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My record collection: #068: Luna - Lunapark (CD)
Luna’s first album was released in the UK on Elektra, the only album of theirs that was, and because of that was not released on vinyl over here. Not that I’d have bought it so fully had I enbraced CD...
#Lunapark #PencilSharpener #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #067: Ivy - Apartment Life
Apartment Life was the second LP by Ivy and was released in 1997. It features Dean Wareham playing guitar on the track Never Do That Again, and Luna’s Stanley Demeski plays on three other tracks. Ivy - Apartment Life When...
#Ivy #ApartmentLife #DeanWareham #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #066: Magic Hour - Heads Down
Heads Down was the first release by Magic Hour and the single has one track split into Part 1 & Part 2 on each side of a seven inch single. It teases a song at the beginning but by the...
#HeadsDown #MagicHour #DamonAndNaomi #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #065: Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics
Luna’s wonderful cover of Michel Polnareff’s La Poupée qui fait non first appeared on this compilation of ‘French Pop Classics’ in 1995. Pop Romantique CD Obviously I love La Poupée… and have listened to it a lot over the years...
#MichelPolnareff #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #064: The Squid and the Whale
Dean & Britta provided the soundtrack for Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale… although the album has only two of their tracks, plus Dean’s cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Hey You’. I was expecting more! The Squid and the Whale...
#BrittaPhillips #LouReed #NoahBaumbach #TheSquidAndTheWhale #DeanAndBritta #DeanWareham #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #063: Luna - Dear Paulina
Luna’s Dear Paulina single was released in September 1999 and is one of the few physical achievements of A Head Full of Wishes. Luna - Dear Paulina Here are some facts - some of which are repeated from the post...
#DearPaulina #Grange85 #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #062: Luna - Outdoor Miner
I find it odd that I can sometimes remember so clearly buying a record. I very distinctly remember buying the 7” of Luna’s cover of Outdoor Miner when it was released. Luna - Outdoor Miner Most of my time working...
#OutdoorMiner #Wire #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #061: Galaxie 500 - unreleased sessions and live at The Rat
This is a cassette sent to me in the mid 90s by someone from The Galaxie 500 Mailing List in, I’d guess, 1995 since it has some of the tracks that later turned up on the box set… as well...
#Cassette #Galaxie500 #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: Recent acquisition #2 - Britta Phillips & Kramer - Nocturnes
Here’s another release that doesn’t fit my criteria but I’ve decided that having both Britta and Kramer is enough to push it past the “direct relationship to a former member of Galaxie 500” rule - 2 x 2 hops =...
#BrittaPhillips #Kramer #MyRecordCollection #DeanAndBritta

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My record collection: #060: Pee Shy - Yellow Race Car
Dean doesn’t often venture into production - this was an early outing, I think it was recorded at the same time as Pee Shy’s Who Let All The Monkeys Out album (which will turn up later in this series) and...
#PeeShy #StrapBoy #DeanWareham #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #059: Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
So, we arrive at another copy of This Is Our Music, and another limited edition release I didn’t get on first release. This is a CD in a card slip-case and a fancy tri-fold card sleeve. Uniquely† the CD also...
#ThisIsOurMusic #Galaxie500 #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: Recent acquisition #1 - Luna The Days of Our Nights (LP)
Inevitably, my record collection was likely to grow during the course of this series. Initially I’d shuffle everything around to find a place for any new arrivals but it seems easier to just squeeze them in as extras, otherwise I...
#TheDaysOfOurNights #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #058: Dean Wareham - Luna demos
Dean Wareham’s first post-Galaxie 500 demos have a bit of a release history … I guess more than most demos, but this was the first time they had been collected and released in a physical form, and an absolute beauty...
#LunaDemos #LuxRecords #DeanWareham #Luna #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #057: Magic Hour - Will They Turn You On or Will They Turn on You
And this series continues to be Magic Hour top-heavy with their sixth appearance, and the second appearance of their second album, this time the CD that I bought on release. Magic Hour - Will They Turn You On... The album...
#MagicHour #DamonAndNaomi #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #056: Dean & Britta - Mistress America
Having assumed that the previous Mistress America CD was sent to me by Dean I guess I must have bought this somewhere, although I can’t find any evidence to suggest where. This ones been opened so it was the first...
#MistressAmerica #DeanAndBritta #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #055: Dean & Britta live at The Legion
For a while in the early years of the century, my regular gig going partner was a taper. He mostly taped Van Morrison and Dylan shows but he liked to get practice in so I’d have him practicing at slightly...
#TheLegion #SonicCathedral #TheClientele #FlowersOfHell #DeanAndBritta #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #054: Füxa - Electric Sound of Summer
Füxa’s Electric Sound of Summer was released in 2012 as a picture disc on top London indie Rocket Girl Records, and featured Dean Wareham’s vocals on the cover of Suicides’s Cheree and Britta Phillips singing on the cover of Daniel...
#Fuxa #MyRecordCollection #DeanWareham #DeanAndBritta

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My record collection: #053: Galaxie 500 - Peel Sessions
As much as I adored the beautiful Galaxie 500 box set when it came out in 1996, it wasn’t perfect. It did have a very glaring omission! The band had recorded two sessions for the John Peel show and these...
#PeelSessions #Galaxie500 #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #052: Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
The Chain With No Name was a collection of independent record stores that was set up in the late 1980s to try and loosen the grip of the big chains with names like HMV, Virgin and Our Price. This was...
#ThisIsOurMusic #TheChainWithNoName #Galaxie500 #MyRecordCollection

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My record collection: #051: Dean Wareham - Anesthesia
Released in February 1992, just under a year after the heartbreaking break-up of Galaxie 500, Anesthesia was a balm to help soothe that wound. By the time the single was released Dean had formed Luna and a couple of weeks...
#Anesthesia #DeanWareham #MyRecordCollection

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