yellow or red label version? Is the b-side the same on each variation?

I wonder with all the talk of the Just Too Much single if the b-side will ever be available to hear.....

 

[chas_kit]

I see the Sound Barrier's "(My) Baby's Gone is up in the 10 section of the color scans at #38, but only gets a 9 in the A-Z listings, while "Hey, Hey" has a 10 in the listings and is back at #77 in the color scans. Surely the A-Z listing is reversed.

 

[jeffs11375]

Being unemployed I have not yet had the disposable cash to purchase my copy of TBM yet but after thumbing through a friend's copy and reading the posts on this thread, it is definitely near the top of my 'to buy' list.

Personally I am not all that concerned about how a particular record may be ranked by the experts. Not that I don't find that interesting but, as a few people have pointed out in this discussion, taste is a very relative and personal thing.

But I am looking forward to reading about all these lost gems and going back to my comps (with the help of the Garage Compilation Database) and all my old forum CDs to re-listen to a lot of these gems.

MIke, Boss and everyone else involved, congratulations on a job well done.

 

[Miracle Mirror]

Well, I'm having a great time going back and re-listening to a lot of these songs and then writing in my own rating and comparing that to the rating average of the cabinet. I've come across a possible significant difference that might be showing itself but I want to listen to a lot more songs before coming to any conclusions--really very interesting and we'll see what develops when I get more into it.

 

[MopTopMike]

I see the Sound Barrier's "(My) Baby's Gone is up in the 10 section of the color scans at #38, but only gets a 9 in the A-Z listings, while "Hey, Hey" has a 10 in the listings and is back at #77 in the color scans. Surely the A-Z listing is reversed.

Thanks for catching that, Chris. My Baby's Gone is a 10, Hey Hey is rated as a 9. So the positions in the Top 1000 are correct.
It's amazing, you think you can catch everything during the proof stage.
O.K. back to bed to recover from this nasty flu-like cold.

 

[MopTopMike]

Here's another by the Nite Niks on Fun. Matrix rk4m 4993
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/nite-niks-w-tommy-dee-give-me

Sways more on the "teener" side. If I listed this I'd have to add another few hundred like it which aren't really "in the TBM league".

 

[vinyl01]

Ok, what do you think about the other ones?

 

[troggy]

Here's The Jordan Brothers "It's A Shame". The flipside isn't Teen Beat Mayhem material.

DivShare File - "It's A Shame"

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Most all of them had some label quality issues that appeared as irregular holes in a under layer that was covered over - like painting over something that had areas of bare wood and paint.

I've had several Atco 45s with similar label issues - from both the early 1960s and the early 1970s.

 

[ratfinkie]

I found my copy at a Savers in 1994 for 69 cents.

 

[vinyl01]

Here are some more for the members to listen to:

http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/original-cast-what-did-i-do
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/original-cast-lonely-and-blue
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/original-cast-shadows
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/original-cast-i-walk-all-alone
http://soundcloud.com/vinyl01/acetate-stop-all-these-changes

Has anyone have any info on these?