EYE ON EBAY------Did it come with a flake?

£99 was the sale price for this rollicking piece of powerpop by The Form. Released on Elephant records in 1980 the single offered three tracks, Watch Out, Start Again and London Underground. Nothing more came from their particular school of music. Got my copy for a quarter of the sale price in Rat Records, Camberwell about a year ago, excuse my smugness.

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TOP OF THE CLASS

Found in a secondhand record shop in London for £25. A xmas present from the girlfriend as she saw me tugging a few raddled notes from my pocket and took charitable pity on me.

Daktari Swets on lead vocal, Pete Watt on vocals and guitar, Nick Calloway on lead guitar, Andy Hill on bass and Big G on drums made up The Form. Watch Out, a perky piece of punky pop, was released on Elephant records and has the catalogue number Tun 2 which is a teasing hint that there exists a Tun 1. One suspects they were fresh out of school, expelled or otherwise, in 1980 when this blast of juvenilia was released. Two other songs, London Underground and Start Again, lurk with potent intent on the B side. All worthy of a gold star.

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 jan 8

1 Cold Comfort : Really Really Don't Mind
2 Cavalcade : Voices
3 M J Hibbett : Clubbing In The Week
4 Form : Watch Out
5 High And Dry : Rising Waves
6 Next Time Passions : Not Here Anymore
7 M J Hibbett : Fucking Hippy
8 Baby Jane Holzer : Nowhere
9 Nightingales : Devil In The Detail
10 Sex Clark Five : You Left The Light On In Your Eyes
11 Days : Jigsville
12 New Walk : Shape Of Things To Come
13 Aces And Eights : Hard Luck Stories
14 Shattered Dreams : Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained
15 Up And Running : Johnny And Marie
16 Dislocation Dance : Violette
17 Codeine Velvet Club : Hollywood
18 Black And White Lovers : Best Years Of Our Lives
19 Allo Darlin' : Henry Rollins Don't Dance
20 Royston : Snake's Song

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY

£69 secures a powerpop classic by the Form. Is it a powerpop classic? I don't know but seller Funky Gibbon claimed it was. He also claimed to be selling more rarities and he did not disappoint. Meanwhile the mysterious Form single intrigues me; is it as good as anything by the Smirks?

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