TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 23

1 School : All I Wanna Do
2 Snowbirds : Love Will Come My Way
3 Excel : If It Rains
4 Strange Idols : She's Gonna Let You Down Again
5 Starlets : Give My Regards To Betty Ford
6 Astronauts : All Night Party
7 Penny Candles : Taj Mahal
8 Potting Sheds : Happy Again
9 Autumn Leaves : You Didn't Say A Word
10 Vampire Weekend : Mansard Roof
11 Youth Group : Sorry
12 Estelle : American Boy
13 Youth Group : Catching And Killing
14 Inflatable Boy Clams : Skeletons
15 Wave Pictures : I Love You Like A Madman
16 Vampire Weekend : A Punk
17 Jeremiahs : Wipe Away Your Tears
18 Helen And The Horns : Footsteps At My Door
19 Penny Candles : Making The Most (Of It All)
20 Sundress : Waiting

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Turntable Revolution Record Collection 3

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 16

1 Excel : If It Rains
2 The School : All I Wanna Do
3 Starlets : Give My Regards To Betty Ford
4 Snowbirds : Love Will Come My Way
5 Potting Sheds : Happy Again
6 Strange Idols : She's Gonna Let You Down Again
7 Youth Group : Catching And Killing
8 Astronauts : All Night Party
9 Youth Group : Sorry
10 Inflatable Boy Clams : Skeletons
11 Helen And The Horns : Footsteps At My Door
12 Jeremiahs : Wipe Away Your Tears
13 Wave Pictures : I Love You Like A Madman
14 Black Kids : I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance....
15 Sundress : Waiting
16 Vampire Weekend : Mansard Roof
17 Starlets : Happy Camper
18 Autumn Leaves : You Didn't Say A Word
19 Fischers : Down The Days
20 Alphabeat : Fascination

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THE DAY I MUGGED MVE

I've been a regular at the Notting Hill, Berwick Street and Camden MVE's or Record & Tape Exchange for over twenty years. Some of the staff have been there nearly that long. With one or two of them I'm on grimacing terms. Yes, the majority of them are surly and indifferent so it's always a pleasure when I am rewarded due to their ignorance. A few months back I was flicking through the 50p singles in the Camden MVE when I came across the Screen Gemz 7". Not to be located in Record Collector's Rare Record Guide the poor "experts" in MVE had no knowledge of its value. Though it rarely appears on ebay a copy had sold on there just the week before for £230. That had a picture sleeve, unfortunately mine didn't. What was even sweeter was the fact that I had bid unsuccessfully for it and here it was in my grubby paws with its pretty green MVE sticker, so much easier to remove than the red stickers which have scarred a number of my sleeves, for the budget sum of 50p. A few weeks earlier I had reeled in a haul of five or six Marsh Marigold singles from the 50p shelves and received a quizzical stare from the man who served me. Then last month the staff were in a quandary when confronted with something on the Shinkansen label. Was it dance music? Unlikely, they reasoned, as there were three people in the band. I resisted the temptation to enlighten them.

Turntable Revolution Record Collection 2

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 9

1 Potting Sheds : Happy Again
2 Starlets : Give My Regards To Betty Ford
3 Youth Group : Catching And Killing
4 The School : All I Wanna Do
5 Excel : If It Rains
6 Youth Group : Sorry
7 Snowbirds : Love Will Come My Way
8 Helen And The Horns : Footsteps At My Door
9 Inflatable Boy Clams : Skeletons
10 Jeremiahs : Wipe Away Your Tears
11 Strange Idols : She's Gonna Let You Down Again
12 Black Kids : I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance....
13 Astronauts : All Night Party
14 Sundress : Waiting
15 Wave Pictures : I Love You Like A Madman
16 Starlets : Happy Camper
17 Alphabeat : Fascination
18 James Dean Driving Experience : Dean's 11th Dream
19 MIA : Paper Planes
20 Fischers : Down The Days

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WHAT I LOST ON EBAY

Astonishing cash is flung at Ember Days' Plaza 12". Came with a lot of paraphernalia like posters and photographs which probably convinced Joymorp to part with £80.96. Minus all those gewgaws and maybe it would have stayed in my price range.

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 2

1 Starlets : Give My Regards To Betty Ford
2 Youth Group : Sorry
3 Potting Sheds : Happy Again
4 Jeremiahs : Wipe Away Your Tears
5 Inflatable Boy Clams : Skeletons
6 Youth Group : Catching And Killing
7 Sundress : Waiting
8 Black Kids : I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance....
9 Starlets : Happy Camper
10 James Dean Driving Experience : Dean's 11th Dream
11 Wave Pictures : I Love You Like A Madman
12 Helen And The Horns : Footsteps At My Door
13 MIA : Paper Planes
14 Alphabeat : Fascination
15 Wake The President : Remember Fun?
16 Amazing Space Frogs : (I'm Into) Necrophilia
17 The School : All I Wanna Do
18 Youth Group : Forever Young
19 Fischers : Down The Days
20 Hit Parade : Autobiography

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Highlights of my record collection

WHAT I WON ON EBAY

Patience Atichon is a valuable virtue. You paid twice what I did for the Penny Candles which I finally won last night. According to my records I scooped it for its lowest price. A seasoned ebayer knows that when an uncommon item wrestles a hefty sum from a twitchy buyer said item suddenly becomes a tad more common, usually within a month. As the auction finished I was at the cinema enduring emotional fatwa watching Persepolis. Disney be damned, this is an animated film that really moves one.

EYE ON EBAY

An ebayer called Burghskin parts with £452 for a rare punk record by a band called the Rebels. The A side is called Suicide which would be my option if the girlfriend ever found out I spent that much on one 7" single. It's on Rigid records, probably the band's own label, and the seller says there were only 250 pressed. He bought it in a shop in Sunderland in 1980, the year it was released. Some of the Rebels went on to play in Red Alert.

WHAT I WON EBAY

One second to go and I snatch a 12" by Fragile Friends. It was all down to my keyboard summer school course that made me so fleet of finger. This record rarely appears on ebay and when it does hearts quiver with excitement, at least among the three or four who have it high on their wants lists. A 7" by them has yet to surface and when it does expect pulses to pulsate.