Pete S

No, you were the only person who ever liked it

JAMES COIT - BLACK POWER A lunatic escapes from an asylum and somehow finds his way into a recording studio. This is what results. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. J.C. MESSINA - TIME WON'T LET ME This guy sings like a neanderthal man chewing a hedgehog GEORGE LEMONS - FASCINATING GIRL Arranger: hey, I know what would improve this record, let's get a couple of violinists in to add some sweetness. What, we don't have any violinists? OK, you two binmen over there, pick up those fiddles up and try and keep in time. Oh and George? If you could sing like someone's just kicked you in the gonads, that would be great. JIMMY DELPHS - DANCING A HOLE IN THE WORLD Jimmy, we've got some good news and some bad news for you, you won't be able to dance a hole in the world any more because we are going to have to amputate your feet. But there is some good news...the guy in the next bed wants to buy your slippers. Oh, and also, congratulations, you have knocked the Birdie Song off the number 1 spot of worst record ever made. So a good day all round. THE TOPICS - HAVE YOUR FUN The band play one tune, the singers sing another. Utterly inept. BUDDY SMITH - WHEN YOU LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE The first line of this appears to be "wwwwiiiibbblewillllbbbwibble", apparently sung by Joey Deacon in a language not yet discovered by western civilaztion. I've never heard the rest of the song because it bored me to sleep after 10 seconds. Music to watch paint dry by.

Not heard it for over 10 years mate so can't even remember how it goes!

I'm happy to undertake this task Joan but first I have to add on sound samples to the stuff I put on ebay this morning, but I'll have a go afterwards, more likely to be a top 20 though..

Might be on the b side of the reissue of Just A Boys Dream

Hmm, if I'd had a choice at the time between that and Cecil Washington or Paris...not a difficult choice is it. Wouldn't have bought it back then, wouldn't buy it in a million years now. There are some truly bad records about but that is beyond 'badness'. And at £120, you wuz robbed cos thats 2 million quid in todays money

Got 4 copies of that from the same record fair last time you mentioned it!

Yes. Some of their tracks appear on the Butler album and some 'Pied Piper''s appear on UK productions by them, I wrote about this many years ago asking if anyone knew the connection, but nobody did.

The question did say soul but I'm glad you posted this up Ted, it's made my day thinking of you, headphones on, pretending to be Stevie Nicks

He's not a very good singer, simple as that. Besides, when you've heard Save Your Love For Me Baby, it can only be downhill from there. Plus there's a very strange Martin-Coulter connection on that album and that makes me suspicious (their UK artistes Sunny & Sue or vice versa did You Can't Bypass Love!)

No, I've got good taste in music, whats controversial about that?

Is this the worlds most overrated album? There's not a decent track on it.

In the sleeve notes to the new Goldmine cd Rare As Hens Teeth (which has a photo of Love Is A Good Foundation on the front, which is about as rare as false teeth), Tim Brown says of Jimmy Delphs' Dancing A Hole In The World "it is still known from less than half a dozen copies in this country". That's because the rest were stopped at customs and not allowed into the country on account of it being utter utter crap.

The way I do it, stick the cd in, open windows media player, rip track using that (in settings you can choose what format to rip it in, choose mp3) then I reduce it in size using Acoustica mp3 converter, then just post it up..don't go to all that trouble if it's a problem though mate

Oh yeah he is, sorry Geoff, I couldn't see it!

It is indeed, thanks Lars.

You couldn't post up a sound file of Give Him Up on disc 2 could you? I reviewed this as a cover up when I was doing my old fanzine Beatin' Rhythm, this would have been about 13 years back, it was on the B side of Dave Barker I think...superb track I thought

Don't be daft, it's obviously a British group!

Andy there is a post elsewhere in which John states that he will not use any market influences and will only go by his own experiences in selling, the example used was Marv Johnson which I said should be 100 and he said he'd sold one that day for 150 so that price would stand - despite nobody else being able to get near that price for months. Unfortunately I don't know how to find the old posts so I can't link to it.

That is superb mate, what a great find - but my guess is that it either came out by this group or another one going by the music publishers stamp, why bother stamping it if it wasn't being prepared for airplay/promotion? If it did turn out to be a demo only I'd ask at least 500 for that.

Well it says 'soul' album and I haven't got a favourite soul artist or soul album so I went for a compilation.

Floorshakers - Kent LP

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It's ok..I prefer his Jet Powers rock n roll singles, he sounds just like Elvis. I've got a great clip of PJ Proby doing You Can't Come Home Again on German tv, he's obviously drunk and can't remember the words he's meant to be miming to so he keeps putting his arm in front of his mouth

It's a very long story Col. When I was stuck in Hastings, my missus had f*cked off, I was told my daughter didn't want to see me and to be honest, I was at the end of my tether and getting extremely emotional, anyway I had two people who used to make 100 mile round trips to keep me company and generally keep an eye on me, one was Barry James and the other was Janine, and one day Janine bought me this present, it was called The Little Box Of Inner Calm and contained basically stuff to help one calm down and relax e.g. oils, joss sticks, a little bell and so on. When I joined one particular forum you had to have a nickname and I couldn't think of anything so the inner calm box was on the table and I took it off that. It was meant to be ironic as I was more like an unexploded bomb at the time. By the same token, my ebay seller name mayfairmenthol came from a packet of fags someone had left on my coffee table. Good job they didn't leave a rampant rabbit.