The last record I bought in store is a copy of Bob Dylan’s album Desire. I mainly bought because it contains one of my favorite songs of his, Hurricane, which I didn’t have on vinyl before. It’s such a great song musically and since Mr Dylan is also a formidable story teller, so are the lyrics. I enjoy the other songs as well, but the opening track is the one.
I‘m pretty sure everyone is familiar with the old saying ‘Never just buy one record, when you can buy two (or more)’. Yeah, ok, I made that up, but I’d bet money that the people reading this blog on a regular basis have all acted according to this principle.
I’m not sure I needed this record after picking up the Paul McCartney and Wings triple live LP recently, but this record has the studio version of Maybe I’m Amazed, which is maybe the best song by an Ex-Beatle. There are some other good songs on here, but it’s all about this one song for me. It helped that this record cost much less than buying one new 7” these days.
Now, I know that sometimes the song titles on albums have been changed from English to German, most notably in our small hardcore world on Minor Threat’s Out Of Step, which is already pretty weird, but changing the language of the name of the band? That’s just straight up wrong.
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| GDR Pressing on Black on Amiga |
About six months ago I filled a very big gap in my collection when I picked up a 12” copy of The Beatle’s Magical Mystery Tour. In that post I stated that the record was originally released as a double 7” and to me it was clear that I was going to pick up one of these at one point. Well, the point came when I hit up the local record store a couple of weeks ago. They’d just got this record and were actually cleaning it when I eyed it behind the counter. The price was more than fair, so it was an easy decision.
There are only two German variants of this, which is kind of astonishing to me. This one comes without the ad for the Beatles fan club. I’m not sure I need one of those as well, but I’m not ruling out getting one either.
A few weeks ago, I was in the mood for some CCR. I don’t have many of their records, even though I really, really like the band and I consider Fortuane Son one of the best songs ever written - and call me crazy, but to me it’s also a proto-punk song. But that’s a different conversation. My go-to CCR record to listen to is a best of LP and after two decades of owning that record I notice that it says Volume 1. Well, if there’s a volume 1, there must be a volume 2 as well, and lo and behold, Discogs proved me right. What’s weird though is that some songs appear on both volumes. I guess they must be the best of the best… The record was cheap and I hadn’t had some of the songs on vinyl so far, so I’m still happy that I picked up this record.
