juli 19, 2026

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Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name (1989) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Side one
1.  Queen Of The New Year - 3:36
2.  Wages Day - 3:10
3.  Real Gone Kid - 4:04
4.  Love And Regret - 4:48
5.  Circus Lights - 4:59
6.  This Changing Light - 5:02

Side two
1.  Sad Loved Girl - 1:12
2.  Fergus Sings The Blues - 3:55
3.  The World Is Lit By Lightning - 4:28
4.  Silhouette - 3:19
5.  One Hundred Things - 3:54
6.  Your Constant Heart - 4:11
7.  Orphans - 3:33


Personnel

Ricky Ross – vocals; keyboards on “Orphans”
Lorraine McIntosh – vocals
Graeme Kelling – guitars
James Prime – keyboards
Ewen Vernal – bass, keyboard bass
Dougie Vipond – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

  • Stuart Elliott — bodhrán on “Queen of the New Year”
  • Gavin Wright — fiddle on “Queen of the New Year”
  • Mark Feltham — harmonica on “Love and Regret” and “Your Constant Heart”
  • Brass section on “Fergus Sings the Blues”, arranged by James Prime and Warne Livesey:
    • Jamie Talbot — baritone saxophone
    • Dave Bishop — baritone saxophone
    • Chris White — tenor saxophone
    • Phil Todd — tenor saxophone
    • Neil Sidwell — tromobone
    • Pete Beachill — trombone
    • Guy Barker — trumpet
    • Simon Gardener — trumpet
Credits
Companies, etc.
Notes
Release:  1989
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Sophisti-pop
Label:  CBS
Catalog#  463321 1

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

juli 17, 2026

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John Foxx - Metamatic (1980) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00













Side one
1.  Plaza - 3:55
2.  He’s A Liquid - 3:01
3.  Underpass - 3:56
4.  Metal Beat - 3:00
5.  No-One Driving - 3:47

 Side two
1.  A New Kind Of Man - 3:42
2.  Blurred Girl - 4:19
3.  030 - 3:18
4.  Tidal Wave - 4:17
5.  Touch And Go - 5:36

Personnel

Keyboards used on the album include the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, clavinet, Elka Rhapsody 610, piano, Farfisa string synth, and Hammond organ.


Credits

Companies, etc.

Notes
Release:  1980
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Electronic, Synth-pop
Label:  Virgin
Catalog#  201434

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

juli 16, 2026

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Biddu Orchestra - Rain Forest (1976) (vinyl Lp) - €5,00

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Side one
1. Rain Forest - 4:40
2. Chic-Chica-Chic-Chica-Chic - 3:05
3. Jump For Joy - 3:11
4. Laura - 4:45
5. Soft And Sexy - 3:50
 
Side two
1. I Could Have Danced All Night - 3:40
2. Trippin On A Soul Clou - 4:00
3. Wings Of Love (Aria) - 4:26
4. Rock Me With Your Love - 3:48
 

Recorded at Nova Studios in London, 1976

 
 Companies, etc.

Credits


Notes
Release: 1976
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Disco
Label:  Epic
Catalog#  EPC 81168

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Gebruikerssporen (VG)

Prijs: €5,00

februari 14, 2026

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Little River Band - Backstage Pass (1980) (vinyl 2LP) - €15,00

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"Backstage Pass (1980)" is a celebrated double live album by the Little River Band, capturing their peak era with high-energy performances of hits like "Reminiscing" and "It's a Long Way There". 
It showcases a blend of soft rock and pop, often featuring an orchestra for a rich, live sound. 
The album is highly regarded for its superior audio quality and for showcasing the band's, tight, harmony-driven, and impressive live 
The album was released in United States as a double album in March 1980, including the group's next live album, Live in America.
Excellent live performances from a woefully underrated rock band of the 70’s and early 80’s. 
Sure they had the great soft rock hits (Reminiscing, Lonesome Loser, Lady, Take it Easy On Me etc.) but they were also a super tight band that rocked pretty hard with the best of their peers during the time. 
Great songwriting collaborations between the members too. Sadly, no original members survive in the current lineup of the band that continues to tour under the LRB name.
This is, without fear of exageration, wonderful. Several of the superb songs from the first three albums are present here, kicking of with what I still believe is one of the greatest roick songs ever written by anyone at any time period - that being "It's A Long Way There". 
This alone, be it the original stusio version or this live version, is worth the cost of purchase on its own. 
It is with a couple of tracks new to me (until my rediscovering) that represent the real jewels here. 
"Fall From Paradise" and "light Of Day" show off all that is great with the band - the wonderful musicianship, the great songwriting and those vocal harmonies - they are both spine-tingling in their execution. 
It wasn't only about their abilty to sing harmonies together. The three main vocalists could all hit the mark - all had good range and sustain and that in itself is quite remarkable. 
Hell, even the missus was prompted to extol their virtues - and that is a once in a blue moon moment.
The second album, "Live In America", is not quite to the same standard in terms of material but is pleasing in that there was no overlap in material. Odd, given the two album's recording dates.
The only gripes are miniscule. The omission of "Happy Anniversary" and the use of those horrible synthetic drums of the period mar it ever so slightly. This amounts to what is a re-discovery of a great little band (pun intended). 
Despite their occasional forays into boogie and their apparent country rock influences, they were very, very good and, at times, exceptional. 
The latter certainly applies to their live performances, where their tendency to rehearse and rehearse and then rehearse some more pays rich dividends.


Side one
1.  It’s A Long Way There - 8:55
2.  So Many Paths - 4:36
3.  Statue Of Liberty - 3:24
4.  Fall From Paradise - 6:13

Side two
1.  Light Of Day - 9:43
2.  Reminiscing (“Night And Day” Intro) - 4:16
3.  The Man In Black - 4:37
4.  Help Is On Its Way - 3:54

Side three
1.  Hard Life - 4:22
2.  The Rumor - 4:04
3.  Mistress Of Mine - 5:36
4.  Too Lonely Too Long - 3:04
5.  Red Shoes - 4:29

Side four
1.  I Don’t Worry No More - 4:10
2.  Let’s Dance - 3:31
3.  Man On The Run - 3:57
4.  It’s Not A Wonder - 4:24
5.  Sweet Old Fashioned Man - 4:29


Sides A & B:
Little River Band in Concert with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Conducted by David Measham
Recorded in Australia.

Sides C & D:
1979 Venues:
Coliseum, Edmonton (Northlands Coliseum) -- October 3rd
The Corral, Calgary -- October 24th
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver -- October 26th
Performing Arts College Coliseum, Pullman -- October 27th
Gill Coliseum, Corvallis -- October 28th
The Seattle Arena, Seattle -- October 30th
Berkeley Community Theatre, San Francisco -- November 1st

Little River Band

Additional personnel Record 1:

Additional personnel Record 2:

Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Release: 1980
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Soft Rock / Live
Label:  Capitol Records
Catalog#  1A 138 – 86120/1

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)  2LP
Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (VG)  Gatefold

Prijs: €15,00

februari 13, 2026

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Tomita - Pictures At An Exhibition (1975) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"Pictures at an Exhibition" is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874, by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. 
It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost.

Isao Tomita (22 April 1932 – 5 May 2016) (often known simply as Tomita) was a Japanese composer regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music as well as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. 
In addition to creating note-by-note realizations, Tomita made extensive use of the sound-design capabilities of his instrument, using synthesizers to create new sounds to accompany and enhance his electronic realizations of acoustic instruments. 
He also made effective use of analog music sequencers and the Mellotron, and featured futuristic science-fiction themes, while laying the foundations for synth-pop music and trance-like rhythms. 
Many of his albums are electronic versions and adaptations of familiar classical music pieces.
Tomita's first attempt at reproducing a whole longform classical work in his inimitable moogsploitative style is mostly successful. 
He converts each piece into something new, including a striking variety of approaches to the many Promenade themes. 
He keeps most of the emotional beats intact, successfully capturing the spirit of Hartmann's pictures just as Mussorgsky did. of course, new isn't always a good thing. 
I'm usually a defender of Tomita's inclination towards sound effects, but he misses the mark a few times here, like with the chicken tweets on "Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells".
Programmatic elements should be just that - they should evoke nature, not literally be nature. it strips the composition of its representational power, a definite misstep. otherwise he does a great job with his sound construction; it's dense and well crafted, from the dark oppressive tones of tracks like Catacombs to the joyous exaltation of closer "Great Gate of Kiev". on Pictures At An Exhibition Tomita shows his mastery of synthetic arrangement extends even to recreating full works without losing any of their magnitude.
Tomita's version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is a quaint mid-70's take on the romantic classic. Certainly the various marching "Promenade" sequences are light, charming, and evocative. 
The interim pieces do evoke a mystical sense of a retro future past almost like an old Doctor Who episode. 
Certainly there are some hit and miss arrangements that keep this from the absolute classic category though a tinge of nostalgia remains nonetheless.


Side one
1.  Promenade - 1:30 
2.  The Gnome - 3:12 
3.  Promenade - 1:02 
4.  The Old Castle - 5:18 
5.  Promenade - 0:34 
6.  Tuileries - 0:55 
7.  Bydlo - 3:17 
8.  Promenade - 1:00 
9.  Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells - 1:05 

Side two
1.  The Two Jews - 3:04 
2.  Limoges/ Catacombs - 3:56 
3.  Cum Mortuis In Lingua Mortua - 2:06 
4.  Baba Yaga (Hut On Fowls’ Legs) - 3:50 
5.  Great Gate Of Kiev - 6:14


Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Release: 1975
Genre:  Modern Classical, Ambient
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Label:  RCA 
Catalog#  ARL1-0838

Vinyl: Goed (Excellent)
Cover: Goed / Voorkant Sticker (Excellent)

Prijs: 10,00

februari 11, 2026

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Jim Diamond - Double Crossed (1984) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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James Aaron Diamond (28 September 1951 – 8 October 2015) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his three top 5 hits: "I Won't Let You Down" (1982), as the lead singer of PhD; and his solo performances "I Should Have Known Better", a United Kingdom No. 1 in 1984.
"Double Crossed" is the debut solo album by Jim Diamond, released in 1985. 
The album features Diamond's first three solo singles, "I Should Have Known Better", "I Sleep Alone at Night" and "Remember I Love You". 
The album was dedicated to Diamond's father who had recently died. 
Diamond recorded this after PhD unceremoniously disbanded (they'd reunite over two decades later) and the style on this album is much different than PhD or any band he was in. 
The lead single was "I Should Have Known Better" (not the Beatles song of the same name of course) which was a UK #1 in fall 1984 until he told people to buy Band Aids benefit single instead (I was told this backfired many years later). 
There is another version of the same session with a slightly different guitar solo which may be on The Best of Jim Diamond.  Former Moody Blues producer Pip Williams produced most of the album except "Remember I Love You" (maybe he didn't want too many ballads but Diamond and the label did). 
"Caledonia", a B-side, was an ode to his native Scotland (not the same track as on his more Scottish folk flavoured album Sugarolly Days). On the same token "Rock 'n' Roll" is a different animal to PhDs "Rock 'n Roll Days". 
"I'm Yours" has a bit of mondegreen if you have a listen you'd know what I mean.
Paul "Wix" Wickens plays keyboards on some tracks. I know him more from working with Paul McCartney.


Side one
1.  Double Crossed - 3:51
2.  I Sleep Alone At Night - 4:57
3.  After The Fire - 4:06
4.  I Should Have Known Better - 4:06
5.  Stumblin’ Over - 4:15

Side two
1.  New Generation - 5:04
2.  Co-Operation - 5:58
3.  She Is Woman - 4:32
4.  I’m Yours - 4:50
5.  Impossible Dream - 4:35


Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Release: 1984
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:   Synth-pop
Label:  A&M
Catalog#  AMA 5029

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

februari 08, 2026

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Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (1983) (vinyl Lp) - €20,00

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"Sparkle in the Rain" is the sixth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 6 February 1984 by record label Virgin in the UK.
Sparkle in the Rain is a generally rock-oriented album, a departure from the new wave aesthetic of its critically acclaimed predecessor New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84). 
Kerr, before its release, described the forthcoming Sparkle in the Rain as an "art record—art without tears with masses of muscle". 
The band's new drummer Mel Gaynor, who had contributed for some tracks on the previous record, agreed on the album's aggressiveness: "On this album I'm getting a few of my ideas across, not only in the drumming field but in other fields as well. 
It's a lot different from New Gold Dream, both sound-wise and material-wise. 
The last one was very smooth, very polished. This album's got a bit more dirt in it." 
Regarding the role of producer Steve Lillywhite, Brian Hogg wrote that Sparkle in the Rain "captured the bravura of their in-concert sound" and Lillywhite "introduced a dynamic, often contrasting, perspective quite unlike the panoramic standpoint of its predecessor, but there was no denying the resultant brash excitement." 
Adam Sweeting described how, during the recording process of "Up on the Catwalk", "Forbes and Gaynor had combined to create a steamrolling rhythm track which came hammering out of the opening chorus like a runaway train."
The record was produced by Steve Lillywhite (U2, et al.), and it's a perfect match-up: Simple Minds aspire to music of a trancelike otherworldliness, and Lillywhite has the knack to lead them up that proverbial stairway to heaven.
The sound is Roxy Music-gone-2001, and it works remarkably well (one exception: their unlikely choice of an outside song in Lou Reed's "Street Hassle," which doesn't bear covering by anyone). 
Initially, vocalist Jim Kerr might seem like just another Bryan Ferry clone, but as he stokes his inner fires with some private perception of the emerald beyond – reaching an absolutely feverish pitch on "The Kick inside of Me" – he emerges as an obsessive visionary in his own right. 
The band, meanwhile, weaves a complex web of sound from the unlikeliest parts: churchy, staccato keyboards; lacelike, arpeggiated guitar lines and soaring wisps of feedback; and metallic-sounding drums.
Sparkle in the Rain is filled with potent images that can be read as religious emblems: baptismal immersion or death ("Waterfront"), redemption on the Cross ("East at Easter"), the Word ("Book of Brilliant Things"). 
Simple Minds find religious illumination in the vertigo of their fertile imaginations, and it comes out as psychedelic testifying – all fast movement and kaleidoscopic repetition – that builds to a crescendo of ecstasy and release. 
When Kerr sings, "Someday, some of them say that our hearts will beat like the wheels of a fast train" (from "Book of Brilliant Things"), you know you're in for a wild ride.


Side one
1. Up On The Catwalk - 4:45
2. Book Of Brilliant Things - 4:21
3. Speed Your Love To Me - 4:24
4. Waterfront - 7:26
5. East At Easter - 3:32

Side two
1. Street Hassle - 5:14
2. White Hot Day - 4:32
3. “C” Moon Cry Like A Baby - 4:19
4. The Kick Inside Of Me - 4:48
5. Shake Off The Ghosts - 3:57

Simple Minds

Additional personnel
  • Kirsty MacColl – voice on "Speed Your Love to Me" and "Street Hassle"

Production
  • Producer – Steve Lillywhite
  • Engineer – Howard Gray
  • Assistant engineers – Paul Cook and Gavin McKillop
  • Studio equipment – Matt Dunn and Paul Kerr
  • Sleeve production – Assorted Images
  • Coordination – Gemma Corfield

Notes
Release: 1983
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  New Wave
Label:  Virgin Records
Catalog#  205913

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover: Goed (Excellent 

Prijs: €20,00

februari 06, 2026

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Eric Clapton - Money And Cigarettes (1983) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"Money and Cigarettes" is the eighth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, recorded after his first rehabilitation from alcoholism. 
Produced by Clapton and Tom Dowd with, apart from Albert Lee, a new backing band of veteran session musicians including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Roger Hawkins, and Ry Cooder. The album was moderately successful commercially, reaching Top 20 chart positions in several countries.

Money and Cigarettes marked several important turning points in Eric Clapton's recording career. It was his debut release on his own Duck imprint within Warner Bros.' Reprise Records subsidiary. 
It was also the first album he made after coming to terms with his drinking problem by giving up alcohol. 
Newly focused and having written a batch of new songs, he became dissatisfied with his longtime band and fired them, with the exception of second guitarist Albert Lee. 
In their place, he hired session pros like Stax Records veteran bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn and Muscle Shoals drummer Roger Hawkins, also bringing in guest guitarist Ry Cooder. His new songs reflected on his changed condition, with "Ain't Going Down," a thinly veiled musical rewrite of the Jimi Hendrix arrangement of "All Along the Watchtower," serving as a statement of purpose that declared, "I've still got something left to say." 
"The Shape You're In" was a criticism of his wife for her alcoholism that concluded, "I'm just telling you baby 'cause I've been there myself," while the lengthy acoustic ballad "Pretty Girl" and "Man in Love" reaffirmed his feelings for her. 
The album's single was the relatively slight pop tune "I've Got a Rock n' Roll Heart," but Clapton's many blues fans must have been most pleased with the covers of Sleepy John Estes' "Everybody Oughta Make a Change" (significantly placed as the album's leadoff track), Albert King's "Crosscut Saw," and Johnny Otis' "Crazy Country Hop." 
For all the changes and the high-powered sidemen, though, Money and Cigarettes ended up being just an average effort from Clapton, which his audience seems to have sensed since, despite the Top 20 placement for the single, it became his first album in more than six years to miss the Top Ten and fail to go gold.


Side one
1.  Everybody Oughta Make A Change - 3:16
2.  The Shape You’re In - 4:08
3.  Ain’t Going Down - 4:01
4.  I’ve Got A Rock N’ Roll Heart - 3:13
5.  Man Overboard - 3:45

Side two
1.  Pretty Girl - 5:29
2.  Man In Love - 2:46
3.  Crosscut Saw - 3:30
4.  Slow Down Linda - 4:14
5.  Crazy Country Hop - 2:46


Personnel

Production
  • Producers – Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton
  • Engineers – Tom Dowd and Michael Carnavale
  • Assistant Engineer – Dennis Halliburton
  • Mastered by Mike Fuller at Criteria Studios (Miami, FL).
  • Art Direction – El & Nel Ink., Graham Hughes
  • Photography – Graham Hughes
  • Design – El & Nel Ink., Ian Murray
  • Model Maker – Laurie Savage
  • Typography and Design – Ian Murray Acrobat Design

Companies, etc.

Notes
Release: 1983
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Blues rock
Label:  Duck Records
Catalog#  923773-1

Vinyl:  Goed  (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

februari 05, 2026

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XTC - English Settlement (1982) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"English Settlement" is the fifth studio album and first double album by the English rock band XTC, released 12 February 1982 on Virgin Records. 
It marked a turn towards the more pastoral pop songs that would dominate later XTC releases, with an emphasis on acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar and fretless bass. 
The title refers to the Uffington White Horse depicted on the cover, to the "settlement" of viewpoints, and to the Englishness that the band felt they "settled" into the record.
Once again, XTC has managed the difficult feat of sounding accessible even while moving into evermore abstruse and adventuresome territory. 
Driven along by the rolling thunder of Terry Chambers' drumming, the smooth electric glide of Colin Moulding's fretless bass and the angular guitar work of Dave Gregory and Andy Partridge, the ten songs on English Settlement take on the world, by turns, in concretely political and dreamily mythic terms. 
On one side, "Melt the Guns" pleads for global disarmament, singling out the U.S. in particular for fecklessly courting apocalypse. "Jason and the Argonauts," though, is almost the stuff of parable, an imagistic recounting of a modern-day vision quest.
Musically, XTC's new songs attain something of an anthemic grandeur through repetition of a musical theme or fragment, sustained over the course of five or more minutes by a steady rhythmic pulse (African and third-world rhythms figure prominently). 
The result is a program of numbers that resonate across all manner of invigorating wordplay with a jazzy, stoned ambiance.
"Senses Working Overtime," which could be this band's long-overdue hit, sums up the XTC aesthetic perfectly: employing all of their faculties for taking in the world around them, they digest that input and send out some new wisdom of their own. This process is called communication, and to XTC, it's as natural as breathing. 
XTC recorded the album at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire with producer Hugh Padgham, the engineer of their previous two LPs. Compared to the band's previous releases, English Settlement showcased more complex and intricate arrangements, lengthier songs, lyrics that covered broader social issues, and a wider range of music styles. 
Principal songwriter Andy Partridge was fatigued by the grueling touring regimen imposed by their label and management, and believed that pursuing a sound less suited for live performance would relieve the pressure to tour. 

Three singles were issued from the album: "Senses Working Overtime", "Ball and Chain" and "No Thugs in Our House".


Side one
1.  Runaways - 4:33
2.  Ball And Chain - 4:30
3.  Senses Working Overtime - 4:50
4.  Jason And The Argonauts - 6:05
5.  Snowman - 5:12

Side two
1.  Melt The Guns - 6:31
2.  No Thugs In Our House - 5:09
3.  Yacht Dance - 3:54
4.  English Roundabout - 3:48
5.  All Of A Sudden (It’s Too Late) - 5:19


XTC

Additional personnel
  • Hugh Padgham – backing vocals on "Ball and Chain"
  • Hans de Vente – backing vocals on "It's Nearly Africa"

Technical
  • Hugh Padgham – producer, engineer, mixing
  • XTC – producer, mixing
  • Howard Gray – assistant engineer
  • Ken Ansell – artwork
  • Art Dragon – illustrations
  • Allan Ballard – photography

Notes
Release:  1982
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  New Wave, Pop
Label:  Virgin
Catalog#  204446

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

februari 04, 2026

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J.J. Cale - Shades (1980) (vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"Shades" is the sixth studio album by J. J. Cale, released in February 1981.
Despite the coterie of musicians used on the sessions, Shades has a remarkably cohesive sound that is immediately recognizable as J.J. Cale. Nine of the ten songs are original compositions, the exception being “Mama Don’t,” which would become Cale’s show opener. 
As can be seen in the 2005 documentary To Tulsa and Back, Cale would take the stage himself and introduce the band members one by one following along to the words of the song (“Mama don’t allow no bass in this place…”) The album opens with “Carry On,” an optimistic call for perseverance in the face of adversity, followed by the chugging prison song “Deep Dark Dungeon.” The relationship songs have a sour tone, as is evident in “Runaround” and the bitter “What Do You Expect” (“What do you expect, caviar and candlelight? Champagne every night?") 
"Love Has Been Gone” is also despairing, with Cale repeating the line “There’s nothing new…” Even the straight love song “Wish I Had Not Said That” has an inherent ambivalence in the title, despite the tenderness found in the lyrics.
“Pack My Jack” recalls earlier Cale songs like “Travelin’ Light” and “I’m a Gypsy Man” and speaks to the freedom of the highway and how “a ramblin’ man keeps ramblin’ on.” 
The album’s closing track, “Cloudy Day” is an instrumental that clocks in at nearly five-and-a-half minutes, making it the longest song to appear on one of Cale’s albums.
Shades' cover features a silhouette of a guitar player, presumably Cale, inspired by the design of French cigarettes brand Gitanes. The notoriously media-shy singer would not use his own image on an LP cover until his 1983 album #8.


Side one
1.  Carry On - 2:19
2.  Deep Dark Dungeon - 2:08
3.  Wish I Had Not Said That - 3:23
4.  Pack My Jack - 5:12
5.  If You Leave Her - 2:45

Side two
1.  Mama Don’t - 3:47
2.  Runaround - 2:42
3.  What Do You Expect - 3:25
4.  Love Has Been Gone - 2:16
5.  Cloudy Day - 5:25


Personnel
Technical
  • Vigon Nahas Vigon – art direction, design
  • Helmut Werd – photography
  • Chad Hailey – engineer
  • Les Ladd – engineer
  • Audie Ashworth – engineer, producer
  • Ron Reynolds – engineer, mixing
  • Hugh Davies – engineer, mixing
  • Steve Ripley – engineer
  • Joe Mills – engineer, mixing

Companies, etc.

Notes
Release: 1980
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Blues rock, Tulsa Sound
Label:  Shelter
Catalog#  203276

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

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