Vinyl Tag 2024

Thanks to Rob walker for doing this.

[@retromusings]

My heart jumped when you showed the KLF album. Love them. Excellent tag and great to learn about groups I'm not familiar with. That classical harp lp looks interesting. Enjoyed watching.

[@TheVinylVoyage-ud3uf]

Hi Martin, nice tag! Love Screamadelica… pure 90s magic! Never realised The Church had made a comeback. Cheers Jack

[@vinylrichie007]

This is the first vinyl tag video I’ve watched this go round. Henry Rollins immediately came to mind for the dinner party. Most channels that I watch regularly are small ones.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

He is (Rollins) still a cool dude right? I've saw him live once doing the spoken word in London pretty big venue too absolutely gut busting hilarious what he'd make of his fellow guests at least he'd be honest. HNY to you.

[@vinylrichie007]

@@Thevinylscavenger Rollins is still pretty much the same guy.

[@theflipside-vinylcommunity]

Awesome 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Cheers man thanks for showing an interest. When I get a chance I'll be returning the favour/viewing.

[@BriansFunHouse]

Very nice tag video. Cats and records are always a good combination. Nice selections.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Yes they are but I recommend a scratching post near your records to distract cats from spines/sleeves.

[@BriansFunHouse]

@@Thevinylscavenger so far with my current cat she seems to leave my record collection alone. I think after scratching up our living room table, she has had enough.

[@SteviesVinylCupboard]

WOW THANK YOU very much for the shout out, appreciate it, I had and have had now some great feedback on the Yes Tor video, good to know peeps liked it. As a 'valued regular' (smaller to medium) I'm with you on just about being able to have one radiator on! Don't feel bad about the thread Martin, I tried to start one that literally noone did. It was meant as a test and everyone failed!! but hey ho we move on. I am sceptically about Wet Leg after all the hype they got. Your Spanish Rhapsody video has to be up there for sure., Cheers 👍

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Thanks Stevie you've been very refreshing to us watching normal videos and the livestream too, humour appreciated and understood. I'm a bit same with Wet Leg it could be one of those one album wonders. Threads and comps are odd beasts. Rachel has given me shout outs and plugs but America mostly resists me we are far more British enclave in VC. Probably all round I do prefer it that way but I get a bit peed off when average threads or people showing tons of stuff do well, often they fade and I've survived a decade now few times I nearly quit.

[@KS-yy2fu]

Screamadelica! Great choice. Cheers from Germany Klaus

[@berwickshiremike51]

Hi Martin, l'm loving your response. Jah Wobble is one of my all time favourites, nice to see. I used to listen to Classic FM, now I listen to a lot of Jazz on the radio, hardly own any physically. Rollins is a great speaker, good choice. Never even knew you had a contest, shame. I'm already subbed but l need to hit that bell. Petri has a fantastic channel with obscure content. I watch all his output. Thanks Mike

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Oh right where do you find the jazz? Petri is probably one of the best most underrated channels.

[@berwickshiremike51]

@@Thevinylscavenger Jazz fm is what l Listen to in the car Martín.

[@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147]

A meowing cat, sounds like one of my videos lol, always a cat trying to take control. I a,ways enjoy seeing some classical music, beautiful music that gets very little love. Nice tag Martin

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Hi Steve. Yes he's been a very vocal cat whilst my wife has been away. Classical music is on the one hand very mature and sophisticated one the other hand very subversive don't you think.

[@anotherfatbeardedmantalkin5893]

Toot! Toot! Happy new year, Martin. Good tag, mate, always good to some of your left field pick ups, and some old favourites. I love that Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart album, but I've only got a 12" single of Becoming More Like God on vinyl. There's a great 14 minute remix of the single on that. Finnish punk-jazz! Nice, I can only imagine how nuts that is. Hed

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Hey Hed! Happy new year to you. I'm surprised myself this video has done so well by far the most views in a decade of making content. I'll probably make the next one really obscure to scare everyone off 😂

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Interesting list! I didn’t know about a 1/3 of the records or artist! Lots to get caught up on! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Tokyo!

[@richardriley4415]

No coffee ? I can't talk until I have some coffee. I'm watching this on my first cup.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Hi Richard. Probably you guessed I was kinda joking. The cliché VC hot drink and suchlike. More tea here. I know someone the slurping winds him up so I gave it a miss Thanks for watching.

[@SteveWhitty1965]

Hi Martin, Happy New Year. Good set of answers to Rob's question. One matches an answer I have given. Take care. Steve

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I will watch shortly to compare notes 😁😉

[@pc31thevinylpoliceman]

Happy New year Martin 🎉 that’s a nice Jah Wobble from the 90’s. Milton Keynes ‘We love you’ …sounds a classic! Nice dinner party 🍽️ early entrant, well done Martin! Mike

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Do you recall the 80s advert with red balloons 'wouldn't it be nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes?' at which point me and my mates said 'NO!'

[@pc31thevinylpoliceman]

@@Thevinylscavenger 😂😂

[@baggyhi-fi8628]

New year felicitations! Well done on doing the 2024 vinyl tag so swiftly. An unusual bunch of records here. I particularly like that Spain double Flexi disc. That Yes Tormato video should have won a BAFTA, if there was a vinyl community equivalent. You showing that Church LP reminded me I must find more by them. I have three of theirs and love them. Take care, John.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I got taken to a mock bullfight there - probably best not a real one. Plenty of Church catalogue to catch up on I think I did a discography video if you look back on my channel. I hope they come to UK after last year's album did rather well in US but never that known here outside of under the milky way.

[@Harrispilton22]

Great to see the picture disc for the England single!!...that’s like seeing a Beatles Butcher cover. That can probably be your retirement plan! Unbelievably I’ve never bought a Howard Jones record. I had no idea you had your own record. This tag has gone mental. Might try & do one tomorrow. Don’t worry about no one doing your tag, I think I tried to start one about a year ago..& no one did it. I deleted the video in the end! 😂

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I had three responses and they'll all be getting a little something. The dullest threads and comps take off like the Beatles Tag or ten album covers with fish on them (that's fish in the water not fish the ex leader singer of Marillion).

[@merelychris6354]

Nice video Martin! Great selection of albums which, as always, are nicely divergent from the norm.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Oooooh I'm a divergent I'll take that as a compliment. How you doing?.

[@carltweed942]

Hi Martin. Now that's how to do the vinyl tag. First person in the world to post a video and 1.2K+ views. Really great conversational approach to the questions ... I did watch your video on the TV a couple of days ago, but couldn't leave a comment then ... That double flexi disc on the subject of Spain was so you. The only thing that could have made it better is if it was about Finland ... In my imagination I can hear 'The Narnia Suite'. I need to see if it's on KZbin in order to compare my imagined version with the reality ... I've been to Milton Keynes a couple of times - to see REM and Blur live. It was a bit of a trek by car ... Rob Walker said he might collate all the dinner party guests to see who is the most popular. If he doesn't do it, someone with a lot of patience could do it and come up with an interesting video. Martin Luther King is an inspired choice. I would want to sit back, listen to his voice and get tingles down my spine ... I heard 'Chaise Longue' on the radio last week, and it still sounds absolutely great ... I'm right in the middle of reading Alan McGee's autobiography. Loving it. Primal Scream have just won the first Mercury Prize for 'Screamadelica', and McGee's drug intake is reaching epic proportions.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I went to REM one of the days at MK bowl (1995?) I got in there extremely quickly 😁 because if I'd dithered it'd be February! I have a friend who's written a book about Flexi discs it's on the Johnny trunk website. He has tons of records. All over the place. Once I get going I'm a chatterbox but thanks for compliments. I'll check my stats but I suspect the view count is higher because sometimes you go through the recent videos and even one second of someone stopping counts as a view. It'll tally the averages, doesn't bother me I'm happy if I get three figures per video (100+) ish.As previously said I reckon some of my 400 ish subscribers from yonks ago are long gone ⚰️

[@spindoctorandhisvinylmayhem]

Just subbed you up! Love Dwight, and completely agree with what you are saying about today’s country! Cinderella somehow got lumped into that glam hair metal but definitely should not have been such a great bluesy hard rock band! Also great pick for the album for 1974, nice to see somebody loves that Queen album!

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Thanks for watching 😊

[@chrismoyse3529]

Loving your responses here Martin. Need to do this. Happy new year, Chris (the vinyl orchard)

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Ah a name change. Hope you are well I saw the empty shelves, quite a revelation. I guess orchards needed pruning every once in a while 😉

[@chrismoyse3529]

@@Thevinylscavenger just my other account. Don’t post on it. Just watch. Created Vinyl Orchard just for my videos. Cheers, chris

[@Thevinylscavenger]

@@chrismoyse3529 okes & understood.

[@EmbryonicRobot]

Hi Martin - I enjoyed your answers. Sounds like an interesting dinner party you have planned.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Thank you Brian. I'll catch up on yours soon just rather alot to get through, it is an excellent way to get to know or refamiliarize with other people.

[@DJWerkz]

Really enjoyed this, well done. I lived in Milton Keynes for many years before relocating to the USA 😂 it’s actually one of the easiest places to drive around and find places once you are used to the grid system.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Yes I remember you. Maybe I just have no sense of direction. Sorry I'll have to check out see if you've been video active.

[@DJWerkz]

@@Thevinylscavenger I have done practically nothing in the way of video uploads, just don’t have time

[@Thevinylscavenger]

@@DJWerkz yes I totally understand. That's why I stick to approximately once a month. Even done in the peace and quiet of my car on the odd occasion. Remind me where are you in the US?

[@DJWerkz]

@@Thevinylscavenger I am in Richmond, Texas which is SW of Houston

[@BarakaPDub]

Not many people showing Finnish records. Very cool!

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Wife is from Finland and I lived there a bit so I'm familiar with and scoured the thrift markets etc. If you go back on my videos there's a whole video where I go through them all with my poor Finnish pronouncing.

[@brianjames5685]

Chill out is great man. It used to be our after-club go to album back in the day. I still play it early summer each year( that's if we get one in England), I get out the deck chair and listen to chill-out a few times, it helps me welcome the sunshine. I actually have it on CD because I found it very cheap in a charity shop and it's good not to have to turn the record over half way through. I always wanted the space album that Caulty and Paterson did, I've heard it on KZbin it's amazing, but I doubt I'll ever find it. It's £200 plus online even on CD, and the CD's suffered bad from yellow oxidizing and they were heavily bootlegged so you would have to be crazy or loaded to buy that, I don't think I've ever seen a copy of the vinyl for sale. Just found your channel so subbed and liked and will watch when I get the chance mate.

[@gatefold33]

Hi Martin, Happy New Year! Well done in being so decisive. I have now written down my answers but it took too long and it's now a bit dark to shoot my video. Audiophile records and Classic FM, very sophisticated...Nice England picture disk and BBC record. I promise I am going to do your thread but I'm still waiting for a record to arrive that is part of a rabbit hole story...cheers Dale

[@Thevinylscavenger]

As Alan Partridge I think said: "I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure" ok I await said rabbit hole(s) with eager anticipation. I'm intrigued. Not having a go at lack of response I knew once the tag started it'd be lost to the mists of time......

[@ChrisPropfeMusicallyObsessed]

Great tag response! I will be uploading mine today as well!

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Hi Chris, great, I had to do it really to support Rob and for myself as it plays on my mind if I don't. I'm not sure I've the time to watch all the responses though if it's as popular as usual. Seems to be more of a split this year with end of 2023 videos. Just an observation.

[@johnbellamy3406]

Hi Martin, I like your idea of Vinyl insolation. I've got too much wall space for that to happen in my house but I'll try to change that this year. LOL That Howard Jones album was amazing in it's day wasn't it. Cheers.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Dream into action yes he was a local hero and always in Smash hits talked about having tea at his mum's. Funnily I'm not familiar with the ones before because I wasn't into music then, too young and preoccupied with football stickers.....

[@brianjames5685]

Cover to FLK is a nod to Pink Floyd "atom heart mother" and I would imagine the title "we know where the time goes" is a nod to Fairport Convention "who knows where the time goes" which is from the album "unhalfbricking", I don't even like folk music very much but that album is awesome. Probably telling you stuff you know already lol.

[@vinylmartini3377]

Great response Martin. Great Porcupine story. I’m going to look up your thread video and respond if not too late. I knew you would be showing some obscurities. Cheers.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

That'd be great if you could Jack I'm certainly prepared to send a little something there even if it's just a CD of some of my own wacky music. Threads come and go I thought at the time it was open to interpretation and easy enough to do.

[@robison5396]

Happy new year Martin!. Vinyl records for walls..now thats' an interesting concept. ( mind you, thats' Mazzys' gaff in a nutshell) I really should like Porcupine Tree, as I like Prog and psych, but they just don't do it for me. Nice BBC sound effects single. PJ Harvey would definitely have been an interesting guest. Henry Rollins is always great when interviewed...no nonsense and would possibly hit on Wendy James. Wet Leg were everywhere in 2022, now nobody talks about them..how fickle the music industry is. I recall my brother dancing to Moving on Up in Greece back in 1991, completely off his head..yes, Primal Scream are a real time piece of that period. All the best for 2024.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Thank you same to you Rob. PJ Harvey I need to get more as I only have a couple, not looking to go total discography. I think it's feasible Wet Leg could sink without a trace it'd not be the first time. I don't know later Porcupine Tree at all, I'm guessing they are more commercial. Steven Wilson seems a nice enough guy but his solo stuff didn't do it for me despite it's clever lyrics. He was in a band called no-man Which was far more interesting.

[@hatripekala4983]

Cheers Martin, you were early on this one, missed it. Great ramble. Recently saw Robles harp record but different, it was music of France by Argo. I had the suzuki S1 mopo on the Mopo cover, lol, there is great players on that records, i havent ever listened to it entirely, just sampled. I have had difficulties to remember the "other teams" in big cities like london and manchester, although I have done the saturday vakioveikkaus for 25 years or so. Today seems to be FA-cup. Yes, the package, i forgot to pick it back, i guess it has been demolished or burned by now, but its the thought that counts like Jimbo said in the Royle family, lol. Moi.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I hope someone was blessed with the package and their mind/life has been expanded. Ah the right hand driven Posti (mies Pate) vans...... (sighs). I pre-car had a granny moped too but it got stolen so I learnt to drive instead..... Indeed you are right it's FA Cup 3rd round today the romantic oldest Knockout Tournament in the world. There is few very small teams (part time, amateurs) still left in it now. The town where I live got to this stage once many years ago but now they don't play here because stadium is derelict and club struggles. I had teenage 'geek' hobby of visiting different stadiums particularly all London ones. Yes I was early on this thread and had alot of views but I can easily return to the village anonymous people because rather an idiot in my own village than a city full of them 😆

[@RekkidTalk]

You beat me! I'm working on mine at the moment and will have it up later today. I'll finish watching yours later as well.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

I think the world spinning left to right GMT wise meant I'd be faster..... I'll have to get your email/address to send something/chat with you so I can send something there you video was greatly appreciated 👍 then if there's some UK stuff in mind let me know. Different stuff over here!

[@brianjames5685]

By the way didn't know of the existence of the FLK album but now I really need it a lot. Weird us collectors aren't we lol.

[@robwalkerletthemusicplay]

Hi Martin thanks for responding so quickly .. lots of fun responses as usual. After your city united response I’m surprised you support the mighty gunners !⚽️. Some how I thought Wendy would be invited. Cheers Martin 👍

[@Thevinylscavenger]

PJ Harvey would probably be more interesting because she doesn't really say much outside of her music and she's quite mysterious (at least in my mind) - I might spend some time looking for her now she's mysteriously disappeared into my genre filing system......

[@andrewhaines3259]

It's a nod to Atom Heart Mother, rather than Animals.

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Ah ok thanks I was talking about the cover with the cow if that's what you mean.

[@memyselfmyvinyl894]

Good tag

[@Speekers_corner]

Hi Martin. Happy New Year! The Narnia Suite is intriguing; will check it out. Great guest list. Plenty of deep conversations to be had. My wife and I visited the MLK Jr museum in Memphis in October which included a walk through of the motel room (adjacent to the balcony where he was shot - off limits to the tour). Fascinating man. I didn’t know you’re wife is from Finland. Enjoyed the video. Cheers!

[@Thevinylscavenger]

She's there now visiting (it's -30 😳) lots of good music from there. We've had a storm here today called 'Hank' whether that's Williams or Marvin (The Shadows) I cannot say. Memphis would be on my hit list too if I ever visited US. More rural places for me. I'm very near to Oxford here so potentially lots of Narnia and LOTR connections. The allegorical contexts of Narnia are fascinating. I even heard theory that the seven books represented the seven planets attributes at the time he was studying medieval history what was known then all really possible I think. Cheers Jeff.

[@vinyldale]

Well done Martin 👍

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Thanks, do you feel inclined to do it?

[@vinyldale]

I'm thinking of creating something at some point, something different maybe

[@dotsloops7486]

I like George Micheal. Great tag! 🎉

[@Thevinylscavenger]

in retrospective even more actually. Faith as a teen sure then he wasn't so on my cool radar. Good to hear from you Dan, Dots 'N' loops has been missed or I've just missed your livestreams and suchlike.

[@mooncatandberyl5372]

do you have a substantial collection of band t shirts? im especially thinking of promotional ones that you may have kept from working at track records?

[@mooncatandberyl5372]

any chance you can show us all the items you own that have been signed (either just vinyl or other formats as well)? which of them are definately genuine and which are a bit dodgy? Also can someone tell me why, when band members sign items, do some of them write "To (your name") from (their name), rather than only their name? ive never been able to work out if it is evidence that their signature is genuine, or if it is to reduce people whom arent really into the band that much from profiting by selling the item on?"

[@6inchpianist]

Good tag vid, Martin. Nice to see a lot of records you don’t normally see being shown. I reckon everyone will be showing Howard Jones records in the VC in 2024. You’ve started something…

[@Thevinylscavenger]

Dream into action was quite experimental for him outside of the hits. All that tech he had to try with it. After that one I think he faded quite significantly. Yeah I do often show same stuff you are right. Probably omitted those reggae singles being my best finds certainly value wise of last year ....