u/Dadaismisastratagem

Approx 40 pieces. There was some I wanted but the guy wouldn't split em up so I had to take the lot. Believe me, there's some crap in here, including early '70s budget comps 'reprocessed for stereo'. I wish they wouldn't do that.

I was laughing at the records as I went through them; "please don't make me take all these mister". But he stood firm, as was his right. I shouldn't dwell on the crap as some of this is ok.

For instance - Black Uhuru on D-Roy, Maytals, two early Trojan comps, Militant Barry (probably the best named toaster in reggae history. One song is about Sid Vicious 'Pistol Boy').

Gladiators, Aggrovators, Jacob Miller, Mikey Dread, Prince Buster and a bunch of things I don't know much about (Prince Mohammed also recorded as a singer under the name George Nooks apparently).

Anyway, I had a good natured negotiation with the seller and told him he was very lucky to get £20 the lot. He told me he wasn't a reggae fan ("apart from UB40") and that the records came out of a condemned building he was demolishing.

Bonus artwork on page 1.

The first PKD novel I ever bought. Must be 1978 or 79 I think. The cover bears relevance to the story, as it concerns a marooned astronaut in space who beams radio broadcasts to the post-apocalyptic population below...

Presumably the pic on page 1 depicts the astronaut Walt Dangerfield in his space capsule.

Located these in a few different shops. I suspect some may be dastardly bootlegs. The G.I. Funk Vietnam one is good, although I don't think it's entirely as described. Shaftman is a collection of crude funk monsters with XXX spoken word content. Good for a giggle. I think Tim Warren of Crypt Records compiled that one and it comes with a bonus 7".

At one time I had an entire set of Northern Soul Story double LPs but they were stolen way back in the 90s. Nice to get one back anyway.

I always buy these type of comps as you're guaranteed good tunes, good for mixtapes etc.

Seen a few of these posts recently, so here's some of mine.

Going through some boxes and finding CDs with original price stickers; mad prices from the ancient times. The first one: Baked Beans on Recycle Or Die (a great album of pulsing ambient techno) was £14.29 in 1994 and I think I did actually buy that new from Virgin (£30 today).

The others were drastically reduced, either from the second hand shops or charity shops.

The Wagner 'Ring Cycle' 14 CD box at the end of the vid - I got for £1 from the hospice charity just recently. Inside the card slipcase there's a sale price sticker; it was originally £119.99 then reduced to £84.99.

Also - note that the Tony Humphries CD came from a shop called "Loppylugs".

Weird bunch of CDs. Four boxes of it. The stuff I don't know I'll play through and see if there's anything good. Quite a lot of mainstream chud. Maybe I can trade them at the 2nd hand place.

Seen a couple of Graham Bond posts just recently. His story is a strange one. He always had the best musicians in his bands: for instance.Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, John McLaughlin.

He was a heavy drug user and went completely mad by the end of his life, got into the occult. Died under a tube train early 70s.

The BBC 4 four CD set is good. Rare stuff from radio sessions. Five different versions of Wade In the Water, all great. John Peel interviews him and tries to steer him away from proselytizing about magick, the occult and the evils of Black Sabbath.

The two early albums Sound of 65 and There's a Bond Between us are standard listening if you like heavy RnB, jazz, blues. The Hammond organ sound he conjures up is elemental. He also sang and played saxophone (not at the same time).

When my dad died I got his music collection which included a lot of vinyl and CDs, plus a box of tapes. Most of them are unlabelled, so who knows what's on them. Some of them have a note on the edge. No track-listings.

I've got enough of my own music so probably won't be wading through this lot. Although, there's John Peel shows on some tapes so might be worth a go.

He was a great one for cheap & nasty tapes ... three examples at the end including that Portuguese Buccaneer tape which must be 55 years old and bought off a market stall.

There's some chrome tapes and a metal tape in there. All vintage, must be mainly late 70s/80s.

I tend towards freakout jazz like Sun Ra, late era Miles, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Sharrock and that type of thing but I like Be Bop and Hard Bop ok. I buy them if I see them cheap. The Impulse 2-on-1 discs are good value. I don't enjoy smooth jazz, that stuff turns my stomach.

Plumbing the depths of obscurity with some of these. If they're cheap and look halfway interesting I bag em.

I picked out a few tracks to recommend from this bunch of CDs:

The 23rd Turnoff - Michael Angelo

The Mirage - Ebeneezer Beaver / Mrs Busby

Fleur de Lys - Circles

Pärson Sound - Tio Minuter

The Human Expression - Readin Your Will / Optical Sound

Finchley Boys - I'm Not Like Everybody Else

The Eyes - When the Night Falls / You're Too Much

Cromagnon - Caledonia (the whole album is one of the strangest records ever made)

Leona Anderson - Rats in my Room

Nick Nicely - all his stuff is good

I saw some bloke going through a box of cheap CDs in a charity shop. I don't know what it was he was looking for but he left it all for me. Some of them were 3 for £1... including the triple Them CD. I must admit, I was standing behind him as he was flicking through them and willing him to piss off. I put a hex on him.

Some of the others were from different charity shops and the second hand shop near me that does bargains. It's great when you're in the right place at the right time with this sort of thing.

Reasonable assortment of 60s gear (with some 50s and 70s thrown in there too).

That 'Come Together' CD is really weird. Double CD of Beatles covers, possibly from a Dutch stage show, not sure. Some of the covers are quite good. I saw it for 99p and thought why not.

Grabbed this bunch of cheap funk and soul comps from charity shops.

Toast rack behind but you can't see it very well. Bought in bits and pieces from several different charity shops over some time so can't recall total cost.

Many ppl seem to dislike digipaks but I like em ok. I can get more of em on the shelves. Over-sized sleeves can be a bit annoying I suppose. Here's a few boxes I picked up recently with some good things. I don't care about format much; CD, vinyl, tapes, it's all the same to me, I just like to listen to new things.

I like rockabilly, not quite so big on country but some of it I can listen to quite happily. There's two yodelling CDs in there.... now that's something I can get behind.

Appears to be three boxes of indie, rock, punk and 'unknown'. I gave the guy £10 for these but I don't know.... they look a bit suss.

Another few boxes of random stuff I like. I get bored of music quite quickly so like to have a lot of different choices.

I saw an original copy of Beware Dub on a market stall. It had no cover and the record was scratched to oblivion. They wanted £10 for it. That made me laugh.

I picked out six boxes and made them as random as I could. Each CD is meant to be a total contrast to its neighbour. One CD from each artist (with two exceptions).

Looking at this selection I see my life passing before my eyes.