Me & my 12 inches

[lazyitus]

I was having a good delve last night.

I came across several old classic 12" vinyls. Those were the days eh?

Blue Monday - New Order (What a tune, and I believe it to be the best selling 12" ever)

Rage Hard - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Brilliant and very 'of the era')

What were your fave 12 inches?

[unrepentant]

Mrs U was only saying the other day that it's a long time since she was able to delve around and lay her hands on a 12 incher.

[GregE240]

<deep breath>

The original 12" of Relax
Pump up the Volume - the rare (withdrawn) version with the transformer scratched sample of S.A.Ws "Roadblock" in it
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Stone Roses - Fools Gold (9'53") / What the World is Waiting For
Snap - The Power
DJ Mark the 45 King - The 900 Number
James Brown - The Payback Mix

Couple to be getting on with......

[alexkp]

Good thread!

As I recall, Blue Monday was the biggest selling 12" ever.

I had many of the Frankie Goes To Hollywood 12" remixes...

Depeche Mode and Erasure did some great 12" remixes and extended plays too. "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence" and "Stop!/Nocking On Your Door" from the Crackers International Xmas 12" Album were great.

Also liked the 12" of "Suburbia" by the Pet Shop Boys.

And Howard Jones did a 12" Album - brilliant.

[Mr E]

Moby - Go.

Some bastard nicked it at a house party.

[GregE240]

Blue Monday......

Spontaneous, polite applause people.



Timeless. I only listened to it on Wednesday night.

[chim_knee]

GregE240 said:

DJ Mark the 45 King - The 900 Number

So.... are you guilty of ever doing "the dance" to this one......

.... or does no-one know what I'm going on about?!

>> Edited by chim_knee on Friday 17th December 11:20

[GregE240]

chim_knee said:

GregE240 said: DJ Mark the 45 King - The 900 Number So.... are you guilty of ever doing "the dance" to this one...... .... or does no-one know what I'm going on about?!

Of course!! First year University, it was rude not to.

[lazyitus]

Mr E said:

Moby - Go. Some bastard nicked it at a house party.

Thats two of us.

I had the black and the white coloured cover versions. Both went A.W.O.L !

[cosmoschick]

lazyitus said:

Blue Monday - New Order (What a tune, and I believe it to be the best selling 12" ever)

Btw...thanks again, Greg(E240). I just couldn't stop playing it yesterday evening!

[GregE240]

No problem at all, Cosmos.

Great band, but nothing quite eclipsed it, did it? Technique is a superb album with some gems on it (Run2, Fine Time) but Blue Monday is still "The Daddy"

[pzero64]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Oh dear.

What next, Nik Kershaw?

[GregE240]

No, not Nik Kershaw.

Happy Mondays - Wrote for Luck - Oakenfold Remix

[Bez]
Maraccas at the ready......

[900T-R]

Must have about 6-700 of them. A pretty sizeable part of it is nosebleed Rotterdam hardcore techno stuff best used for annoying the heck out of everyone within a 1 mile radius after a bad day (I volunteered to do the 'hardcore' review section of the dance music magazine I worked for 'cause no one else would do it), but I'm sure there must be some real treasures in there - I think I have that double EP of CJ Bolland as a white label, got pretty much everything of New Order, a white label of what's believed to be the Netherlands' very first genuine house record (A-Men 'Pay The Piper' - the first project of Roxy deejay Eddy De Clerq and pop journo Gert van Veen, who later landed big club hits as House Of Venus -'Dish and Tell'- and Quazar 'The Seven Stars' the latter of which I incidentally got, too) a lot of Depeche Mode, a couple from Yello, a sh*tload early Simple Minds, one or two Moby white labels, the original Trax recording of Phuture's 'We Are Phuture' (sadly not 'Acid Trax'), M.A.R.R.S. 'Pump Up The Volume', both 'Theme'and 'Superfly Guy' of S-Express, and and and...

[Plotloss]

A 12" Acetate of Radiohead - Street Spirit (Perfecto Remix)

Sample never got clearance.

[Lostboys]
I am always on the look out for the other two...
[/Lostboys]

[GregE240]

Plotloss said:

A 12" Acetate of Radiohead - Street Spirit (Perfecto Remix) Sample never got clearance. [Lostboys] I am always on the look out for the other two... [/Lostboys]

Well, come on then. There must be more than one. Your collection puts mine to shame, and thats saying something.

When you're ready...

[Plotloss]

I've not got much vinyl as I never had decks as such, its all oddities.

Leftfield - Song Of Life (Chems Remix) 10" Vinyl
U2 - Lemon 10" Yellow Vinyl - never been played
Stone Roses - Fools Gold 9.53 Gold Vinyl
Keith whathisname - Vindaloo (Darren Emerson Glasto Remix)

Couple of acetates

Mainly stuff on Perfecto or by Ferry Corsten

[lazyitus]

900T-R said:

the original Trax recording of Phuture's 'We Are Phuture'

Have this on LP, the one with 'L L L L Like this' after it?

[alexkp]

pzero64 said:

anonymous said: [redacted] Oh dear. What next, Nik Kershaw?

Isn't musical taste a funny thing?

I have always really rated him as a musician (he was Royal College of Music), and as a pioneer of electronic music - he was one of the very first to use synths as instruments rather than sound effects machines.

I think his first album "Human's Lib" is outstanding, even today.

And the 12" album was great too, leading as it did with "Things Can Only Get Better".

[GregE240]

Plotloss said:

I've not got much vinyl as I never had decks as such, its all oddities. Leftfield - Song Of Life (Chems Remix) 10" Vinyl U2 - Lemon 10" Yellow Vinyl - never been played Snap Stone Roses - Fools Gold 9.53 Gold Vinyl Snap Keith whathisname - Vindaloo (Darren Emerson Glasto Remix) Couple of acetates Mainly stuff on Perfecto or by Ferry Corsten

Small world. Also got a sealed plastic covered 12" of "World in my Eyes" thats never been opened. Its worth a bit, I'm informed.