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Not exactly a quiz, but you used to get little messages scratched in the run off. Name the tunes!
1. Looking After No 2. 2. No Grime Here Paddy 3. Keep You're (sic) Trap Shut - Do The Rat! (only on 12" version) 4. Merry Christmas (CLUE: Garrick Roberts was NOT on the sleeve, but the other Rats at the time were)
also on LPs
1. V Deep (A -side)/ VI Shallow (B-side) 2. "Ron Peters Lives" 3. DUN LOAGHAIRE (A-side)/ WESSEX WIZARDS (B-SIDE) 4. DO THE GEE
-- Edited by ArrGee on Friday 4th of March 2011 12:32:39 AM
Would guess Looking after No 2 ought to be Mary of the Fourth Form, and Merry Christmas probably Do They Know It's Christmas if Garry not featured as I can't believe any Rats recordings would have omitted him, although I did wonder if any tracks from 85-ish left him off due to being in plaster from head to toe after his crash.
Will have to cheat on the remaining ones although total guesses based on elimination to date would be TFTT for the Dun Laoghaire and Wessex Wizards one, Mondo Bongo for Do the Gee, and Drag Me Down for Keep You're Trap Shut. Off to check very shortly!
This thread reminds me of the time I actually took a single back to the shop and suggested it was unplayable as someone had scratched their name in the run off bit. Was too dim to work out that the needle would most likely stay in the groove either side of the scrawl. I just assumed the stylus skimmed whole thing from outside to inside. In my defence I was about 11. I think it might have been a Boney M single.
Always shopped at the other record shop in Purley after the public humiliation that came with the request for refund/exchange. And I just know the guy at the tills deliberately raised his voice to explain to 10 other shoppers as well as me....
Dignity momentarily restored by gettng the Dun Laoghaire/Wessex Wizards one right, but immediately blown away by wife walking in to see me squinting at some vinyl 2 inches from my face and saying 'normal blokes just go to the pub on Friday night'.
Give up on the Do The Gee and Trap Shut ones I'm afraid. Squinted till I almost had an anuerism but to no avail.
This thread reminds me of the time I actually took a single back to the shop and suggested it was unplayable as someone had scratched their name in the run off bit. Was too dim to work out that the needle would most likely stay in the groove either side of the scrawl. I just assumed the stylus skimmed whole thing from outside to inside. In my defence I was about 11. I think it might have been a Boney M single.
Always shopped at the other record shop in Purley after the public humiliation that came with the request for refund/exchange. And I just know the guy at the tills deliberately raised his voice to explain to 10 other shoppers as well as me....
This is sad on virtually every level. Boney M, not even excusable that you were 11.
Most are right.
No 2 - Mary of the 4th Form Grime - Rat Trap Merry Christmas - Do They Know It's Christmas?
VI Shallow - V Deep Wessex Wizards - A Tonic For The Troops Ron Peters - Surfacing
As for the other two, I'll post them up next Thursday
Keep You're (sic) Trap Shut - Do The Rat! (only on 12" version - this is the clue!)
DO THE GEE - There are only Three LPs left, so process of elimination.
All are the UK editions. May be different on Mulligans and others.
Do the Gee - is the debut lp Do the Rat - is on the A side of lookin after no 1 (though I tend to play the B side more often for the marvellous Born to Burn)
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