Oh, Monseur le Fopp, you are really spoiling us...

The five pound Nuggets was in TV advertised compilations (or something like) which is one of the racks that is just in front of you as you go in the door.

I found it hard to find the new releases section!

haha what tv channels advertise 'nuggets'!?

I also hit the TCR Fopp on my visit to London on Friday. Was quite impressed that they have stock laid out by label, and had lots of Baked Goods stuff.

A friend of mine works there and he admitted that some of the stock is in odd places because they didn't know where else to put it, while on other occasions things had been classified oddly.

Still, that's half the fun.

PS I'm quite taken with the MVE basement!

I think I prefer "old" Fopp, like Cambridge Circus and Reading. You can "do" them in half an hour.

Irmin Schmidt - Soundtracks 3xCD £7 - bargain? Or the krautrock equivalent of Prince's Emancipation?

I'd buy it but I've got all of the albums. I think you'd have to be a bit of soundtrack/ Krautrock nut to enjoy it much... hold on, it has the "Rote Erde" soundtrack, which I don't have.

btw, can you still return stuff just cos you don't like it?

i dare someone to return that Spiritualized CD and demand their 50p back

Yes, you can just take stuff back because you don't like it! I love this so much I take stuff back even if I like it. You have to fill in a little form, and they probably have a vast database of menks, and I am probably the ubermenk.

haha @ spiritualized & @ menks. i shall be on the menks list soon!

Amazing Grace is £7 in glasgow.

They've got most of the Fabric/Fabriclive comps in for £7 - anyone care to recommend one or more of them? (i have the peel one, the deadly avenger one and the diplo one)

OK carry on...I just found this....
Fabric/Fabriclive mix cd series S/D
Unless anyone has anything to add...

Still doing Associates 4thdrawer/Sulk doublepack for £3 I think.

made it to Fopp Chiswick in time for closing on friday evening. small shop, but very dense.

got Nuggets for a fiver (am not convinced of its greatness, was expecting Psychedelia and got a lot of people trying to be the Beatles, Stones or Dylan). also bought Leonard Cohen (one of his cds anyway).

beatles not psychedelic?

I believe the technical term is "post-British Invasion". Except the Dylan bit. And apparently, what they want to be is... The Yardbirds! Uggh! Clapton invented punk!

yardbirds > punk

> beatles not psychedelic?

not always, no. and the thing they were trying to be was merseybeat era beatles. (track i'm thinking of is Knickerbockers : 'Lies')

Does > mean "better than"?

('more than', yes. it's maths. 'less than' goes the other way, looks more like an L. L for 'less')

what no-one has mentioned yet is that the TCR Fopp serves BEER. is this a UK first for record shops?

nah the edinburgh fopp does (or did).

>> what no-one has mentioned yet is that the TCR Fopp serves BEER. is this a UK first for record shops?

WTF??

We could have a TCR Fopp FAP!

There is nothing more depressing than buying records drunk.

that is so true.

I'm off to London town next week, I am going to investigate this beer serving recrod shop, seeing as I'll be in the russell sq area, shouldn't be too far. Is it far up TCR? (my knowledge of said area extends to the Odeon).

a bit past the odeon, probably like parallel with russell sq.

Buying records drunk may be bad (I'm not sure it's such a crime), but buying records tipsy = k-classic. Watch those inhibitions tumble!

Edinburgh Fopp no longer serves beer. It was a rubbish idea.

I remember being in a record shop (in berlin I think, but I'm not sure) that had a café/bar, listening stations and loads of magazines lying around. Big comfy sofas, sort of a living room ambience. Twas pretty cool as far as I remember, looked like there was a regular after work small crowd that hung around and the shop probably made more off beer than records. In fact I'm sure I was in a similar type place in Helsinki near the train station that was primarily a bar but also sold records. That place might have been attached to a club, I just remember a lot of good looking Finns and lots of beer. All these memories are verrrryy hazy.

When I went to Edinburgh the other day my girlfriend steered me away from Cockburn St cos she worried I'd spend too much. Then she left me alone for half an hour on Princes St, during which time I managed to spend £45 in Rose St.

saint etienne's finistere for £3 is a bit of a bargain, ditto the knife's deep cuts (with dvd) for £5

>> ditto the knife's deep cuts (with dvd) for £5

Ooh! I want this. OK I know where I'm going tomorrow lunchtime.

i never know where to find stuff!!!! i might get ver knife too, for the missus. filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?

I think I've got the measure of the TCR shop now, it's no longer quite so daunting. Was served "the best cappuccino I've ever made" by a nice young lady downstairs. Blew £26 on...

New Rotary Connection: Hey Love (vinyl)
Mia Doi Todd: Manzanita
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out of Season
Yves Montand: Car J T'aime
La Jetée/Sans Soleil (dvd)

that's a nice selection!

filed under 'dance'? 'pop'? 'indie'?

filed under £5. but dance too i thnk.

I do wonder if the "shop around for a better price" thing is a deliberate ploy by Fopp to keep you in there longer rather than incompetence. The now famous 50p Spiritualized album was available (in its plain jewel-case form, rather the slipcase that they were practically giving away) for £7 in the Modern rock A-Z section! The Beth Gibbons record above was on display in Best Sellers for £6 but was a pound cheaper in the alphabetised section.

I still haven't really touched on the classical and jazz sections.

I got the Knife albums (silent shout was a tenner) in Edinburgh: on the wall with the other cheapo dance stuff.

casual grime fans may want 'run the road' at £3. i couldn't summon up the curiosity.

i got der knife too!

How bad/good is that Blak Twang record (The Rotten Club)? It's only a pound in Fopp. I have liked some Blak Twang in my time.

I couldn't find the Knife yesterday :'(

I was only in Fopp for about 10 mins though cos I had to go to the post office & bank first and used up most of my lunch hour doing that. I did see a whole load of other great albums for a fiver though, such as Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance & Overkill by Motorhead.

Metalheads may also be interested in Black Metal by Venom for £1!!!! Pity I just bought the fucking thing from Sister Ray for £5.99, dammit.

I had good luck sifting through the reggae section for £1 goodies: a couple of the Perry CDs dadaismus mentions above, a Tubbys / Jah Thomas / Roots Radics dub doings, a Joe Gibbs rocksteady comp.

Also the Taxi comp on Pressure Sounds for £3, and that Waylon Jennings twofer fer three too.

Plus a dodgy-as-hell Toby Keith LP for a fiver, but you don't want to know about that.

(The Horace Andy CD which they have tons of for £1, "You Are My Angel", ia a real winner by the way, one of his very best. Also aces is the Joe Gibbs comp called "The Reggae Train" and that's only £3. (The latter is an LP which I strongly suspect Mark E Smith of owning: within a couple of years of its release The Fall had covered "People Grudgeful" and "Kimble". What a great record.) I don't have that Blak Twang LP and don't much fancy it.)

I always see that Horace Andy thing and never buy it. Missed the Joe Gibbs one.

It ("The Reggae Train") was there as of 7pm last night dada, but mis-filed (somewhere around the Ps or Rs I would guess, but I forget). It's kinda purple.

The one I bought last night was a Trojan reissue of two old comps ("Jackpot of Hits - Explosive Rocksteady" and another with a similar name) and looks nasty and cheap, so suits me very well.

How come Michael always gets served "the best cup of cappuccino" lovley girls have ever made?

I like Hey Love if New Rotary Connection is the same as old Rotary Connection.

I think Car means But.

Toby Keith looks a bit "squeal, piggy, squeal" to me.

You should try listening to him.

(Start by downloading the marvellous "As Good As I Once Was".)

Is it about his "prowess"?

Yes.

(By my previous post, I meant "he sounds even more "squeal piggy squeal" than he looks" but that mayn't have been clear.)

Is this Toby Keith as responsible for 'I Love this Bar' and 'Whisky Girl' because those two songs alone = k-classic.

Sounds right, though I don't know those two songs.

Hurrah! I went back today and found the Knife in the electronica section out the back! I also got these for a fiver: Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele, Mudhoney - My Brother The Cow, Killing Joke - s/t. Plus the double CD of the Fall - Live at the Witch Trials for £7. Bargains galore!

Attention Dr C: Vital Dub - Well Charged @ 5 pounds in TCR Fopp, in the back room where da reggae be.

Attention everyone else: Joe Meek Portrait of a Legend 4 CD boxset @ 10 pounds.