museums are shrines to the rich. you can never have too many of those.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
not mine, man. everything is priced to sell. get it on out of there.
the defining characteristics of a museum are not its collection being permanent or priceless. a record store, to me, is exactly what a museum of pop music would look like, not some rock n roll hall of fame sort of thing.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
there should be no "museum of pop music," it's a contradiction in terms.
Scott - wish more record shop owners in London subscribed to your way of thinking.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's Not A Mus E Um Of Pop Music!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
THIS BELONGS NOT IN A MUSEUM
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
\m/vsev\m/
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
they say damp records the past. if that's so, I've got the biggest library yet. the biggest library yet.
― Choc. Clusterman (contenderizer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Site is down/broken already.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 09:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't like the flash aspect of it. plus the index cards are just photos of cards - not searchable. someone needs to do a mashup.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 10:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
A Tent is a gem, so the site has already introduced me to one thing. Post-punk chillout, pre-post-rock style.
http://open.spotify.com/artist/4UpplhXmvjfGVEz2wkBYmH
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Site was back, still did not work on IE
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't see any Flash content on the site, although perhaps the interface is a little over-egged on the skeuomorphism front.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
you are right, it is html. doesn't work in firefox on linux either and i don't have any other alternative installed.
in fact, this morning it's not even working on chrome, when it was yesterday.
every click is trying to contact twitter.com for some reason, and i think that's failing.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 09:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Worked fine on Firefox on Linux yesterday. Check your setup.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
They should check their setup!
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
was adblock...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
was getting "FB not defined" as i've blocked a lot of those horrible facebook button scripts
― koogs, Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any technical problems I'm going to treat as a tribute to miscued records and botched segues.
― bendy, Thursday, 3 May 2012 13:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
fun. and handier than the the peel site. maybe he'll do the whole alphabet.
http://thequietus.com/articles/08697-john-peel-collection-record-review
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
irl lolled at the entry for Active Minds
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, I was thinking that'd be a good blog project, but doing it all in 24 hours seems nuts.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
guessing Stubbs is a bit busy to do this on the reg tbf
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
We might do one or two more letters but, yeah, life and money are both too short to do the whole thing.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Friday, 4 May 2012 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel like transcribing all the index cards, get them into computer readable form, but 100 a week is probably beyond me.
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 08:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/fearne-cottons-record-collection-goes.html
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 4 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
funny
― koogs, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
The b's, the bees, the beeze...
http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/albums/recordbox.html?letter=B
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm glad the Belching Penguin record was mis-filed or else we would never have heard of them and that would've been a great shame. Belching Penguin!
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Right, it seems to be working on my browser.
Um, how come each letter seems to only go up to the lower reaches?
i.e. A goes up to Ad for "Adam and the ants", B -> "Ba" = Bailey Brothers ?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cos he had lots of records? They're only doing the first 100 from each letter.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
.. and I can see Billy Bragg in the 'far right' on the "B" page...
xpost oh was that the plan? Is there a plan?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
The one amazing thing about the plan is that it implies he even had 100 records by bands beginning with the letter X.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Off the top of my head, I think I can only name four bands beginning with X and two of those are shit.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm sure he does!
XRaySpex, XTC, "X", "Xmal Desutchland" without even trying...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
that was an x-post (ha), and that's 4 bands...
hmmm.....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh duh, yeah I forgot three of those! I had X, X, XYZ and Xentrix
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Xenophobic Gerbil
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
2 bands called X?
(I suppose it could happen)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was an Australian one as well as the US one.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are two different 'Bad Company's in that list so...
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Guessing he wouldn't have the XX album.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Xiu Xiu, Xennakis
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
The XX album probably past the first 100 of "X" anyway.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Should mention that the featured band this week is Babes In Toyland and there's a five minute video about them if you go in the front way: http://thespace.org/
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not trying to plug the site btw, I just love Babes In Toyland so much.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty far-fetched "guess"
both Xs are p good sometimes
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need Scott or someone to tell me who Babe Ruth and/or Back Door were.
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think he would have had trouble picking up that XX record back in 09
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
A disco cover of Babe Ruth's "The Mexican" appeared in the late 1970s, performed by the Bombers. This version inspired an electro/freestyle cover produced by Jellybean Benitez in 1984, for which he managed to recruit Haan on vocals - the cover subsequently becoming noted for its popularity as an underground dance hit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth_(band)
xp
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink