TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 september 5

1 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Come Saturday
2 Northern Picture Library : Paris
3 Uncool Danceband : Jacqueline
4 BTP Folders : All Of A Sudden
5 Alphabeat : Boyfriend
6 Tagmemics : Chimneys
7 Fauves : Tortured Soul
8 Pylon : Crazy
9 Sea Urchins : Summershine
10 Summer Cats : Lonely Planet
11 Desperate Bicycles : Skill
12 Thieves : Soul Thief
13 Astronauts : Back Soon
14 Tearjerkers : Love Affair
15 Ting Tings : Shut Up And Let Me Go
16 Indelicates : America
17 Clientele : What Goes Up
18 Vivian Girls : Tell The World
19 Exhibit A : Distance
20 Gobblinz : Communique

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY

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I have half of this double pack, unfortunately not the half with Joy Division's contribution. If only I'd bought it at the time, I can't think why I didn't. Anyway there seems to be a bootleg (at least it appears to be) floating around which is available on ebay for under £20. Or £165 will get you the original with all the inserts.

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 august 29

1 BTP Folders : All Of A Sudden
2 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Come Saturday
3 Fauves : Tortured Soul
4 Tagmemics : Chimneys
5 Summer Cats : Lonely Planet
6 Sea Urchins : Summershine
7 Northern Picture Library : Paris
8 Thieves : Soul Thief
9 Uncool Danceband : Jacqueline
10 Astronauts : Back Soon
11 Pylon : Crazy
12 Alphabeat : Boyfriend
13 Ting Tings : Shut Up And Let Me Go
14 Indelicates : America
15 Gobblinz : Communique
16 Pathetix : Love In Decay
17 Exhibit A : Distance
18 Newpolitans : Duck Town
19 Vivian Girls : Wild Eyes
20 Penny Candles : Memory Box

Green numbers indicate new entries.

Turntable Revolution Record Collection 16

EYE ON EBAY

My old ebay sparring partner Atichon bites on a Meltations single for a staggering £85. It's one of those rarities championed by Tweenet. I just sat and watched this one go,barely an itch in my trigger finger.

EYE ON EBAY

A tidy £52.50 ensured someone snapped up Chloroform by the Bleach Boys. Not as fierce as their later release, Stocking-Clad Nazi Death Squad Bitches.

TURNTABLE REVOLUTION T0P 20 august22

1 Fauves : Tortured Soul
2 BTP Folders : All Of A Sudden
3 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Come Saturday
4 Sea Urchins : Summershine
5 Tagmemics : Chimneys
6 Astronauts : Back Soon
7 Ting Tings : Shut Up And Let Me Go
8 Summer Cats : Lonely Planet
9 Gobblinz : Communique
10 Indelicates : America
11 Exhibit A : Distance
12 Pylon : Crazy
13 Pathetix : Love In Decay
14 Thieves : Soul Thief
15 Newpolitans : Duck Town
16 Penny Candles : Memory Box
17 Vivian Girls : Wild Eyes
18 Lucky Soul : Add Your Light To Mine Baby
19 Wave Pictures : Strange Fruit For David
20 Tuxedo Moon : Pinheads On The Move

Green numbers indicate new entries.

EYE ON EBAY

Street People's Personal Values EP sells for £103.25. They came from Scotland and the single rarely crops up. 45 Revolutions declares it to be an impressive effort. I'll have to take their word for it as I failed to win it.

ON THE SCAVENGE IN EAST SHEEN & STREATHAM

The Cancer Research, Streatham. What splendid objects of desire lurked within....................

"Howard's Way, it's bloody Howard's Way." Useful for obscuring the ugly things in life.

We find a gem in the Streatham Oxfam. Elliott Smith's XO on vinyl. It gave me the three chin smile.

Who will save us from this giant green bird?

We're back in East Sheen again. This harmless chazzer houses an inferno of a record as you are about to see.......................

This is the kind of insurrectionary filth the middle class kids of East Sheen were listening to back in the eighties.

Come on then if you think you're hard enough. "Who had the no.1 version of the Star Wars theme?" That must be in the US because it only got to no.7 here. 30 pence, the bargain of the day.

After being turfed out of the Cancer Research we wander the streets until we spy this unexpected island of tat outside the cinema. Note the wariness of the woman about to cross the road, she's seen our camera and she fears she's about to become another victim of the surveillance society.

Here we are at the Cats Rescue stall. I was not allowed to buy a miniature model of a Route Master bus despite my plea of "Think of the cats, think of the cats", so I consoled myself by caressing some terrible records.

Streatham's murderous roads will not deter the Scavenger.

Galway and Mancini, flutes and strings. We just didn't have the courage to buy it.

Formed from the ashes of the Room this is a great Benny Profane 12". Discovered snugly cosying up to some Mission 12" 's. Bauhaus, Family Cat and some goth compilation featuring Every New Dead Ghost to be played only after dark were also unearthed in the new arrivals section.

A 12" on Peasant's Revolt Records. Unfortunately it features a Chumbawamba track. That'll get a dousing with a jug of water when I get home. Also discover Dragon's Revenge by Anhrefn. Love the dragon which reminds me, isn't the Welsh flag the best?

We sign a petition to save the Missing Persons' shop in East Sheen. If it shuts who will find the missing? Inside we find nothing but an America LP from the late 70's. We send it packing on a horse with no name.

What glorious baubles await inside................................

Get me the number of that window cleaner.

What a haul. Barnados has a rich selection of LP's I already own. Except the Steeleye Span which I rejected.

Discovered in Barnados, East Sheen, Stomu Yamashta's East Wind. That reflection effect
is down to my camera operative. She's on half pay from now on.

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TURNTABLE REVOLUTION TOP 20 august 15

1 Fauves : Tortured Soul
2 Sea Urchins : Summershine
3 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart : Come Saturday
4 Astronauts : Back Soon
5 BTP Folders : All Of A Sudden
6 Gobblinz : Communique
7 Indelicates : America
8 Ting Tings : Shut Up And Let Me Go
9 Exhibit A : Distance
10 Vivian Girls : Wild Eyes
11 Newpolitans : Duck Town
12 Tagmemics : Chimneys
13 Penny Candles : Memory Box
14 Pathetix : Love In Decay
15 Lucky Soul : Add Your Light To Mine Baby
16 Tuxedo Moon : Pinheads On The Move
17 Summer Cats : Lonely Planet
18 Wave Pictures : Strange Fruit For David
19 Manhattan Love Suicides : Clusterfuck
20 Alphabeat : 10,000 Nights

Green numbers indicate new entries.

Only A Northern Love Song

1. Many years ago, 1980, in a rainy city named Manchester a record label called Object existed. Grow-Up was responsible for one of the label's greatest pop moments. It was their second release on Object, the first featured six tracks of tentative and twisty half-formed songs. An LP called The Best Thing was an extension of ideas that had been toyed with on the debut single. Then suddenly out of nowhere came Joanne.

2.

A stop-start paean to young love among the rocks kissed by the North Sea surf, the jittery nervousness of that first crush, the awe in which the loved one is observed while doing the most mundane things, these are touchingly conveyed. "From Scarborough Harbour to Whitley Bay, I'm gonna love you for just one day", they sing and then declare, in glorious contradiction, the genius line "Will you marry me before I go gay?" If they had been a hundred miles further north they would have been Orange Juice. The b side has two tunes called "The Affirmation of Existence" and "Gggdadgadadad" so they were probably art students who eventually merged into one and became Tracey Emin, but for the sake of Joanne we can forgive them that.

3.

Another LP was released, Without Wings on the Up label, shortly before they grew up too much to devote time to an unsuccessful band. Much of the LP was more in the spirit of Joanne with occasional daring adventures into jazzy pop; their tuneful tinkering deserved more than the oblivion that embraced it.

4.

Listen to it on imeem.

EYE ON EBAY

Here's a first on T.Rev. I'm commenting on an auction that is due to finish later today. Up for grabs is Ten Feet Tall by the Flowershop. It's not a cover of the XTC song. It is though a cracking C86ish pop tune and one I stumbled across in a charity shop last year along with a batch of Cherry Orchard flexis. No bids as yet but it's available as a buy it now at a very reasonable price. Any lovers of pop left alive? That Noah And The Whale single can wait until next week, sand down your bidding fingers and prepare to pounce. Trust me, I'm a blogger.