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Delays & The La's - pre-order now!

We have two very exciting exclusive releases from Delays and The La’s due for release on Friday 10th October. Read on to find out exactly what Delays have recorded for Lost Tunes, and for details of how to win free downloads of both releases.

Delays & The La's - pre-order now!

We have two very exciting exclusive releases from Delays and The La’s set for release from Lost Tunes on 10th October. We’d like to invite you to sign up to our mailing list in order to be kept up to date on these and other releases and also for the chance to be one of 5 people to win free downloads of all the exclusive Delays and La’s tracks.

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We can also finally reveal which tracks Delays have recorded, something we’re very excited about here at Lost Tunes.

Delays holed up in Rockfield studios in Wales to record their favourite songs from the vaults. “For us it’s always been about songs and to get to reinterpret the music that has inspired us is a massive thrill.” Says singer/guitarist Greg Gilbert. “The Lost Tunes catalogue is so rich it was hard to know where to start but we feel we’ve found some real gems whilst ‘lost’ in the vaults.”

Delays emerged with stellar versions of The Go-Go’s “Tonight”, Nico’s “These Days”, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” and “Christine” by The House of Love.

This release will coincide with another major Lost Tunes exclusive, a new collection of previously-unreleased material from The La’s - eight rare recordings including the John Leckie and Steve Lilywhite mixes of ‘Come In Out Come Out’ and John Leckie and the Bob Andrew mix of ‘Way Out’.

Lost Tunes Saves You £££!

In these days of impending recession, credit crunching and all round global financial meltdown we all need to keep a watchful eye on our hard earned pennies. With this in mind we at Lost Tunes would like to alert you to a few mega bargains!

Lost Tunes Saves You £££!

This month’s edition of Record Collector is a special issue with a major feature focussing on the 200 rarest albums of all time. As always a great, informative read. Whilst poring over the feature, drooling, we realised that we had a few of the albums listed in store and after totting up the totals realised we could save you, our Lost Tunes chums, somewhere in the region of £5150! Ok, so we haven’t got the original mislabelled pink vinyl pressing in a PVC sleeve with withdrawn artwork signed by the band which was one of only 5 pressed but we do have the music! So, if you want to hear what all the fuss is about get your ears around these…

TUDOR LODGE - TUDOR LODGE

With a guide price of £400 Tudor Lodge is one of the rarest of all the Vertigo label albums. Released in 1970 it’s a great slice of folk rock and features guest spots from Danny Thompson & Terry Cox of Pentangle. The original pressing had an elaborate foldout sleeve hard to find in good nick these days.

NICK DRAKE - FIVE LEAVES LEFT

Reissued many a time over the years but original first pressings of Drake’s albums sell for big money. Five Leaves Left with a gatefold sleeve and black circle and pink Island label will set you back £350+

CZAR - CZAR

Classic heavy prog from the former Tuesday’s Children which sold poorly on it’s release in 1970. Record Collector, citing poor promotion for the lack of sales, have it listed at £350 and point out the cracking cover too!

ROOM - PRE FLIGHT

Bluesy prog from Dorset released on Deram in 1970. The band’s only release before splitting in 1971 will fetch around £500 these days because, as Record Collector tell us, ‘it just never turns up’

MELLOW CANDLE - MELLOW CANDLE

This classic piece of folk rock on Deram is a big favourite of us here at Lost Tunes towers and whilst we were well aware of it being a serious rarity we had no idea the market value for an original pressing was £800.

THE OPEN MIND - THE OPEN MIND

Around £550 will furnish you with a copy of this 1969 psychedelic gem although according to Record Collector it can go for much more ‘a near mint copy selling on ebay earlier this year for £686…of course a near mint copy of this album also sold for £1552’. £7.99 from Lost Tunes a positive bargain then!

PINK FAIRIES - NEVERNEVERLAND

The debut album from Twink and chums is a cracking set of psychedelic proto-punk(!) and a big rarity worth £500 in one of it’s original formats described by Record Collector thus: ‘a limited run of 100 copies on pink vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with a PVC outer cover and ‘pink’ plastic painted on the rear’. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO - ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TRIO

A rockabilly rarity that will burn a whole in your pocket around the £800 size. We’re slightly cheating with this one as our version is a compilation of all Johnny Burnette’s Coral sessions, but hey, the music’s all there!

LEAF HOUND - GROWERS OF MUSHROOM

A rare record that really does justify it’s value, Growers Of Mushroom is a fantastic album and our biggest seller here at Lost Tunes. A mint original won’t leave you mush room (sorry!) in your wallet as you’ll need £900 + to get hold of a copy although it has been known to sell for twice it’s guide price.

So there you have it, some stone cold rarities you can pick up here for a fraction of the price. There’s a few other things in the Record Collector feature we’re preparing for you as well so keep checking back for some top notch rarities from Red Dirt, Bread Love & Dreams, Dr.Z, Kaleidoscope, David Bowie, Megaton, Harold McNair, Christy Moore, PP Arnold, Fantasy, The Artwoods, Duke Reid, Tinkerbell’s Fairydust, Billy Nicholls and more

Album Of The Month - The Scream

Can it really be 30 years since the fledgling Siouxsie And The Banshees laid down one of the seminal punk masterpieces, The Scream? Indeed it is.

Album Of The Month - The Scream

Can it really be 30 years since the fledgling Siouxsie And The Banshees laid down one of the seminal punk masterpieces, The Scream? Indeed it is. Back in 1978, with the likes of The Buzzcocks’ Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Alternative TV’s The Image Has Cracked and The Lurkers’ Fulham Fallout all proving that punk could move in mysterious ways, The Banshees debuted on Polydor with an album that MOJO’s Punk book described as “a triumph of mystique and imagination… austere and artful, distinctive and idiosyncratic”.

Said to be inspired by the slashing strings on Bernard Hermann’s soundtrack to Hitchcock’s Psycho, The Scream sounded like nothing else. Nick Kent in the NME review at the time said “The band sounds like some unique hybrid of the Velvet Underground mated with much of the ingenuity of ‘Tago Mago’ era Can.” And, indeed, their sleazy New York grind coupled with an austere Teutonic sound gave them a clinical simplicity in which the precision of three people developing their own way of playing their instruments – Keni Morris on drums, originally with no cymbals, Steve Severin on bass and John McKay on guitar – provided a momentous backdrop for Siouxsie’s expressive vocal.

Having previewed much of the album through various Peel sessions and a burgeoning live following, the Banshees had developed buckets of teasing menace, plenty of risqué front and a sound that attained a sonic presence that was virtually impossible to copy. The Scream told tales of alienation, dysfunction and laced it with the kind of Manson-esque excess that only The Beatles’ Helter Skelter, which they cover with an added veneer of scary abandon, could match. Thirty years later it still sounds like nothing else.