A good friend of my wife told her that she's got a bunch of old vinyl that she's getting rid of and wanted to know if I wanted to look through it. Of course, the answer to that was ... "Yes!"

In the first crate she brought over, I found the following gold:

Combat Rock - The Clash

Planet Waves - Bob Dylan

Last Date - Emmylou Harris

some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you - Ian Matthews

Little Criminals - Randy Newman

Be What You Are - Staple Singers

Fisherman's Blues - the Waterboys

I Love the Way You Love - Betty Wright

She's got two more boxes she's going to bring me. Can't wait to see what's in there. Anybody else on here run across any treasure like this, lately?

That's awesome...Planet Waves is totally underrated.

You might have some gold if that's one of the first pressings. The original Combat Rock had a toilet bowl cleaner commercial (Tidy Bowl?) on "Inoculated City," which they had to remove due to copyright issues.

Whoa....i never knew that. Then again, I haven't really listened to Combat Rock a whole lot, more of a fan of the early stuff, but that's a cool little bit of random Clash trivia.


I found a vinyl copy of U2's Zooropa at Encore in Ann Arbor when I was in selling some stuff today on my way back to Chicago. I didn't even know they had pressed vinyl copies...needless to say, a bit of freaking out and $9 later (and a long drive), it's currently spinning in all it's 33 1/3 RPM glory. God I love this album.

Some more trivia about Combat Rock. Apparently the toilet commercial (2000 Flushes) reappeared on the remastered CD version.

It was originally planned to be a double album called The Rat Patrol From Ft. Bragg, and Mick Jones produced the first version in 1981. Here's the original tracklist from boots/torrents obtained:

1. "The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too" - 3:45
2. "Kill Time" - 4:58
3. "Should I Stay or Should I Go" - 3:05
4. "Rock the Casbah" - 3:47
5. "Know Your Rights" (extended version) - 5:04
6. "Red Angel Dragnet" - 6:12
7. "Ghetto Defendant" - 6:17
8. "Sean Flynn" - 7:30
9. "Car Jamming" - 3:53
10. "Inoculated City" - 4:32
11. "Death Is a Star" - 2:39
12. "Walk Evil Talk" - 7:37
13. "Atom Tan" - 2:45
14. "Overpowered by Funk" (demo) - 1:59
15. "Inoculated City" (unedited version) - 2:30
16. "First Night Back in London" - 2:56
17. "Cool Confusion" - 3:10
18. "Straight to Hell" (extended version) - 6:56

Second wave, today (finally!):

Dig this first one:

Louie, Louie - Kingsmen ... a forty-five on the Eric Records label signed by all of the Kingsmen! interestingly, the b-side is the Isley Brothers' single of Twist and Shout.


Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne

what's going on - Marvin Gaye

The Best of Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen, as well as, Rice University Marching Owl Band, Richard Berry, Rockin' Robin Roberts, The Sonics, The Sandpipers, The Last, Black Flag (!), Les Dantz and his Orchestra, and The Impossibles, all performing Louie, Louie ... also signed by all of the Kingsmen

Then things get really cool:

Robert Frost reads his poetry (1958)

Basil Rathbone reads Edgar Allan Poe (1960)

Dylan Thomas reading A Child's Christmas in Wales and five poems (1958)

The Caedmon Library of 4 Modern Poets: W.H. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot ... these recordings appear to have been made in either 1953 or 1955

Elektra Records (in cooperation with Folkways Records) presents The Folk Box, 4 Twelve-inch High Fidelity Long Play Records, Illustrated 48 page book. ... 1964

btw, the bottle of discwasher i've had for who knows how long is getting pretty dang close to empty. anybody know where to find any record cleaner, in this day & age?