Like a lot of folk with a decent number of LPs on the shelf, I’ve managed to keep them all arranged alphabetically, allowing me to find stuff easily* when the urge to spin descends.
I wondered if it might be fun to give you the names of two long players that sit to either side of another, unidentified LP on my shelves, and see if you can guess what the LP is that sits in between them.
While you’re guessing what the one in between on my shelves is, you can give us a pair of adjacent titles from your own shelves, and we’ll see if we can work that one out… over to you in the comments, folks.
* this is in contrast to my CDs, which remain stored in a random fashion that relies upon visual memory to know roughly where they are on the shelves.
“Oh yeah, that CD reissue of Horslips’ ‘Drive The Cold Winter Away’? Yeah, I have that one, hang on, I’ll put it on now”…….
….three hours later…..
“Here it is!”.
I’ll start you off with a dead easy one:
Artist: The Oyster Band
Album: Ride
the one in between
Artist: Augustus Pablo
Album: Original Rockers
Don’t say you have an album by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Vulpes?
Told you it was easy.
Well – it was either that or Ozric Tentacles!
What about A Band Called O?
Though I’m not sure where you’d place them alphabetically.
A in my system. I saw them play once, a long, long time ago.
A pedant stops himself from writing…
…..and yet….doesn’t
Oh yeah! A flaw in my , erm, argument? Statement?
It was effectively Schrödinger’s Comment.
A pedant writes: no, it wasn’t…
Who said that?
You can call me Mcintire…
You again!
(You again!)
Ozric Tentacles is the name I was trying to remember, about three weeks ago, when discussing Glastonbury with the owner of a record shop in Lincoln.
That’s the second time I’ve thought of them in about 30 years.
I`ve got that Ozark LP, it`s good, well it was the last time I played it in 1981. Gonna rectify that.
It still is!
It’ll Shine When It Shines is better.
Only have that one on a shiny little disc thingamajig.
Big fan of the Ozarks. Little River Band is where I bail (seen The Other Guys?)
From the perfectly alphabetically ordered CD shelves:
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
???
Hamish Hawk – Heavy Elevator
Hatfield and the North: The Rotters’ Club?
That’s the one …
Get in!
Richie Havens – Mixed Bag?
Karine Polwart used to play this game, asking what was either side of her own CDs in her own collection. My suggestion was Kajagoogoo and King Crimson, pointedly crossed out and amended to King Creosote.
Bananarama: Greatest Hits
the one in between
The Band: The Band
Bananas In Pyjamas
Nope. (But I think you knew that)
Maybe something by Phil Bancroft?
First 4 letters are correct…
Banco de Gaia?
Banco De Gaia – Last Train To Lhasa?
1 point to MikeH, 2 points to KidD – all aboard, all aboard, woohoo!
(Lhasa via Trancentral)
Van Dyke Parks : Super Chief
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (there should be a break after 3 dashes for the artist and also a break after 3 dashes for the album title. Could not rectify by changing)
Paul Revere & The Raiders : Revolution (As this is the band name it comes under `P`)
Van Halen
Comes between Parkes and Paul.
Saw the V and went for it.
Gram Parsons?
Parliament – ‘Osmium’?
Owen Paul – ‘As Is’?
Rigid, nope and,Sal nope.
The artist first name,is 3 letters, surname 4.
The album title is 3 letters first word, second word 6 letters.
The album is pre 1970.
Going for a shower, it’s Friday night! And I’m setting up a fuckin’ new phone.
Graham Parker – Heat Treatment?
Nobody’s going to get it.
Joe Pass – For Django
J.P. Is a guitarist of course interpreting songs made famous by Django Reinhardt. I have some D.R. albums although I’m not really an expert, I saw this LP and liked the cover! (covers are a big influence on me when buying unknown music/artists and they never let me down). I’ve since looked into the album and Joe who was unknown to me, the bottom line is I love the album. Recommended for guitar enthusiasts on here.
I seem to recall @Tiggerlion having a rare outbreak of grumpiness concerning Joe Pass. I may be wrong.
Grumpiness? I wonder why?
I’m sure Mr Pass was a lovely man. After prison, however, he descended into bland. He became exactly the sort of Jazz guitarist the Fast Show would describe as “nice”. With a wink. It was his tribute to Django that broke me.
*shudders*
Seems a bit harsh – that would include everything he played after the 1950s? Or was he back in prison again, sometime after 1958?
He spent most of the fifties in jail. A descent takes some time. Don’t get me wrong, he has tremendous skill but I found him increasingly soporofic.
Sorry Tiggs – I thought you were suggesting that prison had changed his sound or his approach. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard a recording of Joe Pass earlier than the 60s…so how would you/we know?
He started off a virtuoso with quick fingers and a distinctive, ‘pure’ tone. His tone never changed. His fingers ended up making the same moves whatever the song. He lost his edge, as though his imagination had frozen in 1965.
One day, after discussing in great detail a traumatic event from my past, my therapist tried to relax me with a hypnotic spiel soundtracked by Joe Pass. Ugh! The horror.
I didn’t bring him up, you know. Blame Moose.
Sorry, I only remembered this because it’s unusual for you to be so emphatic about not liking something.
No offence intended, Tiggs – when Moose described your grumpy reaction to Pass, it seemed so out of character for the Tiggerlion that we see here that I had to ask…FWIW, I like Joe Pass in a few contexts: accompanying Ella; playing with Oscar Peterson; playing blues on that live Pablo album.
No offence taken. We all have our quirks. I hear that Steely Dan make some people physically sick.
Sorry Tiggs, maybe I should have carried out an Enhanced DBS check on the guy.
Like a lot of Jazz musicians, it was addiction to heroin that got him into trouble. If you did DBS checks, you wouldn’t listen to much Jazz at all.
This might be interesting…
Joan Armatrading – To the Limit
-the one in between-
Associates – Fourth Drawer Down
Asia – Astra?
Well, no – I don’t own anything by Asia…
Steve Ashley – “Stroll On”?
Interesting – but no…
I need to step away for a bit – but I’ll be back…
Louis Armstrong – Disney Songs the Satchmo Way
Sadly, no.
P P Arnold – The Turning Tide?
No, Foxy – although that’s a nice idea, I might seek that one out…
Quick clue – six disc box set: three original albums, two discs of remixes and one of odds n sods…
Ash
(well, it’s what I’ve got between Joan Armatrading and The Associates)
That’s a no, RD…
The Art of Noise – In No Sense Nonsense
Asian Dub Foundation
No: and…no.
Who would have thought there were so many possibilities between ARM and ASS?
especially if you don’t know your ass from the bit in the middle of your arm
Arf!
Of course I know my donkey from my crook.
Aha – but do you know your avant-rock from your RIO?
(bugger – that’s given it away…)
It was The Art Box by Art Bears…
Steve Hackett – At the edge of light
Butch Hancock Eats away the night
Half Man Half Biscuit?
Jimmy Haddock: Fish For Tea On Tuesday S.E. 7LP Box Set Salmon coloured vinyl.
Sammy Hagar.
Not an entirely serious answer – but then is it ever?
Bill Haley & His Comets?
Daryl Hall & John Oates?
Nina Hagen – NunSexMonkRock
It is Merle Haggard – If I could only fly
This game is Nerd Nivana! Great work, Foxy!
Between NERD and Nirvana ….
is it Neu! ?
Nerve Net clearly
Buffalo Springfield: Again
the one in between
The Byrds: Mr Tambourine Man
If it’s like my collection that’d be Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up on Me.
I do have The Very Best of Solomon Burke, but annoyingly enough all solo artists are listed alphabetically by first name in my collection. (I know – sacrilege!)
So, no.
‘all solo artists are listed alphabetically by first name in my collection.’
And I thought the Tory leadership contenders represented the end of civilisation as we know it….
But of course this opens up a whole set of new possibilities. The Best of Burt Bacharach, perhaps?
Ooh! In fact, I am referring to my ‘iBroadcast’ cloud collection, and I just checked – no way to sort by surname, unless I put Burke, Solomon; Bacharach, Burt in the artist names. In fact I do have two albums between Stills & Young and Crosby, one of which is Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection. So I guess you win, although it was a very different album that I was hoping to be named.
Arf!
(That’s between Aretha and Art Blakey btw)
Is it Buggles – The Age Of Plastic
Andy’s Records lives on in Germany.
Sigh! Used to be one of the highlights of my trips to Colchester.
Burning Spear
Prince Buster
Both Buggles and Buster are great answers, but they are omissions from the Sal vault.
Bush!
Oh so close – in a manner of speaking.
That wasn’t a guess, he’s playing 70s porn bingo.
If anyone gets the right answer, it should be you, EmteeEm.
Richard Burton’s Under Milk Wood? I give up.
LITTLE BOY (Screaming)
No, no, no!
Ach y fi!
Busted: Greatest Hits
Busta Rhymes
First Bush, then Bust. Where next?
Butthole Surfers?
We have a winner! Don’t forget to tell your mother “Satan Satan Satan!”
er, doesn’t Butthole come after Buster?
What kind of alphabet fuckery is going on here???!!!
Way back up thread, my original groovesome twosome was
Buffalo Springfield: Again
the one in between
The Byrds: Mr Tambourine Man
I think Diddley Farquar was responding with 2 answers to that, but could be wrong.
From my virtual shelf……
Gentle Giant / Three Piece Suite
????
Stan Getz / The World Of Stan Getz
Maybe something by the Germs?
Nope, my collection is germ free (not the first time I’ve be told my music taste is sterile)
Could be Lowell George but I’m going to guess . . . Geraldo & His Orchestra?
It could have been Lowell George a few years ago – I had a bootleg of some radio session but trashed it as the sound quality was awful. If I still had, then this would be between Gentle Giant and Lowell George……
Maybe something by Bobbie Gentry?
Nope. First four letters are correct though.
Okay – looks like nobody is going to get (or can be bothered to get).
It was this….
Gentlemen Without Weapons / Transmissions
Lou Reed: The Raven
|||||| the one in between |||||||||
Steve Reich: Different Trains
Reef?
Reg Dwight’s Piano Goes Pop?
Close! 😉
It’s Jim Reeves: Talkin’ To Your Heart, an album where he recites short stories and poems (incl. Edgar Allan Poe) to a fine country-jazz background from Chet Atkins.
Curse! That was on the tip of my tongue!
Herbie Hancock – Thrust
George Harrison – Somewhere In England
John Handy – Hard Work (bloody good album btw)
Nope.
Hanson’s Greatest Hits
Is that the single sided, 7 inch version in a picture sleeve?
Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV? (also bloody good album)
Isn’t it? I listened to it a couple of weeks ago – verily it rocketh. Noughties indie is usually Order of the Long Stick for me.
Female artist
They were four blokes as I recall. I may be wrong, I don’t get MTV
Maybe Emmylou Harris but I will guess . . . Francoise Hardy?
Very good. It’s actually Cimmaron
Artist: Carmel
Album: The Drum Is Everything
the one in between
Artist: The Cars
Album: Heartbeat City
2 possible answers, 1 if you are sticking to alphabetical by surname rules.
I have to tell you that Inspiral Carpets were a band, not a solo artist with a really stupid first name.
You’ll be telling me next that James wasn’t named after 4 people each called Jame.
Carole King
Kim Carnes
Yes to Carole (Tapestry of course), no to the BDEHM
So who’s tucked away between Hole and the Human League?
Holly and the Italians, possibly?
No, but good call.
This is actually a record that I didn’t even know I owned.
Alan Hull – Pipedream?
(Brilliant album, BTW)
Based on my shelves, one of
John Lee Hooker
Jools Holland
Hot Chocolate
Hothouse Flowers
Housemartins
Outside bet – Mary Hopkin
Ooo! You’ve got the Jimi album with the rudie ladies!
….so have millions of other people, but still
Hootie
How dare you!
Good guesses all but it was in fact The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, an album I’ve never heard and which I didn’t know I even owned.
(I always meant to pick up a copy of Pipedream.)
From my iTunes (don’t have any shelves):
The Alpha Band
[ ??? ]
Amazing Rhythm Aces
Altered Images . . . unlikely.
Alternative TV . . . unlikely
So I will guess . . . Alquin?
Alt. Country for Idiots.
All good guesses, in that they’re all wrong. Duco might get it.
Althea & Donna: Their Greatest Hit
Good guess, good guess … no.
It’s not Amalgam’s “Prayer for Peace” is it?
I think we need to know how your itunes thing alphabetises solo artists. For example, is Alvin Stardust listed under A or S?
Under R for recycling.
Not Alvin, nor the Chipmunks.
One more from me, this time a good deal more obscure than the Ozarks giveaway with which I kicked this nonsense off.
Artist: Stackridge. Album: Stackridge.
the one in between
Artist: Starry Eyed And Laughing. Album: Starry Eyed And Laughing.
Hint: It’s not got anything to do with Ringo.
Starless and Bible Black. The band, not the album.
I had no idea such a thing existed! Nope.
I saw them at Green Man about 15 years ago. Not a mellotron in sight.
Perhaps, horror of horrors, they were named after the phrase in Under Milk Wood rather than the Crimso album.
So they took to the stage dressed as retired sea captains….
This is the Afterword, sunshine, where we all accept that prog is a far greater cultural touchstone than some obscure Welsh bard.
Is it Richard Stagg? The Japanese Bamboo Flute album?
How on earth…? OH. I see.
There’s a special seat, over in the corner, for you, Saucecraft, you little devil.
Stan Ridgeway/The Big Heat (if you do first names as lead denominator)
Having said, I suspect you don’t so it must be
Stackwaddy/Stackwaddy.
Stanky Brown? (I have four albums by this band)
Stanley Clarke
Reckon no-one is likely to know this one so I’ll put you out of the existential misery I’ve thrown your way over the weekend.
The one in the middle is this one:
I do feel that album would have been better if they’d edited out that bit towards the end where someone shouts “WHIPPING POST!”
Yeah, and track 6 on side two, eh? That guy yelling “Wally!” in the distance. Such a shame.
Neil Sedaka – Timeless (VBO)
???
William Shatner – Has Been
Ena Sharples Sings This Heat?
Unfortunately not Moose. Sounds like a cracker…
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Next?
Shakespears Sister?
Shakira?
The Shamen?
No – it’s the Sex Pistols NMTB. Strange bedfellows…
I’m nor going to look, but I bet Shatner has covered a Sex Pistols song.
I’m not gonna boldly go OVER the wall….