EYE ON EBAY------Big Strange Noise

Choice piece of obscure synth tomfoolery from the Outsize Oddments who sound like they've graduated from the Martin O'Cuthbert music academy. Mesmerising simplicity has the bidders entranced and what I suspect is a one off adventure on the Spurious Artists label secures the seller £183.16.
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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 13

1 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
2 A Classic Education : Best Regards
3 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
4 Manhattan Love Suicides : Kessler Syndrome
5 Pheromoans : Suburban Despot
6 Claim : Mrs. Shepherd
7 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
8 Point : My Mind
9 Three Dancers : Seventeen
10 Dawn Chorus And The Bluetits : When You Walk In The Room
11 Lovely Eye : Don't Look Down The Road
12 Peppelkade 14 : Hour After Hour
13 Two People : Let's Raise Murderr
14 Gayna Rose Madder : Ties
15 L Kage : My Head's On Fire
16 Pete Green : Best Band Supported By "Shockwaves"
17 English McCoy : Give Me Something To Believe In
18 Screen 3 : European Journey
19 What To Wear : We're The Martians Now
20 Absent Friends : Stand Up And Fight

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EYE ON EBAY----Cheap child

Not exactly neat neat neat but a decent enough stab of punk from the Damned. Stretcher Case Baby could have been yours if you'd been at the relevant gig or won an NME competition by supplying a humourous one liner to accompany a picture of the group. Of course it's been bootlegged but the seller stressed this was the original. Sold for £68.99.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 6

1 A Classic Education : Best Regards
2 Manhattan Love Suicides : Kessler Syndrome
3 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
4 Claim : Mrs. Shepherd
5 Three Dancers : Seventeen
6 Pheromoans : Suburban Despot
7 Peppelkade 14 : Hour After Hour
8 Pete Green : Best Band Supported By "Shockwaves"
9 Dawn Chorus And The Bluetits : When You Walk In The Room
10 Point : My Mind
11 Two People : Let's Raise Murder
12 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
13 L Kage : My Head's On Fire
14 Lovely Eye : Don't Look Down The Road
15 Screen 3 : European Journey
16 Absent Friends : Stand Up And Fight
17 Joni Dee And The Times : Here Come The Holidays
18 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
19 English McCoy : Give Me Something To Believe In
20 What To Wear : We're The Martians Now

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EYE ON EBAY----Crocodile Echo

Two copies of the Suede Crocodiles single sold by Yekserves netted him a tad over £414 in total. Not often two singles sold so closely together attain equal price status but this was achieved on this occasion, as single two (£208.15) sold for slightly more than single one (£206.25).

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EYE ON EBAY-----Scratch A Scottish Scrotum

Scottish scamps classic DIY single sells for £134.70. About £20 more than I paid for my copy. I think my favourite Scrotum Poles track is Pick The Cat's Eyes Out. Nothing for the RSPCA to get worried about, it's not a tribute to violence against felines.

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EYE ON EBAY----Better than meerkats

In need of weird? Get acquainted with the Performing Ferret Band. I think this LP is now available on CD but it doesn't stop someone paying £147 for it.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 oct 30

1 A Classic Education : Best Regards
2 Manhattan Love Suicides : Kessler Syndrome
3 Three Dancers : Seventeen
4 Pete Green : Best Band Supported By "Shockwaves"
5 Peppelkade 14 : Hour After Hour
6 Claim : Mrs. Shepherd
7 Pheromoans : Suburban Despot
8 L Kage : My Head's On Fire
9 Two People : Let's Raise Murder
10 Screen 3 : European Journey
11 Absent Friends : Stand Up And Fight
12 Dawn Chorus And The Blue Tits : When You Walk In The Room
13 Joni Dee And The Times : Here Come The Holidays
14 Lovely Eye : Don't Look Down The Road
15 What To Wear : We're The Martians Now
16 Distant Cousins : Concrete Boxes
17 Lost Boys : Who Are The Meek Ones
18 English McCoy : Give Me Something To Believe In
19 Single File : Out In The Traffic
20 Beware The Dog : Madam

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EYE ON EBAY-----Limp bid

A cowardly bid of £22 was unlikely to win me this single on Matchbox Classics, a joint effort by the Limps and No Support. It went for exactly double my bid. I would have been braver with my cash but I have two weekends of record fairs approaching, London and Utrecht.

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Astounding price paid, £206, for this pleasant slice of C86 pop by Playing At Trains. If I'd have been bidding for it I'd have been derailed at £50 but I didn't need to as I picked it up in a charity shop in Warwick a few years ago for the outrageous sum of £1. Feel my smugness.

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EYE ON EBAY------Gross oversight

Only a few days before I found this Gross Club single on ebay it had been recommended to me by an ebay seller. I was hoping it would slip by unnotticed and my pathetic bid would secure it for me, loathe as I am to acquire British releases from US sellers and incur large P+P posts. No doubt the attractive shot of a naked behind aroused certain bidders. I was stifled out at £10, the record eventually selling for £54.81.

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EYE ON EBAY

An arm and a leg were sacrificed to obtain this lone single by Scottish indiepoppers Suede Crocodiles. £243.70 was the final price, amazing when you consider this sold for less than £100 a few months back. Interestingly seller Yekserves has this up for auction, in fact he has two copies! Will it break the £100 mark? Find out in a few days.

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