Records that you’ve hunted for years – are they always a disappointment?
Posted by: jcs_smith on 02 November 2006
There are a few records that I managed to buy after searching for years and I think every single one I’ve played once and never played again. They always seem to be a disappointment – the chase is more exciting than the record itself. Recently I managed to get a copy of Sex Education Class by Clint Eastwood. It’s an album I should have bought nearly 30 years ago but somehow didn’t and have been looking for it ever since. In my mind it has grown into mythic proportions but when I finally got to hear it, it was rubbish. I know some things don’t age well but I can’t imagine it was ever any good. I don’t think I’ll sell it though – getting rid of records is anathema to me. That’s why I’ve got a record collection full of crap that I’ve never listen to.
Other records I’ve had this experience with have been Ogima Dub Slate by Black Slate – I heard one track in the early eighties and thought it was an awesome dub record. I listened to the whole album in 2004 and realise it wasn’t. The first Lifetime album – Tony Williams, John McLaughlin, Larry Young – how can you lose? Quite easily as it happens. Pete Namlook – New Organic Life 2. There’s a reason the initial run of 1000 was never repeated.
So come on what records can you confess to?
Other records I’ve had this experience with have been Ogima Dub Slate by Black Slate – I heard one track in the early eighties and thought it was an awesome dub record. I listened to the whole album in 2004 and realise it wasn’t. The first Lifetime album – Tony Williams, John McLaughlin, Larry Young – how can you lose? Quite easily as it happens. Pete Namlook – New Organic Life 2. There’s a reason the initial run of 1000 was never repeated.
So come on what records can you confess to?