Mini music quiz punk years

I thought Tubeway Army were the first British act to have a picture disc single, with Are “Friends” Electric? Not sure about US acts though

 

I know it’s not this but I’ve still got this in my collection

 

I think it's this. My Best Friend's Girl. It had been albums before this.

 

I've spent the last month putting our collection on Discogs so we have an idea how much its worth fur insurance purposes. Low estimate £4.7k. Upper estimate: £28.2k This is only for ~1500 records.

Unfortunately, the OCD part of my brain now knows exactly what we own and what we need to buy to complete the collection for selected artistes...

 

Yes …Best friends Girl
Well done

 

[QUOTE="sadbrewer, post: [You mean first picture disc in that era, not first picture disc....I get it now...but do you mean of that genre of music, or music generally?[/QUOTE]

Glad I’m not a quiz master !!

 

[QUOTE="Gordon Ottershaw, post: I thought Tubeway Army were the first British act to have a picture disc single, with Are “Friends” Electric? Not sure about US acts though[/QUOTE]

Cars beat them by nearly a year

 

I did similar a while back. Took ages and I had to add so many things to their database that weren’t already on there, around 200 records/CDs, that they gave me voting rights, so I can now check other people’s entries to make sure they’ve done it right. Not that I ever will. The annoying thing about adding items to the site is that for items that weren’t already on there, as opposed to just some records/CDs with different matrix numbers, no copies will ever have been sold on there, so some of your most collectible records won’t have a value attached to them. Also, if you have signed items that weren’t originally released as signed editions, your record will be worth more, sometimes much more, than the value Discogs attach to it. I’ve therefore knocked another list together that I’ve saved on my laptop, so my kids don’t get ripped off, should I shuffle off before I’ve sold them.

You’ll find an added benefit of having your entire collection on there too. If you’re at a shop or record fair you’ll be able to check on your phone whether you already have something before you buy it. Or, if you’ve also added the condition of the stuff in your collection, whether it’s worth buying something that’s in a better condition, or whether you have the proper sleeve, etc. Despite this, I’ve still managed to buy three records I already had, because I was so confident I didn’t have them that I never even checked. You might want to inform the shopkeeper or stall holder why you are checking Discogs on your phone though!

A word of advice too, ignore the upper value if you are valuing your collection as to what you’d get for it, because the upper value might be based on just one record that was sold for that amount, which might have been signed or something. Of course, should you need to make an insurance claim if your entire collection gets nicked or destroyed, then most definitely use the upper value!

You might want to check with your insurer that your collection is fully insured as well. I asked my insurer (Aviva) about 5 years ago if all my collections were insured and was told yes. But the day after I received a phone call from them saying that they review their telephone calls and I was given bad advice and my collections weren’t fully covered, so they gave me one week’s cover to find an alternative insurer, after which they were terminating my policy. I then had to find a specialist insurer sharpish. My premium went up quite a bit, but at least I now have peace of mind should a tornado rip through the house or something.

Actually, a funny story about that. Funny now, that is. I had been going backwards and forwards with this insurer, to ensure I had the right cover in place, and once it was all sorted I ended the call with ‘…but don’t worry, you’ll only have to give me that amount if someone turns up with a lorry and cleans me out, or if the house burns down and we’re not having a fire’. Four hours later I had to ring them up again. ‘About that fire…’ Our dishwasher caught fire that very afternoon and ruined the kitchen. But I think the insurer was relieved, as none of the collections we spoke about were touched. It was a very sobering sight when I walked back from the school with the kids to see the wife running down the street holding the guinea pigs shouting the house is on fire. Fortunately, Penistone fire station was manned that afternoon. But the thing was, we’d put a down payment on a new kitchen three days earlier. Working in the insurance field, albeit corporate employee benefits, that was the first thing we told the loss adjuster when he came round, for full disclosure!

 

Juke box was great and they used to sell cans from that small bar - Breakers and different ciders. Great days, top alternative tunes, always packed.
The era of goo’in rarn’d tarn when everywhere was packed.

 

Agree wholeheartedly!
Felt like there was a proper community spirit back then. As you said, every pub full.

 

Missed the whole CBGB scene though. I’d say Television were probably the first punk band that play America

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd Freebird picture disc 1976