Turntable Revolution Record Collection 29

EYE ON EBAY-----Oooooh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh

Seller claims to have rescued this Obtainers single from Crawley tip. (I remember buying my copy in a long defunct record shop in Putney on the strength of a favourable review in the NME). Quite what he or she was doing scrambling around in such an environment one can only wonder though perhaps this will encourage legions of record collectors to get down and dirty in their local waste. I'd advise against it as there are enough wee-smelling sorts ambling around record fairs, my stamina for stinky obsessives can only extend so far; what is it with some collectors, are they afraid of soap? Anyway despite last month's Record Collector featuring this single with a price tag of £1000 the Crawley-tip crawler secures under half that, £454.

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EYE ON EBAY-----Never had a haircut in his favourite shirt

Mr.Boogaloo sells some interesting private pressings. Despite spending two hours coating my fingers in stubborn dust whilst rooting through his unloved boxes of indie/powerpop singles this single by Nick Haward, Grey Day/Watching Through My Window, evaded capture. Obviously he has a secret chamber where he keeps his more interesting stuff. Nick appears to have originated from the Southwold area of Suffolk; I suspect there's a junk shop in the vicinity that's overflowing with gently crushed copies of Nick's single. Sold for £42.89, possibly because bidders confused Mr Haward with his near namesake Nick Heyward.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 june 25

1 Plastics : Robot
2 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
3 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
4 Blue Smarties : Sloop Buffy D
5 Velocette : Get Yourself Together
6 Fascinators : Monochrome Moan
7 Ethnobabes : Television Song
8 Fascinators : Blue Movies
9 Jumprope : Sarah Wishes
10 Tender Trap : Do You Want A Boyfriend?
11 Rogers Sisters : Les Fantaisies Sont Bien
12 Bluetrain : Because Of The Dollars
13 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
14 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
15 Walking Floors : No Next Time
16 Gits : Too Many People
17 Escorts : Bingo
18 Playing For Time : With My Heart
19 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
20 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY-------Homepride man's brief musical career.

Fred, an obscure synth outfit on the Tyger label, cooked up this recipe which I have never tasted. But cold wave/dark wave/minimal synth/either sounds like Depeche Mode or the Human League music is in vogue at the moment. That being said this sold for a modest £48.77.

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EYE ON EBAY-----Seminal release

I doubted the existence of this despite it featuring in the estimable 45 Revs. A spoof, and a gloriously tasteless one at that. But I've been assured the Morning Spunk single does it exist; a copy sold on ebay about a year ago. Apparently the funsters behind this were not an offshoot of the Pork Dukes but former members of the Renegades, a British beat/R&B band who, failing to win hearts in the UK, did what so many other ignored British bands did, hawked their wares around Europe, wowing the Scandinavians before pitching up in Italy where they became stars by rousing the natives with some 50's R'n'R revival. If that didn't alarm the San Remo types their cash-in incarnation cover of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll certainly left them incensed and probably inspired a youngish Silvio Berlusconi. The single flopped; somehow the snotty snobby Italians were unimpressed and scurried back to their opera seats. Sold for £41.77. And I won it.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 june 18

1 Velocette : Get Yourself Together
2 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
3 Blue Smarties : Sloop Buffy D
4 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
5 Fascinators : Blue Movies
6 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
7 Plastics : Robot
8 Bluetrain : Because Of The Dollars
9 Fascinators : Monochrome Moan
10 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
11 Jumprope : Sarah Wishes
12 Ethnobabes : The Televison Song
13 Gits : Too Many People
14 Playing For Time : With My Heart
15 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
16 Rogers Sisters : Les Fantaisies Sont Bien
17 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
18 Escorts : Bingo
19 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
20 Gross Club : Second Chance

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY-----Back from the drastic land of non-payment.

The original winner of this item did a runner, maybe through a tunnel, and so the Tunnelrunners rare Plastic Land single returned to ebay. Excitement mounted as this little gem shimmied up the bidding ladder finally resting at £520, £200 less than its previous price.

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EYE ON EBAY------Keep your Schnitz about you

Torquay's teenage terrors Das Schnitz return to ebay, this time not in one of their classic custom made sleeves but in a more prosaic paper sleeve. Didn't deter one punter paying out £171 for this classic ep.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 june 11

1 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
2 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
3 Bluetrain : Because Of The Dollars
4 Fascinators : Blue Movies
5 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
6 Blue Smarties : Sloop Buffy D
7 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
8 Velocette : Get Yourself Together
9 Playing For Time : With My Heart
10 Fascinators : Monochrome Moan
11 Gits : Too Many People
12 Plastics : Robot
13 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
14 Dadistics : Modern Girl
15 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
16 Escorts : Bingo
17 Gross Club : Second Chance
18 Ethnobabes : The Television Song
19 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
20 Hardy Boys : Let The World Smother You

Green numbers indicate new entries.

Turntable Revolution Record Collection 28

EYE ON EBAY----Unrecognized plant

Who was The Herbs? This one had me mystified. No sleeve so no clues. This was an EP with four songs, New York Nightmare, U Boat, Strum City and One Down And Two To Go, This City Has Sold Its Soul, released on SRT in 1980. Sold for £31.

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EYE ON EBAY------Ikea's expensive utensil

Lucky bidders were treated to an excerpt of this Kitchen And The Plastic Spoons single which was released in 1980 in, claimed the seller, a measly batch of 300. The A side, Happy Funeral, is manic synth punk which reminds me of Devo being forced to perform Model Citizens songs at gunpoint. Some Swedes were behind this and the record came with an A4 size trading card featuring a picture of Elizabeth Taylor;apparently each single had a different card. Sold for £129.22.

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EYE ON EBAY---A step beyond

Available from Detour for £300 this single by mod revivalists The Stripes evaded my grasp as it amassed £250 for the seller. My bidding fizzled out around the £100 mark.

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EYE ON EBAY---Noises off

The oddly named Absolute Albert is a fine piece of synth sprinkled with a dollop of droll humour. Released on A Mad One records in 1982 it is almost certainly their only effort. Sold for £53.86.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 june 4

1 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
2 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
3 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
4 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
5 Playing For Time : With My Heart
6 Bluetrain : Because Of The Dollars
7 Dadistics : Modern Girl
8 Blue Smarties : Sloop Buffy D
9 Gits : Too Many People
10 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
11 Fascinators : Blue Movies
12 Escorts : Bingo
13 Gross Club : Second Chance
14 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
15 Fascinators : Monochrome Moan
16 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
17 Cradleyard : This Is The Birth
18 Lucky Soul : One Kiss Don't Make A Summer
19 Hardy Boys : Let The World Smother You
20 Betty And The Werewolves : David Cassidy

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY-------Release the hounds

Who the hell was Husky? Excited ebayers couldn't restrain themselves from something described as "one of the rarest UK mod/powerpop singles". Really? I have my doubts but others didn't ensuring this pup sold for £430.

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EYE ON EBAY-------Turning plastic into gold

A strange alchemy at work here that can turn Plastic Land by The Tunnelrunners into a solid gold seller achieving £719 for Modboy1, one of those ebay merchants who regularly turns up rarities. This came with all the inserts so it was an attractive package. Reissue on Sing Sing records.


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EYE ON EBAY----Raising the temperature

Rough Trade-based fun with the unsettling sounds of This Heat and their 1981 experimental extravaganza Deceit. Despite the sleeve looking scuffed this attracted expensive interest with one determined bidder taking the prize for a magnificent £137.29.


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EYE ON EBAY-----Tiny seller tidies up

An astonishing £64 is paid for Liliput's Rough Trade LP. I know someone who picked this up for under a tenner at a record fair about three years ago, much to my chagrin as I wanted it myself.

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Not so desirable, it seems, is their other LP Some Songs which rewarded the same seller with a paltry £22.23.


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EYE ON EBAY-----Friday on my mind

The influence of the Two Tone label was ebbing by the time of this release by Friday Club which is a frequent visitor to ebay but not often in the 12" format. The final sale price was £57. The much rarer What Is Soul single has attained as much as four times that. I picked up my 7" of the former in an Oxfam in Huddersfield.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 28

1 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
2 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
3 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
4 Gits : Too Many People
5 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
6 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
7 Playing For Time : With My Heart
8 Gross Club : Second Chance
9 Dadistics : Modern Girl
10 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
11 Blue Smarties : Sloop Buffy D
12 Cradleyard : This Is The Birth
13 Lucky Soul : One Kiss Don't Make A Summer
14 Escorts : Bingo
15 Hardy Boys : Let The World Smother You
16 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
17 Bluetrain : Because Of The Dollars
18 Shimura Curves : Stronger
19 Betty And The Werewolves : David Cassidy
20 Ethnobabes : My Friend Ann

Green numbers indicate new entries.

FULL HOUSE

Not an offshoot of the Cortinas, the Escorts was a less prolific brand made in the powerpop mould. A rare model, their only single was seldom seen and some doubted its existence. The Escorts was manufactured in Melbourne, Derbyshire and only a few hundred miles worth of gigs were clocked up before the engine went phut. Bingo is a cry of despair, an outrage at the rise of the bingo hall, usually at the expense of the local cinema, which broke out like a plague of boils on a seventies Britain that eyed culture with contempt and suspicion. Team this up with The Fall's Bingo Master's Breakout, Mr DJ, and be the envy of the lone geek exiled in anorak corner at some cool retro club.

Band members were Dave T vocals, Bob W guitar, Anthony G bass and Andrew S drums. The record was released in 1980 or thereabouts on Rainbow Sound, the name of the studio in Nottingham where it was recorded.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may 21

1 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
2 Gits : Too Many People
3 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
4 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
5 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
6 Gross Club : Second Chance
7 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
8 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
9 Dadistics : Modern Girl
10 Playing For Time : With My Heart
11 Shimura Curves : Stronger
12 Lucky Soul : One Kiss Don't Make A Summer
13 Escorts : Bingo
14 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
15 Hardy Boys : Let The World Smother You
16 Cradleyard : This Is The Birth
17 Betty And The Werewolves : David Cassidy
18 Screaming Silence : Same Old Story
19 Ethnobabes : My Friend Ann
20 Cradleyard : Alone

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY------Late on Orientals suffer dejection

Active in the mid to late eighties Playing For Time released their only single on their own Thumbs Up label in 1989 in a pressing of 1000. Rarely seen, if at all, on ebay, this was its second appearance within a few weeks. First time out the seller, a former band member, failed to list it internationally and as that sale drew to a close he was bombarded with frustrated emails from Japan. I happily plucked it from furious Orientals at its starting price. Getting wise to the workings of ebay he listed another copy and this time reaped a bulky reward of £351.50. The C86-loving label Firestation Towers may put out a cd of unreleased material but nothing has yet been finalized.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 may14

1 Gits : Too Many People
2 Gross Club : Second Chance
3 Blood Red Shoes : You Bring Me Down
4 Deep Freeze Mice : Neuron Music
5 Orange : Judy Over The Rainbow
6 Shimura Curves : Stronger
7 Vampire Weekend : Giving Up The Gun
8 Dum Dum Girls : Jail La La
9 Cavalcade : Meet You In The Rain
10 Bluetrain : Land Of Gold
11 Lucky Soul : One Kiss Don't Make A Summer
12 Screaming Silence : Same Old Story
13 Dadistics : Modern Girl
14 Betty And The Werewolves : David Cassidy
15 Playing For Time : With My Heart
16 Escorts : Bingo
17 Ethnobabes : My Friend Ann
18 Cradleyard : Alone
19 Hardy Boys : Let The World Smother You
20 Colenso Parade : Fontana Eyes

Green numbers indicate new entries

EYE ON EBAY-----Double signal

They came from York and they had a thing about signs. This is Sema 4, who if around today might well have written an ode to York City's march to Wembley a few weeks ago, perhaps a reworking of their dynamic song Capital City. Both EPs surfaced within a few days of each other, the 4 From Sema 4 single, despite being a little trammelled, achieved a remarkable sale price of £181. A different seller extracted £94.99 for, in my opinion, the slightly stronger second release. Both contain very fine furious muddy moddy punky numbers.

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EYE ON EBAY----Little support for this Limps effort

Described as a worthy EP by 45 Revs which might imply a degree of mediocrity is on show on this four track EP which showcases two efforts each from The Limps and No Support. They released a further shared single before filing for a permanent divorce in 1981. This struggled to titillate ebay's punk community, no doubt due to the absence of the picture sleeve, the seller claiming a rather weak £32.

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EYE ON EBAY-----Wails from Wales

This EP promises Sex, Violence And The Eternal Truth. Featuring old favourites What To Wear, who appear to have the lowdown on Martians, Lost Boys, Venom and the Dodos, it's a plucky affair that usually attracts serious bidders. This was on offer without a sleeve which undoubtedly affected the final price of £51.09.

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EYE ON EBAY--------I would go out tonight

but I just paid £77.99 for a What To Wear single. Yes the Welsh japestars lone release, not counting their effort on the Sex, Violence And Eternal Truth EP, drains someone's pockets and possibly forestalls the replenishment of said someone's wardrobe. Hope they are consoled with this rare prize.

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