The first of what should hopefully be an ongoing get together was all about our best purchases of 2024. Didn’t have to be a new release, just one that we had bought. The songs played will be the ITALIC ones on the track listings.
Bryn
American Woman – The Guess Who
Not a band I’m familiar with but I recognised the titular track from the Lenny Kravitz cover at the turn of the century. A bold move from Bryn playing a record that he knew the rest of the audience may not be familiar with. Who are The Guess Who?
Formed in Canada in 1965 under the leadership of singer/keyboardist Burton Cummings and guitarist Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive). With 12 studio albums released from 1969 to 1976 most of their success came in their native Canada whilst scoring 2 top twenty albums in America.
American Woman was the bands 6th album and was released in January 1970.
Track Listing
Side One
American Woman
No Time
Talisman
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
Side Two
969 (The Oldest Man)
When Friends Fall Out
8:15
Proper Stranger
Humpty’s Blues/American Woman (Epilogue)
Jimmy
Get Down to It – Steve Marriot
Known for being the singer/founder of seminal mod/rock band The Small Faces he later co-formed Humble Pie with Peter Frampton. I can see why Jim chose this as his favourite. He wants to be Steve Marriot and probably was back in the 1980’s!
This is a double compilation LP which takes us chronologically through the various phases of his fascinating and varied career and features many previously unissued tracks.
Released in 2018 and I’ll definitely be playing this one in full.
Track Listing
Side One
Give it All She’s Got – 1964
Shake and Fingerpop – 1966
Please Please Please – 1966
Comin’ home Baby – 1966
Plum Nellie/Baby Please Don’t Go/Parchman Farm/In the Midnight Hour/Wok Song (Medley) – 1966
Side Two
Wrist Job – 1969
Every Mother’s Son – 1969
Road to Ride – 1969
79th Street Blues – 1970
Get Down to It – 1973
We Can Work it Out – 1975
Side Three
Think – 1975
The Times They Are A Changin’ – 1975
Ruthy the Groupie – 1975
Are you Lonely for Me – 1976
Soldier – 1978
My Lovers Prayer – 1980
Side Four
Ain’t You Glad, New York Can’t Talk – 1982
Some Kind of Wonderful – 1987
I Never Loved a Woman – 1989
Oh Well – 1989
Bigger They Come, Harder They Fall (with Peter Frampton) – 1991
Verso
Snap! – The Jam
According to the rest of the group I went safe with this one. Probably fair but what an album. Released in 1983 just one year after the band split up, the double-album includes all sixteen of the band’s UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities.
It is arguably one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time.
Track Listing
Side One
In the City
Away from the Numbers
All Around the World
The Modern World
News of the World
Billy Hunt
English Rose
Mr. Clean
Side Two
David Watts
‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street
Down in the Tube Sation at Midnight
Strange Town
The Butterfly Collector
When You’re Young
Smithers-Jones
Thick as Thieves
Side Three
The Eton Rifles
Going Underground
Dreams of Children
That’s Entertainment
Start!
Man in the Corner Shop
Funeral Pyre
Side Four
Absolute Beginners
Tales from the Riverbank
Town Called Malice
Precious
The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
Beat Surrender
Coxy
Up Pompey! Live in Portsmouth – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Last but no means least was Coxy with a live LP from one of his (and my) favourite bands. Recorded on tour in 1993 in support of their UK Top 5 album ‘Post Historic Monsters’, this live album captures the band at the height of their powers.
Recently discovered in the archives, the show has been newly mixed from the original tapes by Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter and Dave Draper.
Track Listing
Side One
2 Million Rears B.C.
Spoilsports Personality Of The Year
Mid Day Crisis
My Second To Last Will And Testament
Rubbish
Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen
A Bachelor for Baden Powell
Side Two
Say It With Flowers
Do Re Me, So Far So Good
The Only Living Boy In New Cross
The Taking Of Peckham 123
Travis
Side Three
After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way)
Bloodsport For All
Lean On Me I Won’t Fall Over
Lenny And Terence
Side Four
Suicide Isn’t Painless
Sheriff Fatman
Stuff The Jubilee! (1977)
G.I. Blues
Well that is it from our first Vinyl Club and I’ll just leave you witha quote from Jimmy:- What a nice afternoon gents. Who would have thought us 4 could be so refined and without alcohol but coffee and a bit of cake . Fuck I am old!
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