This 2LP set is to hit supermarkets (and online stores) later this month, no doubt aimed at the “What-can-I-get-Dad-for-Christmas?” market. It’s full of the usual suspects that fill Fathers Day CDs and will apparently retail at around £15-20 (or perhaps a fiver come Boxing Day). I don’t know whether this ad is to appear on TV, but I wouldn’t be surprised. I thought we’d reached Peak Vinyl with classic albums being sold at Sainsburys, but it appears there’s some way to go yet. What next?
Classic Rock Anthems on vinyl
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Tracklist copied from Amazon:
Disc: 1
1. Boston – More Than a Feeling
2. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
3. Toto – Rosanna
4. Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son
5. Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
6. Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
7. Mr. Mister – Broken Wings
8. Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
9. Cheap Trick – I Want You to Want Me (Live in Tokyo)
10. REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You
Disc: 2
1. Europe – The Final Countdown
2. Ram Jam – Black Betty
3. Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle
4. Belinda Carlisle – Leave A Light On
5. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
6. Starship – We Built This City
7. Alice Cooper – Poison
8. Heart – Barracuda
9. Patti Smith Group – Because the Night
10. Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Ronco will rise again! It is written!!
K-Tel lives! Pickwick is not dead! Hurrah for Contour!
Tellydisc will be next.
“And remember, this record is not available in the shops.”
Budget label artists (we did this on Twitter recently. It was a hoot, albeit a very niche hoot):
K-tel Perry
Ronco Sexsmith
MfP Doom
Shirley Em-Bassy
Pickwickittywitch?
….sorry
Hallmark and Oates.
The Alan CBS Nice Price Set
K-Television
@Beany had a good one: Countour-i Amos.
Oops. Wasn’t the Beanster, it was @simongmusic
“And remember, this record is not available in the shops…. only at car boot sales”
Big vinlies a pound, little ones fifty pee!
P. S. I hope that crackling on the ad is a sound effect, and not a representation of the quality of the pressing.
Thirty years ago advertising was exaggerating how good CDs sound. Now it is exaggerating how bad vinyl sounds.
See also the cassette revival… “Guaranteed to sound like it was recorded inside a hot water bottle… your tape deck will chew this up in minutes!”
Possibly the worst record ever made …
They’re playing it on a Crossley aren’t they?
Crosley is another commonly misspelled name. But they deserve it 🙂
This is more Grandad’s Xmas gift surely? Nowadays, yer kids will look out for a vinyl copy of the Pulp Fiction or Trainspotting soundtracks for their dads Xmas stockings.
Pipesandslippersanddecksanddrumsandrockandroll.
True. I’m forgetting how old I am.
Every time one of these compilations appears on the market, I find myself doing the Panini Sticker book thing:
Got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got, got
That rthere ack listing reads like one of those ‘Greatest rock tacks of all time’ which Sunday tabloids used to give away as a sales driver, and are available in a charity shop near you in return for a small donation to the charity box.
That has no filler.
Got all them but a great addition for the late to classic rock dad.
6. Starship – We Built This City
Appalling.
And structurally unsound.
And co-written by Bernie Taupin, of course.
Hardly the highpoint of his career artistically, although I dare say it made him a few bob.
And the most hypocritical line in rock:
“Someone’s always playing corporation games
Who cares – they’re always changing corporation names!”
Is that right, “Starship”? Or are you called Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship or Pissflaps a gogo this week ?
Is that Cheap Trick track about dogging in Japan?
Arf!
Also, I wouldn’t class that Belinda Carlisle track as a classic rock anthem.
Hm. I personally regard most of that album as not only not Classic Rock, but actually Utter Crap.
That wouldn’t have been such a good name for the album.
Good grief, that’s a track list from hell. Honourable exceptions are Patti Smith and Boz Scaggs, and I’ve always had a guilty liking for Don’t Fear The Reaper, but I hope to God no-one in my family thinks buying me this will be a good idea.
I’ve never understood why pops and crackles are somehow a listening attraction, but they seem to be making a selling point of the crap pressing quality!
Its pretty much all ace.
I mean it seriously folks.
Just to reiterate a point made in the OP: If we still haven’t reached Peak Vinyl, what’s next? Where will it end?
Can you buy vinlys in petrol stations yet?
Not yet, but I’m saving up my Tiger Tokens just in case.
The local branch of budget books and other tat emporium The Works has a sign in their window reading “Vinyl in stock”.
Their stock consists of about 7 or 8 compilations of “out of copyright” material. Most are various artist efforts, but there are Elvis and Sinatra ones too.
Their jazz compilation is a right dog’s breakfast of material – Take Five, Take The A Train, something awful from Glenn Miller, and various vocal tracks. And yet mixed amongst that mish-mash is a Thelonious Monk track.
These crappy LPs were firstly offered at £8 a pop, and are now down to 2 for £10.
Hmmm … most of these are, of course, tired old ulra-familar titles.
But hang on a minute … Mr Mister – Broken Wings?
I’ve never heard that. I’ve never even heard OF it.
But I don’t suppose I’m missing too much.
I’d be surprised if it’s as good as, say, J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Really? I seem to remember it being everywhere when I was a particular age (namely the one where I was grateful for it being used a snogging song by DJs). Qiute a pretty tune as I recall, but I might be biased.