Entering the record shop last week I was hoping to dig up
some rare grooves in the country mood, or the alt-country styling's that I was
introduced to almost 20 years ago…the mag No Depression was my bible when it
came to what I would listen to and buy in those days. As I starting pursuing
the bins and saying my hellos to ACM&A Clerk extraordinaire Kevin (he
showed me this very cool piece of vinyl that I can't remember the name so when
I'm in tomorrow I have to dig it out) some new stuff started creeping into my
view, and when I say "new" I mean new to me in the vinyl realm of
things. There was Strange Advance, a Canadian new wave group that back in the
day I really dug, with tracks like "She Controls Me" and the title
track off of the record I came upon "Worlds
Away"…then I noticed some Nash The Slash on vinyl, it was his 1978
12" Bedside Companion…if you've
never herd Nash or his band FM check it out, defiantly worth a spin. I love
coming across pieces of rare vinyl, this week it was the Audiophile Vinyl LP
for The Police's Zenyatta Mondatta.
The regular version is an easy score but the Audiophile version is a bit trickery
to dig up, so if you are into The Police and collect vinyl I'd be getting
yourself down to Alleycats Music & Art and picking this up.
My find for this week
while digging through the bins was hiding between 'Dirty Mind' and 'Around the World in a Day'; it was
Prince's 1978 self-titled album PRINCE.
I you are into music like I have been since such an early age you have a few
artists/bands that you stick by through the good and the bad, they might
release something that's so off the wall, so out to left field that you just
wonder what they were thinking..well Prince is that artist for me. I first saw
Prince live back when I was only 13 years old, it was the Purple Rain tour and
I never looked back. PRINCE was
Prince's second studio album and WB said this record needed to have
"hits" to try and recoup on the overblown budget from his first album
For You, they didn't have to worry. The
record is not only seriously sexy and funky from the start with "I Wanna
Be Your Lover" & "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" but was also
tender to the touch as heard in "With You & "Still Waiting".
Prince over the years has made some rather "different" choices when
it came to his career or his character but one thing you can't take away is he
has never stopped workin' it, I'll put PRINCE
up against anything he releases today and you can't tell me his funky self has faded.
One thing I want to
mention I saw they had this week is this very cool record cleaning system, it's
called the Spin-Clean®. If you're like me you have the big brush and bottle of
solution and that almost does the trick…almost, but this Spin-Clean® washer enables
you to clean both sides of your record at once, it's pretty cool and from what
I've read online people are saying that it's the best vinyl record cleaner on
the market. So when you're in Alleycats check it out, it's worth it.
Well that's all friends;
see you next Wednesday in the Vinyl Bins
Joe Cornelisse-SMM
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