TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 26

1 Fallover 24 : Pessimistic Man
2 Danny Boys : Days Of The Week
3 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Everything With You
4 Ninotchka : I've Got Wings
5 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
6 Sema 4 : Capital City
7 Now : Development Corporations
8 Ember Days : Plaza
9 Groove Farm : Baby Blue Marine
10 Whips : Walking In Circles
11 White Heat : Nervous Breakdown
12 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
13 One Happy Island : Earth's Circumference
14 Northern Portrait : Crazy
15 Deirdres : Milk Is Politics
16 Friends Ahoi : Grandstand Girls
17 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
18 World Of Pooh : Stones Of Judgement
19 Sea Urchins : Clingfilm
20 Pocketbooks : Cross The Line

Green numbers indicate new entries.

WHAT I WON ON EBAY

I had made several insignificant attempts to win the Beyond The River compilation in the past mainly because it featured the Shrinking Men who released one striking low-fi single. The comp showcased several other bands from around the Reading area circa 1980 and the majority contributed solid efforts. I was particularly fond of the Stills meander through a Cure-like landscape. Superior though were the A.1.Vegetables and Dig Dig Dig, both atrocious names which belied their talents. And I secured this item for an extremely reasonable price considering it had always managed to scramble over the £30 mark in the past.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=330291188893

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 19

1 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
2 Danny Boys : Days Of The Week
3 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
4 Fallover 24 : Pessimistic Man
5 Deirdres : Milk Is Politics
6 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
7 Northern Portrait : Crazy
8 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Everything With You
9 Pocketbooks : Cross The Line
10 Groove Farm : Baby Blue Marine
11 Glo-Worm : Travelogue
12 Urge : Bobby
13 Milky Wimpshake : (Show Me The Way To) Anarchy
14 Sea Urchins : Clingfilm
15 White Heat : Nervous Breakdown
16 That Uncertain Feeling : Sunriser
17 Kamikaze Sex Pilots : The Red Indian Song
18 Tartans : Cats Of Camerford
19 Northern Portrait : The Fallen Aristocracy
20 Liechtenstein : Stalking Skills

Green numbers indicate new entries.

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 12

1 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
2 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
3 Deirdres : Milk Is Politics
4 Pocketbooks : Cross The Line
5 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
6 Northern Portrait : Crazy
7 Milky Wimpshake : (Show Me The Way To) Anarchy
8 Danny Boys: Days Of The Week
9 Glo-Worm : Travelogue
10 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Everything With You
11 Urge : Bobby
12 Tartans : Cats Of Camerford
13 Kamikaze Sex Pilots : The Red Indian Song
14 That Uncertain Feeling : Sunriser
15 Liechtenstein : Stalking Skills
16 Sea Urchins : Clingfilm
17 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Orchard Of My Eye
18 Groove Farm : Baby Blue Marine
19 Starlets : Viva Cabaret
20 Fallover 24 : Pessimistic Man

Green numbers indicate new entries.

Evening Outs : Channel/Stammer

Having now owned this evasive gremlin for a week or so I feel suitably balanced to reflect. There's a vacuity to fill. Try as I may to transfer an ineffable desire to another of my wants a rapacious zeal is yet to develop for say Candy Ranch's Section 58 7" or Keen's Feline Groovy 12". It's time that stretches desire and I've only wanted those singles for a few years. Would they generate equal excitement on ebay as the Evening Outs? As they have both sold for under £100 the answer seems to be no. But then if you pay a visit to Popsike you'll see that the Evening Outs sold for a sixth of what I paid when it was on ebay some years back.

The C86/private indie releases that I collect have not yet inspired numerous collectors and for that I am grateful. Only certain records such as singles by the English McCoy and Hardy Boys stoke up an unchecked fervour. The latter single sold for a massive £352 when it appeared on ebay. Search for these records in the Rare Record Price Guide and you'll find them absent. As is the Evening Outs single. So if some green dealer serendipitously unearthed it he would perhaps mark it at £10, the default setting it seems for obscure independent releases, at least in MVE. So now I wait patiently for my new top wants to appear and anticipate battles with my usual ebay foes, Picheux 89, Atichon (both French) and some unexpected upstart from Japan.

In the meantime here's the what you've been waiting for......

channel.mp3 - evening outs

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 5

1 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
2 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
3 Deirdres : Milk Is Politics
4 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
5 Glo-Worm : Travelogue
6 Northern Portrait : Crazy
7 Liechtenstein : Stalking Skills
8 Milky Wimpshake : (Show Me The Way To) Anarchy
9 Urge : Bobby
10 Tartans : Cats Of Camerford
11 Pocketbooks : Cross the Line
12 Kamikaze Sex Pilots : The Red Indian Song
13 That Uncertain Feeling : Sunriser
14 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Orchard Of My Eye
15 Starlets : Viva Cabaret
16 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Everything With You
17 Maria : Friends Forever
18 Danny Boys : Days Of The Week
19 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Doing All The Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud
20 Pride : What's Love

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY

Go into space with the Astronauts. Ebayer Yotasos certainly did launching a £103 bid to plant his flag on this rare satelite. The Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs LP has been orbiting around my wants planet for a while now and there it shall remain; for that sellling price I'd expect it to come with a chunk of the moon.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=250340962923

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 28

1 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
2 Northern Portrait : Crazy
3 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
4 Liechtenstein : Stalking Skills
5 That Uncertain Feeling : Sunriser
6 Glo-Worm : Travelogue
7 Starlets : Viva Cabaret
8 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
9 Milky Wimpshake : (Show Me The Way To) Anarchy
10 Tartans : Cats Of Camerford
11 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Orchard Of My Eye
12 Deirdres : Milk Is Politics
13 Milky Wimpshake : One Good Use For My Heart
14 Maria : Friends Forever
15 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : This Love Is Fucking Right
16 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Doing All The Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud
17 Some Loves : It's My Time
18 Elephant Noise : This Song Is Our Friend
19 Urge : Bobby
20 Kamikaze Sex Pilots : The Red Indian Song

Green numbers indicate new entries.

WHAT I WON ON EBAY

I DID, I DID, I DID.
I did suppress my common sense and outbid all opposition to finally acquire the Evening Outs single. As the final minutes approached the girlfriend retired to bed wishing me luck as she went, knowing that there are some moments in life when a man must be alone. I was left to fend for myself like a baby crocodile among a pool of hippos. The omens had been good. In the afternoon I had beat my parents at scrabble and I'd resisted playing my Desperate Bicycles collection for fear of an attack of light-headedness. Friend Harvey had emailed and told me he would bid no higher than £121. That, my friend, I thought, is amateur financial fencing, my riposte shall smite you. As the final seconds fled by I did not falter. I flexed my fingers, they were nimble and deadly after an afternoon of sparring with neighbourhood cats, and punched in a reckless sum of £544. Take that you downbeats, you don't mess with the Scavenger. But they tried and they failed and they had their passports stamped as they returned back to Loserland. Dizzy with triumph I ventured into the bedroom where the girlfriend was pricing up objects for the boot sale. " £377", I said. She looked at me despairingly and added another zero onto the bed's price tag.

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=160302762161

Turntable Revolution Record Collection 20

EYE ON EBAY

The Nine Steps To Ugly flexi sales past the £100 mark. Last time it sold for considerably less. Now I'm familiar with the fabulous Eddie Lopez Lives In Slough (what's with these crazy monikers?) as it features on two compilations I own. But Bobby Charlton's Haircut remains an unknown delight. As far as I know it's never been comped so maybe it's an unremarkable instrumental.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220322782439

EYE ON EBAY

Legendary single by Episode Four who later evolved into East Village once again secures the seller a hefty financial return. I once bid on this whilst on holiday in Dorset. I located an internet cafe above an art shop in a seaside town and threw a few paltry pennies into the auction ring. Of course I got short shrift so I consoled myself by gorging on expensive homemade chocolates from a local shop. Does plugging your arteries with unhealthy food eradicate the misery of defeat? I don't know but since I discovered ebay I've put on weight.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=270312034746

Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone

Northern Portrait

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 21

1 Northern Portrait : Crazy
2 Milky Wimpshake : Dialling Tone
3 That Uncertain Feeling : Sunriser
4 Starlets : Viva Cabaret
5 Elephant Noise : Halloween Day
6 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Doing All The Things That Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud
7 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : This Love Is Fucking Right
8 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Orchard Of My Eye
9 Milky Wimpshake : One Good Use For My Heart
10 Liechtenstein : Stalking Skills
11 Milky Wimpshake : (Show Me The Way To) Anarchy
12 Tartans : Cats Of Camerford
13 Elephant Noise : This Song Is Our Friend
14 Some Loves : It's My Time
15 Glo-Worm : Travelogue
16 Henry Essence : 14 Year Old Lover
17 Maria : Friends Forever
18 Twig : Ciao Ciao Bomb
19 Family Way : Sugar Baby Love
20 Northern Portrait : The Fallen Aristocracy

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY

I bid on this rare indiepop single by Commotion Upstairs just to see if I could win it for a low price. In the past it has tentatively tip-toed over the £100 mark. I dropped out once it hit £20.
Smugly I picked it up in a local charity shop for 50p. Apparently it's also available on 12" but I've yet to see it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&item=150312087637

Turntable Revolution Record Collection 19

What I bought at Olympia record fair.

WHAT I LOST ON EBAY

This is now officially getting tiresome. I have been after the Das Schnitz single for a few years now and thought it was within my reach last weekend. It had the doctored sleeve, the one where Chaka Khan plays an unwilling participant in their shot at fame, and despite the high postage cost some US dealers feel the need to charge I was poised in the final seconds to apprehend the elusive rascal. The girlfriend was kindly subbing me and she'd told me to go up to 150. The auction being in dollars I took her to mean dollars and bid $154. That bid did not secure me the item and when I told her the bad news she told me she meant £150. I have reached the age where tantrums are unseemly but I did feel like gathering up some toys, squeezing into a pram and throwing them violently around the room.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=270296679662

EYE ON EBAY

Representing the steel city of Sheffield we have the Deaf Aids first release which never fails to fire up strong passions among ebay's punk collectors. Though I have a roomful of piggy banks (one is actually a pig, three are hippos and one is a yellow Malta bus) they had been eviscerated to pay for my annual spending spree at the Olympia record fair. So I merely sat and gawped as this perky little item zoomed past the £200 mark. Isn't someone going to comp this?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=270296691018