HI there. Thanks for the warm welcome and very happy to do the leg work! It's always nice to discover "new" music with blind buys especially when it's very affordable and even better when you find them in excellent condition. I'm more into old school 70s soul music so it's interesting to see how the 70s soul artists kind of adapted to the smooth jazz soul sound that was coming out in the 80s. Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to watch.
Great to see you again! Nice recent finds you’ve got there. Wow, that Dream Academy record is a gem! Good luck with the house clean out. Happy Spring!~ 😊
Lots of musicians I never heard of! I’ll look them up. Cool haul! Maxi singles are awesome. I sold a bunch of 12 inch Prince singles a long time ago. For cigarette money! The store gave me a lot of moolah. I quit smoking a long time ago, thankfully. Have a fabulous day! 👍🏻🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵✨✨✨✨✨
Oh wow. Prince maxi-singles are worth their weight in gold. Not surprised you received some serious dosh for your copies. I don't really collect maxi singles but when I come across them at a good price, I will go for it. I really do love the art work on the maxi single covers. Thanks for stopping by and watching.
…welcome back ! …i played with Nick Kent, a drummer for Martha & The Muffins…during fall/winter 1971-spring 1972, in Toronto and Vancouver, in GospelRock band “Celebration”…
Welcome back. Some great finds there. You've just shown how it's all about timing and stumbling across some amazing vinyl. That Heart maxi single is awesome especially with Barracuda on the b-side. Enjoyed watching as always.
Welcome back! Amazing bargains at 50p per record . Like your title says, you just never know. It is crazy that all those records are in such great condition, especially the Abba , the sealed Dream Academy record and that double Now 3 vinyl were just 50p each! Awesome video. Great to see you again.
Yes it was crazy. There were many more maxi singles in the crate but I only chose the ones I really wanted. The gem was the Dream Academy special edition for sure. Thanks for the warm welcome and for stopping by to watch. Take care.
Hi there busy bee! Glad you’re back. Cool as always. Keep looking in those charity shops- they can be a vinyl goldmine esp 80s soul/jaz. Keep the vids coming… we missed you!
Thanks Glenn. Hope you are having a great time with all your brill RSD pick-ups! I'm trying to catch up on the videos in the VC scene over the past months. Thanks for stopping by.
There were many more excellent condition maxi singles in the crate but I just chose the ones I really wanted. Sometimes it's easy to snap up records because they're cheap and you end up no listening to them. Great to know others like Dream Academy too. Thanks for stopping by.
Question : Do I leave, or have a look at the records ! loL ! Oh Yeah.. 👍I listened to Grover Washington Jr. quite a bit in the late 70's "Bijou" was a good one ! I love 12" singles. So funny ! Who in the heck would show empty sleeves !! Haha I am guilty of showing sealed records that I'm not ready to spin just yet. Nice video. Nice score on The Dream Academy !
There were about 30 maxi singles in that crate and it's always tempting to just snap all of them up at 50p each but I concentrated on buying the ones I really wanted or wanted to explore via a blind buy. Yes. That comment about empty sleeves was a bit odd. It takes way too much time pulling out the vinyl so I think I won't do that again. The video was just too long! Thanks for stopping by and watching!
Restraint is a good thing for sure ! If you had room for all of them, I might have picked all of them up, and I guess you could have used some of the 12" for trade down the road if some were not keepers. Cheers from Nevada.. See you again 🎵
Nice finds! I'm fortunate enough to have a local thrift where I've gotten quite lucky. I was accused of lying about my finds in a vinyl group on FB. But as another viewer commented, right place, right time. I've dug through hundreds of Ray Coniff Singers, Andy Williams, Al DiMartino etc. to find the gems, part of the fun. Keep digging!!!
Yes. You just never know do you? Great you managed to pick up some good stuff at the thrift shop. The ones I keep coming across out here in the UK are Johnny Mathis, Jim Reeves, Mondavi's Film tunes, Herb Alpert, Sound of Music, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Best of the Welsh Guard choir and Greatest hits of the Scottish Highland's bagpipes. Thanks for watching!
Good to see you back. Wondering why you hadn't posted in a while. Exciting to stumble across stuff you least expect it. I have never heard of half of these artists so it's fun to hear about them. The vinyl all look in really good condition too for such a bargain price.
Good to see you again. It's easy to collect more music than we really have time to consume isn't it. I've probably bought fewer records this year so far than I have for a very long time. And it's also amazing how opportunities to buy more records present themselves isn't it. My last video was about just such an occasion. Sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time. I wanted to say how much I like the Dream Academy. That was an incredible find you made there with the sealed Maxi single. They truly are one of my favorite bands. Sadly they only made three albums, but they were all excellent. My first intro to them was through that very 12 inch single too. It is a cover of the Smiths song Please Please Please. The song, Life In a Northern Town is written about Nick Drake. I actually like to tell in my videos how little I pay for many of my finds. I find it astounding how much some people pay for records. In fact there are some channels I stop watching because it irritates me when they say things like "...this was a steel at £50". I want to shout "No it wasn't!". This was a great video. Cheers
I had no idea that song was about Nick Drake. Thanks for connecting the dots there. I do feel comfortable mentioning bargain buys to illustrate there can be affordable records out there with good timing and luck. Like you, I have enough records to last me several lifetimes and the challenge is finding time and opportunity to enjoy them. Many thanks for stopping by and watching. Have a great May bank holiday Monday!
It's great to see you back again . You have some great finds there . Abba's The Visitors is my favourite album by them . It's also great to see that you picked up that Martha & the Muffins record . They were very popular here in Canada in the 80s , with hits like Echo Beach , Black Stations White Stations , Cooling the Medium , and Women Around the World at Work . Their debut album , Metro Music , is a classic , and worth seeking out . If you can't you find it on vinyl or CD , you should look for their greatest hits albums on CD , called Icon , and Then Again : A Retrospective . They make great New Wave and Power Pop songs . Thanks , and welcome back !!!!
That's great info. I will certainly delve more into Martha and the Muffins. As an 80s fan, I am absolutely ashamed I know nothing of this group. And that Abba album "The Visitors" is great. Abba is starting to grow on me for sure. Many thanks for your warm welcome and I really do appreciate you stopping by and watching.
@@retromusings I’m glad that you’re enjoying the Abba album . I suspect that you might have heard Echo Beach from Martha & the Muffins before . Anyway , you’re in for a treat if you happen to get one of their CDs that I mentioned above . Thanks !
Too much fun finding a bin of vinyl! I picked up a 74’ Exile Monarch repress for a steal last week. Barely played and had my best sonic experience of the record after my nearly 40 years of listening to my beat copy. Picked up BeeGees On Broadway from a 2nd hand store a few years ago. Sounded great. I will always buy if the cover is intriguing.
Oh wow. What an amazing experience finding a minty copy of that record. What a magnificent find. These things happen when you least expect it. Great to know the cover art is just as appealing for record collectors. Many thanks for stopping by and watching.
I really like Dream Academy but in the US we only have their one album with Life in a Northen Town. I have never seen anything else from them. When I was young KTel were the first albums I ever bought. Good to see you again
Hi ! - Dee C Lee was in The Style Council with Paul Weller. Martha & The Muffins had a big worldwide hit with Echo Beach ( Far Away Inside ) & there were 2 Martha's & one left to join the magnificent Associates. Check her out in The White Car in Germany video. Martha Ladly - I had a crush on her. Love that Dream Academy song & The Smiths cover they did Please Let Me Get What I Want. I ❤️ 12" singles ! See Ya 😊
Thanks for the info! I had no idea and will delve further into Martha and The Muffins for sure. As a Style Council /Weller fan, I'm even more chuffed about that Dee C Lee maxi single ! Shame Dream Academy had a short shelf life but what they put out during their short time was superb! Thanks for stopping by and watching.
Not into maxi singles but what a find all the same. That 1984 "Now That's What I Call Music Vol 3" album sells for a lot of money online and that sealed limited edition copy of Dream Academy is something else. Great video and welcome back!
1984 was an incredible year for great indie new wave music so I'm not surprised to learn it has some value to it. And yes, that sealed maxi single of Dream Academy is just crazy! Many thanks for stopping by and watching.
Great video and finds! Welcome back! Those maxi singles often sound terrific and are good for exercise as you have to get up every four minutes or so to flip them over. The Heart record is very appealing. I found some very nice records at a charity type sale a few days ago that also were in fantastic condition. I passed on those that were not so good. I hope you will be doing more videos.
Thanks for your warm welcome. And yes, it takes a lot more effort to play maxi singles but I don't mind at all. I listen to vinyl for nostalgia so it's all part of the fun. Glad you found some good records at that charity sale. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by and watching.
Hello stranger. Great to see you back on YT.! Such crazy pick-ups. As a Heart fan, cool to see their "Alone" Maxi 12" featured. with "Barracuda " on the B-side! All those records look pretty minty to me and for peanuts! Generally good stuff is pretty hard to find these days at the thrift shops. A lot of poor quality vinyl are over-priced.
This is interesting.....all through the 70's I bought hundreds and hundreds of LPs, but never a Maxi-Single. That said, I can listen to the same song 100 times in a row; and I do that with many non-hits if you will. Frankie Valli just turned 90 Friday......better him than me.... Welcome back, happy spring, and look forward to more, thank you!
A lot of times maxi singles offer a different re-mixed or extended version of a song. I bought quite a few indie/new wave songs on maxi singles in the 80s by The Cure, Bryan Ferry, Madonna etc. The maxi singles were very popular then. Hard to believe Valli is 90. I saw a video of him on RU-vid performing...he must have been in his early 80s..and he sounded pretty amazing. Thanks for stopping by and watching.
My comment of the other day seems to have got lost. I've got the K Tel 4 Seasons greatest hits but i found The Four Seasons Story in a very attractive gatefold cover recently for $1 NZ. Love it. Welcome back. Good to see there are other Kiwis dropping in
Good to see you back again 😊 Successful blind buys are the best! Awww… Mel & Kim. Poor Melanie, she didn’t get much time on earth. I should get some more Heart… Do I have any? I was about to get one album from vinyl me please but I ended my subscription. Yes, enjoyed the video 😊
Heart is such an amazing rock band. There were many more maxi singles and albums in the crate for 50p each but I just wanted to buy the ones I really wanted. It's easy to just buy records because they are cheap and they are then never played. Time never stops and such a shame we are losing a lot of wonderful singers and musicians. Many thanks for stopping by and watching.
Hello RM it's great to see you again,you did extremely well with these finds....right time,right place 👍👍👍 I have that Frankie Valli LP because I'm a northern soul fan and a couple of tracks on that LP are considered part of that particular dance scene 👍 DC Lee was one half of the duo Pepsi & Shirlee who were backing singers for Wham. DC Lee went on to do backing vocals with the Style Council and ended up marrying Paul Weller. I'm sure they divorced a good few years ago ??? She also had a bit of a solo career and her best known release was called "See the day",I have it on 7" single. Did you say you didn't know who Martha and the Muffins were ??? Surely you must have heard their biggest hit "Echo Beach" at some point ??? My fave charity shop find....white vinyl,7" single that was originally free with The Stranglers album Black & White....what a find 😮😮😮😮 Great to see you again,always look forward to your videos 👍👍👍
Oh wow. I had no idea about DC Lee. Thanks for connecting all those dots and I'm ashamed to say, especially being an 80s fan, I had never heard of Martha and the Muffins! That 7 inch white vinyl that was a bonus with the "Black and White" album is the find of all time IMHO!!! I have that album but I don't have the "Walk On By" 45 that came with it. Love The Strangler's cover of that song!!! Thanks for stopping by and watching. Have a great May bank holiday Monday!
Yes. It's hard initially but afterwards, you realise you don't miss them and hopefully they have found a wonderful home where they'll be appreciated. New and re-issued records are just too expensive and I have had too many bad experiences with poor pressings for new records too. Thrift shops have all jumped on the vinyl wave and upped all their prices for used records. I've seen a beat up copy of a 1970s Rod Stewart record in acceptable /fair condition selling for £10 in the UK. Thanks for stopping by and watching.
"Proof of Life" is a great title for this vid. Haha. I wondered where you had gone too. Some great pick-ups there. I have a copy of the "Now That's What I Call Music #3". The double album has all the class 80s hits on there. Great to see you back!
Congratulations on your retirement. Hope you are enjoying it along with having more time? enjoying your record collection. Thanks for stopping by and watching.
Dee C Lee is a great artist. She has an album out at the moment - “Just Something “. Give it a listen. I think it’s a really good album. Monophonics did a great cover of “Begging”. You got some great stuff there and all for an excellent price!👍
Will do. Thanks for the heads up on her new album. And yes, so many great covers of "Begging". Such an awesome song. Many thanks for stopping by and watching.
Needing to work on your house; I can relate. Mine is a mess. The glass of wine in the background is a nice touch; you could make that a signature touch in the background for future videos 😁. Welcome back, by the way. I, too have been busy and was both surprised and pleased to see a new video pop up in my menu. As for showing the records, I admit I was cringing when I heard the sound of the paper sleeves rub against the vinyl as you took it out. Couldn't that scratch the vinyl? As for the finds, that's a nice score for you. And I hope you enjoy them all. Maxi singles were a thing starting in the 70s with disco I think, with re-mixes of songs that weren't disco, but the 80s saw plenty of them too. I wasn't familiar with most of the artists you showed (often the case), but your excitement made them interesting. Again, nice to see you back.
Thanks for your empathy. It feels endless clearing out items from the home and dealing with house maintenance issues too...and working full-time. I can't blame you for cringing when I was pulling out the vinyl. Yes, it can damage the record. I don't think I will show the vinyl in future as it also just takes up way too much time as I aim to try and make videos as short as possible. There were so many other maxi singles and a few other albums that were in excellent condition in that giant crate but I just focussed on picking the ones I really wanted. It's easy to just buy loads and loads of vinyl because of the cheap price only for them to take up space and you never listen to them. Thanks for stopping by and watching.
P.S. I hadn't realised I left my glass of wine in the frame until after doing the video. I was just too tired to re-do it. Love your idea of having a glass of vino in the background. Hopefully a winery will spot it and send me a courtesy crate of wine (preferably red!).
Hello I remember messaging you last year , so its good to see you again. I live in New Zealand and visit charity shops here for whatever. Clothing , records & cds mainly. I like the Disco soul band Rose Royce. They had a string of hits in the 1970s. Love Don't live here Anymore , Carwash , I Wanna get next to You etc. You have bought a haul of records. From Carl in New Zealand.
12"s were a thing 80/90s I had quite a few all those mixes were desired if a big DJ latched onto them via the club chart then they hit the regular charts. I've still a fair few of my 90s ones even though I was more a regular rock/indie guy. That's probably ABBAs most interesting album by far as they were splitting up in more ways than one. Just the cover draws you in all the spooky shadows and pictures behind them.
@@retromusings oh I like ABBA but you hear them all the time so it's a bit much. Some of the songs in Spanish are interesting. Maybe they even did albums worth I'd have to investigate too.
Thats a bit of an epic record bonanza there :) Someone accused you of showing empty record jackets?!? People are weird :S I rarely show the vinyl themselves on my channel because it makes the videos unnecessarily long. Nice Heart single there! I'd really like to have "Barracuda" on vinyl myself, and I'm currently looking for a reasonably priced copy of 'Brigade' too.
There were a lot more wonderful maxi 12 inch singles and albums in that crate for 50 p each but I focussed on just choosing the ones I really wanted. Sometimes it's easy to just buy records because they're so cheap. It's a bit of a trap. And yes, I couldn't agree more about showing the actual vinyl too. I try to make videos as short as possible but showing those vinyls took way too much time for me so I don't think I'm going to do that again! You do get some very odd comments from people accusing you of some crazy stuff. Good luck finding "Brigade"! Thanks for stopping by and watching.
I meant to ask you about The Eurovision song contest. Do you watch it? As an American, what are your views about it? In Sweden where I used to live, many people take it very seriously. Most years, I went to Eurovision song contest parties, where people would watch and enjoy it together. When I lived in California I tried to get our friends interested. It used to surprise them that the US had no representation in it. I get a little frustrated here in the UK, because British people have always been so sinical about the contest. They think the style of the music is geeky. It is, I suppose. In many other European countries I think people enjoy it for what it is, a contest to encourage friendship. It saddens me a little how this year the event has become swamped in so much controversy. It feels like it is being hijacked by groups that haven't fully understood what the contest is all about.
I don't watch it but can understand why it's a serious matter in Europe. In my view, it's a chance for countries to be unabashedly patriotic without being accused of being offensive and it allows countrymen to support and celebrate their acts...similar to I guess supporting their teams that are participating in the Football World Cup. I think most Americans tend to see it as a "cheesy" affair.
@@retromusings That is so sad, I recommend giving it another go. My experience is that most Americans aren’t even aware of Eurovision’s existence. When I’ve tried to explain it, they automatically say “oh just like The X Factor”, which obviously couldn’t be more inaccurate. The Eurovision contest started in the mid 1950s. It’s original purpose was to function as a bridge building event, to help European countries that had been in conflict a decade before, to find friendly and common ground. From the beginning, before the contests were even held, an enormous amount of cooperation was required between the participating countries to enable the event to be broadcast. The Eurovision zone is based on a radio signal sent from Switzerland (who were a neutral country in WWII). The zone exceeds the boundaries of Europe and encompasses Russia, the middle east, and north African countries, who could all join in, but seldom do. So, more than just a contest of songs, the event is really a grand exercise in international diplomacy. The winning country gets to host the event the following year and is afforded the opportunity to showcase their country and culture to everyone watching. Last year, the UK hosted Eurovision on behalf of the Ukraine, who had won the year before but were unable to host it themselves due to invasion by Russia. Did the Ukraine win because they had the best song that year or did they get so many public votes as a show of international solidarity? I don’t know, but I will say that that is the true power of the contest. It still works, despite being a ‘cheesy affair’. The opportunity for countries to be unabashedly patriotic without being accused of being offensive, the one that allows countrymen to support and celebrate their representatives is called the Olympic games. Though that competition has little or nothing to do with diplomacy. 😀
Hi . Forgive me for my ignorance. Had no idea it was started as a bridge=building event for countries. Thanks for educating me about the event. I appreciate it much more now that I know its background. I agree most Americans don't know what it is about (include myself). I have never viewed it as an X-factory type event. Thanks again for the explanation. :-)
Thanks for that. I don't think I will pull out the vinyl to show again as it just takes up too much time and makes the video way too long! Thanks for watching.
