370: Doubles In The Tea Party

This story is a two-parter.

Part 1:

Several years ago my older brother decided that he had had enough of vinyl, so I swooped in and asked him to bequeath it all unto me (which he did). He claimed that iPods and the digital age made LPs obsolete, but I imagine it was time and space issues as much as anything else (just like Euclid predicted). This collection was probably over 1000 records strong and about as eclectic as my own, but heavily trended towards “classic rock,” by which I mean artists such as The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, and Pink Floyd (all of which he had about 80-100% of their total output up until some point in the 90s). Although we shared a lot of common ground musically we didn’t have much in the way of overlapping collections, but this was mainly because I was around him for long enough to not feel the need to buy what he already had. There were, however, a small collection of duplicates when I  merged our records.

Part 2:

My house has a sizable room for an attic, so in addition to my drum set and some adult clutter, we made a playroom area for the kids to inhabit and have a bit of indoor fun. For a while I was collecting Fisher Price (and other) turntables via Goodwill online, so I put one in the playroom and pulled all the duplicate albums from my merged records and made a mini-collection to play while upstairs. This upstairs area, by the way, was dubbed “The Tea Party,” because that’s the sort of thing that a kid wants to have in a place like that. Therefore, this playlist is selections from my collection of doubles in “The Tea Party.” Sorry militiamen, that’s all it is.

1. Wings — Venus And Mars
2. Genesis — Harold The Barrel
3. Black Sabbath — Wicked World
4. ZZ Top — Master Of Sparks
5. Neil Young — Hard Luck Stories
6. Big Audio Dynamite — Sudden Impact!
7. Elvis Costello And The Attractions — Uncomplicated
8. Electric Light Orchestra — Sweet Is The Night
9. Cameo — Cameosis
10. Prince — I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
11. The Rolling Stones — Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
12. Donovan — Wear Your Love Like Heaven
13. Aretha Franklin — You Send Me
14. Donald Fagen — I.G.Y.
15. Wings — Venus And Mars (Reprise)

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369: PEOPLE

‘All the people, so many people.’

I would have had this posted Sunday, were it not for people. They’re everywhere. I’ve just spent the last few days at the CAA basketball tournament  which has just broken all manner of attendance records. The internet’s out at home, so after yesterday’s game, what with the coffee shops being closed, I took a trip to my wi-fi friendly, ‘not usually very busy on a Sunday’ bar. A friend of the staff was performing, and the place was slammed. Not enough room to swing a cat, let alone operate a laptop. Tonight, after VCU’s glorious victory, I went to my local to get this post done. The place was slammed with celebrating Rams fans. And here we are. The last two selections were covered by last nights bar performer and a college band at the tournament respectively.

369: PEOPLE

1. Gorillaz – People
2. The Housemartins – The People who Grinned Themselves to Death
3. The Stylistics – People Make the World Go Round
4. Spearhead – People In Tha Middle
5. R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People
6. The Verve – The Rolling People
7. The Doors – People Are Strange
8. Rod Stewart – People Get Ready
9. Kate Bush – Them Heavy People
10. The Jam – In the Crowd
11. Echo and The Bunnymen – The Game
12. Edwyn Collins – It’s a Steal
13. Blur – Parklife
14. Patsy Cline – You’re Stronger Than Me
15. Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop

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