Dick’s Picks: Hard-to-find rock ‘n’ roll/beat nugget from King Size Taylor & The Dominos King Size who? It weren’t just them bloomin’ Beatles who got the rock ‘n’ roll bug in that there Liverpool at […]
Dick’s Picks: A vintage slice of doo-wop-flavoured-rock’n’roll from the Hollywood Flames has had Dick cutting a rug around the office this week….. The Hollywood Flames A hugely popular US vocal group who regularly hit the […]
Dick’s Picks: Vintage slice of German synth-tronica from Harald Grosskopf…. Harald who? Born in Germany shortly after World War II, Grosskopf like many others of his generation, was inspired to pick up an instrument once […]
Dick’s Picks: Classic slice of vintage UK agit-prop-punk from the short-lived Crisis…. Crisis what Crisis? Err, this Crisis were a short-lived UK punk five-piece forming in the ‘white heat’ of 1977. Hailing from that […]
Dick’s Picks: An oft-overlooked slice of vintage U.S. singer-songwriterisms that takes a gentle stroll around folk, jazz, funk ‘n’ soul from the little-known Shawn Phillips….. SHAWN PHILLIPS Rumplestiltskin’s Resolve What is this strange beast we […]
Dick’s Picks: Vintage ’60s Big Band Jazz With a Freaky Twist from Don Ellis…… Don Ellis Now here’s a man with pedigree; born in 1934 Ellis was an accomplished trumpeter who got his first musical ‘posting’ […]
Dick’s Picks: This week’s pick is this rare and original Smiths Rough Trade era artwork, ‘cos “not everything has to be a record right?” The Smiths Unlike most bands who, when looked at retrospectively, can […]
Dick’s Picks: A long lost ’80s U.S. post-punk LP from former member of cult American industrial act ‘Factrix’….. Bond Bergland Bond Bergland was none other than a trombonist who played with the Boyd Raeburn orchestra (aged […]
Dick’s Picks: A little known ‘sleazy disco’ underground smash recorded by a former porn-star-come-daytime soap opera actor – hey ..what’s not to like? Dennis Parker – who? Dennis Parker was a man of many names, born […]
Dick’s Picks: This week our man Dick is sticking to familiar territory with this so-bad-it’s-good psychedelic cash-in from the always opportunistic Saga label….. A Bit of background The Saga label was a pioneering independent run […]
Dick’s Picks: A German LP from 1970 made using a Revox Tape Recorder and some primitive electronics – what’s not to like says Dick….. Tangerine Dream The classic line-up of Tangerine Dream (Edgar Froese, Christopher […]
Dick’s Picks: Question – Which French band like to hide behind masks and are partial to a little bit of electronic music with vocoders? Answer – Daft Punk…….don’t be stoopid…..ladies and gentlemen we give you ‘Les […]
Dick’s Picks: This week our resident vinyl guru ‘Dick’ has decided to get a little metaphysical on yo’ ass with a selection of French poetry anthologies, ‘wot no rock, metal, prog or psych’ I […]
Dick’s Picks: This week our high priest of vinyl ‘Mr A’ has chosen to shine his multi-coloured spotlight on a little known psychedelic curio by Timothy Clover. Timothy What? Who? Check the LP sleeve, nope […]
Dick’s Picks: With this week’s pick Dick has really upped the ante, offering for your delectation this so-rare-it-hurts 1970 vintage Brit-pop-psych 7″ vinyl single on the cult ‘Spark’ imprint from the super mysterious Sir Ching […]
Dick’s Picks: This week’s pick from our man Dick is this bizarro 1978 children’s LP entitled ‘Scouse The Mouse’ featuring Ringo with Donald Pleasance, Adam Faith and Barbara Dickson Scouse The Mouse – What Is It? […]
Dick’s Picks: With this week’s pick Dick has chosen this Sci-Fi inspired disco long player ‘A Dance Fantasy’ by Montana and thereby single-handedly managed to combine two of his greatest passions; Disco and Sci-Fi! You can find […]
Dick’s Picks: Tasty limited edition Japanese 180g vinyl reissue of the cult Brit ’60s jazz banger that is ‘Brew’ by the Collin Bates Trio Collin Bates Trio – who? Details about the Collin Bates Trio […]
Dick’s Picks: More witchcraft related shenanigans from our man Dick as he waxes lyrical about this top-slice of modern acid/folk/psych from Sexwitch…. Sexwitch – a bit rude isn’t it, what’s it all about? Firstly, let’s […]
Dick’s Picks: Fresh back from the witches coven Dick is enthralled by this 1971 folk/hippie curio which joins the dots between our pagan ancestry, traditional English folk music and ’70s Children’s TV programme ‘Play School’ – […]
Dick’s Picks: Not some super obscure artist this week but a weird release that’s for sure! A 10″ vinyl white label with hand-written labels from blues legend Big Bill Broonzy….. Big Bill Who? Lee Conley Bradley […]
Dick’s Picks: This week’s choice from our man Dick is this seldom seen slice of late ’60s surrealistic US comedy vinyl from the Firesign Theatre, to skip straight to the website info click here, or […]
Dick’s Picks: For this week’s pick our very own vinyl oracle would like to issue a parental advisory warning, so for those easily offended you’d better switch off now, for anyone else read on to get […]
Dick’s Picks: Dick’s pick this week is the bizarro Italian post-punk curveball that is ‘Crollo Nervoso’ by Magazzini Criminali – their debut longplayer has been described as the ‘first to execute an album length work of […]
Dick’s Picks: Dick is loving this late ’60s cult folk/psych LP from the former Lovin’ Spoonful member and self-styled ‘Queen Of The Beatniks’ Judy Henske….. Judy Henske and Jerry Yester – Who? Although far from […]
Dick’s Picks: Dick is loving this vintage 1969 LP from the mysteriously named 32nd Turnoff, a tasty slice of super cool psychedelic-garage-afro-punk action if ever there was….. 32nd Turnoff – so what do we know? […]
Dick’s Picks: Not one, not two but three slices of quality ’70s vintage Australian prog rarities from Spectrum …. Spectrum were one of the key players in the Australian prog rock scene of the late […]
Dick’s Picks: Top notch ’60s psychedelic jazz freek-out vinyl LP from Dave Pike.. Dave Pike (1938-2015) was a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. He recorded extensively for top German jazz imprint MPS Records and also […]
Dick’s Picks: An essential slice of ’80s Power Pop from ex-Television Personalities Edward Ball’s (no not that one!) Mod/’60s revivalists ‘The Times’….. The Times – who? Although ostensibly a band ‘The Times’ were really the […]
Dick’s Picks: OK, no sniggering at the back, this week Dick wants to ‘big up’ that seldom discussed/often overlooked/completely bloomin’ ignored (choose your option) sub-genre of record collecting that is, cue fanfare, Steam Trains on […]
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