Artists you have sadly neglected ....

Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 05 June 2011

Now I like folk, progressive rock, psych and other music too; I have around 3,000 albums and have been collecting them since Ipswich Town won the old first division under the greatest manager of them all: Sir Alf Ramsay (apologies I digress).

 

However, I sometimes start listening to an artist that I had never really bothered about before and realised what a mug I've been.

 

The artist in question this time is Roy Harper. Having bought Stormcock I'm amazed at how good this record is both lyrically and musically: I must have been living in Receded to have missed this all those years. 

 

So are there artists you have discovered decades after you could have done? If so who are they?

 

And if you happen to be a Roy Harper fan then please could you recommend some of his other studio outings. 

 

Many thanks to you kind sirs, and m'ams too

 

All the best, Guy 

Posted on: 16 June 2011 by PJT

Haven'y listened to Bowie for years and years, but my lad has discovered him and is now running all but continously,,,

And yes still good, provided we are allowed to crank up the volume:-)

Posted on: 17 June 2011 by Gale 401

I am going to neglect this 19 cd box set.

The amazon seller wants £1,500.00 for it.

The price is bad enough, but he wants another  £1.26 on top for post.

That is a step to far in my book.

 

Posted on: 17 June 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Perhaps if you contacted him he'd knock off the odd 26p. 

 

The box set is great, but Sandy's best work is the three 1969 Fairport albums, her debut and the follow-up called Sandy. Of all them Sandy is the one I like best, but that is like being asked which diamond out of the five your prefer. You can get all of these records on vinyl for a fraction of the price that rip-off merchant is asking. 

 

The box set is beautiful and the recommended retail price was fair around £7.50 per CD and you get a nice hardback book and some other interesting stuff, but £1,500 is ..... 

 

I've seen Shirley Collins records at inflated prices too

 

None of this profiteering goes to the artist or in Sandy's case her estate. 

 

All the best, Guy 

Posted on: 18 June 2011 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:
Originally Posted by Gale 401:

The Kinks 2011 release of Arthur on vinyl 

Not just me it seems, those awfully nice Amazonian folk seem to have overlooked my copy too  - perhaps this deserves another thread: what is the longest you have waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited for somebody to fulfil an order. 

My Paul Simon new release arrived on June 14th following a pre-Order in March!

Posted on: 22 June 2011 by Guido Fawkes

Excellent record though. 

Posted on: 23 June 2011 by JamieL_v2
Well slightly different to music, I pre-ordered two model rail engines around ten months ago, and they have gone from due 'Nov/Dec', to 'Spring 2011', to 'On, or after 1st June' (which I liked the idea of) and they are now listed as 'June/July'. Maybe by this Christmas?
Originally Posted by GraemeH:
Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:
Originally Posted by Gale 401:

The Kinks 2011 release of Arthur on vinyl 

Not just me it seems, those awfully nice Amazonian folk seem to have overlooked my copy too  - perhaps this deserves another thread: what is the longest you have waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited for somebody to fulfil an order. 

My Paul Simon new release arrived on June 14th following a pre-Order in March!

Posted on: 23 June 2011 by Gale 401

Jamie,

You should of just ordered one,It would of turned up and the other would of been behind it a few mins later.

Posted on: 29 July 2011 by El Guapo

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