Godzilla

Diddn't really pay attention. I think it's to do with ebay not allowing sellers to accept offer cash as a payment option. There's other people calling them gestapo in bits of the site other than records.

Just thought I'd resurrect this thread with some new info. Even if we Brits don't think the Blue Sharks are Italian, the Italians do. A quick google search shows that Stelvio Cipriani did indeed put out library music as Blue Sharks amongst others. Interesting that the seller of this one doesn't know about "These Things..." though.

Just seen this on a listing - someone's rattled his cage NOTE TO BIDDERS : APOLOGIES TO BIDDERS, SORRY ABOUT THE EBAY GESTAPO STOPPING MY LISTINGS, I DO NOT CANNOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER PAYMENT FORM OTHER THAN PAYCHUMP. IF I CONTINUE TO BE TERRORIZED BY THE EBAY GREEDY *****S, I WILL TAKE THE WHOLE SHEBANG BACK TO THE RECORD SHOWS AND THE GREEDY *****S CAN DO BUSINESS WITHOUT ME. LAST WARNING TO EBAY, KEEP UP YOUR CRAP AND I AM GONE GONE GONE !!!!! I ALREADY QUIT SELLING OPEN LPS BECAUSE OF THE ANAL RETENTIVE LIARS YOU CODDLE AND A** KISS, SO KEEP IN MIND ANOTHER ACT OF CAPITALIST GREED BY EBAY WILL RESULT IN NO MORE 45s AS WELL. IF EBAY WANTS TO KEEP ME AS A DEALER, S***S GOTTA CHANGE. MY GRADING IS DEAD ON OR BETTER THAN LISTED IN MANY CASES, AND I PACKAGE WELL. I DO NOT SELL FAKES,ONLY ORIGINALS AND HAVE 100s OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS BOTH ON AND OFF LINE.I SET MINIMUM BIDS LOW TO ATTRACT BIDDING ACTION, NOT BECAUSE THAT IS MY BOTTOM PRICE. THERE ARE NO REFUNDS RETURNS OR REIMBURSEMENTS FOR ANY REASON.ALL SALES IN AN AUCTION ARE FINAL.I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR POSTAL LOSS AND/OR ABUSE AND WILL NOT COMPENSATE FOR THESE OCCURRENCES. BID WITH CONFIDENCE, I SEND WHAT I ADVERTISE AND HAVE DONE SO FOR SEVERAL YEARS.THANKS & GOOD LUCK BIDDING !!! Calling 'em Gestapo and all that. Its like being on here!

A lot of 15 Pye R&B series 45s and EPs. Would prefer to sell as a job lot and all offers are welcome. Condition varies between G and VG with the odd VG++ They'll do as fillers for completists though. No original sleeves for the EPs I'm afraid, so everything will come in a plain white one. Postage will be at cost. As usual, feel free to ask for details about individual discs by PM or email to: mistergodzilla@yahoo.com Ta for looking

Some unusual bits and pieces and some demos and first issues of tunes that were hits later. All are visually graded at the moment and most would benefit from a good clean. More individual details, flip sides, sound clips etc are available for all of these on request. Address any questions by PM or email: mistergodzilla@yahoo.com Paypal is fine for UK and overseas and I pay the charges. Cheques ok but from UK only please. All prices are UK pounds. £1.80 recorded delivery UK for 1 x 45. Job lots at cost. Overseas your choice of regular airmail at £2.00 or signed for airmail at £5.20. I reserve the right to insist on signed for to certain countries. Its not warped! VG 4 Fair 3 1st issue demo (flip is A) VG+ 12 Northern / R&B oldie G 4 Ist issue - Northern oldie VG+ 12 Popcorn? G3 Orig African Ska! G+ 4 Proper R&B - nice on UK VG 10 Organ inst EX 8 Wheel oldie 1st issue VG 10 I'll consider offers for the lot. Next up will be a pile of red and yellow Pye R&B series 45s.

Well I lived in Manchester at the time - maybe we were just determined to believe they were Scousers in that case

I was always led to believe they were Scousers. Probably a bit of misinformation but you never know. Record's a complete load of balls anyway.

This one's better though.

Just came across this. Not the best quality unfortunately and apologies if it's been posted before.

What's your criteria for evaluating the responses? Come to think of it, what's your qualification for passing judgment in the first place?

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. Gotcha!

So what does that make my maroon Pye Nixa issue then?

I think they're still making the second press... ...

That's what I thought. I appreciate a seller may be trying to provide as much info as possible but I think rather than write "Plays VG+ on intro, EX-/VG+ after that, EX- after that" as I've seen today, I'd just put a sound clip up

I've just seen a case where different parts of the records are grading separately i.e. vg at the beginning, ex in the middle and so on. Seems a bit odd to me as I'd have thought the usual way was to give an overall grade then mention any particular flaws like a couple of pops, cue burn 5 seconds etc. To mind doing anything else defeats the point of grading. Am out out of step here?

We Almost Lost Detroit. Stunning song about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant partial core meltdown. Damn scary stuff!

I have the opposite problem. I just start to scroll and it shoots away and won't stop. Never tried this scrooling though. Do you have to be over 18?

Exactly. And to take that a step further, even if you argue it's not Northern sounding and just a nice dancey Garage /Frat 45 - does that automatically make it rubbish?

fraid not mate. Well beyond my Kraft.

oh - b. 1950s btw

But surely the definition has changed? This subject has been debated over and over and a lot of people accept the definition that if it's been played in a Northern soul club it's Northern Soul. That's a theme that links traditional Motown sounding soul, pop stompers with the right beat, 70s, instrumentals, Latin, modern, UK cover versions, Beat ballads and so on and so on. I bet Mel Britt and Billy Woods wouldn't have gone in that "Uptempo Motown" sounding box for a start. What about NF Porter's "Keep On Keeping On"? Played at Torch and about as un-Motown as you can get. And those examples are off the top of my head. I think some of your own original spins completely dispel the argument that only Motownesque sounds are Northern Soul. Finally, people set out to make Jazz, reggae, techno etc. I think you'd be hard pushed to say that there were many US artists responsible for what we call call Northern Soul records who deliberately made them to appeal to record buyers in the North of England.

No more puns - I camembert them!