#AdventSingles for #Day8 & #Day18 bring you the Spector at the Feast: great producer, utterly ghastly human being. The white one is a 1987 UK promo for a Christmas Album rerelease, with gratuitous saucy ‘angel’ cartoon. The other a US reissue from 81. Pavillion was run by DJ John Luongo for CBS

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I’m going to have to post multiples to fill my #AdventSingles gap, so here’s #Day17 & #Day6 Georges Ergal (aka Gabriel Ragot)’s self-produced festive marketing gimmick is rather lovely & the handwriting in his dedication to the British Consul in Bordeaux is gorgeous. And then there’s Dusty’s beehive

Hive mind, I need help. I’ll be doing a lot of international travel next year, including a two-month-long trip. What gadgets/clothes/equipment do I need? - bearing in mind my budget is tight. Esp interested in recommendations for noise cancelling headphones/earbuds & luggage (not a backpack) Thanks

Oh Blimey! I’ve been offline and it’s entirely messed up my #AdventSingles sequence, so I’ve some catching up to do. Here are three proper Krimbo records & a gratuitous sleeve variant on an entirely unfestive Roark Classic™️ for #12inchTuesday And here are some more #Hashtags #Day16 #WeekendSingles

I’m just home from a nine day, proper, no-phones, retreat in Norfolk - although I did sneak mine out once or twice to take a few snaps. Don’t tell anyone 🤫

#AdventSingles Day 6 Right, I’ve had enough of dreadful Xmas dingoes (a weird autocorrect, but I’ll stick with it) that nobody knows, and switch to a couple that are merely naff. There’s something about how tattered and tired the sleeve on this looks that just seems utterly perfect. 👌🏼

#AdventSingles Day 5 Another failed attempt at a festive cash grab. Lou Stonebridge (Glass Menagerie, Paladin) & Tom McGuiness (Manfred Mann) met in McGuiness Flint, were briefly a duo, then formed The Blues Band with Paul Jones. A neo-doowop thing, on the fence between homage and pastiche - avoid.

Good morning. I love it when the mist nestles in the valleys.

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DAMON/NOMAD See what they did there? Damon Metrebian had some connection to Brentford Nylons, and this was sold in their shops. There were no other Nomad releases, although amazingly it got rereleased in ‘76 by Polydor, as by Damon Metro. It can best be described as drippy. #AdventSingles Day 4

Remember Telly Savalas’ gravelly, hammed-up, spoken rendition of If? Remember the coked-up embarrassing pastiche of it that managed to become a hit because Radio DJs had no shame? Well, this is the same guys having not-Telly ‘hilariously’ make a mess of the 12 Days of Xmas. #AdventSingles Day 3

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Tuesday you say? Twelve inch singles you say? But I’m away from home again. Post some old ones, nobody will notice you say? Oh, they might notice, but they probably won’t mind? Especially if they’re good ones? Fair enough. #12inchTuesday

Good morning. Gorgeous rich light apre le deluge.

Irish showband country and western Christmas music - sounds like a genre I’ve just made up. It is, and I wish I hadn’t needed to. Strange as it may seem, Last Christmas managed to keep it off the festive top spot in the year of its release. At least it looks interesting #AdventSingles #Day2

So, we’re doing #AdventSingles are we? I notice some people are just gratuitously posting random good singles, well you’ll get none of that here! You’ll get 25 Christmas singles, starting with a bunch of doomed attempts to cash in, and very gradually crawling upwards in quality. Day 1

We’ve not had a vintage paperback for a while, so here’s Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. It uses a mash up of Hindu and Buddhist figures & myth, & Hawkwind borrowed the title for a track on the album Doremi Fasol Latido. Dave Brock wrote the lyrics but doesn’t seem to have bothered reading the book.

Bluesky #weekendsingles selection from the ‘waiting to be filed’ stack

Of course the mother of all 1960s theme tunes for music fans wasn’t for the screen, it was for the wireless. All together now pop pickers - Duhn duhn duhn de de duhn Duur duur de duuhn! #WeekendSingles

I’ve not been well this week, so slow to get this together - 16 x 1960s themes from the big and small screen, 12 originals & the last 4 represses. The not-very-memorable Dankworth Avengers theme preceded the magisterial Laurie Johnson masterpiece (hard sought, and one the jewels of my collection).

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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: R.E.M. Public Service Broadcasting The Residents Goat Underworld

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Sorry to hear the news of Jimmy Cliff’s death while I was away. Playing this rather lovely ‘69 first press in commemoration - which, remarkably, is very far from condition:reggae. #WeekendSingles #JimmyCliffRIP

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Move towards the light. Misty evening at Adhisthana.

Here go then, we’ve finally hit 1967, and here’s the first #WeekendSingles batch of them (with one ‘66 interloper). Are you going for fringed buckskin and droopy moustache; cheesecloth, Afghan coat and flowers in your hair; or paisley cravat and vintage cavalry officer’s jacket?

Since I was listening to a @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast about You’re Gonna Miss Me when I realised it was #12InchTuesday (it’s almost like they come round every week), I thought I’d better post it - even though it’s a 10”. So here it is, along with another three 10”s. #WeekendSingles

Is everybody else being followed by multiple fake left wing US accounts every day, or have I accidentally posted something that makes me a specific target.

A curiosity. 2 years after the original, remarkably similar instrumentation, but with a disco drum machine, so it loses any swing. Plus a gender swap in the verse, which is particularly odd as the song makes more sense from a woman’s perspective. MMc didn’t enjoy the ‘Vomit Comet’. #WeekendSingles

This is my last ‘mid 60s’ #WeekendSingles set - although there will be a repress set at some point - all my other original stuff is boxed up for my move. Notables include an Indian press of The Kinks & the rare first Alan Bown release. I’ve posted the Nuggets stuff before, but I do love them.

Another batch of mid-sixties releases for #WeekendSingles I’m chomping at the bit to get into 1967, and the extraordinary efflorescence of the late sixties. Nevertheless, there’s some great stuff here - and in this series I’ve mostly restricted myself to posting just one disc by each artist.

Actually, there is a real world effect here: it dehumanises others. It supports the NPC mindset - if other people are just code, then it doesn’t matter if you mistreat or kill them. By contrast, Blake’s epithet ‘Everything that lives is holy’ encourages us to treat others with respect and care.

9 years back I made a similar quip

Hey #WeekendSingkes posse - if you’re looking for more 7” storage, you could do worse than these £6.99 boxes that Aldi have on sale at the moment.

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Is it #12inchTuesday again already? Oh, how the weeks fly by.

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Curate your collection carefully

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Here’s a mixed bunch of #WeekendSingles that I picked up at the record fair last weekend.

#WeekendSingles One for the Wants list folks? Found this listing last night and laughed out loud.

First up for #WeekendSingles this week is a batch of Squeeze 7”s

On 27th October 1977 TRB had their TOTP debut appearance with 2-4-6-8 Motorway - meanwhile in Italy…

A #12inchTuesday contribution from the haul I bought from Nick Saloman on Saturday. #HesHeardIt #WeekendSingles

You can’t even celebrate Christmas any more because of *checks notes* erm… anti-woke