Sweet Dreams Are Made of Vinyl

This afternoon's vinyl came from Camden, all 12" singles (50p each) apart from the Canadian LP (£1).

Creatures - Right Now [12" promo Utopia]

Curve - Frozen [12" test pressing]

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams [12" Bilbo Tape One]

Housemartins - Flag Day [12"]

John Cale - Bicycle [12" test pressing]

Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats [Red label Canada 1B/1D]

Neds Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television

Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights [12"]

I had no luck finding clean copies of Rolling Stones original Decca 45s - they all appear to have been sandpapered or scratched mercilessly, and I looked through perhaps 30 across three stores.

The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds were among the 19 LPs and singles I picked up this afternoon, many for 10 pence each.

All About Eve - Wild Hearted Woman ['JA'] 10p

Bad Livers - Delusions of Banjer [Test pressing] £1. Sassy Austin Texas bluegrass includes a cover of The Butthole Surfers

Darling Buds - Crawdaddy ['The big print giveth / and the small print taketh away' Promo] 50p. Poppy second album from Cardiff indie pin up

Earlies - Morning Wonder: Final [12" one sided promo] 10p. Krautrock meets Spaghetti Western in jam band mode from Texan-UK combo.

Farm - Groovy Train [12", France] 10p

Frazier Chorus - Sloppy Heart [12" 1u] includes cover of "Anarchy in the UK". 10p

Kirsty MaColl - Walking Down Madison [12"] 50p

Kursor Miner - Explosive Piece of Mind [Lo 2002] 10p. Pop electronica from Chichester with Gary Numan influence.

Marc Carroll - World on a Wire [No mention of Chris Blair at Abbey Road] 10p. Gravel-voiced Irish songwriter with piano

Nick Forte - Pasted Lakes ['Saz Mastering'] 10p. Computer music cut up.

Plimsouls - Everywhere at once [US. 'Precision'] 50p. Major label debut by LA soul-punk outfit.

Power of Dreams - A little piece of god [Setanta 12"] Dublin pop-rock band debut EP.

Something Pretty Beautiful [Creation 'Pauls' The Exchange'] 10p

The Underneath - Lunatic Dawn of the Dismantler [El 1985, Porky Prime Cutl £2

Throwing Muses - Firepile [12"] really looking fwd to hearing this one. I hadn't realised that

there were two EP versions of "Snailhead". £2

Various - Through the looking glass 1967. 50p

Was (Not Was) - Are you okay? [Pounda Copymaster] 50p

Wedding Present - Seamonsters [German. Darn, I didn't look. Thought I had the UK pressing] £7

Woodentops - Straight Eight Bushwalker ['Holland Cutting'. The Peel Sessions comp has been on heavy rotation, so now digging into the back catalogue] £2

Sheep farming in Barnet

More from Toyah among the latest finds: 17 LPs, some today, some from Monday.

Cat Stevens - Numbers [Canada MR, US pressing, no mention of Bernie Grundman] 50p
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [Pecko]£1
Human League - Dare [Townhouse] £1
Jesus and the Mary Chain - Psychocandy [Germany] £3
Madonna - S/T [RL Sterling Germany] £3
Rod Stewart - Every picture tells a story. 10p
Rod Stewart - Foot loose and fancy free [Strawberry (G) Germany] 10p
Santana - Caravanserai [2a/2b Orange label] £1
Scritti Politti - Songs to remember [Utopia] £1
Sisters of Mercy - First Last and Always [German] £3
Squeeze - Frank [Stu] 50p
Supertramp - Even in the quietest moments. 10p
Talking Heads - Naked. £1
Thompson Twins - Into the gap [Sterling, no mention of Ted Jensen, Germany] 10p
Toyah - Minx [Rays] 10p
Toyah - Sheep farming in Barnet [Porky] 10p
Toyah - Warrior Rock [Townhouse SM] 10p

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy

I picked up 23 records this evening. I noticed that the clerk was repricing the entire stock, something the store does monthly, and I'd picked this bunch before he'd marked them down. That said, I was fine with the original prices, but he went through them all taking them down further. That made my day. Totally un-necessary, but much appreciated. All UK pressings unless mentioned.

Baltimora - Tarzan Boy [12". No mention of Steve Rooke / Abbey Road] 50p. The first tape I made from Bruno Brookes' Radio 1 chart show featured this great tune, along with Madonna 'Into the Groove' and others that I learned by heart. I'm trying to rebuild the whole tape with 12" versions.

Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited [12" MPO] £2. A favorite. I wonder how it compares to the Canadian pressing and the Classic Records (45RPM/33RPM)

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane [12" MPO] £2

David Bowie - Rare [Piero Mannucci] £2. I heard this in a store in NY a couple of years back, and really liked the obscure Bowie tracks. The sound was great too, mastered by RCA in Rome. I expect the Italian connection stems from the first track being sung in Italian.

David Fanshawe - African Sanctus. 50p

Debbie Harry - Free to fall [12"] 10p

Deborah Harry - Sweet and low [12". JA, Holland] 10p

Echo and the Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing [German] £1

Genesis - And then there were three [1u/1u] 30p

John Lennon - Double Fantasy [Sterling] £2

John Lennon - Mind Games [1u/1u] £3

June Tabor - Ashes and Diamonds. £3

Luis Bonfa - Meu Querido Violao [Odeon] £3.

Mary Coughlan - Under the influence [DMM Germany] £1

Ofra Haza - Galbi / Im Nin' Alu [12". DMM] 10p. I passed on an Israel pressing of one of her albums - the script and whole package was exotic, so I may be back for that.

Ofra Haza - Wish me luck [12" Ted Jensen, Sterling, Germany] 10p

Prince - Lovesexy [German, no mention of Bernie Grundman] £1

Procol Harum - Procol's Ninth [Sterling RL, 1u/1u] 30p. The signatures on the cover had me going. I really thought I'd stumbled across a signed copy, until I saw a second copy with exactly the same autographs.

Rutles - S/T [USA] £2

Sinead Oconnor - Nothing compares to u [12". Utopia] 10p

Steve Miller - Take the money and run / The Joker (live) [12"] 10p

Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro. £2

Yoko Ono - Season of glass [Strawberry, no mention of The Hit Factory, unless they're one and the same] 10p