TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 18

1 M J Hibbett : Fucking Hippy
2 Black And White Lovers : Best Years Of Our Lives
3 Up And Running : Johnny And Marie
4 Dislocation Dance : Violette
5 Sex Clark Five : You Left The Lights On In Your Eyes
6 Allo Darlin' : Henry Rollins Don't Dance
7 Royston : Snake's Song
8 Cavalcade : Voices
9 Royston : Gerald's Eyes
10 Baby Jane Holzer : Nowhere
11 Different Eyes : Open The Box
12 Read All Over : Outside To The Other World
13 35 Summers : I Didn't Try
14 Days : Jigsville
15 Corvettes : Love To Hate You
16 Different Eyes : Uncomfortable
17 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
18 New Walk : Pressure Point
19 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
20 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things

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EYE ON EBAY----Coastal commotion

I have no information to impart about Brouhaha except that which the seller yields. Released in 1993 it was the first release on Sep records, were there others? A 12" called Pebble Beach it excited a couple of indiepop collectors and sold for £59.74.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 11

1 Up And Running : Johnny And Marie
2 Royston : Snake's Song
3 Dislocation Dance : Violette
4 M J Hibbett : Fucking Hippy
5 Black And White Lovers : Best Years Of Our Lives
6 Different Eyes : Open The Box
7 Allo Darlin' : Henry Rollins Don't Dance
8 Royston : Gerald's Eyes
9 Read All Over : Outside To The Other World
10 Different Eyes : Uncomfortable
11 Sex Clark Five : You Left The Lights On In Your Eyes
12 35 Summers : I Didn't Try
13 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
14 Corvettes : Love To Hate You
15 New Walk : Pressure Point
16 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
17 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
18 Don't Ask : Destiny
19 Chosen : Sound Of The Dream
20 Life Support : About You

EYE ON EBAY

Up for re-release apparently in the new year this didn't prevent this single by Straightshooter on Strolling Bone fetching in a tidy £170 for the seller.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 dec 4

1 Royston : Snake's Song
2 Different Eyes : Open The Box
3 Up And Running : Johnny And Marie
4 Different Eyes : Uncomfortable
5 Dislocation Dance : Violette
6 Royston : Gerald's Eyes
7 Black And White Lovers : Best Years Of Our Lives
8 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
9 Allo Darlin' : Henry Rollins Don't Dance
10 Read All Over : Outside To The Other World
11 Corvettes : Love To Hate You
12 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
13 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
14 New Walk : Pressure Point
15 Chosen : Sound Of The Dream
16 Life Support : About You
17 35 Summers : I Didn't Try
18 M J Hibbett : Fucking Hippy
19 Don't Ask : Destiny
20 Sex Clark Five : You Left The Lights On In Your Eyes

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EYE ON EBAY-----Bunch of failed liars.

The seller kindly gave bidders a listen and I liked what I heard. This is Society and their single Can't Hide A Lie. A rousing roistering punky number released in 1980, apparently without a picture sleeve. Sold for its starting price of £30.82 and I'm regretting not chucking £40 at it.

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EYE ON EBAY-------If only they'd had texting back then

Mystery powerpoppers the Bodgers cut this single Stutter/I Hate Phoning Girls back in 1982 on their imaginatively named label Bodgers Records. Did this originally come in a sleeve? If so it might have sold for more than £26.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 27

1 Different Eyes : Uncomfortable
2 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
3 Different Eyes : Open The Box
4 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
5 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
6 Royston : Snake's Song
7 Royston : Gerald's Eyes
8 Dislocation Dance : Violette
9 Up And Running : Johnny And Marie
10 Allo, Darlin : Henry Rollins Don't Dance
11 Read All Over : Outside To The Other World
12 Black And White Lovers : Best Years Of Our Lives
13 Chosen : Sound Of The Dream
14 Corvettes : Love To Hate You
15 Point : My Mind
16 Don't Ask : Destiny
17 New Walk : Pressure Point
18 Life Support : About You
19 A Classic Education : Best Regards
20 35 Summers : I Didn't Try

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION RECORD COLLECTION 27

EYE ON EBAY---Let's have a Ball

Regular visitors may remember I snapped up this artifact in a charity shop earlier this year. Pop Goes Art by the Times had a homemade sleeve which is as artistic as anything Damien Hurst has belched out. Netted the seller a reasonable £57.60.



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EYE ON EBAY------Bought off the street

This four track EP by the Street People is rarely seen. £165 sale price should see them get a bed for the night. I considered a punt at this but if I'd have paid that for it the girlfriend would have put me out on the street.

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EYE ON EBAY----Welsh punks educated enough to write their names

A signed copy of this little gem by the Screen Gemz, which bears a slight resemblance to the Jags, fetches a healthy £275. Never sells for under a £100 but this is one of its highest sale prices.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 nov 20

1 Love Train : Rags To Riches To Rags
2 Girls At Dawn : Every Night
3 Beware The Dog : Nasty Things
4 Different Eyes : Uncomfortable
5 A Classic Education : Best Regards
6 Point : My Mind
7 Claim : Mrs. Shepherd
8 Pheromoans : Suburban Despot
9 Different Eyes : Open The Box
10 Manhattan Love Suicides : Kessler Syndrome
11 Gayna Rose Madder : Ties
12 Lovely Eye : Don't Look Down The Road
13 Three Dancers : Seventeen
14 English McCoy : Give Me Something To Believe In
15 Two People : Let's Raise Murder
16 Royston : Gerald's Eyes
17 Peppelkade 14 : Hour After Hour
18 Dawn Chorus And The Bluetits : When You Walk In The Room
19 L Kage : My Head's On Fire
20 Screen 3 : European Journey

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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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EYE ON EBAY

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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Dawn Chorus

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DAWN CHORUS AND THE BLUE TITS

I've come over all mid-eighties pop so my apologies to those who find a tune a little tiresome but you can voice your displeasure after you've heard this heavily treated version of When You Walk In The Room. Made palatable by the Searchers in the sixties this Ullmanesque experiment failed to meet with a dawn chorus of approval, as did their other two singles, one being a cover of Teenage Kicks, no doubt an attempt to curry favour with John Peel. Liz Kershaw, Andy's sister, was in the band, she maybe the singer, there are scant details on the sleeve, and I can picture her pestering Peel to play this. Rumour has thrown Carol Vorderman into the mix too but I'm sceptical about that though maybe she counted the band in. For a while Dawn Chorus And The Blue Tits records were top of the tree on Japanese collectors' lists; I think they perch on a lower branch now. I found this last week in a charity shop in Notting Hill for £1. The wonderful Jackie De Shannon wrote the song, fact fans.

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EYE ON EBAY

Under the guise of the Cardiacs I saw this lot live a couple of times at the Marquee. Over the years they built up a ferocious following; many swooned over their cabaret prog indie recipe and whether you loved them or not they were always entertaining. Originally known as Cardiac Arrest this debut release on Tortch usually gives good return for the seller but the final price of £134.32 is the highest I've seen it sell for. Advisable not to bid on this if you have a weak heart.

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EYE ON EBAY

It's cold wave, it's minimal synth, it's enough to encourage a huge outlay of £144. This is Betrayal by Secession. It's also on the Garden label and it's Scottish. And extremely rare the seller assures us so it got Bidder 6 excited and he ousted Bidder 1 from the top of the auction tree. Me, I haven't an inkling who this lot were and I wasn't prepared to pay enormous sums to find out.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 oct 23

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

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