Name: Phil Smith
Home Page: http://www.myspace.com/philreadsbooks
Member Since: Feb 06, 2006
Rank: 954
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Rated 2262 releases, average: 3.98
Location: Blackpool
Profile: I have been collecting an extremely wide variety of music, especially from the outer edges, since 1989 when I was 12. I now have about 6,000 records, CDs & pre-recorded tapes.
I am mainly here because of my wants list, which is the very tip of the iceberg in terms of records I'm interested in, but which is basically the stuff I am hunting with vigour & which I have generally been after for quite some time now or have recently found on here & never previously knew about. Having said that, despite what people will tell you, most things crop up at a sensible price if you look for them long enough, so I don't believe in paying obscene amounts. Hence, feel free to offer me things from my wants list, but keep the prices sensible if you are going to do that.
Rating system, as nicked & adapted from ProgeriaYouth...
1 - Pretty terrible. The sort of thing I wouldn't touch with a barge-pole.
2 - Very unoriginal or fails to do what it by rights should.
3 - Nice enough & I'll support anyone getting a 3, but not spectacular.
4 - Great music.
5 - Amongst my (long list of) favourites.
I've pretty much decided that...
God Is My Co-Pilot & The Ceramic Hobs are my favourite bands,
Aphex Twin my favourite solo artist,
The Only Ones' "Another Girl Another Planet" is my all-time favourite song,
De La Soul's "3 Feet High & Rising" is my favourite album, and
early-mid nineties R&S and the first run from Shut Up & Dance are possibly my favourite labels...
but these aren't necessarily representative of my taste...
Genres of particular interest to me include
dancehall reggae/ragga jungle/bashment,
gabba/hardcore techno/hard acid/speedcore/etc,
noise/experimental/noise rock/avantgarde,
UK Garage (all styles from 4x4 to wonky),
Washington DC go go,
music hall novelties &
music from the Blackpool area...
I'm also interested in strange vinyl pressing ideas that affect the audio (as opposed to cosmetics like picture discs or concentric grooves, all of which are nice but which I'm not looking to obtain any more of), ie; locked grooves, multiple centre holes, playable etchings & new records pressed into old records...
As of July 09, these are the items NOT on Discogs that I'm also very much after...
Canopy & Matrix – Rough Business 12" (feat. “Arkines Lost”, Space Records [Wolverhampton], 1995) - ambient drum & bass
Ceramic Hobs – Fuck Da Police tape (Face Like A Smacked Arse, 1998?),
Noisy Tape, Eleven Years In the Making (Spite) -
psycho-punk
Copper Cat – Stay In School 7” (Party Ride riddim, Pot of Gold, 2000),
Run the Version 7” (Street Life riddim, Gold Pot, 1999),
Go Mek Some Money 7” (Problem riddim, Pot of Gold, 1999) – bashment
Demon Rocker – Iron Lady/Stick Together 12” (Unity),
Demon Rocka – Bad Boy No Ramp 12” (Unity) – dancehall
Gus Elen - Down the Dials - music hall
Flinty Rank – Gunman Style (B side of Jack Wilson & Demon Rocker – Chuck It 12” on Unity, which I have the A side of),
Carlton Dread – Chatty Mouth/Flinty Ranks – Gunman 12” (Unity),
Kenny Knots – Mr Chattabox/Flinty Badman & Richie Davis - My Lover Gone 12” (Unity) – dancehall
God Is My Co-Pilot – Songs of Praise/4 Steps Down the Road To Trouble & Refused Medical Attention 7"EPs (Making of Americans, 1991),
Ykt Flot! 7” (1993),
Children Can Be So Cruel 10” (Miguel, 1997),
- queercore
The Ink Spots - Ebb Tide 78 (King, 1953) or 18 Hits LP/CD (King, 1996) – proto-doo-wop
Buddy Max - Many Styles & Sounds and The Great Nashville Star Is a Flea Market Cowboy LPs on Cowboy Junction,
Together - Our Masterpiece, Little Circle B, The Great Nashville Star and The Story of Freda & Bud LPs,
The Life To Fame & Fortune LP/CD,
Gold Record Award Winning and Orange Blossom Special CDs,
Tribute to Challengers Crew of Seven & Apollo Moon Capsule's Crew of 3 and Cowboy Junction Stars tapes [c'mon, someone upload the early stuff]
- country
Monoshock – Pink Jelly Vibe tape (Chocolate Monk, mid 90s) - garage psych
Po! - Bedroom Tapes Vols. 1-4 (Rutland),
Live In Leicester & Fragile Debris (Outtakes) tapes (Rutland),
A Page A Day 7” (Elefant, 1996),
Horse Blanket Weather CD (Rutland, 1998)
twee
Saba Tooth - Gal A Pose 7” (Wicked Man riddim, Killamanjaro, 1996) - ragga
’77 Punk covers of Velvets’ “Heroin”
Egyptian Shaduf chant recordings
Sounds From Silence LP/CD on Bella Roma (contains “Hurrian Hymn (the Song from Ugarit)” from c.1400 BC)
The Tinklers – U.F.O.s 7”EP (Frownland, 1995),
with X.X.O.O. 7”EP (Music a la Coque, 2001) – outsider music
v/a – Blackpool Rox 7”EP (Vinyl Drip, 1980) – post-punk
And A Coupla Books/Mags I’m Also After…
Martin Barker - Action-The Story of A Violent Comic (Titan, 1990, hbk)
June Alison Gibbons – Pepsi-Cola Addict (New Horizon, 1982)
Albert Goldman – Disco (Hawthorn, 1978)
cheers & hope to meet you on here sometime soon :-)
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