Oasis CD Singles Display

Found this the other day. Seems a shame not to hang it up again. A original piece of shop display material from the 1990s

Oasis CD Singles

 

Queen Album Flexi Disc for The Works

Collectable



Madness Our House Stretch Mix




Simply Red For Your Babies Hologram CD

 


Split Enz History Never Repeats Embossed Hologram



George Michael & Queen Five Live 7" Promo





 







Swing Out Sister Piano Pack

Another delve into my pile of "special edition" promotional packs that must have cost a fortune but didn't work.
I think it's supposed to be a "Grand" piano LOL.
It wasn't a hit. Maybe people just could work out how to file this away with all their other CDs.

Swing Out Sister - Forever blue
1989 Fontana Records Cat No SWICD83
(wasn't a hit)

10,000 Maniacs Limited Edition Elephant Pack

You don't get this sort of thing with an MP3 do you ?.
Oh for the days of the "special pack" with a weird idea from some promotions person put into practice and sold to the record buying public. You can just imagine the moment someone in a smoke filled room came up with this one.

I wonder what they were smoking at the time?. But i love it anyway. It must have cost a fortune to make but it certainly does it for me. LOL.
Sadly the idea didn't work. It wasn't a hit, in fact it didn't even reach the top 75 here in the UK. Does that make this thing rare and worth a fortune?.

I doubt it.

10,000 Maniacs - Trouble me
Including Party of gods Featuring Billy Bragg
1989 Elektra Records Cat No EKR 93 CDX

Pop Quiz

Name that record.....
It reached No5(UK) April 1985 and the picture on the disc might help.
Answer Here

Records don't have to be round

A one hit wonder from the 70s. Richard Myhill - It Takes two to tango. I know practically nothing about this man. In fact i don't even know what he looks like.
However on doing a little research via the net i find that he went on to produce singles and albums from the likes of Hazel Dean, Matchbox, The Piranhas, & Duran Duran as well as releasing a follow up single called While London Dances.
Obviously this all comes via the web so i could be talking rubbish here, if you know better let me know.
I bought this single because it was Square, so marketing does work. In the late 70's through the 80s releasing music in imaginative ways that had absolutely nothing to do with the record seemed to be a big thing. I'm not sure why this single is square. It's a Tango not a square dance, but hey it got him in the top 20, reaching No 17(UK) April 1978.
That's 31 years ago for anyone who remembers it. (eek)

Jacko & ET

I’ll never have any money me, even when I have things of value I stupidly throw them away, Sell them off cheap, or keep them too long.

I had two copies of the world first CD Single, Dire Straits - Brothers in arms. It was valued at £150 at one point. But then Dire Straits are not exactly hot at the moment are they? And I can see CDs going the way of 78s soon so I’ll be lucky to flog them for a quarter of that amount now.

I was once offered £50.00 for an unreleased special mix of Bros - I owe you nothing. Admittedly from a Bros fan and this was 20 years ago. But stupidly I decided to keep it. What a burk. I probably couldn’t’ give it away now. Oh, and by the way, the reason why it was an unreleased mix was because A. it sampled lots of house tracks without permission, and B, it was crap.

E-bay has destroyed the value of rare records anyway. When in the past you had to search every second hand record shop and market stall you could to find one of perhaps 20 copies of a rare track still out there. Now all 20 are up for sale at the same time in the same place on the internet, which makes it look less rare and far easier to get your hands on.

My latest stupid throwaway came earlier this year when I decide to clear out some of my Michael Jackson stuff. After all, he wasn’t exactly the big thing any more was he? I even envisaged his records being as popular as Gary Glitters when he died and all the crap started come out about his past life, So I thought I may as well flog some of this stuff off on e-bay now.

Then the bugger died and I wish I had saved them just that little bit longer. 30 bloody years I’ve had some of this stuff, and no sooner do I offload them than he pops his clogs and I’m down on the deal.
Ok perhaps Michael Jackson himself came off slightly worse than I did, but how much do you think things like this would be worth now? Promos, special editions, coloured vinyls...... Don’t tell me, I don’t wanna know.

Anyway this album includes actual audio from the movie and the whole story narrated by Michael Jackson himself, as well as two exclusive unreleased (at the time) songs, a full 12" size book and gigantic poster.
Sample Audio here -

Nutty Boys Comic

Special Edition

I've seen some weird ideas for special edition singles but this has to be one of the stupidest. A laser etched vinyl single that looks pretty enough but let's think this through a minute.
A laser Etched pattern dug into the vinyl plastic that a needle has to run along to play the music.
As you can imagine the sound quality on this one isn't quite as up to scratch (excuse pun) as it should be, and it didn't really catch on.

Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn (Crowded House).

Their biggest and best hit was I Got you which reached No12(UK) in Aug 1980.

Split Enz - History Never Repeats
Reached No 63 (UK)
May 1981

3D

This is supposed to be the year for 3D Movies, James Camerons Avatar, Monsters Vs Aliens, Ice Age, Final Destination etc.
I can't see what all the fuss is about, Yello had it cracked in 1983

Glow in the dark

Consumer test of the day,
Glow in the dark record - Yellow Dog - Little Gods - 1978.

Bingo, It Works !