Was doing some CD housekeeping yesterday which required a certain amount of pruning. I came across a CD by a band called Amor – the cd is Sinking into a miracle.
Further research suggests it is a Glasgow band with one member of Franz Ferdinand in it.
Out of curiosity I played it this am and if truth be known it is not bad.
Thing is I have no idea why I bought it, where I bought it from and when I bought it. In short if you had asked me before yesterday afternoon if I knew of a band called Amor I would have said no.
Surely I am not the only person on here that has music they have no idea of where it came from?
There was a record shop I used to go to which had a “pot luck” section where 5 shrink-wrapped mystery singles were available for a quid. I think that must be how I ended up with the Shakatak single “Easier Said Than Done”.
I was just talking with someone yesterday about a similar thing they used to do in a record shop in Barnsley in the 80s. I’m pretty sure it was 10 singles for 50p, but you could see the ones at either end, so you just looked through until you found bundles with records you liked at each end, then if anything else was in there that was any good it was a bonus. Most of the other records were crap, but occasionally you’d get a gem.
The reason I mentioned it was because I have just bought a few singles that I first got this way, before all my vinyl was sold in the 90s. They are:
Hitlist – Into the Fire
Snakes of Shake – Southern Cross
Fire Next Time – Stay With Me Now
Nitro Deluxe – This Brutal House
The last one got played loads in a nightclub I worked in when I was 18, but I don’t think I would have ever heard the first three had they not been shoved in one of those packs.
@SteveT is talking bollocks, he’s the secretary of the Amor Fan Club. When he last checked they had 7 members.
Not only that, but more than once I’ve been delighted to find long sought-after CDs in charity shops only to get home and find that I already had them.
Has anybody ever come close to buying a CD in a charity shop that they donated in the first place?
I’ve never done that, definitely not
A few years ago I bought a double cd Yes compilation from Fopp, played it and went to file it away and discovered I already had it. I also remember I bought a cd from there I’d been trying to find for ages completely forgetting I’d bid for it on ebay. Obviously I won the bid. I can’t even remember what it was.
Does sometimes happen, but not there is usually a bigger time gap than a fortnight.
Trip 1: Portishead – Dummy, and Pulp Fiction Soundtrack.
Got em both already. Ah well, it’s only 3 quid
Trip 2: Lock Stock Soundtrack and Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Got both, and now I have 3 copies of Pulp Fiction
I have problems with the Maigret novels. I’ve read about a third of them (there are about 70), but whenever I’m in the library, looking at the titles, I can never remember which ones I’ve read. The titles don’t help: Maigret’s Anger, Maigret’s Doubt, Maigret Enjoys Himself. Throw me a bone here Georges.
For some reason I never have this problem with Agatha Chrsitie.
Maigret Enjoys Himself? this doesn’t sound like a run-of-the-mill moider mystery. He goes for a drink with the lads, has a takeaway on the way home, takes the dog for a walk, few hours of Playstation….
I think Maigret’s idea of enjoyment would be a 3 hour lunch in the Brasserie Dauphine, wolfing down some veal and Bordeaux with some Calvados to finish off. All the while smoking a pouch of ready rubbed in his pipe.
I’m amazed he made it to 70 novels to be honest.
What about Poirot? dude never stops troughing for about fifty years.
Simenon was a productive chap. He wrote 700 novels. Rather active in other fields too,. He claimed to have slept with 10,000 women. Not a very endearing boast. What a strange man he must have been.
Do people still read Maigret? Perhaps the books have become timeless classics like the work of Agatha Christie?
Knocks one out…
Sorry, I’ve been drinking.
I did nearly, er, finish with that – and I most certainly hadn’t been drinking.
Then he gets back to work and fingers someone for the crime…
….who’ll be seized by the Peelers before he can catch his breath
I’ve certainly got singles that fall into this category.
I remember this Amor from a few years ago. Still around I believe. Great blues guitarist.
I know exactly what you mean, I was discussing the Foo Fighters with someone at the school fete. “I saw their first gig in a tent at the Reading Festival, I only have This Is A Call on a CD single I picked up in a bargain bin.” Reader, I came home and checked – I have four FF albums. I don’t recall buying, or listening, to any of them.
I’ve got a cd by a band called Cord. They supported someone I saw once. Goodness (or possibly @smudger) knows who…
@bobness Fairly certain they were supporting Duke Special in Leicester, possibly the Charlotte. I do remember this tune.
https://youtu.be/ZngfA-njZ-A
Good memory. I have literally no idea where we saw them. I was impressed enough to buy the CD, though, clearly.
I’ve got an Aerosmith compilation that I blamed my wife for having before we met. She swears blind she doesn’t know where it came from.
I’ve also got a burned CDr of jangly 80s indie bands (with a tracklist) that I never made. I’ve quizzed other people and they don’t know either. It’s got a brilliant track on called Picture Frame by This Scarlet Train which used to be and probably still is, impossible to find on CD.
Here it is
I have a Joe Bonamassa CD called Live From Nowhere In Particular. I found it sticking out of a hedge one morning on my way to the local supermarket. I’ve never played it. I’d forgotten all about it until this thread reminded me. I think I’ll just put it back unheard into the same hedge I found it in.
A bustle in your hedgerow….
What about the other way round? Misplacing stuff. Having moved about 20 odd times in my life some things have gone missing e.g. where is my lovely Beatles EP collection? i did sell some stuff when I fell on relative hard times about a decade ago, maybe that was one of the things I reluctantly had to part with.
My ex also has some of my McCartney archive sets that are now out of print and going for big money (McCartney and McCartney II), I have asked her nicely a number of times over the last 7 years if she could possibly locate them, but all to no avail so far.
@dai I suspect she has sold them.
I wouldn’t put it past her, I did say she could keep Band on the Run 😉