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Missing, presumed missing

February 13th, 2009 · Posted by Skuds in Music · 2 Comments · Music

The other night I ventured into the loft and brought down all my vinyl, in preparation for disposing of it.  The other week a friend took away my beloved Linn Sondek turntable (well it had been languishing in the cupboard for a few years) and tomorrow he will pick up some records to go with it, but I can’t see him wanting all of them. I’m not really sure what to do with whatever remains.It is a funny old collection really, and much smaller than I remember it: about 190 LPs, 70 12″ singles and 130 7″ singles.  Looking through it there were some I had forgotten I even had but more worrying there are a load that I knew I had which are not there.

I know I sold a box full about 12 years ago, for a derisory sum from a dealer, but some of the missing records are really not the sort of thing any dealer would be interested in.  I can only think that I gave a pile of records away and totally forgot about it or there is still a hidden box in the loft somewhere.

Some of the missing records are ons that would have been among the last I would bear to part with, while also being among the last most other people would want off me anyway so I doubt I gave them away.  One of the missing LPs is Entertainment by Gang of Four, my candidate for best record in the world ever, and I would not have let that go lightly, even though I do have it on CD.

The list of missing records includes the Beastie Boys’ first album, at least 10 Spizz singles, a couple of Dead Kennedys singles, Tormato by Yes, The Specials’ first album, three Pink Floyd albums, a couple of B-52s albums and Live & Dangerous.

What remains is even more interesting though.  It charts my changing tastes over the years.  The 7″ singles boxes have  a load of chart records from my early teens including such unlikely gems as Gallagher & Lyle, Elike Brooks, Gordon Giltrap, Elton John, Art Garfunkel, and so on.  Then it changes at about the point where I started buying records I heard on John Peel rather than on TOTP and its all Monochrome Set, The Normal, Sex Pistols, Wasted Youth, PiL, Ramones, Clash.  Meanwhile, the 12″ singles box is full of club remix-type dance records.

The singles look they belong to a different person than the albums, which are dominated by Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, David Bowie, ELP and Rainbow.

Be a shame to see them all go, but if anyone feels they need a copy of Sherbet’s Howzat album or a Paula Abdul 12″ single just let me know.

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