Soul Salad

A couple of years ago my Sister in law and husband brought me: 1. An orange/brown tweed waistcoat (never worn a waistcoat) 2. Purple and green Lycra cycling shorts (i don't have a bike) 3. A cow breeds calendar?? NOT being ungrateful at all! - Any others?

Thanks, Shinehead "Slightly" patronizing but i agree, you're probably correct. There are indeed tens of thousands of records I've never heard yet - every evening is indeed a school day, but I've heard a vast amount of those "classic" back in the day NS records that really do nothing for me and people rave about them - I'm not mentioning them though! I get much more of a buzz buying a great record for no money, for me it's never about the value, it's really the opposite. At the end of the day, i still love MSs, always will, it's a record i always go back to (plus a good few others) - it's my "fix"

"Personally", I've not heard any that come close. - well never at £20?, One of my favourite records ever is Esther Philips version of HIWTHI but doesn't come close to MSs for me - it's all so subjective, that's why it's so much fun!......... Dax

I worked out i must've first heard it 7 years ago (LOL), i remember it well in Brighton no less, in a quiet low key drinking den with a very young DJ playing all sorts in the corner - That copy "must" have been a carver/the single sided one whatever. All night long i practically couldn't wait to get home and google it. I didn't know what it was but caught sight of the label and was absolutely besotted with it (DJ wasn't helpful), wasn't even at that time really my thing (far too 60s). I was "hoping" it was a ten-pound record and easy to find, it did literally blow my socks off - Now i know more about the band/the cover-up/the rarity i reckon i love it even more, it's not the song it's the whole package. So, not the rarity of it at all but agreed elusiveness can make a record more intriguing and to some appealing - i will never own a copy and don't really feel the need to. In a nutshell - no

Was actually Incredibles - I found another love

PS LOL actually wasn't Philharmonics, God knows where i got that from? - I'll get back to you

Thanks ML, I do in fact have a good 500 7s and about 40 LPs, I'd say 8 of those 7s are 1-2 K records about 20 are say £20-150 records the remainder (472) are literally peanuts records or modern reissues i.e. £ 2 - 10 - I really am ALL for great/cheap records. My most recent purchase was the Philharmonics - i need i need your love for £6 - can't go wrong! Dax PS Seriously disagree with you about Antellects though

LOL I've never heard of a record causing this much fuss and debate - well not many records can do that - that's for sure. As Chalky rightly said "it would be boring if we all liked the same". Right, who likes Antellects - Love slave?

Didn't sound to me like "just" a guitar - That certainly does answer 2 questions - Big Thanks for that. Surely "must" have pressed a couple of hundred at least? - wonder after all these years if there's a dusty box of them sitting in a loft somewhere?

AL FOSTER BAND - NIGHT OF THE WOLF (Very long intro)

I'm NEVER EVER going to mention that "group" again - lesson learnt

LOL, it was NEVER meant to be a popularity contest, personally i absolutely LOVE it to bits always have probably always will, but................It's certainly not my all-time favourite which i don't really have anyway. Actually i much prefer Jerry Blackshear - You are the one, a modern rarity which nobody has ever heard of and a good few more, but i DO find MSs (Mello Souls) utterly intriguing! Intriguing because before MSs blew me away i was ONLY into 70s and 80s (and The Impressions/Gaye) and the MSs actually changed my perception completely of NS and what i did and didn't like. Now I'm slowly delving further and further back into the past now my loves are mid to late 60s and especially some of those NS Monsters which id never have bothered with before hearing MSs. For me i thank MSs for that. OK, i am going to post "Which records are cheaper and better than Mello Souls?" Dax

Thanks Mal, yep think solved - sort of?,...................... May do as another post "Who hates Mello Souls?"

This topic is going off track now the post wasn't who likes Mello Souls and who doesn't? - Mal????

A few years ago a sweet little old man approached me in a supermarket on Christmas eve with his microwave Chicken dinner for one. He was obviously in for a chat, he kept asking me which pudding he should get, i chose a microwave a jam turnover thing and made "very" small talk with him wished him Happy Christmas and went about my business, i was at work and it was my lunch hour. It wasn't until a few days later i thought about him. I've never forgotten this and i WISH i had spent some time with him and engaged in some happy conversation. He may have had family and friends, but he may not have and TBH pretty sure he didn't. I think about that a lot especially over the Christmas period and i vowed never ever to do that again. In my line of work i meet many older folk and it really amazes me how many are alone and lonely not only at Christmas (albeit very magnified) but generally on their own throughout the year and of course many others young/middle aged (me!) either on the streets or in a particularly unhappy home environment (yes my heart bleeds for these poor children) So for me, i DO love Christmas Eve/Christmas day/Boxing day but i ALWAYS feel guilty enjoying myself - i shouldn't but i do. Probably FAR too deep for a NS Forum?? but just felt like sharing my thoughts.

Hi Hill868 Your correct, i was born way after those early days, so didn't know that was played, hence my "post" post comment. I said that simply to save face, ie if i feel id just put CM MOU down id get tonnes of negative comments for even mentioning that - Yep lack of confidence and knowledge is correct. D

Thanks all, your comments always make great reading, perhaps my questions 1 and 2 maybe unanswerable except 3 i.e how many copies - thankyou and interesting! They of course would have known the Supremes YKMHO, they obviously liked it enough. I always wonder if they actually just played the Supremes intro on a record player when then recorded it slightly sped up? Perhaps they thought we really like YKMHO a lot but felt they could make it so much better, Silas said i know we aren't the funk Bros and the studio isn't Hitsville and we are not The Supremes but we've got some great alternative lyrics and a different melody, we could make it a bit more upbeat beefy and raw and more "banging" - So glad they did.

Sorry, a few questions, probably common knowledge but not to me! For me it's the ultimate record to have ever surfaced and i think many others would agree. First heard by me only 5 or so years ago (yes i know) so after first hearing it still has those magic ingredients which make it so unique, the rawness, the story, the energy the music the vocals of course the elusiveness - I've NEVER had the joy of hearing this at a "function". 1. Is the intro performed by them or is it a "sample" from the Supremes? obviously quality of recordings is both very different, i really can't tell? 2. What is the instrument used? is it a guitar? 3. I understand there are 4/5/6? but did the group ever say how many copies were originally pressed? Just curious PS As time goes on, I'm starting to think that the 16K copy recently was an absolute bargain

And one for the Rare Groovers and funksters - JACKSON SISTERS - I BELEIVE IN MIRACLES

CURTIS MAYFIELD - MOVE ON UP - OK not technically NS but a stone cold classic.

Only works if the balls/water are moving if floating around. If perfectly still water it doesn't work, will freeze as tried this a couple of years ago with 3 ping pong balls - froze solid. D

Think they do!!!!!!!

Surely it's going to be Mello Souls? if there was a vote. Youd have to count the likes also.

Oh and Philharmonics i need i need your love

Connie Laverne - Can't live without you - short but great intro