Johnny Concheroo’s gift for identifying albums by just their spines is pretty impressive, and he’s not the only nerd, I mean talented album-spotter here I’m sure (I’m looking at you, JQW). So, with no cheating by enlarging on one of those fancy iPad things, here’s a shelf for Johnny and whoever else wants to have a stab at some spine-squinting. Go nuts!
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/shelf_zpswem81nwk.jpg
This comment is to make the thread appear right >>>>
Nicely done. I was thinking along the same lines MB, but thought it might be a bit naff. Now I see it’s perfectly fine.
To kick things off, I can see Kate Bush’s Lionheart at the end of the first section.
That one’s a gift, too get things started.
Naff? Of course!
“to” not “too”. Erk.
And I can DEFINITELY see Cream’s Disraeli Gears in the gap of the second section
Ha! Too easy.
ELO ‘Out Of The Blue’ – right hand section, just past halfway
Yep!
Earth Wind and Fire – I Am – just to the left of ELO.
Beat you to it!
Are these random,genre or alphabetised given b and c have been cited
Is that spark in the dark by the alpha band in the first section leaning to the left by the divider ?
Alphabetised.
And no, nothing as recent as that, this is all car boot/charity shop stuff.
Little feat sailin shoes next to the blue spine about 2/3 across in the box on the right!
Nope.
Earth, Wind & Fire ‘I Am’ – two to the left of ELO
Yes!
XTC White Music about five from the end
I do have that, but this section is end of the Bs to G.
Clue: I think the one you were looking at is a G, next to its stable-mates.
The purple one towards the end still looks like Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks to me, but I think you said you didn’t have a copy the other day?
I don’t. I can’t see a purple one though. Pink and red ones, yes (Five Star and a budget Roberta Flack :).
Feel free to add pics of your own – hopefully less tattered – spines.
I won’t successfully identify any, ‘cos I’m a bit crap, but it might be fun.
Hmm.. if it’s in alphabetical order then I reckon the one to the left of Lionheart is either The Kick Inside or Bandolier by Budgie.
‘Tis the Kick. You win, erm…… a point!
I can see Hounds of Love too, but I can spot only one album between it and Lionheart. Knowing that you are a lady of good taste (apart from not having any Budgie records) I’m going to go with The Dreaming over Never For Ever.
There is nothing between those two, except perhaps a shadow.
Good taste? You haven’t seen the ‘specialist’ records cases….
Sorry, I mean no Hounds, just Kick and Lionheart.
I think I can see Peter Gabriel’s Us about two thirds through the second section?
Hmm, no. Two-thirds through would still have you in the Cs.
Fun this, eh?
You’ve already said ELO is there and the one I’m referring to is after that (I think)
Ah. Directly to the right of ELO is Erasure’s The Innocents (Britannia Music Club, 1988).
I’m looking at the one with the yellow and red band at the bottom of the spine, next to the blue one
Yes, Out of the Blue. Next to Erasure.
For some reason I’m getting the same sense of foreboding as I got from Burt’s, I mean HP’s Lighthouse Family thread.
Towards the right hand end I think I can spot a couple of Peter Gabriel albums, probably 2 and 3.
You can! Sandwiched snugly between 1 and 4.
I can see ‘Boyzone’s Greatest Hits’.
*thwack*
Rumours has got to be in there somewhere.
It isn’t, although there’s another FM album.
Damn! Here’s my working: First Kate Bush albums + Out of the Blue means high probability of Grease soundtrack, some ABBA, Rumours and maybe even Hotel California.
I was testing the water with Rumours.
Grease? What do you take me for?
The ABBA is on another shelf. With the As. Can’t abide the Eagles.
You should enjoy Take It To The Limit, then. It is a song about not giving up in the face of adversity. Yet, it split the band up. Meitner sang lead and claimed he wrote it by himself, despite the fact two other Eagles are given credit. Live, he struggled to hit the high notes towards the end and he was loathe to sing it. Frey insisted. The two had a punch up over it on the Hotel California tour in 1977 and Meisner quit. It’s my favourite Eagles song. I find it as wonderfully uplifting as PG’s Solsbury Hill.
http://youtu.be/0HYiaYyfp8Q
The Eagles -Take It To The Limit.
In case you haven’t heard it for a while.
Also, it goes on for bloody ever.
Are they in alphabetical order? I’m not sure I could cope if they weren’t.
They are. End of the Bs to G.
There are 6 or 7 Dylan LPs. Some might be a bit hard to see, but I’m surprised that the clearest one hasn’t been identified yet. Got your glasses on JC?
Oh yeah, wearing my pince-nez now, I can see Bob’s The Basement Tapes about halfway through the second section
Yus!
There’s a grey one there which could be Bob’s Infidels or Hard Rain
Hard Rain it is!
Found it this year for a pound!
Is that a Malcolm McClaren album (Duck Rock?) About 10 from the right?
Nope, sorry.
Shall I embed the photo slightly bigger? It’s 500px wide, perhaps 800 would be better, but not so big you could read the titles. Eh?
I think I see Blonde On Blonde but spine seems too thin? Left side of second V.
I wish.
800px
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/shelf_zpsxhweouu3.jpg
I can actually read some of those now: Bob’s Bringing It All Back Home, Best Of Leonard Cohen and a couple of Ray Charles LPs etc
I’ve blown it, haven’t I?
I expect you’ll be having your Horlicks now JC, but let’s do this with one of your shelves next time.
It’ll be much more interesting than my old crap, I’m sure.
There’s a Communards record. Maybe two. And she was all hoity toity about the Grease soundtrack!
Correct!
Oh, and: *thwack*
That helps – Donald Fagen, The Nightfly – bit in from the RHS
Yes!
Or as we call it here in the Far East of Anglia, the Noight Floy.
‘Fabian’s Greatest Hit’. (who, Ed?)
I can see Buck Owens’ Country Music’s Most Wanted Band – but it’s under “B” – for shame. I’d file under surname
I disagree. The artist is ‘Buck Owens’ Buckaroos’. The man himself isn’t on the record.
In that case I defer
It’s completely different to this one, although the cover photo is reused: http://www.discogs.com/master/view/190758
It’s like a country version of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band without Alex in a way.
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/SAHB-fourplay-210_zpsw0pbbru8.jpg
Yes, with a lot more banjos.
Ooh! I think I can see “Peter Case” by, um, Peter Case.
Nice record! Mrs duco has it.
A point to Mr. 01 !
A few Johnny Cash LPs there including, with the orange spine, The Man In Black?
A few, yes. The orange one is this budget comp. – http://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Cash-The-ManWorld-His-Music/master/73434
Re the Fleetwood Mac LP mentioned above – I can see the multi-coloured spine of Tango In The Night
You can indeed. When it first came out I remember paying 30p to borrow it from the library (to tape, of course), only to find it was quite scratched. I was terrified that the librarian would think it was my doing, so made sure to point it out on returning it. Them were the days, etc.
Ella Sings The Rogers and Hart Songbook. Indispensable!
Isn’t it just!
A point to Mocktudor!
Is the red one Dire Straits’ Making Movies?
Making Movies is still on the “to be filed” pile in front of the stereo.
The red one you see is Five Star’s Silk & Steel, a much treasured 12th birthday gift from my big sister, when our little town (unbelievably these days) had its own record shop. Luxury of Life is filed to its left. Ahem.
@johnny-concheroo I seem to recall years ago an interview with someone who could look at a vinyl record (classical IIRC) and could tell by the patterning on the groove what the piece of music was. I wondered if you also had this marvellous ability.
Not me, but I remember the bloke you mention. He was always on Tomorrow’s World or similar progs.
A few Bowies on the left. Station To Station, Low, Scary Monsters, Ziggy Stardust.
Yep, yep, yep, yep. Many points to Campo and his/her up-to-date spectacles prescription!
Also: Cameo – Word Up, utter left of the second part.
Yep!
When I saw your post in Updates, I thought to myself, “isn’t it a coincidence that Rigid Digit has that Cameo record too!”.
Depeche Mode ‘Violator’? Right hand chunk about a quarter of the way in?
More like in the middle of that chunk, really, but it’s there!
I’m looking at the wrong sleeve then.
Ah, the two black ones around a quarter of the way along are the Communards’ two albums.
I meant a quarter of the way along the right hand section of the right hand cube – the LPs leaning to the right.
Ah yes, that’s Violator then! Good spot.
Come on mini. Dylan reviews – go on, go on, go on, go on …….
*thwack*
Filing system is left to right (alphabetical)?
and it looks to be only B to G (or part thereof)
That discounts spotting any James Last, Cliff Richard or Right Said Fred. Not even a copy of Paul Young No Parlez
left to right (alphabetical) – that is the WRONG way (or is it just me that does filing the other way for Albums & CDs (and Singles as well))
It’s just you, Ridge.
I only have one James Last record, and it’s in one of the Christmas boxes.
Is that The Lovemongers by Furniture to the left of the red one? Oh hang on, if that’s Five Star, Furn comes after Five.
It’s not The F*cking C*nts Treat Us Like Pr*cks by Flux of Pink Indians, then, either.
I love this game.
I wish.
Yes – I think if you found The Lovemongers for a quid and resold it, you could have a short holiday on the profits.
Come on then @rigid-digit , let’s see some of your spines.
Captain Beefheart – Safe As Milk?
Don’t be silly.
(re-sizing may have knackered the resolution)
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t490/Rigid_Digit/WP_20150915_20_32_18_Pro_zps4n58duax.jpg
Ooh!
*dons specs*
Well for starters you have two copies of Kick!
Yup (no idea why I have 2 copies, certainly not by design (honest!))
And since you file alphabetically L-R, that’s probably a couple of Iron Maiden LPs to the left of INXS, although I wouldn’t know which ones.
I meant R-L, of course.
Iron Maiden – debut to No Prayer For The Dying, lined up together
(same view, cropped and re-sized (in a vain attempt to improve resolution))
http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t490/Rigid_Digit/WP_20150915_20_32_18_Pro_zpsdwuxetgf.jpg
There’s definitely Peter Gabriel’s ‘Scratch’ (no. 2?) a couple in from the beginning of the 2nd shelf.
Spot on – next to Melt, Live and Passion
And perhaps Kick’s follow-up ‘X’ ?
That is there as well (only one copy this time)
I scrolled all the way down just to say that. Bah. And is that So next to it?
I can see another pair of duplicates at the far right end.
The Cure – Standing On The Shore.
(I admit, I DID buy 2 copies within a month of each other – didn’t have the heart to give one away)
(I meant: Standing On A Beach)
So and Shaking The Tree next to it
Not guilty (honest!).
Besides my picture “strategically” excludes the early Cs
The problem with my LP rack is: too many duplicates and too many old records with featureless white spines. Here’s a section with some colour at least:
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/LPSleeves2_zpsmt0nyh2z.jpg
Johnny has Made in Japan and Machine Head in the wrong chronological order. I find this sort of thing unforgivable frankly.
Looks like he bailed with Purple after Burn. He must have read the reviews for Stormbringer.
True, I pretty-much gave up on Purple after the mighty Made In Japan. Burn is only there as a token gesture, really. I do have all the Coverdale Purple (and the MKI) albums on CD, but they came later.
By the way, I’ve seen the actual candles used on the Burn sleeve. A guy I know worked for photographer Fin Costello and after the shoot, they packed the half melted candles away in a packing case with straw and kept them for years in the studio. They really are life-size.
As for the sloppy misfiling, my fault entirely. Unforgivable, as you say.
I am seriously impressed with the Burn candles story. I had no idea they were life size.
I prefer the Coverdale albums these days, I even like Stormbringer on the basis that I can’t think of another record that quite sounds like it. It’s like a genetic experiment that made a 70s Heavy Rock album but somebody spilled a petri dish full of Philadelphia Soul DNA in there by accident.
We had a thread about this years ago. I love the Coverdale / Hughes era and especially “Come taste the band” which I am wrestling with the urge to rebuy it for the fifth time in the new anniversary remix format.
The remix is pretty awesome
Sandy Denny’s The North Star Grassman And The Ravens is there (part of the title is obscured with orange rectangle on spine))
Correct. In fact all the Sandy LPs are there
What’s the collective noun for a lot of Donovan records?
A mellow of Donovans?
A Blissful Sufficiency perhaps?
Perfect.
A mountain. But only sometimes.
Very good!
I can see Wheels of Fire, no doubt surround by gallons more Cream including multiple DGs.
Yep. Actually I think the first 5 are all different copies Wheels Of Fire with the thick one being a hefty US pressing. Disraeli Gears is on the shelf above.
And is that Party Time With Black Lace nestling next to Val Doonican Rocks But Gently?
Although several Black Lace albums contained the word Party, there isn’t one called ‘Party Time’. Jeez, you’re embarrassing yourself, man. At least, one of us is…
“Party Time” was a fan-only release for the German market, through the Pflichtzugenießen label. The high point was a side-long medley of German drinking songs, performed to the signature Black Lace calypso-disco beat: Der Mai Ist Gekommen/Bayern, Des Samma Mir/Lang, Lang Ist’s Her/Horch’ Was Kommit Von Draussen Rein?
Some “fan” you are, Mrs B!
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/party_zpsiylpvum6.jpg
‘Man streckt den linken Arm ein, den linken Arm aus,
Ein, aus, ein, aus,
Man schüttelt alles rum,
Man macht das Hokey-Kokey und man dreht sich herum,
Das ist die ganze Sache,
Ja, das Hokey-Kokey,
Ja, das Hokey-Kokey,
Ja, das Hokey-Kokey,
Knie gebeugt, Arme gestreckt,
Ra, ra, ra’.
Ein! Zwei! Drei! Agadoo-doo-doo, drücken Ananas, schütteln den Baum,
Agadoo-doo-doo, drücken Ananas, mahlen Kaffee,
Nach links, nach rechts, springen auf und ab, und bis zu den Knien,
Kommen Sie und tanzen jede Nacht, singen mit dem Hula-Melodie.
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/rolf%20tee_zpsy8usioiz.jpg
Am quite figuratively rolfing here. I heart you, Mr Saucecraft.
You may be lolling, but Beany’s got a boner you could spit-roast a ten-pound turkey on.
I’m willing to bet an entire pound sterling that the Beanster owns this:
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/rolf%20electric%20finger_zpsut3smbc4.jpg
If he doesn’t he can borrow mine.
Me earlier, rolfing:
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/rolf_zpsx1l5tobn.jpg
It’s THIS again
http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/mojoworking01/rolf_zpskbbz95ge.jpg