Vinyl Destination – Page 20 – Records, design and thoughts. Simon Minter is a freelance designer from Oxford, UK.

CHA-CHA COHEN: Spook On The High Lawn (12″,…

- January 10, 2009 - simonminter comment

Back in the early-to-mid nineties I used to write a fanzine called Circle Sky, named after the marvellous, wonderful Monkees song featured on their Head soundtrack. The Head soundtrack as mentioned in the Pooh Sticks'…

7" / Coloured vinyl / Weirdo Folk Music

JERUSALEM AND THE STARBASKETS/HUSH ARBORS: I cannot radiato…

- January 8, 2009 - simonminter 1 Comment

Look at that vinyl - it's a joy to behold! The gorgeous orange/green split reflects the colours of the band names on either side of the skimpy insert that's also held within this record's plastic…

HIGH RISK GROUP: Daddy Rolex (7″, Harriet 006,…

- January 5, 2009 - simonminter 2 Comments

This record came in to my possession via the magic of eBay, seven or eight years back. Some kind soul in Brighton was selling a pile of around thirty underground/indie-pop seven inches in one lot,…

7" / Normal music

THE CHARLATANS: One To Another (7″, Beggars Banquet…

- January 3, 2009 - simonminter comment

Ah, happy mid-90s Britpop times, I was at university, enjoying life, swaggering about wearing a charity shop Adidas tracksuit top and a pair of Puma States, smoking fags inside and getting caught up in the…

12" / Post-rock-type Stuff

TORTOISE: Galapagos (Version One) (12″, City Slang SHELL…

- January 1, 2009 - simonminter comment

Post-Millions Now Living Will Never Die, a few of these remix 12"ers were released for no apparent reason except to serve as interesting counterpoints to the album proper. I really like their sleeves - a…

7" / Freebies and inserts / Post-rock-type Stuff

ELECTRIC SOUND OF JOY: Play Away (7″, Earworm…

- December 22, 2008 - simonminter comment

Ah, Earworm - great label. They always seemed to be about the detail and the quality. Interesting bands and music, always packaged with an eye on keeping things fresh and worthy of a collector's interest.…

1970s / LP / Numbered

FRACTION: Moon Blood (LP, Radioactive RRLP054, ?)

- December 19, 2008 - simonminter comment

Another record bought on the recommendation of Volcanic Tongue's excited twitterings (in the traditional, non-internet sense of the word...), this is a reissue of some long-lost 1971 album that - according to VT - contains…

12" / Freebies and inserts / Indie-pop

CUD: Once Again (12″, A&M AMY 0081, 1992)

- December 18, 2008 - simonminter comment

I used to bleedin' love Cud between the years of around 1990-1994. They were one of the first bands that saw me diligently buying every single release they put out, whilst constantly scouring record shops…

10" / Indie-pop

VARIOUS: In Spelunca (10″, Vesuvius POMP 001, 1995)

- December 18, 2008 - simonminter 3 Comments

If I was from Glasgow I'd be able to tell you how the Vesuvius label fits into a great musical culture of the city, stretching back many years. However, I'm not, so I can't. But…

1960s / LP

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: The Velvet Underground & Nico…

- December 17, 2008 - simonminter 5 Comments

No, no, no, I know that this isn't the original release from 1967, it's a Polydor reissue, but there's no other date mentioned on the sleeve or the record. I'm just not cool enough to…