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Hi Dale - Another great Lost in the collection video. I really enjoyed the ones where we have to guess which records you will keep and which ones will be departing the collection. It is a shame that your Work Commitments mean a pause in the series. I can’t get Sledgehammer out of my head and I keep getting flashbacks to the plasticine animations with a train etc etc. That Otis and Carla record looks great. I look forward to the return of this series in due course. Enjoy your summer. Cheers Bill

Grace Jones is a legend, check out her live performance at North Sea Jazz 2017, where she is swinging a hoola hoop around her waist while singing Slave to the rhytm at age 69, amazing!

I’ve tried with Tim Buckley but have never warmed to his records or his voice. I remember Julian Cope being a big fan. One of my sisters has passed on her Leonard Cohen albums to me so I’ll give him a try...

Hi Dale. The Grace Jones album is brilliant. I love the production on her 80’s Island records. They sound wonderful. I’ve just been saying in my latest video about the Buzzcocks comp. Everyone should own a copy. I really like the first three albums but, to be honest, I usually just go for the comp when I want to listen to them. Cheers

Some good stuff there. Ive spoken about Grace Jones many a time. Thats a great album, just a notch below her previous. That Buzzcocks is great, although slightly more of the same, 'I believe' is a great tune

Hello Dale! A little of Tim Buckley's voice goes a long way for me. He's one of those artists whose voice I think is wonderful, but find hard to listen to for a prolonged time. Rufus Wainwright is another. Although, I can listen to early Leonard Cohen without thinking his voice is whiny. Cheers - Hed

Quality ramble. Nuff said. Think I'd miss Leonard Cohen's voice doing his songs it's just so unique not that I like it all. I came home in an odd mood the other day I often ponder culls and listened to hex (a repress cost me about 20£ dramatically up in price) by bark psychosis very undecided about was it good or not. Rambling, discordant at times. I don't think summer music necessarily suits the summer to me. Too predictable. Fruit flying around Peter Gabriel's head again oh dear.

Hi dale always enjoy your monologues before we see any records😃. I enjoy any video you do so the length is never a problem, the highlights for me here were Grace jones and the buzzcocks. Cheers 👍

I just recently brought So back into the collection and I really enjoyed it The Grace Jones album is one of my all time favorite albums. It is so much fun and so danceable. Too me that is her best album. Nice records to rediscover again Dale

After four minutes of explaining I’m more confused. With a few exceptions I have gotten rid of my 80’s cheese. I have one Leonard Cohen and that is enough. I did mention the album So in my latest video, Ten Best Albums 1986.

Not sure I followed your rationale for no longer doing these videos Dale, but that probably says more about my stupidity than your logic..😂 I always loved Jeff Buckleys' version of Hallellujah ( actually more than, dare I say Leonards' original). I agree Morning Glory is a stunningly beautiful song..although I am quite selective with Tim Buckley..I loved his reading of Fred Neils' Dolphins. I don't own any Buzzcocks, I would buy them if I saw them, but I don't sadly. That Otis and Carla album is OK, my copy isn't great sounding, so I don't enjoy playing it. All the best with work, don't work too hard!.

I haven’t culled for years but I have stopped buying. Haven’t bought anything for a couple of months. I see this continuing tbh. No more fairs for a while. Not been in a shop for at least a month. Lost a bit of interest in collecting more. Got so much already Hope all is well Dale

I wouldn't be too disheartened making videos they do ebb and flow from time to time. The box set of Deidre sounds amazing.

That's a cool Kate Bush record. I'd love that Harmonia LP. I keep meaning to investigate Camera Obscura.

Cool ! Showing RSD finds way after the fact.. Love it ! There is such a glut of video's during that week, anyway. Interesting.. New Beth Gibbons and Camera Obscura , I will listen.. 😎

We all go through such periods Dale when it's hard to muster up the energy to record a video - I know I do which is why I could never stick to a schedule like many video makers. Most people online seemed to think RSD was good this year, but for me not so. I only picked up one item - post the actual day - and that proved to be a big mistake! That Inventions in Radio sounds intriguing, but not one I'd probably listen to again after it's initial play. The Harmonia album is excellent - not sure though that I'd be interested in the additional album of reworks though. All the best... Pete

Hi dale , I’ve listened to Beth’s album a few times while working but it’s not connected yet ..it may do in the autumn I’m not sure it has a summer vibe ☀️.. I know what you mean about getting back on the vc horse ..the vc is like the hotel California ,you can check out any time you please but you can never leave ..😃

Nice selection Dale. I'm really loving Beth Gibbons latest. Cheers Mike

Thanks for the new records (and CDs) update. I'm not familiar with any of them but they all sound interesting. I'll be interested to see the used records. Rock on Dale!

Hello Dale. I love the esoteric "music" you present. You definitely have your own corner on the VC, where your Bandcamp and other choices always intrigue. Invensions For Radio sounds fascinating. It clearly owes something to Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker's late 50s Radio Ballads. I was familiar with Barry Bermange's name as a writer of radio plays, after coming across him during the research for my masters thesis. But I wasn't able to source any of his plays. I'm not sure if by the time of the early 60s if the division in the BBC between the Radio Drama and Features department was still in place. Generally the output from both was very different, but at times the Drama department felt they were having their toes trodden on. Perhaps one of the best known BBC radio play productions is Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood broadcast in 1954, was actually a product of the Features department. I know the Radio Ballads was also a product of the Features Department, so it would be safe to assume Invensions For Radio also was. I did find a reference to Invensions For Radio in the book, British Radio Drama, but it's not a glowing endorsement. David Wade writes of the use of the Radiophonic Workshop in practice; "Radiophonics is, or ought to be, an immensely powerful aid to certain kinds of imaginative, invisible drama - creation sounds that never were to evoke worlds that might be; yet it has proved extremely difficult to produce convincing results, and this seems to be chiefly because electronic sound, being itself artificial, tends to dehumanise. This was apparent even in such remarkable features of the early sixties as Barry Bermange's Invensions For Radio, where a background of electronic sound set against snatches of recorded interview,though spellbinding to begin with, gradually bled the human voices of all meaning." We'll, there you go. I'm sure you might have a counter take, probably as your interest is primarily the landscapes. Or do you? As someone whose interest in Radio Drama waned after spending the best part of eighteen months listening to, researching and writing about radio plays a features, I'm not sure if I'd take to these Invensions For Radio? Sorry of the info dump, but I thought you might find it if interest. Cheers - Hedley

Sometimes it's good to take a break. I have heard you talk about Camera Obscura before, and I keep meaning to check them out but have yet to do it.

Some nice finds there. I really like that Harmonia record. I'm sure a Delia Derbyshire film was recently released - need to chase it down. Love looking at old footage of her being interviewed. It is rubbish that she was not credited on a lot of recordings. Have a nice weekend.

I liked the different filming location while the Dale den was being hoovered. 😅 Had not heard about the Inventions for Radio box set. Your description makes it sound very attractive. Hope all is well. Good to see you.

There is no record store that does RSD any more in Bakersfield. So skipping RSD has been made easy for me. Inventions For Radio sounds like a one time listen for me. Two at most. Similar to how I feel about comedy or spoken word releases. There were a few RSD releases that I was interested in. I only picked up one, Wall Of Voodoo Live. This release is not only good but I think the best RSD release I have ever picked up.

Nice pick ups Dale. Interesting to hear you explain about the Delia Derbyshire recordings..as you say, a cultural as opposed to musical experience. Never really listened to Camera Obscura, I should remedy that. All the best Rob.

Welcome back Dale - nice finds again 🎉

Good to see you back. I went to Hundred n the Sunday & picked up 300% Dynamite, Mark had pretty much sold. everything else I thought the Beth Gibbons single was incredible , but the album isn’t quite doing it for me at the moment, just streaming it. I own nothing by Harmonium..must arrest that!

Find that mojo Dale! I had just seen that Harmonia album and was wondering what it is about Krautrock. The cover design had grabbed my attention on it. I will have to stream some of that

I've followed Camera Obscura too. All things considered, I really wanted to like this new one, but I thought it pretty weak. The song writing sub par and the new keyboardist is no Carey Lander, who I reckoned was pivotal for the direction and sound of the band.

Nice pick ups Dale. That "Inventions For Radio" sounds right up my alley. A nice companion piece for the RSD Radiophonics Workshop CD boxset you mentioned. I've listened to a few clips on youtube. Very interesting!

Good to see you Dale. I really dig Harmonia's "Musik Von H" Reworks. I was lucky to find an original copy of the 74 release on Brain a few years back for $65. I think the price went up a bit since then. I did not even know the album when I bought it. Someone in the VC showed it about twelve years ago. How does it sound overall? Going to check out the Camera Obscura album. Thanks a lot D~ Rob/Boston

Hi Dale. I was only thinking this morning that you’ve been slacking with the VC videos recently. You need to do a few lunges to get yourself back in the swing of it. Nice pick ups. The CD that you showed sounds fascinating. Can you imagine the excitement of finding old tapes in Delia Derbyshire’s loft? It’s amazing that she clearly didn’t feel that there was any cultural value in the tapes. I’ll have to see if I can get a copy of the CD. Cheers

I'm sure that I will like Camera Obscura.. Will listen in a bit. Martin Barre's 1st album with Tull, he loves.. "Look Into The Sun" 😊 I was lucky to pick up The Blue Nile at Bill's during last winter. Sandy Denny is amazing, and I am on a Judee Sill kick as of late. "Oh Mercy" is so so good ! Now see, there you go.. Traffic ! This is why I like you, Dale ! Haha Thanks for mentioning "Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory" .. Evening Blue comes to mind. I need to revisit "Misplaced Childhood" Good ones ! Cheers from Nevada

stand up is a top 20 of all time for me - must check out the folk - the sound - i have all there catologue Jeopardy is strong as is Alll Fall Down

What is this VG bloody + all about? it drives me mad. Surely that makes it Excellent. Surely VG+ is the same as EX-, where does it end? EX++ is therefore better than mint, thats not possible.

Have to say I don’t like overly long albums, no matter how good the artist / band is. Not a fan of CD era albums being reissued on vinyl as 3 sided doubles either. I must give Oh Mercy another listen as people tell me it’s good. I like your habit of saving related magazine pages in the sleeves...

I think that I have heard you talk about Camera Obscura before and I still need to check them out. I was just playing that Bob Dylan on my recent road trip and I realized how much I loved the album as well. Swordfishtrombones is probably in my top five Waits albums too. You had some great relistens this episode. Take care.

Hi Dale, yes I certainly buy into Rob’s 5 + 5 and my optimum time is between 35 and 40, but I would also add 33 RPM. PiL seem to be drifting into 2 records at 45 rpm which should be a single album at 33rpm. Several artists also eg I recently picked up a Cramps record an album and it’s 45 rpm. So for me it’s single record 33rpm, 35 to 40 mins but not quite so worried about number of tracks eg 9 or 11 but agree optimum is 5+5. I love The Sound, great band, one of the finest post punk bands for me. I saw them for the first time in 1982 with The Comsat Angels, just brilliant. Adrian Borland went on to do some really interesting projects post Sound. There is a fascinating DVD about him called ‘Walking in Opposite Direction’ that is really worth seeing. Mike

Hi there Dale, I like longer epic tracks so don't agree with Rob on this (sorry Rob). Close to the Edge is only 3 tracks and it's the greatest album ever made, along with Magma's MDK which is basically just one track - though both are around the 38 minute mark. So your theory wins out over Rob's. However I do have single albums that are 50-60 minutes in length that are excellent. Does this only apply to studio albums? What about live albums, should they only be around 40 minutes? For me no, the live double album is a staple of rock - always disappointed when they are only singles eg Stones Ya-Yas and Focus's Rainbow albums. Cheers... Pete

Enjoyed this. Also love Camera Obscura. Current favourite is the new one by Dana Gavanski which is in a similar vein and reminiscent of the more recent stuff by Cate Le Bon. Its near perfect I reckon. Vital stats: 5/5 41:46 Cheers

Hi,Chris here(I share an email address with my wife). Love your channel but don't think I've ever felt like commenting before. Surely The Go-Betweens deserve a mention, near perfect at the old 5 and 5. Thanks to you I pulled out my Camera Obscura albums which I haven't listened to in a while. A real treat.

Hi dale thanks for investigating my concept on this video. We’ve also discussed Paul Weller albums which have been stretched over 2 records before ,but that’s a different conversation . I also missed the sound first time round I’m still not that familiar with them I know Mike pc 31 champions them .. cheers dale 👍

Dale, so you’re another spreadsheet person like Steve from All The Worlds a Stage. Some very good picks testing your hypothesis. Not familiar with Blue Nile, but will investigate soon. Cheers.

Hi Dale - I think you and Rob are both correct. When CDs emerged, I was happy with the added length, but it seems so many had filler or things that would have been b-sides. I am actively looking for early albums from the Sound and Blue Nile, but both are very difficult to find.

Hi dale fab Bert lp. A favourite blue Nile lp. Seen them live. Need some Sandy music. Great Bob Dylan one of my favourites. Brilliant traffic lp. Getting our favourite lps today. Love fish lp also brilliant choices.

It's an interesting concept for a video, although I have to say that I don't have a preference for album length, so long as it holds my attention. Amarok by Mike Oldfield is 1 hour exactly and can hold my interest as a single song if I'm in the mood. Some great titles Dale, Sandy is my favourite of hers. Stand Up is far less Bluesy than the debut after Mick Abrahams departure and sets the template for Anderson going forward into the 70s..Beautiful songs like Wait for The Sun and We Used to Know. I have Moonshine and enjoy it, although I've not played it that much. A Walk Across The Rooftops is a very atmospheric listen and works well with longer tracks. Agreed Oh Mercy! is a terrific album, Man in the Long Black Coat is one of my favourite Dylan songs. All the best. Rob.

The early Tull stuff is very good. That Blue Nile, Sandy D and even the Dylan are good albums to revisit. That was the last Dylan album that I listened to. I was not let down. I like the variety. Well done and thanks for sharing your revisit Dale~ Rob/Boston

I have a few like Blonde, that I keep too, but I can't remember the last time I listen to them. Cool video!

Hi Dale - there is always some tension with these videos while we wait to find out if you are keeping the record or not. I don't think I have any 7 o'clock in the morning albums! I am relieved that you are keeping Dazzle Ships 🙂

Hi Dale, I'm a little surprised about My Generation. Not their best album admittedly but still pretty good. VDGG you either love them or you hate them. I love them. Pleased you decided to keep Sparks.