In the past we scraped stones across plastic to listen to music.
This past weekend, I traded my pal back on a trade we did over 20 years ago. He is a painter and I had one of his. He is also a music nerd like me and got a few things like the copy of Exile On Main St. with the postcards I bought at the Greenwood Mall record and hop supply shop, a picture sleeve 45 of "Shattered" and this, an extended EP 45 I bought in Stirling Scotland in February of 1980 when I was 16. This object is seminal in my life, a pre-AIDS anxiety song about birth control that made it up the UK charts, that you could dance to, that made trombone cool, that was ska.
Where are all those kids now? And why did they paste in that skinhead in the lower left?
Comments
portland - September 19, 2005 10:25 am
i'm pissed off that they put that yellow spot over my face.
Alan - September 19, 2005 11:19 am
That was a way the shop defined price. In the good old days of UK record shops as I recall they kept the lps or 45s separate from the sleeves that were on the shelves. <p>Don't you want the pork pie hat worn by the guy just left of center? We all should have to pork pie hats. And thin black ties and jackets over button down shirts. Come to think of it, this crowd now could be taken for a young Republicans convention scene.
portland - September 19, 2005 4:52 pm
hats and thin ties. someday check out how good everybody on "get smart" looks. we should never have moved on.
Arthur - September 19, 2005 5:12 pm
FREE-EEE NELSON MANDELA!
Alan - September 19, 2005 5:13 pm
Two-tone was the coolest label. I still have my mod/ska pins somewhere.
Arthur - September 19, 2005 5:23 pm
(that should be a public song. I can't remember any anti-apartheid song not featuring that song)
Alan - September 19, 2005 5:30 pm
I think I have an lp of ska musicians for ethiopia famine relief. I should dig that out.
Alan - September 19, 2005 6:34 pm
Yup - though more a 12-inch 45 from 1985 with four cuts: "Starvation" and "Haunted" by a ska semi-all-star band and "Tam Tam Pour L'Ethiopie (Part one)" "Tam Tam Pour L'Ethiopie (Part two)" by various African artists.<p><center><img src="images/2005f/starvation.JPG" vspace="20"></center>
Arthur - September 19, 2005 7:48 pm
I wonder what that sounds like (big names on that one: Salif Keita, Mory kante and Ray Lema ring bells in my head).
Alan - September 19, 2005 9:10 pm
I've never played it that I can recall and the record player is in the back of the store room.