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Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working (original by Ann Cole)

You must! :D I am moving premises soon actually, into the Royal Arcade in Boscombe.. next to the Post Office and opposite Cafe Nero! I will have a LOT more stock, having just bought a job lot of 2000 LP's/45's, and will also be doing CD's :) It's a two-story unit so my brother in law is running upstairs (new) and I'll be downstairs (vintage). Should be open in around 3 weeks!

I run a record shop so am surrounded by it day in day out :lol:

My favourite Beefheart song. R.I.P.

Agreed :D

3. Donovan - Hurdy gurdy man 4. Small Faces - Tin soldier 6. Four Tops - If i were a carpenter 9. Herb Alpert - This guys in love with you 10. Lemon Pipers - Green tamborine 11. Sly and the Family Stone - dance to the music 12. Cupids Inspiration - Yesterday has gone 13. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense peppermints 14. Timebox - Beggin 19. Monkees - Valeri 22. Gun - Race with the devil 23. Kinks - Days 26. Nirvana - Rainbow chaser 28. Status Quo - Pictures of matchstick men 30. Otis Redding - Hard to handle 33. Isley Brothers - This old heart of mine 34. Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower 35. Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends 38. Paper Dolls - Something here in my heart (keeps a telling me no) 40. Showstoppers - aint nothin but a houseparty 41. Dusty Springfield - I close my eyes and count to ten 42. John Fred and his Playboy Band - Judy in disguise 43. Bandwagon - Bringing down the walls of heartache 44. Cream - Sunshine of your love 46. Love Affair - Everlasting love 47. Brenton Wood - Gimmie little sign 48. Beach Boys - Darlin 53. Canned Heat - On the road again 59. Dusty Springfield - Son of a preacher man 60. Bonzo Dog Doo dah Band - Urban spaceman 64. Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer 69. Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash 70. Dione Warwick - do you know the way to san hose 73. Otis Redding - My girl 77. Diana Ross and the Supremes - Love child 84. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - I second that emotion 88. Love Sculpture - Sabre dance 95. Manfred Mann - Mighty Quin 98. Otis Redding (Sittin on the ) dock of the bay 102. Richard Harris - Mc arthur park Love all of these :D

I would recommend Safe As Milk, it's his first album and is kind of more Delta blues influenced, but 'Electricity' is on there, which features a theremin, and there's a song called 'I'm Glad' which is a complete curveball, being as it is a stunningly affecting soul song. Dropout Boogie is a classic too

Oh no :( I was just talking about her with my mate the other day, I had a Slits LP (Cut) which I sold in my record shop, and she was saying how I should have kept it back for her as she's a massive Slits fan. Devastating. R.I.P.

Fantastic! Cheers for posting this Mark, I'm a total 60's freak :D

Have been watching this and really enjoying it so far. Emma's Imagination was great tonight, and deservedly through to the final.

My sister and her fiance showed me this a few weeks ago after they saw it on Starz, we all thought it was the biggest load of $h!t to trouble the airwaves since Crazy Frog. Hopefully it will flop horribly.

Thank you mate :D I've only ever been to Barnstaple once and that was when I was very small, nice to know that there's a record shop there! Good to know that there are still a few HMV's left stocking new vinyls too, it's so hard to find new indie/alt-rock 7's :angry: The nearest to me is Square Records in Wimbourne, which is a great little independent although unfortunately with very little vinyl!

I do indeed know Twyford :D There used to be an amazing record shop in Wokingham actually when I was around 14/15 (1997/8) called RP Music but it closed down around 10 years ago, which was a $h!tter :( I used to vertially live in there, they sold vinyl and CD's but it was a little before my interest in vinyl started! Also, a bit before my time, but when my sister was growing up in the late 80's/early 90's there was a record shop next to Woolies in Wokingham called Mark One, it was really old-school and had listening posts and stuff. Oh if only these places were still there! Ah the Sound Machine is amazing yeah, does the same guy still run it? Asian/mixed race bloke? I used to spend a lot of time in there buying promo CD's as I used to review stuff for a mate's website. Do they still sell vinyl? Apparently there is a place in Reading up Oxford Road, past Broad Street Mall etc, that sells second hand vinyl and CD's too, although I never got around to looking for it :lol: Fopp was always pretty good as well, and Virgin Megastore before it became Zavvi <_< Yeah making a decent amount of money is hard work, but I kind of work at it all the time - texting or e-mailing different contacts if I think I've got particular records they'd like, advertising and promoting etc.. I try and do everything, and buy in stock, as cheaply as possible though. I don't have any overheads as I just rent a basement off a mate who runs a vintage clothes shop and he takes care of the bills, plus the rent is very affordable (£35 a week, which I can sometimes make in a day). Once I move on to my own premises it'll be twice as much expenditure so I'm hoping to stick where I am until I save up enough for a shop of my own and build up my stock. It's definately more for me about the music than the money though, I just like the fact that I'm providing a service to people and keeping the vinyl flame burning :D

It was always my dream job too, I'd wanted to do it for years and years, ever since I left school. Things only really started to happen for me when I moved 3 years ago though, I found Berkshire (Wokingham in particular) very frustrating in terms of opportunities. You should come work with me, you're only a couple of counties away :D The only bad side of running a record shop is that you get chancers coming in trying to sell you piles of utter crap for something ridiculous like a couple of hundred quid, when it's three dozen country & western compilations on budget labels <_<

Like what I've heard so far, anything that's swaddled in lo-fi haze is always a winner with me. Plus anything with that 'Be My Baby' girl-group drum sound.