espsummer
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A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 08:56
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No offense to the Boomtown Rats but that inspired the idea of making a list of bands i always seem to see in the clearence bins while searching record stores. Even if i haven't heard their music i'm put off by always seeing them while searching for cheap gold. Here are a few i see:
The Babys
Bob Welch
Dan Fogelberg
rod mckuen
abc
ferrante & teicher (so many times!)
Boots Randolph
Boz Scaggs
Robert Palmer
Seals and Croft
Erasure
Thompson Twins
of course Barbara Streisand, Herb Alpert, and Johnny Mathis make up a holy trinity of albums you always see in the bargin bins as well and perhaps the most often.
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Kid Calamity
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 09:14
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And then there are those who appear regularly in car boot sales.
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Lawrence
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 09:30
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Here in America most household or garage sales has the usual shitty Christmas records or Mitch Miller. The usual pre-1956 crap that was so popular with dentists or other boring people back then... You don't even find anything by Mantovani or even the Sound of Music soundtrack, those are as rare as actually the chance you'll come across anything by the Beatles or the Stones (to say the least...)
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MrsSevenrealm
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 10:30
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Tom Jones also.
Car boot favourites: Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, any light opera music, Meatloaf, off topic but any golf or outdated football computer games, Blur, any "rave" artist from the 90's (they hung up their dancin' shoes and put the disco biscuits away because she got pregnant, so you'll also find loads of baby clothes on their stall).
I would investigate further but we only have one record shop, and the owner's a bit weird so further investigation is prohibited.
I'll get my duffle coat...
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Fitter Stoke
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 10:51
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And Mahogany Rush, if Wayne's World is right...but I've never seen 'em in any reminder bins I've
browsed in.
I remember back in the 80s when you'd see loads of US cut outs for 99p each. All the artists already mentioned and more: Rita Coolidge, Kansas, The Shoes, poorer selling Hall & Oates titles, etc. I remember a stall at the annual Hoppings fair in Newcastle where you'd pull a random plastic cord and be rewarded with one of these highly desirable (irony) platters. Hank Williams Jnr, anyone?
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Moon Cat
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Edited Apr 05, 2012, 12:36
Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 12:32
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There's loads of 90's/Naughties land-fill indie and rock that clutters up the bargain bins of doom these days. Usual suspects include
Ash (Whom I quite like it must be said..or sad)
The Kooks
Garbage (usually the not very good third album)
Pulp (again...I like)
Oasis (last few albums mostly)
Keane (not very KEEN on them har har)
James (latter albums)
Klaxons
Ed Harcourt
Editors
Bluetones
Gomez
Happy Mondays (usually best ofs)
REM (last few albums)
also stuff like
Little Boots
Marina & The Diamonds
Madonna
Kylie
and quite often former Mercury Prize winners which shows what a mixed blessing that award can be.
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radagast
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 14:14
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Not forgetting Julian Cope, whose 90s CDs were sold awfully cheap post 96*, when Rick Rubin, the driving force behind the ECHO label, went bankrupt (to be rescued in the following by (Johnny) Cash releases.
*In Germany, that is. Always ignorant of good contemporary British Artists, we are... (Though the Brits have always over-estimated their relatively poor musical output since early-middle 90s...)
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 18:17
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Moon Cat wrote:
Garbage (usually the not very good third album)
'Beautifulgarbage' is by far and away my favourite Garbage album, and I do like the first two. It's where they tried- brilliantly, in my opinion- to go uber-pop, and so alienated much of their fanbase. The fourth one, Bleed Like Me, where they seemed to be self-consciously trying to do the rock record their fans wanted, is easily the weakest.
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Moon Cat
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Edited Apr 05, 2012, 19:09
Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 18:58
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Yes, I can understand the pleasingness of the popness of Beautiful Garbage album - I am a total sucker for immaculate pop. I just thought there was something about it that sounded a bit disparate and incomplete somehow. A band refusing to play to its strengths, something that can sometimes lead to something else altogether more interesting, but in this case, IMO, sounded like avoidance for avoidance sake and thus you (well, I really) got a slightly diminished Garbage. And Shirley Manson as a blonde...even she didn't seem happy. It's not a BAD album, it's just missing that thing that makes it a KILLER pop album (see Robyn) or a good Garbage album. But again. that's just me.
I did love the unfolding rose sleeve though, that was fab.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Re: A list of artists always in the Clearence Bins of record stores
Apr 05, 2012, 21:09
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Moon Cat wrote: Yes, I can understand the pleasingness of the popness of Beautiful Garbage album - I am a total sucker for immaculate pop. I just thought there was something about it that sounded a bit disparate and incomplete somehow. A band refusing to play to its strengths, something that can sometimes lead to something else altogether more interesting, but in this case, IMO, sounded like avoidance for avoidance sake and thus you (well, I really) got a slightly diminished Garbage. And Shirley Manson as a blonde...even she didn't seem happy. It's not a BAD album, it's just missing that thing that makes it a KILLER pop album (see Robyn) or a good Garbage album. But again. that's just me.
I did love the unfolding rose sleeve though, that was fab.
As far as I know, I've never actually heard anything by Robyn. I should probably investigate. My knowledge of mainstream pop flounders completely after about 2005. Although prior to that I was partial to a bit of Girls Aloud (Biology being a particular fave).
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