It's Gene Simmons from the band Kiss

Hi Darren, Looks like you were in the right place at the right time. It's great when that happens isn't it. You'll like that Kate Bush CD. It's one of my all time favourites... of all time. The whole album is beautiful. I can float away to that very well. That Roadrunner compilation looks interesting. Back in the day they used to have the 'Stop the Madness' emblem printed on the back of their album covers which was an anti drugs campaign. 👍

Nice pick ups! It's great to be at the right place at the right time. Never seen that Kiss compilation before & I collect imports. Glad you got to see their reunion tour. I saw them as well on that tour. 😊

Hi Darren that’s what call a productive lunch time .. CDs are so cheap these days I’m also always grabbing them .. Kate bush , foo fighters, and plenty more to investigate. I have that Steve miller album it’s a nice compilation.. Thanks for sharing

Congrats on your great haul of nice albums for this awesome price - I think, it was seven pounds. ;-)

The great thing about low priced used CDs is that one can be a lot more exploratory when picking up albums that look interesting. If you don't like it, then you are out very little money, but if you love it, then you know you can spend a little bit more when you run across another album later. Great pick ups! Can't beat the price either.

Awesome pick ups 👌great stuff

Gilbert O'Sullivan is a very underappreciated singer/songwriter, especially in North America, in my opinion. You do see his albums everywhere, but that is mostly because he is not classed in people's minds as a songwriter, aka Dylan or Prince, but I've always thought his songs were well composed and his lyrics very inspired. Even when he was in his prime, I respected his music while everyone else seemed to make a bit of fun at him, at least where I grew up. When I mention his name as a great singer/songwriter, people still kind of look at me sideways. Thank you for featuring him on this video. Royal Republic sounds interesting, I'll give them a listen. Nice find with the 4 Slade singles. I really like the Steeleye Span albums I hear, but currently have none in my collection though I do see them from time to time. I do like their more traditional folk sound. Nice find with the Snowy White single, that's something you would never see in North America. Great pick ups, quite a variety, and I love variety.

Jim Reeves has been my favorite singer since the first time I heard him on radio in the 1960s. To me, he is the best singer to ever make a recording. He is a hero to me.

Mr. Bad Guy has Curt Cress on drums from Passport. One of my biggest influences, bigger than Bonham, next to Ian Paice.

My fave is Easy Action - not sure who really wrote those songs but it is a very sophisticated album and the singing is superior. I had a patient who was surprised I knew so much about the old band. Her Babysitter was Dennis Dunaway's wife, Christie. She made the early stage clothes for the band. Easy Action! Got a rocket in my pocket! Refrigerator Heaven! Shoe Salesman...wow that was above the pay grade of most bands. Mr and Mrs Demeanor. Rocked my world at age 15.

I was going to say that. What no Tigertailz 😮

Love the video Darren. Just an idea: instead of going through all the monthly haul; pick 4-5 and give a bit of information of the album/artist (bit of a Wikipedia) to give some idea of the item.

Dada is 1983, not 1982.

Trash was 1989, 1987 was Raise Your Fist and Yell.

How about Young and crazy by Tigertailz and the 1983 self-titled debut album by Bridgend punks The Partisans, both absolute classics

Hi Darren, I had no idea Roger Glover was Welsh. Wow, has it really been 10 years since Lemmy died. And Steve Strange... he's another one that I did not know was Welsh. So what was the Welsh metal band you couldn't recall the name of? I'd guess it was either Budgie or Tigertailz.

Looks like you've got a great show lined up. I'll be camping in Norfolk later this week. I'll try to catch your show if I have internet access. Fingers crossed. Cheers

I'll check out the rock show. I like the Badlands Voodoo Highway album and I remember the Come out and play record with the pop up cover, got some great tracks on it

Hi Daren, I quite enjoy your monthly roundup videos. Another way you could get round the long videos is to just select your top five pickups and show those. It would perhaps make for shorter videos maybe. Well done with getting that Alice Cooper cassette. Cheers

Darren, something I can't understand, is the three part documentary about the history of country music by Ken Burns that did not even mention JIM REEVES, nor Marty Robbins or Faron young... I was born 1944 so I was a fan of Jim's in my early teens. I remember vividly the day in 1964 I heard about the death of Jim Reeves, such a major loss to all of his fans.

Thanks for this tribute to the greatest singer ever god put breath in. RIP Jim.... Darren, You are saying words that millions of Jim Reeves fans would agree with completely. I remember one of Jim's albums saying on the back cover, Jim Reeves recordings were not just words and music, but a memorable event, I concur with this... I have 113 of Jim's songs at this time in my favourites list, and still come across another one from time to time, I can add to it.

Hi Darren. I liked the video. I'm not familiar with Jim Reeves. He died the year I was born. But I'm going to a Record and CD Festival in Jacksonville tomorrow. If I run across one of his albums, I'll pick it up. Also, I can relate. For me, it was Tom Jones at a very early age and then later KISS. I could easily be seen wearing a KISS t-shirt talking about Tom Jones records 😊

My mother can remember Jim reeves on the radio. I was introduced to his LP, at the age of 10. He made a film called Kimberley Jim.

G’day Darren , I think you’ll find the face looking through the door is Dallas Taylor the drummer 😎👌🥁

Hi Darren! As I have said earlier, it is always so informative watching your videos, but here we have some albums I also own and love (I have to check out the others)! Here we go: The Eric Clapton - "MTV Unplugged" I own for a long time and it is still great! You will have joy with this for decades to come! I am ashamed to say, that I like the Foo Fighters very much, but I don't own one album by them, yet. I have to check them out on record - maybe a Best-Of at first. I'm a huge fan of Motörhead and I have seen them several times. It is still kind of surreal to think that Lemmy is no longer with us. So, I own most of the band's albums, but "Overnight Sensation" was still missing in my collection and I bought it last month for almost the same price as you paid for it - converted to Euros of course. Great album! The collection of the Stones is a great compilation! I think, you can't ever go wrong with the Stones! Twisted Sister is always great and I own their albums, except one - I'm searching desperately for "Under The Blade"! But everywhere I look, they sell it for a ridiculous price. I will not pay 50 - 70 Euros for a LP or CD, even if I like the album very much! I think, I have to wait for a reissue - which will come sooner or later, I'm sure. Having said all this, I, as well, only buy records (be it CDs, LPs or cassettes) I like! I don't buy just to have some more albums in my collection (I still find the term "collection" a little misleading for my music collection - here is the word again... LOL - it is simply the soundtrack to my life! But since it is so difficult - at least for me - to come up with another short term for this life-soundtrack, I probably go with "collection" as well. ;-) By the way, I am rebuying my stolen (yes, they were stolen from me in the late 80s) albums by Plasmatics and Wendy. O. Williams and today was a good day, because I have found a collection of three early (78/79) EPs by the Plasmatics as a reissue on one LP! 😀Even if I like the later Plasmatics and Wendy's solo work more, it is a great record! It is called "The VICE SQUAD Recordings 1978-1979". If you like this kind of music (punkish metal), check it out, if you like. Have a great time and I am looking forward to your next video!

I highly recommend Larry Jordan's book. It follows Jim's life almost day by day. It's the most honest and open book I ever read.

I saw Jim, Chet Atkins, Bobby Bare, The Anita Kerr Singers with The Blue Boys (Leo Jackson, Henry Strzelecki, Dean Manuel and Kenny Buttrey) in Oslo, Norway, on April 15, 1964. Great performance by Jim particularly. It's to find on KZbin.

Jim Reeves had the smoothest voice on records Always one of my favorites. Listen to "Am I losing you?"......

Thanks you for covering this! One of my favorite singers, my mom and I listen to him every morning! May he rest in peace awesome guy

Hi Darren I'm very pleased that you brought he's anniversary to me as l truly love Jim Reeves up until today we use to play his songs when l grew up my parents used to play all his songs especially the album,We Thank Thee and l love all his music may his Soul Rest in Heaven God Bless you❤❤🙏

Hi Darren. WoW ! Jim Reeves. My favorite Lp by Jim is "The Country Side Of Jim Reeves". For your info, Jim was credited for actually saving RCA records, NOT ELVIS, from almost bankrupsy, entirely on record sales alone, far outselling Elvis. What a voice.

I’ve known people who put Reeves up there along with people like Elvis. One of them even visited from overseas to his home town and met his parents or surviving parent. This was around 1970.

I own all of Jim's songs plus all his sheet music

DARREN, THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING HIS 60th ANNIVERSARY IN HEAVEN. IT MEANS A LOT TO HIS FANS. LOVE YOU MUCH ❤

Thank you for mentioning my 672-page book, "Jim Reeves His Untold Story." FYI, I updated the book in 2018 and it's available worldwide in print or ebook versions on Amazon. I notice you are a big vinyl fan and you mentioned the old "duets" which combined Jim's voice with Patsy Cline. Over the years I have produced a series of CDs for EU and Canadian labels that feature previously unreleased recordings by Jim. We've used big league pro musicians and background singers, including Grammy Award winners, to overdub many of these tracks. FYI, we also used new technology to produce two NEW duets ''That's My Desire" and "Have You Ever Been Lonely." Unlike in the analog days, with its limitations, we were able to get Reeves and Cline to harmonize with each other. Among the releases I've produced are Jim with the Nashville Symphony, songs that were not known to exist like "How Many Tears From Now" (which we gave a bluegrass feel; it was a demo recording), and "I'm A Hit Again," which Jim recorded in his basement studio at home a few days before his death. This was long rumored to exist but nobody could find a copy of it and Mary Reeves never released it. But I tracked it down and we recorded the overdub in the SAME basement studio where the song was born. (Jim's former home is now owned by a Nashville musician/producer). So it was truly historic. The latest CD is "Jim Reeves His Country Roots" which consists of demos we've overdubbed. Jim envisioned himself as a perennial favorite and as you probably read in my book, he told Mary what he hoped she would do if something happened to him: overdub his music to keep it sounding "current." In fact, though he didn't believe in life insurance, he told his wife that his unreleased recordings were her "insurance." Hence Jim Reeves is the only artist in the history of recorded music to score 34 charted hits AFTER his death. Nobody else has done that; not Elvis, not the Beatles. Of the scores of songs by Jim I've updated (including a new version of "Distant Drums" with a beautiful orchestral arrangement by Milton Smith, whom Elvis hired shortly before he died), it hit #1 again on radio playlists worldwide. I knew Mary for 33 years, from the time I was a teen, and am confident that she would be very happy that Jim's legacy is still being honored. -- Larry Jordan

Jim Reeves is my favourite singer.

I love jim Reaves ♥️ ❤️ ❤

I quite like Jim Reeves, such a good deep voice. For some reason, I've long thought that a song like "The Merry Christmas Polka" would fit a spooky scene in a horror movie well, oddly enough... :-]

Great pickups Darren! Art Garfunkel's solo stuff is excellent. I believe that cut in the cover was where the library put the long card where they stamped the date it was taken out then returned. Just a guess... 😂

But does they sound better than the original CD releases which I've always thought sounded flat?

I love Alice's so-called blackout era, to me it's much more adventurous musically and lyrically than the later metal Alice. Have that old Special Forces LP too with the non-album song which always baffled me, always loved it in fact there are some days I think these early' 80s releases are actually his best last albums... ;)

these are the TWO BEST Alice Cooper LPs after BDB "That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life" should be covered by Metallica

I agree you should do weekly videos instead of once a month. People seem to have a short attention span trying to get thru a 20-30 minute video. I watch your videos all the way through regardless. 😊👍 Collector's Choice Music is a great label. I used to get their catalogs in the mail. They definitely release exclusive albums with bonus tracks. Pretty sure they're still around & can ship to the UK... Hopefully. 🤞

Never knew about these. Many thanks! I like the new direction you're going in🤘

The OG albums are the best. Solo is only 1/5 as good, no matter what anyone thinks, once you get to solo Alice….just meh.

Not arf , Hello Pop Pickers , its Smashie hear but I have lost Nicey until now , not arf. On the Polydor Label its Bachman Turner Overdrive , let's rock. BFN ( Bye for now ).

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Hi Darren some nice finds I particularly liked that 1940 bbc album. I’ve never seen one of those before Thanks for sharing 👍

Happy to see DaDa this high on the list. Such an underrated album!