“Exchange” – in my case, was almost always buying, very rarely selling
The diary says that I went to Makro (Woolwich) with my Dad on Sunday 2 October and then to Record & Tape Exchange (in Notting Hill) on Monday 3 October.
Unusually, I can work out from the ink colour in my logs the purchases I made on those occasions. Forty years on, this will enable musicologists, Keele historians, friends, members of the Dull Men’s Club and others to analyse my purchases at will. Indeed, in excruciating detail if they wish.
Here is the batch of eleven albums I bought at Makro, each with a Discogs link:
- The Best of the Commodores
- Dusty Springfield Greatest Hits
- Motown 16 Big Hits – The Early 60s, Various Artists
- Motown 16 Big Hits – The Late 60s, Various Artists
- Punch the Clock, Elvis Costello
- No Parlez, Paul Young
- Moondance, Van Morrison
- Yesterday’s Soul, Various Artists
- The Best of the Four Tops,
- The Key, Joan Armatrading
- Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
Here is the extract from my R&T log for that October 1983 visit:
Allow me to translate and link to Discogs:
- Motown Chartbusters Volume 5, Various Artists
- 20 Explosive Hits, Various Artists
- Golden Hits of the 60s, Various Artists
- The Four of Us, John B Sebastian
- John B Sebastian,
- Too Much Pressure, The Selecter
- The Pretenders
- Labour of Lust, Nick Lowe
- Spitfire, Jefferson Starship
- Gold, Jefferson Starship
- Songs From a Room, Leonard Cohen
- Songs of Leonard Cohen,
- Get Happy, Elvis Costello
- Rhapsody and Blues, Crusaders
- No Secrets, Carly Simon
- Propaganda, Sparks
- Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon
- Love Chronicles, Al Stewart
- Orange, Al Stewart
- Mad About the Wrong Boy, The Attractions
- Eat to the Beat, Blondie
- Joan Armatrading
No wonder I had a frenzied bout of taping for the next few days, before returning to Keele 9 October. I put several of these albums onto cassette in their entirety and made up a couple of none-too-shabby mix tapes too.
Keen to know what readers think of these records, forty years on.