I picked up my best mates' record collection...what did I get??..🤔

[@billvinyl-lists4572]

Hi Rob - a great video and well done on the effort to salvage many of these amazing records. I love the Readers Digest Swinging Sixties box set - you should have read out some of the tracks. Nice copy of the Great Rock’n’roll swindle. I’m reading a Gorman biography of Malcolm McLaren at present (800 pages) which suggests that single album was released about a year before the film was released. Quite a varied collection thanks for sharing. Cheers Bill

[@robison5396]

Cheers Bill Great to hear from you, hope you're keeping well. Sorry I didn't read the tracks out on the boxset, pretty standard top 10 hitsand some no 1's from each respective year. Very pleased to get the Pistols records and the PIL 12"...John Lydon hated the GRARS and wanted nothing g to do with it..

[@DaveCotterell-jt4rh]

Hi Rob, so pleased that you salvaged as many as you could, this took me back in time when I watched this!

[@robison5396]

Hi Dave My apologies, I wrote a reply to your comment but it doesn't appear to have saved??..thanks again for the records, it was fun and hard work in equal measure cleaning them up...I only wish I could've salvaged more.

[@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147]

What a nice collection and you have one of my favorite Talking Heads album. So good. Great looking records and most are Steve approved Rob.

[@robison5396]

Oh Steve, it was gutting having to throw out so many great records..this collection was so up your street.

[@pc31thevinylpoliceman]

Well done Rob, nice bit of salvaging! I love those PiL generic 12” releases, and all the artwork Mott’s greatest hits is excellent. that goes around the Album release. Ended up with some really good additions to the collection. Mike

[@robison5396]

Cheers Mike ' Salvaging' was definitely the word here!..yes happy with what I saved. Thanks for watching.

[@carltweed942]

Hi Rob. I watched this on TV last week, so I couldn't post a comment at the time. You did well saving some of these. I'm fond of 'Here Come The Monkees'. It was the first Monkees album I got.

[@robison5396]

Wow, watched on TV..fame at last!..thanks Carl, yes Here Comes The Monkees is a decent comp, although I think have at least another 2 on CD.

[@vinylmartini3377]

Glad you were able to salvage those records Rob. A labour of love to be sure. A few decent titles in there. Cheers.

[@robison5396]

Thanks Jack! rewarding yet heartbreaking, so many great titles lost..but a good few saved and they were free at the end of the day

[@statictraveller]

I still have a look in record sleeves just in case something nice pops up... It is a shame that you had to dispose of so many. A pretty good collection of early seventies folk and rock arrived in my local charity shop last week, which was initially quite exciting. However, they were all from a smoker's house, so I only took a couple. Along with mould, it's the other thing that makes a lot of records undesirable. The discs might be OK, but the smell takes over everything. A few years ago, I tried a technique of putting damp smelling LPs in a black bin liner with a dish of bicarbonate of soda. After a couple of weeks, though the mustiness was not altogether gone, there was a definite improvement.

[@robison5396]

Alan, it was heartbreaking, original punk singles from the late 70s, Metal and UK Post punk, some possibly highly sought after, but they were just destroyed, so what can you do??..glad to have at least preserved what I could, the Pistols and Elton Programme in particular, thats' history right there... Thanks for the advice on the deodorising of sleeves, a few of them smell pretty fusty, so I'll be giving that one a try for sure..!. Thanks for watching it all...

[@gatefold33]

From what you described you did well to salvage so many Rob, and did a good job to get them looking so clean. I do have some musty records from a car boot find a few moths ago and the smell is reducing just from being out of a damp environment it seems (or I'm getting used to it). Weather has just turned wet here...

[@robison5396]

Yes, even just letting the sleeves dry out completely makes a difference..hoping I've done the right thing with the rubbing alcohol..I guess time will tell.

[@Harrispilton22]

Wonderful to see ‘Spotlight On Status Quo’ as it was the first record I ever bought December 27th 1981...I bought it in Debenhams for 99p..along with a Barron Knights album. Their some great stuff on Spotlight ‘Pictures’ & ‘Ice In The Sun’...& I think it has ‘Rolling Down The Dustpipe’ which is wonderful. My copy disappeared years ago! Where do these things go?? Stuff just disappears..it’s fascinates me! 😂

[@robison5396]

Glad you got a nostalgia kick off the Quo album, I always enjoy their 60s and 70s material...ha ha, The Barron Knights!, I seem to recall they had a TV show at one point. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@darcyska]

Awesome singles - the Maiden ones are super cool. A few of those are ones I've also picked up recently (hopefully without the must) like the 10CC

[@robison5396]

Thank you! Yes, records are much better without the musty aroma!. The Maiden singles were so nostalgic.

[@gavaxemanspins]

Some nice free stuff - and agree the original U.K. Here I Go Again is the way to go with that lovely Jon Lord Hammond intro ❤

[@robison5396]

The original Here I Go Again is probably my favourite song by Whitesnake.

[@soundsfromthewestcoast9939]

Hi Rob, some nice ones there that you managed to rescue there (though I'd rather have the mold than those Pistols albums 😁). Schools Out stood out for me, along with the Numan and Talking Heads. That Swinging 60s box set looks fun. I use furniture polish on some grubby sleeves - can help to clean them up and make them smell better. Shame about the rest, must have been heartbreaking to not be able to salvage them. All the best... Pete PS totally p*ss*ng it down here today!

[@robison5396]

Thanks Pete You definitely would not have wanted this mould!..Yes, gutted could not have saved more, particularly the punk and new wave singles, but hey, they were freebies after all. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂.

[@vinylshawn4757]

Hi Rob, glad you were able to salvage as many as you did. Power Station , PIL , Boston , Gary Numan , The The , Pink Floyd, Elton John andTalking Heads definitely worth the time and effort.

[@robison5396]

Thanks Shawn Yes, glad I put the effort in..just gotta think of some ingenious way of getting rid of the musty smell now!!.

[@Vinyl-Heaven-And-Hell2023]

A great haul, Rob, for free.. albeit with all the time and effort you put into getting the selected records in the condition to be played. I particularly like the Iron Maiden 7"s and the picture discs. Of course, particularly the Heads, The The and Pistols albums are all winners too. Maybe any records you might decide don't have a place in your collection would be chips to trade in at 'Ben's' for other vinyl. The signed concert programme is very nice too - the best surprise find I have had in a record jacket was a Kraftwerk album that had stuck inside it a Kraftwerk demo 7".

[@robison5396]

Nice..yeah always good finding freebie paraphernalia in record sleeves as a surprise. Not sure what I'll do with those I won't be looking to keep, I'm sure I'll find a use for them!. Hope you're keeping well Richard and thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@DaveCotterell-jt4rh]

Hi Rob, so pleased that you managed to salvage so many, it was like going back in time when I watched this!

[@robison5396]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting Dave, it was a privilege to get this collection and I'm very grateful to you mate for giving them to me..totally get the nostalgia, there must've been a lot of history and fond memories there, i'm just sad that I couldn't save more. What did your brother say about the ' boggy' list BTW?.( don't tell me here).

[@DaveCotterell-jt4rh]

@@robison5396 Its my pleasure mate. I will let you know about the "Boggy" thing another time! He loved it BTW.

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

Hi Rob. A mighty haul. I have a sneaky fondness for Whitesnake, having been really into their classic 1987 album. Their records don't seem to crop up very much. The mouldiest record I have in my collection is the Stephen Stills debut which I got from that charity shop depot in the first video of mine you watched. The big omission from that ELO Greatest Hits is Wild West Hero, which is pretty unforgiveable I think. Telekon is a brilliant album. I'll forgive you just this once for saying 'McCartney Ya-da Ya-da', but that's your last warning.😆

[@robison5396]

Cheers James, the copy of Telekon was one of the ' borderline' albums, condition wise as its' quite crackly..Will probably look for an upgrade. The Whitesnake albums are OK, Coverdales' lyrics can be embarrassing and sexist, which dates them sadly, as with a lot of that metal from the 80s..the music is great though . Definitely a trip down memory lane to my teenage years with some of those titles. Nice to have the comps, which I would probably not have picked up otherwise. The ' Yada yada' comment was said out of laziness on my part I think and no sleight on the record itself.

[@jamesgriffithsmusic]

@@robison5396 I know what you mean about Coverdale's lyrics. One way of slightly getting round it is remembering that he was a blues-influenced artist primarily, and blues lyrics could be a bit like that. Having said that, he took it a bit far sometimes (as did Robert Plant to be fair - still can't listen to several tracks on Led Zep 2).

[@robison5396]

@@jamesgriffithsmusic Definitely, theres' some pretty suggestive stuff on that album, but as you say a lot of blues music lyrics had that tone about them. I think Plant is a bit embarrassed these days about all the Tolkien and mythological themes too.

[@charlesbowman105]

Love True Stories! Got it on cd but not vinyl...

[@robison5396]

Thanks Charles, yes it's a strong TH album.

[@rockinronist]

I like that UK "Never Mind The Bollocks"..I'm not sure why the track EMI says Unlimited Edition? US copies don't say that. And I have two recent E.U. pressings that don't say Unlimited Edition either.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Great stuff Roberto with nice bit of karma you getting your originals back. Someone at my work has offered me their collection so I said sure knowing it could be crap or not my type of stuff, to me it's the fun of the sift and browse irrespective of quality and I'm doing them a favour saving them a potential trip to the dump. Never owned a copy of NMTbollocks myself I guess I'd try it even if Sid wasn't a particularly nice human being. Quo were quite poor by the 80s and stooped IMO to an all time low in the 90s rewriting one of their hits for Manchester United FC. Truly lame. I prefer their solid 70s hits. Never been into talking heads either though psycho killer is an awesome track particularly the old grey whistle test version. Lovely free records and well done for persevering taking those nasty niffs away 💩💩

[@robison5396]

Cheers Martin Yeah, Quo were shocking by the mid 80s, Lancaster had left and Rossi was fast turning the group away from being a great rock band to becoming a cheesy pappy pop karaoke outfit..they never recovered shame the way some bands go..

[@baggyhi-fi8628]

Interesting story. I reckon all that effort was worth it though. Schools Out probably the pick of the bunch. Shame you can’t get Febreze spray to restore smelly vinyl. Did you have to bin the most mouldy and damaged ones?

[@robison5396]

John, it was dreadful..the singles in particular were in an awful state..sleeves literally rotting and the mould had infested the vinyl so badly I don't think any amount of cleaning would have ressurected them..mould isn't good to be in contact with for too long, so I just rescued what I could...pity, there was a lot of punk and post punk singles in there..hey ho.

[@rockinronist]

@@robison5396 Rob, I don't know if those LPs have a funky odor or not, but I had a smelly album cover that I stuck in a plastic bag and poured Baking soda all over the cover. I left the bag sealed for a month or two and the baking soda absorbed the odor.

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Did that Elton John album have that signed programme in it when you first had the record, or was it something your friend picked up second hand afterwards??

[@robison5396]

The programme was inside the record sleeve when I first picked it up from the shop.

[@victorbloom8286]

Lemon wipes will kill mold fast .

[@robison5396]

Didn't know that, thanks for the tip.