Vintage Swag: Flea Market Finds

Bottles, Cans, Boxes, Tubes & TOM JONES!

Ahhh... The spoils of a day at my favorite Pennsylvania flea markets.

Vinyl Therapy: The War On Drugs & Goldfrapp

Graphics from the 2011 "Slave Ambient" double LP by The War On Drugs.

This is an album I've been enjoying for quite a while.  Its release was followed by a great show at The Hammerstein Ballroom in the Summer of 2010. (Clicking the "Goldfrapp" tag below should bring you to those photos).  

I didn't purchase the vinyl of this gem until recently, however... and I am very glad that I did.  These images show the gatefold sleeve of the Vinyl-CD-Poster pack for "Head First", which was the band's send up of all things late disco and early 80s pop.  Think FM radio 1981, with a little bit of balladry and a few more ambient sounds thrown in.

Vinyl Therapy: 1958 - 1973

Recent acquisitions... Six degrees of HELL YES. 

Vinyl Therapy: "Petulia" Soundtrack (1968)

This gem of a movie was buried (and unknown) treasure to me until about a year ago.  In that age-old tradition of great surprises from the past, I happened to catch this movie on TCM rather late one summer night.  I sought out the DVD (and later, this soundtrack LP) and learned a rather surprising detail behind the making of the movie:  The director (Richard Lester) wanted Julie Christie for the role of the seemingly free-spirited (yet deeply complicated) title character, but had to wait a whole year for her to be available.  In those ensuing twelve months, San Francisco's 1967 Haight-Ashbury hippie explosion took its many-colored shape.  Had this tale of two (rather elegant) star-crossed lovers been filmed a year prior, the visual story would not have benefitted from the stark contrast of a psychedelic backdrop.

Vintage Vinyl Therapy: "Not Without My Wife, You Don't!" (1966)

"Listen, Daddy, baby... 

You can have my bread and my gravy... 

Crazy baby, crazy...

BUT NOT WITH MY WIFE, YOU DON'T!"

A zany, kooky, madcap Swingin' Sixties romp deserves a fittingly festive soundtrack and sleeve.  

God bless 1966 and albums like this one.  Perfection from start to finish.