Wrong Speed Pal!
Started playing this earlier. The music started and I thought “Oops, this sounds a bit wrong!” Lol. Thought it was a #45RPM – nope, it’s a 33! Jim: Alvin and the Chipmunks style was very entertaining. Lol #SimpleMinds #vinyl
Category: music
Now Playing – Ghostdancing 12-inch
New #vinyl day #SimpleMinds
Now Playing – Let There Be Love 12-inch
Another #vinyl day today 🙂 #SimpleMinds
Smash Hits Reviews of Sparkle in the Rain and singles – 1983/84
Sparkle In The Rain era reviews in Smash Hits magazine through 1984. Waterfront achieved the high praise of “single of the fortnight”. Ooh!!
7-inch Vinyl Hoard – Part 4
Part four (final part…not sharing photos of ALL the singles!) of my Simple Minds 7″ single hoard. I sssooo want to make a clock out of the Kick It In cover. Lol.
7-inch Vinyl Hoard – Part 3
Part three of Simple Minds 7″ singles hoard. A lovely limited edition, numbered copy of Stand By Love, with lovely poster (Jim is bloody hawt!!) that is ssssooo going up on the wall WHEN I GET FRAMES!! (if ever I get any frames!)
7-inch Vinyl Hoard – Part 2
Part two of Simple Minds 7″ single hoard. Ooh, I do love that Kaleidoscope flexi-disc. It’s sssooo flimsy! Probably TOTALLY unplayable, but it looks wonderful! :-))
7-inch Vinyl Hoard – Part 1
Haven’t really shared many photos of my SM hoard of goodies I picked up last week. Here is part one of the 7″ single swag – 41 of them in all! Some are copies of the same single, but sourced from a diff. country or have some other kind of desirable/rarity attached to them, so…
Billy Idol did not reject DYFAM – It was never offered to him!
I saw this on Tumblr – and I had to correct this erroneous urban legend. wraparoundcurl: This morning I went to breakfast with my mom and bro before they left town. So I’m spacing out and the table across from us, this guy is telling his friends (incorrect) trivia about The Breakfast Club. At one…
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Red Starr’s Change of Heart – Real To Real Cacophony reviews from Smash Hits 1979-1980
Two reviews of Real To Real Cacophony by Red Starr in Smash Hits magazine, late 1979. The first one (on blue page) give a somewhat disparaging but ultimately positive review and a rating of 8/10. The second review betrays the dismissive tone of the first and is utterly glowing and is rate 9.5/10!! I don’t…