Wow, talk about the heat. You know my feelings on Fisherman Blues, it still makes me emotional every time I hear it. I have slowly been finding OG Pixie albums, they are rare but I keep stumbling upon them. The first Waterboys- Big Music. Some wonderful pick up James
Thanks Steve, I remember very well your love for Fisherman Blues. It's taken me decades to find my first Pixies on vinyl, no idea why they are so much like hens' teeth here in the UK. The one I would really love to find is Trompe Le Monde, as that's the one I had on CD back in the nineties.
Hi James. Just been across to visit Robin at Todmorden Market; he stands there every Sunday. He really is a brilliant vendor. A few months ago I went to the record fair there and he had a copy of Steve Young's "Look Homeward Angel" which i really fancied but, for reasons unknown (senior moment?) I didn't pick it up there and then. After I'd let it prey on my mind for a few weeks I went back to pick it up and - horror of horrors - gone! After fairly and squarely kicking myself I asked him about it and he thought he may still have it at home and he'd taken it out to rotate his stock. Lo and behold he e-mailed be back to say I could collect it any Sunday when convenient. Picked it up today and he did me a fabulous deal - he actually knocked two quid off it even though he knew it was as good as sold already - and I took the opportunity to pick up a few other delights, He's a great guy (as is his Dad who helps on the stall) and no doubt I will be returning in the New Year for more. Have a wonderful Christmas and best of luck with your New Year crate digging!
Thanks Russ. Robin is a top bloke, and his dad too. They stand out there in all weathers, quite literally. They've cut me a lot of good deals over the years, and I've also traded a lot of records with them. Have a great Crimbo and new year.
You did well to find a 1st press of the Magazine debut in that condition for a tenner, James. The Light Pours Out of Me would always make my playlist on any UK punk, post punk for me.
I just recently heard Ha Ha Ha for the first time and loved it. I was surprised because I expected it would be more like the solo John Foxx stuff I knew. Most of their 80s records were on Chrysalis. Good video.
That’s the second Youngbloods album, their first from 1967 had the song Let’s Get Together which was a very popular song that became a hippie anthem as Jefferson Airplane covered it and was written by Dino Valenti from Quicksilver Messenger Service and was re-released in 1969 and was a top ten hit in the USA. I have a single from the Magazine album, Shot by Both Sides a great record got in the singles charts in 1978 and is a classic! There’s a great You Tube vlog of the song being introduced by Kid Jenson on Top of the Pops, plus an even better live version from a Belgium TV show 🎉
Splendid indeed James!. I love Velouria from Bosa Nova, fabulous song and that video of the band running over stones in slow motion, terrific..not up there with Doolittle and Surfer Rosa but a descent listen and as you say, tough to find. Real Life is terrific and yes, that was the album I showed, paid up a bit but it was well worth it. I was mad on House of Love 1989/90 and recall seeing them at the Hummingbird in Birmingham with my brother..Beatles and the Stones is probably my favourite. Spy in the House of Love is a great one too which gathers up b sides and curios. I love the deep cuts on Green like World Leader Pretend and The Wrong Child, played to death back in the day and world domination beckoned soon after. Very nice.
Thanks Rob. I got very mixed up somehow over Magazine - yes it was 'Real Love' you showed, but the one I'd been listening to was 'Second Hand Daylight'. Oh well, blame it on old age. Cool that you saw House of Love, a band that sort of passed me by (like REM) back in the day.
I feel like all I've been talking about on my channel is R.E.M. It's cool you're getting into them. I felt that way about XTC for the longest time. It's nice to discover a band like that, though. I have never seen a Pixies record in the wild. Excellent finds!
Hi James. Pretty much all of my top 10 favourite albums are records that I first heard as a teenager, with the exception of Fisherman’s Blues. I saw them play live at a festival a couple of years ago and I was moved to tears by their performance. I subsequently picked up Fisherman’s Blues (also for a tenner) and could not stop playing it. Wonderful. Absolutely, now one of my favourite albums.
Hey! Funny, I picked up The Youngblood's Elephant Mountain at York record fair last Saturday. I've been looking for a copy for a while, so I was well happy. It was their third album, and first after Jerry Corbitt left the band. They were a hard band to tie down, never really sticking to any one style of music. Their biggest hit was probably Grizzly Bear, which turns up on most country rock comps. I've got a couple of Jesse Colin Young's solo albums, which are nice folky bluesy country rock. I was a big Mike Scott fan in the mid 90s when he produced a number of very strong solo albums. At Glastonbury in '95, while all my mates were either watching Oasis or Massive Attack, I was in the acoustic tent watching Mike Scott. Glad you've overcome your aversion to R.E.M. Hed
Hi Hedley. I did find it difficult to pin down The Youngbloods and nearly included a needle-drop in the end to helps things along, but I ended up not doing. The record seemed very familiar to me when I clapped eyes on it. The Robert Plant cover on The Band of Joy album is rather fine.
Hi James, really jealous that you got Document. Although I originally only liked the three "big" songs, the rest has grown on me... Green is my all-time favourite R.E.M. It was also huge when I was a student and so was Fisherman's Blues. My friend Diarmuid had that album and I think I got on his nerves always requesting And a Band on the Ear, my all-time favourite Waterboys track. Excellent haul!
Hi James, great pickup of the Youngbloods album - good band and Darkness Darkness is a wonderful song (and covered by quite a few artists). Took me a long while to get into Magazine. A friend who knew my tastes well told me to give them a chance, and he was right. Have a few on CD, but only the live album on vinyl. Love the John Foxx era Ultravox, but I'm missing System's Of Romance on vinyl. I do like the Vienna album too but don't know the albums post that. All the best...Pete
Thanks Pete. I don't like all the Midge Ure Ultravox, but some of it is good. I'll try and organise myself to do a deep dive video on them at some point.
Hi James, fantastic set of pick ups, love those two waterboys and REM albums and as you mentioned I’m a big fan of the house of love and that is one of their best, but I’d say Babe Rainbow from 92 is even better, just been reissued if you are curious…
Wow. When it rains, it pours. The Pixies in the wild and The Waterboys! The albums look like they are in great condition too. I've never heard of Magazine so will need to check them out after watching your video. Great pick-ups!
Banging finds James. Can’t go wrong with Pixies on Vinyl! Or Waterboys mind. The House of love, was one of my lost… something or other bands from J. C’s challenge this summer Chuffed that you are chuffed 😊
Hi James Great selection of albums. I was a big fan of both the Waterboys and REM in the 80s. I always preferred the big music of the first 3 Waterboys albums to the later folk/country phase. I remember buying Fisherman’s Blues with great anticipation and being rather frustrated by it. It has always seemed very bitty to me, though its high points are great. I’ve been listening to The Fisherman’s Box, 6 cds chronicling the recording sessions for Fisherman’s Blues(some might think in rather unnecessary detail) and it becomes clear that it should have been a double album (at least!!) I like all REM albums up to Automatic For the People but my favourites have always been Reckoning, Life’s Rich Pageant and Fables of the Reconstruction. I really like the closing tracks on both Document and Green, a real contrast to their tighter poppier stuff. The Magazine album is a classic as is their second album Secondhand Daylight. Remember Howard Devoto being an absolute darling of the music press, his every utterance treated like the word of God🤣 A fantastic haul. Happy listening
Cheers Simon. I love Secondhand Daylight also, though only got that on CD. I love 'A Pagan Place' by The Waterboys. Don't know their later stuff at all. I really want to read Mike Scott's autobiography, need to track down a copy.
The back of the Waterboys record looks like my backyard if I squint. I heard that Magazine last week at the record store. I wish I had picked it up. I have a couple of REM records. I do have most of their albums on CD.
Great pickups! One never finds the Pixies in the wild in the US either -- except for Doolittle, actually. Probably explains why I have three copies for some reason. I have that House of Love on CD, it's the only album of theirs I've ever heard. I've always liked R.E.M., but I definitely like them a lot more in my old age than I did when they were at their commercial peak. I missed many opportunities to see them live, and it's a huge regret of mine.
Great pickups james. Lots of my favourites. Systems of romance. Magazine with the great John mcgeoch on guitar. Never did see em. Seen rem. thought not a stadium band. Fab waterboys. Got a couple of the pixies fine band.
I have that Youngbloods album on CD but have only listened to it once, I need to try it again. I've never listened to that REM but I know Tommy has strong feelings on it. Take care!
You picked up some great stuff. I’m a big fan of The Waterboys and I think that I am only missing one album in their catalog. My favorite is This Is The Sea with Fisherman’s Blues a close second. I have a double album “Best of” by The Youngbloods with one of the records misplaced somewhere in the collection. Maybe one day I will find it. Document is my favorite REM album and I found the vinyl this year as well.
I first heard about Magazine maybe ten years ago and got "Magic Murder and the Weather" and "The Correct Use of Soap" on mp3 downloads. I've never seen Magazine records or CDs in a shop. They're even hard to find online, eBay etc. Maybe my favorite Magazine song is "Suburban Rhonda." or a Song From Under the Floorboards
Fisherman’s Blues such a classic, but also really good to pick up the debut. As you say James you don’t see many Pixies records in the wild, so a must to pick up. I think I picked up Real Life virtually the day it came out, I absolutely love that album and indeed Magazine as a band. Huge fan of John McGeoch and his work with Magazine, Siouxsie, Armoury Show and of course a bit of Visage. I still haven’t cracked it with REM. Mike
Cheers Mike. The Pixies seemed a real wild-card of a find. For years I couldn't stand Michael Stipe's voice but I've learned to live with it now. Visage is a band I need to explore more.
Hey again James, Now when I see Waterboys shown I think of Shannon, as I learned of them through her. You have me intrigued by Magazine as well as looking further into Ultravox. The closest I have is a collaboration between John Foxx and Harold Budd. It's a nice feeling isn't it....coming around to an artist/group you never thought you would? -Carm
Ah yes, I remember Shannon talking about The Waterboys...I think she had read Mike Scott's autobiography, a book that's been 'on the list' for some considerable time.
Re: REM go on bear the odd grudge..... It was Out of time and particularly the singles that did it. Good to hear you enjoying all the music that's what it's all about (not that you didn't or were on the rocky road or anything). You can't really not enjoy Vienna only on holiday in Italy where I got a bit repetitive 'ooooooh Siena...... dunnnnn' I never saw The Waterboys because he was so slow of coming out of the acoustic tent onstage at Glastonbury we went off somewhere else........
Thanks Martin. Yes, Out of Time was the one that caused REM-overdose for sure. Am in no hurry to own/hear that one again. I bet Mike Scott was having a few too many drinkies.
The Youngboods did have a big hit in the U.S. (Get Together - written by a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service). They are somewhat infamous. I was the head writer of the Tonight Show. Before my time, the Youngbloods (supporting their hit) were invited onto the show. They were such assholes during the sound check that Johnny cancelled their appearance and sent them packing. Three Dog Night covered "Sunlight" off your album. Spectacular song. Love Magazine. I have most of their records.
Debut waterboys is wonderful A Girl Called Johnny was the single that no one heard - Fisherman's Blues excellent as is An Appointment With Mr Yates I which I will recommend
WOW! What a fantastic update video James; I absolutely loved this mate 😀🙌 Magazine’s ‘Secondhand Daylight’ is coincidentally going by the title my second fav album of all time 💚 Definitely worth seeking out a copy mate; as it is such a tremendous album from start to end and I always found Magazine are a great cult band both studio albums & singles too; I been streaming ‘Real Life’ a lot lately! The Waterboys are an awesome band bud; ‘This Is The Sea’ is another one of my fav albums of all time 🖤 I need to pick up a copy of their first album TBF 👍 So pleased you have warmed to R.E.M James; ‘Green’ was my introduction to them as a studio album band and I absolutely fell in love with it; admittedly took me a while to get round to picking up some of their other albums; but the 80’s and into the 90’s; they for me were on a streak of home runs; ‘Document No.5’ being one of them 😊👍 I love Ultravox’s first couple of albums mate; ‘Systems Of Romance’ is very underrated IMO; one that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough?! Have a fab weekend James mate; really awesome pick-ups my friend and the HOL are amazing band; the first trio of albums are all masterpieces 🙌 Take care buddy and also Teenage Fanclub were absolutely great on Thursday night when they played Newcastle 😀🎸🍿🎶
Great video. Real Life is one of my favourite albums - used to listen to it on a Sony Walkman when they came out! It vies with Correct Use of Soap as my favourite Magazine album of the 3 (the fourth is not full Magazine). Yes it defines Post Punk beautifully. Perhaps the honour of the first Post Punk lp goes to the Stranglers for the outrageously brilliant Black and White which came out slightly earlier in 1978 than Real Life. Best track? My Tulpa (for me).
Thanks Henry, I do appreciate you tuning in for these rambling excursions. I wouldn't have had you pegged as as Magazine fan, we should chew the cud over post-punk classics when next we meet over a pint or two.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic I would love to do that James. I was mad about them from the start. And I went to all the comeback concerts which were truly moving. John McGeoch absent of course.... The greatest post punk guitarist.
Check out the recent TH-cam geek-guitar interview with Johnny Marr on the 'That Pedal Show' channel - it's really fascinating and in that he namechecks McGeogh as a crucial influence.
Pixies in the wild!!, you found a white unicorn looking for shelter in the Griffiths stables. I think its fine to say grail or graily in the context of Waterboys. I remember seeing these plentiful in the racks years ago so didn't bother. Its good to see them getting the recognition these days but difficult to find as a result. I did have the chance to buy 3magazine LPs for a tenner a while back but someone just got in there before me and I didn't have the cash!! Systems of romance is a fave of mine, two copies. You can really here the battle of guitar Vs synths, a unique turning point in music at that time I think. 'Just for a Moment' is one of my all time faves and a monster classic for me (so much so I now have to rush n listen to it...back now). I feel the same about REM, I think way back I overdosed on Out of time and Automatic and left it there. A great 'haul' as they say. Room for another box under the stairs, cheers
Hi Stevie....I see to be having a run of luck with unicorns at the moment, but they're now all being groomed and cared for. 3 Magazines for a tenner? Sounds like the kind of thing my dodgy cornershop newsagents might offer.
I'm not sure I've ever seen that Waterboys debut; they are a band that completely escaped me in the 80's though I've since discovered their next albums, got Fisherman's Blues on CD for sure. Not kept up with their later output however. Also Ultravox are not a band I've delved into all that deeply though I do have their Quartet LP around. REM are hit and miss for me, some very catchy songs (a couple of annoying ones as well, Stand being one I don't care to hear again), gorgeous harmonies but a bit mumbly and deliberately inscrutable at times. Nice finds, cheers!
The late eighties/early nineties REM definitely seemed to specialise in overly catchy pop...I wasn't fond of a lot of those songs back in the day and I'm still not, but the earlier records seem more ambiguous (both musically and lyrically). Ultravox are very much a career of two-halves, but more of that in due course. Cheers Doug!
Ultravox certainly developed pretty fast from a punky sub-Roxy Sound to swishy synth romanticism. I guess the Midge era Ultravox naturally developed from that point into something more poppy, but still synth heavy. I love John Foxx’s solo albums and am still missing the second Ultravox album. I definitely have a soft spot for REM too but would be happy never to hear Losing My Religion ever again.
Thanks John. Yes, I never need to hear anything from 'Out of Time' again. The only 'mega-success-era' REM song I never get tired of 'Man on the Moon', which I even bought on CD single back when it was released despite not being able to stand REM.
I wonder how long it takes before Fisherman's Blues becomes a genuine classic album instead of cult classic. It's brilliant. I've always favored warner period REM, but am not really a big fan.Albums like Automatic are superb. I've been on the hunt for Real Life for years. I must admit it's been surprisingly difficult to find, even online. Never checked House Of Love because i have mixed them up with some second rate hard rock band. It's weird, but sometimes those weird reasons become the deciding factor. And Vienna is indeed a great song/single. Pasi
Interesting...a second-rate hard rock band called House of Love? Now you've got me curious. On a tangent, there's a Squeeze song called 'House of Love'. In fact I think Robert Plant did one too. Thanks Pasi.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic No, i wasn't clear. There was another band that i got mixed up with House Of Love, it's name was something similar. House Of Gods??
Hi Matthew. To be honest I haven't really paid much attention to the recent Beatles releases. I know some of the Blue remixes haven't found favour with the fans. I'm happy with the versions I've had in my collection for decades and don't need to buy them again!
Top 10 Beatles Tracks 1/ Hey Jude. 2/ strawberry fields. 3/ Something. 4/ Don’t let me down. 5/ Eleanor Rigby. 6/ Get Back. 7/ Come Together. 8/ Paperback Writer. 9/ Happiness is a warm gun. 10/ While my guitar gently weeps.
Some nice picks
Thanks for sharing
You're very welcome sir.
Wow some awesome pickups there James great stuff
Cheers Jamie!
Wow, talk about the heat. You know my feelings on Fisherman Blues, it still makes me emotional every time I hear it. I have slowly been finding OG Pixie albums, they are rare but I keep stumbling upon them. The first Waterboys- Big Music. Some wonderful pick up James
Thanks Steve, I remember very well your love for Fisherman Blues. It's taken me decades to find my first Pixies on vinyl, no idea why they are so much like hens' teeth here in the UK. The one I would really love to find is Trompe Le Monde, as that's the one I had on CD back in the nineties.
Hi James. Just been across to visit Robin at Todmorden Market; he stands there every Sunday. He really is a brilliant vendor. A few months ago I went to the record fair there and he had a copy of Steve Young's "Look Homeward Angel" which i really fancied but, for reasons unknown (senior moment?) I didn't pick it up there and then. After I'd let it prey on my mind for a few weeks I went back to pick it up and - horror of horrors - gone! After fairly and squarely kicking myself I asked him about it and he thought he may still have it at home and he'd taken it out to rotate his stock. Lo and behold he e-mailed be back to say I could collect it any Sunday when convenient. Picked it up today and he did me a fabulous deal - he actually knocked two quid off it even though he knew it was as good as sold already - and I took the opportunity to pick up a few other delights, He's a great guy (as is his Dad who helps on the stall) and no doubt I will be returning in the New Year for more. Have a wonderful Christmas and best of luck with your New Year crate digging!
Thanks Russ. Robin is a top bloke, and his dad too. They stand out there in all weathers, quite literally. They've cut me a lot of good deals over the years, and I've also traded a lot of records with them. Have a great Crimbo and new year.
Some great finds 🎉
Cheers.
You did well to find a 1st press of the Magazine debut in that condition for a tenner, James. The Light Pours Out of Me would always make my playlist on any UK punk, post punk for me.
Made my day when I found that Gavin, amazing.
A cracking stack of records there, James. Never see that House Of Love album about. Nor the Magazine. 👍👍
Yeah, felt like a double-whammy of good luck there!
Hi James, some great buys there, faves for me would have to be Fisherman's Blues and Green, two absolute classics in my book - Lloyd
Cheers Lloyd, yes both bangers for sure.
I just recently heard Ha Ha Ha for the first time and loved it. I was surprised because I expected it would be more like the solo John Foxx stuff I knew. Most of their 80s records were on Chrysalis. Good video.
Thanks Joe, I'd forgotten the eighties Ultravox were on Chrysalis.
That’s the second Youngbloods album, their first from 1967 had the song Let’s Get Together which was a very popular song that became a hippie anthem as Jefferson Airplane covered it and was written by Dino Valenti from Quicksilver Messenger Service and was re-released in 1969 and was a top ten hit in the USA. I have a single from the Magazine album, Shot by Both Sides a great record got in the singles charts in 1978 and is a classic! There’s a great You Tube vlog of the song being introduced by Kid Jenson on Top of the Pops, plus an even better live version from a Belgium TV show 🎉
Splendid indeed James!.
I love Velouria from Bosa Nova, fabulous song and that video of the band running over stones in slow motion, terrific..not up there with Doolittle and Surfer Rosa but a descent listen and as you say, tough to find.
Real Life is terrific and yes, that was the album I showed, paid up a bit but it was well worth it.
I was mad on House of Love 1989/90 and recall seeing them at the Hummingbird in Birmingham with my brother..Beatles and the Stones is probably my favourite.
Spy in the House of Love is a great one too which gathers up b sides and curios.
I love the deep cuts on Green like World Leader Pretend and The Wrong Child, played to death back in the day and world domination beckoned soon after.
Very nice.
Thanks Rob. I got very mixed up somehow over Magazine - yes it was 'Real Love' you showed, but the one I'd been listening to was 'Second Hand Daylight'. Oh well, blame it on old age. Cool that you saw House of Love, a band that sort of passed me by (like REM) back in the day.
Nice haul James. Love that magazine Lp. Have just recorded a punk new wave albums video which includes that Lp and shed loads of others. Cheers,Chris
Thanks Chris. Always enjoy your punk/post-punk videos so will look forward to that.
I feel like all I've been talking about on my channel is R.E.M. It's cool you're getting into them. I felt that way about XTC for the longest time. It's nice to discover a band like that, though. I have never seen a Pixies record in the wild. Excellent finds!
Sometimes it's good to fall down a rabbit hole with a particular artist. Pixies records are like hen's teeth here in the UK.
Hi James. Pretty much all of my top 10 favourite albums are records that I first heard as a teenager, with the exception of Fisherman’s Blues. I saw them play live at a festival a couple of years ago and I was moved to tears by their performance. I subsequently picked up Fisherman’s Blues (also for a tenner) and could not stop playing it. Wonderful. Absolutely, now one of my favourite albums.
Cheers John. I wish I'd managed to catch The Waterboys back in the prime, must have been an amazing experience.
Hey! Funny, I picked up The Youngblood's Elephant Mountain at York record fair last Saturday. I've been looking for a copy for a while, so I was well happy. It was their third album, and first after Jerry Corbitt left the band. They were a hard band to tie down, never really sticking to any one style of music. Their biggest hit was probably Grizzly Bear, which turns up on most country rock comps.
I've got a couple of Jesse Colin Young's solo albums, which are nice folky bluesy country rock.
I was a big Mike Scott fan in the mid 90s when he produced a number of very strong solo albums. At Glastonbury in '95, while all my mates were either watching Oasis or Massive Attack, I was in the acoustic tent watching Mike Scott.
Glad you've overcome your aversion to R.E.M.
Hed
Hi Hedley. I did find it difficult to pin down The Youngbloods and nearly included a needle-drop in the end to helps things along, but I ended up not doing. The record seemed very familiar to me when I clapped eyes on it. The Robert Plant cover on The Band of Joy album is rather fine.
Hi James, really jealous that you got Document. Although I originally only liked the three "big" songs, the rest has grown on me... Green is my all-time favourite R.E.M. It was also huge when I was a student and so was Fisherman's Blues. My friend Diarmuid had that album and I think I got on his nerves always requesting And a Band on the Ear, my all-time favourite Waterboys track. Excellent haul!
Cheers Richard - great you're a fan of Bang on the Ear, also my all-time favourite Waterboys songs. The lyrics in the verses are beyond sublime.
Hi James, great pickup of the Youngbloods album - good band and Darkness Darkness is a wonderful song (and covered by quite a few artists).
Took me a long while to get into Magazine. A friend who knew my tastes well told me to give them a chance, and he was right. Have a few on CD, but only the live album on vinyl.
Love the John Foxx era Ultravox, but I'm missing System's Of Romance on vinyl. I do like the Vienna album too but don't know the albums post that.
All the best...Pete
Thanks Pete. I don't like all the Midge Ure Ultravox, but some of it is good. I'll try and organise myself to do a deep dive video on them at some point.
Hi James, fantastic set of pick ups, love those two waterboys and REM albums and as you mentioned I’m a big fan of the house of love and that is one of their best, but I’d say Babe Rainbow from 92 is even better, just been reissued if you are curious…
Thanks Ross. I have three HOL LPs but yes I will check out Babe Rainbow also. Good idea to do the REM video.
Wow. When it rains, it pours. The Pixies in the wild and The Waterboys! The albums look like they are in great condition too. I've never heard of Magazine so will need to check them out after watching your video. Great pick-ups!
Thanks for joining me! Magazine have a very interesting sound, worth hearing.
Some great pick ups...Magazine and pre-midge Ultravox in particular. Magazine are one of those bands whose music never tires.
Cheers..need to check ot more Magazine!
@@jamesgriffithsmusic always felt that Second Hand Daylight was their finest hour. Their live album 'Play' is a bit good too. But Real Life is fab!
Banging finds James. Can’t go wrong with Pixies on Vinyl! Or Waterboys mind. The House of love, was one of my lost… something or other bands from J. C’s challenge this summer
Chuffed that you are chuffed 😊
And I'm chuffed in return, thanks!
Hi James
Great selection of albums. I was a big fan of both the Waterboys and REM in the 80s. I always preferred the big music of the first 3 Waterboys albums to the later folk/country phase. I remember buying Fisherman’s Blues with great anticipation and being rather frustrated by it. It has always seemed very bitty to me, though its high points are great. I’ve been listening to The Fisherman’s Box, 6 cds chronicling the recording sessions for Fisherman’s Blues(some might think in rather unnecessary detail) and it becomes clear that it should have been a double album (at least!!) I like all REM albums up to Automatic For the People but my favourites have always been Reckoning, Life’s Rich Pageant and Fables of the Reconstruction. I really like the closing tracks on both Document and Green, a real contrast to their tighter poppier stuff. The Magazine album is a classic as is their second album Secondhand Daylight. Remember Howard Devoto being an absolute darling of the music press, his every utterance treated like the word of God🤣
A fantastic haul. Happy listening
Cheers Simon. I love Secondhand Daylight also, though only got that on CD. I love 'A Pagan Place' by The Waterboys. Don't know their later stuff at all. I really want to read Mike Scott's autobiography, need to track down a copy.
Hello James. Excellent recent finds! Lovely condition all around. Notable finds with The Waterboys and REM as well. Well done! Enjoy. Cheers!
Thanks Chris, yep was really pleased with this particular haul.
The back of the Waterboys record looks like my backyard if I squint. I heard that Magazine last week at the record store. I wish I had picked it up. I have a couple of REM records. I do have most of their albums on CD.
Can't believe I've waited till I'm 52 to get into REM. Better late than never.
Great pickups! One never finds the Pixies in the wild in the US either -- except for Doolittle, actually. Probably explains why I have three copies for some reason. I have that House of Love on CD, it's the only album of theirs I've ever heard. I've always liked R.E.M., but I definitely like them a lot more in my old age than I did when they were at their commercial peak. I missed many opportunities to see them live, and it's a huge regret of mine.
Thanks Dave. I spent too many years avoiding REM. I would have liked to have seen them during the Document/Green era.
Great pickups james. Lots of my favourites. Systems of romance. Magazine with the great John mcgeoch on guitar. Never did see em. Seen rem. thought not a stadium band. Fab waterboys. Got a couple of the pixies fine band.
Cheers George. John McGeoch's name comes up a lot, obviously very influential.
I have that Youngbloods album on CD but have only listened to it once, I need to try it again. I've never listened to that REM but I know Tommy has strong feelings on it. Take care!
Thanks Sam. That Youngbloods album is pretty good. REM are a new experience for me, but I'm growing into them for sure.
You picked up some great stuff. I’m a big fan of The Waterboys and I think that I am only missing one album in their catalog. My favorite is This Is The Sea with Fisherman’s Blues a close second. I have a double album “Best of” by The Youngbloods with one of the records misplaced somewhere in the collection. Maybe one day I will find it. Document is my favorite REM album and I found the vinyl this year as well.
Thanks Randy, I remember your fondness for The Waterboys.
I first heard about Magazine maybe ten years ago and got "Magic Murder and the Weather" and "The Correct Use of Soap" on mp3 downloads. I've never seen Magazine records or CDs in a shop. They're even hard to find online, eBay etc. Maybe my favorite Magazine song is "Suburban Rhonda." or a Song From Under the Floorboards
Yes, they're definitely a hard band to track down on vinyl...like a lot of that late seventies post-punk British music.
Fisherman’s Blues such a classic, but also really good to pick up the debut. As you say James you don’t see many Pixies records in the wild, so a must to pick up. I think I picked up Real Life virtually the day it came out, I absolutely love that album and indeed Magazine as a band. Huge fan of John McGeoch and his work with Magazine, Siouxsie, Armoury Show and of course a bit of Visage. I still haven’t cracked it with REM. Mike
Cheers Mike. The Pixies seemed a real wild-card of a find. For years I couldn't stand Michael Stipe's voice but I've learned to live with it now. Visage is a band I need to explore more.
Hey again James, Now when I see Waterboys shown I think of Shannon, as I learned of them through her. You have me intrigued by Magazine as well as looking further into Ultravox. The closest I have is a collaboration between John Foxx and Harold Budd. It's a nice feeling isn't it....coming around to an artist/group you never thought you would? -Carm
Ah yes, I remember Shannon talking about The Waterboys...I think she had read Mike Scott's autobiography, a book that's been 'on the list' for some considerable time.
Magazine: What a band!!!
Real Life: What an album!!!
Both statements true!!
Ooh got an lovely original copy of Real Life a few months ago. Hope I can find the 2nd album Secondhand Daylight at some point. Nice finds.
Another great one, and again not that easy to find!
Re: REM go on bear the odd grudge..... It was Out of time and particularly the singles that did it. Good to hear you enjoying all the music that's what it's all about (not that you didn't or were on the rocky road or anything). You can't really not enjoy Vienna only on holiday in Italy where I got a bit repetitive 'ooooooh Siena...... dunnnnn'
I never saw The Waterboys because he was so slow of coming out of the acoustic tent onstage at Glastonbury we went off somewhere else........
Thanks Martin. Yes, Out of Time was the one that caused REM-overdose for sure. Am in no hurry to own/hear that one again. I bet Mike Scott was having a few too many drinkies.
The Youngboods did have a big hit in the U.S. (Get Together - written by a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service). They are somewhat infamous. I was the head writer of the Tonight Show. Before my time, the Youngbloods (supporting their hit) were invited onto the show. They were such assholes during the sound check that Johnny cancelled their appearance and sent them packing. Three Dog Night covered "Sunlight" off your album. Spectacular song. Love Magazine. I have most of their records.
Great story, that's quite an impressive credential to have!
Debut waterboys is wonderful A Girl Called Johnny was the single that no one heard - Fisherman's Blues excellent as is An Appointment With Mr Yates I which I will recommend
Thanks John, looking forward to listening to the debut Waterboys.
WOW! What a fantastic update video James; I absolutely loved this mate 😀🙌 Magazine’s ‘Secondhand Daylight’ is coincidentally going by the title my second fav album of all time 💚 Definitely worth seeking out a copy mate; as it is such a tremendous album from start to end and I always found Magazine are a great cult band both studio albums & singles too; I been streaming ‘Real Life’ a lot lately! The Waterboys are an awesome band bud; ‘This Is The Sea’ is another one of my fav albums of all time 🖤 I need to pick up a copy of their first album TBF 👍
So pleased you have warmed to R.E.M James; ‘Green’ was my introduction to them as a studio album band and I absolutely fell in love with it; admittedly took me a while to get round to picking up some of their other albums; but the 80’s and into the 90’s; they for me were on a streak of home runs; ‘Document No.5’ being one of them 😊👍 I love Ultravox’s first couple of albums mate; ‘Systems Of Romance’ is very underrated IMO; one that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough?!
Have a fab weekend James mate; really awesome pick-ups my friend and the HOL are amazing band; the first trio of albums are all masterpieces 🙌 Take care buddy and also Teenage Fanclub were absolutely great on Thursday night when they played Newcastle 😀🎸🍿🎶
Great comment Sam, thanks! Always great to hear from you and glad you enjoyed the selection. Bought some good stuff since making this video also!
Great video. Real Life is one of my favourite albums - used to listen to it on a Sony Walkman when they came out! It vies with Correct Use of Soap as my favourite Magazine album of the 3 (the fourth is not full Magazine). Yes it defines Post Punk beautifully. Perhaps the honour of the first Post Punk lp goes to the Stranglers for the outrageously brilliant Black and White which came out slightly earlier in 1978 than Real Life. Best track? My Tulpa (for me).
Thanks Henry, I do appreciate you tuning in for these rambling excursions. I wouldn't have had you pegged as as Magazine fan, we should chew the cud over post-punk classics when next we meet over a pint or two.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic I would love to do that James. I was mad about them from the start. And I went to all the comeback concerts which were truly moving. John McGeoch absent of course.... The greatest post punk guitarist.
Check out the recent TH-cam geek-guitar interview with Johnny Marr on the 'That Pedal Show' channel - it's really fascinating and in that he namechecks McGeogh as a crucial influence.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic will do, thanks James
You lucky duck with Document
And Green!
Pixies in the wild!!, you found a white unicorn looking for shelter in the Griffiths stables. I think its fine to say grail or graily in the context of Waterboys. I remember seeing these plentiful in the racks years ago so didn't bother. Its good to see them getting the recognition these days but difficult to find as a result. I did have the chance to buy 3magazine LPs for a tenner a while back but someone just got in there before me and I didn't have the cash!!
Systems of romance is a fave of mine, two copies. You can really here the battle of guitar Vs synths, a unique turning point in music at that time I think. 'Just for a Moment' is one of my all time faves and a monster classic for me (so much so I now have to rush n listen to it...back now). I feel the same about REM, I think way back I overdosed on Out of time and Automatic and left it there. A great 'haul' as they say. Room for another box under the stairs, cheers
Hi Stevie....I see to be having a run of luck with unicorns at the moment, but they're now all being groomed and cared for. 3 Magazines for a tenner? Sounds like the kind of thing my dodgy cornershop newsagents might offer.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic James, is John Bellamy ok? I haven't seen him around for ages?
Yes he's fine, had a chat with him a couple of weeks ago. He's traded making VC videos for doing lots of exercise.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic Thanks for letting me know
I'm not sure I've ever seen that Waterboys debut; they are a band that completely escaped me in the 80's though I've since discovered their next albums, got Fisherman's Blues on CD for sure. Not kept up with their later output however. Also Ultravox are not a band I've delved into all that deeply though I do have their Quartet LP around. REM are hit and miss for me, some very catchy songs (a couple of annoying ones as well, Stand being one I don't care to hear again), gorgeous harmonies but a bit mumbly and deliberately inscrutable at times. Nice finds, cheers!
The late eighties/early nineties REM definitely seemed to specialise in overly catchy pop...I wasn't fond of a lot of those songs back in the day and I'm still not, but the earlier records seem more ambiguous (both musically and lyrically). Ultravox are very much a career of two-halves, but more of that in due course. Cheers Doug!
Ultravox certainly developed pretty fast from a punky sub-Roxy Sound to swishy synth romanticism. I guess the Midge era Ultravox naturally developed from that point into something more poppy, but still synth heavy. I love John Foxx’s solo albums and am still missing the second Ultravox album.
I definitely have a soft spot for REM too but would be happy never to hear Losing My Religion ever again.
Thanks John. Yes, I never need to hear anything from 'Out of Time' again. The only 'mega-success-era' REM song I never get tired of 'Man on the Moon', which I even bought on CD single back when it was released despite not being able to stand REM.
Yes Man on the Moon has stood up fairly well.
I wonder how long it takes before Fisherman's Blues becomes a genuine classic album instead of cult classic. It's brilliant. I've always favored warner period REM, but am not really a big fan.Albums like Automatic are superb. I've been on the hunt for Real Life for years. I must admit it's been surprisingly difficult to find, even online. Never checked House Of Love because i have mixed them up with some second rate hard rock band. It's weird, but sometimes those weird reasons become the deciding factor. And Vienna is indeed a great song/single.
Pasi
Interesting...a second-rate hard rock band called House of Love? Now you've got me curious. On a tangent, there's a Squeeze song called 'House of Love'. In fact I think Robert Plant did one too. Thanks Pasi.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic No, i wasn't clear. There was another band that i got mixed up with House Of Love, it's name was something similar. House Of Gods??
Is that the album from the house of love with ‘the beatles and the stones makes it good to be aloneeeee?
Yes that's the one.
Good video James. Any verdict on the red and blue albums? Are they worth a purchase?
Hi Matthew. To be honest I haven't really paid much attention to the recent Beatles releases. I know some of the Blue remixes haven't found favour with the fans. I'm happy with the versions I've had in my collection for decades and don't need to buy them again!
@@jamesgriffithsmusic yes understand that.
Top 10 Beatles Tracks 1/ Hey Jude. 2/ strawberry fields. 3/ Something. 4/ Don’t let me down. 5/ Eleanor Rigby. 6/ Get Back. 7/ Come Together. 8/ Paperback Writer. 9/ Happiness is a warm gun. 10/ While my guitar gently weeps.
Hi can I ask ,how do you afford all these LP’s in today market .
None of these records was expensive.