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| Leka III posing with latest vinyl finds, yesterday. ©Foam-O-Graph® |
Living in exile (the Royal Family of Albania was kicked out by Mussolini in 1939), Crown Prince Leka III has no constitutionally recognized role, and only a minuscule chance of regaining the throne. So how does he spend the time? |
| King Zog I, in happier times |
"I love going to collectors' record fairs in the U.K.! There's something deeply satisfying about competing for finds with a crowd of smelly, ugly, and badly-dressed men in a dismal town hall, preferably in some godfordsaken hole like Bedford, or Reading. One emerges into a rain-soaked street littered with unemployed people and discarded fast food containers, subsumed by an almost savage hunter's pride! Akin perhaps to the primal blood-lust experienced by the Neanderthal as he drags home a pterodactyl for the evening repast! I have to hide my trophies from my wife, alas. Sometimes I put low price bargain stickers on them, so she won't realise I'm blowing what's left of the Royal Albanian coffers on obscure rock vinyl!"
It'll be our secret, Your Highness! Say, fellows! Can you name the two long-playing L.P. 12" vinyl record 33⅓ revolutions albums displayed on Leka III's escritoire? There's a prize of an exclusive Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 file for the lucky winner!
Thankfully you made it easy for some of us doofuses out there. Even I can make out that it is Good God with what seems to be a self-titled album.
ReplyDeleteThe other one is of course "Running Tiger" by Sgt. Bromley's Wildlife Co.
Am I close?
You get a FoamPoint™ for recognising the Good God album! Sadly, this is deducted for getting the other one wrong, leaving you with a grand total of *checks calculator* nugatory nullness!
DeleteI was going to guess Gulden's Spicy Brown or French's Classic Yellow?
ReplyDeleteYou were, eh? I'll bet you're glad you didn't. That's Cheez Whiz.
Delete'E Viva Albania' by Attila The Stockbroker and 'Collected Acid-House-Backed Speeches Of Enver Hoxha'.
ReplyDeleteThe deposed monarch in question always makes me think of an exchange in 'Steptoe and Son' during a squalor-prompted spring-clean that turns up an old newspaper from 1939 -
Albert "Oh I remember this...Italy invades Albania...King Zog flees"
Harold "Never mind that - we've got king SIZE fleas here"
This splendid comedy reminiscence gives you a commanding lead over the other contestants! At least, it would have if you'd got the albums right.
DeleteThese are absolutely the kind of albums you'd pick up from a Thriffte Shoppe, play once, and never throw out because they're not bad, pretty interesting, couple of tracks worth having on each ... and never play again. Here's a clew - the one on the left is on Elektra, from when the label didn't have a clue what it was about because it wasn't the sixties any more.
Ooooh, oooh, is it Geoff Muldaur Is Having a Wonderful Time?
ReplyDeleteEr ... nope.
DeleteI imagine the gods Zeus and Jupiter would recognise how good this quiz about self-titled albums was with thunderous applause
ReplyDeletePOTRO wins the exclusive Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 file!
DeleteThor likes it.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a Hermann Hesse connection.
DeleteWossat then, Babs?
DeleteKeyboardist Wayne Cook played on the Steppenwolf album, 'Skullduggery'
DeleteIt's all 'GOOD'.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with that good album on the left but it looks like the kind of album that would have a washtub bass/jug player as an engineer.
ReplyDeleteHah! Fritz Richmond was in the Jim Kweskin Jug Band!
Delete"Albanian Village Music 1930". Just the stuff to remind our aristocrat of what he's missing back in the old town, as he observes the local Albanian gang imports in the towns he visits around the sceptered isle.
ReplyDeleteSorry. The sarcastic comment above is mine, not from the dreaded Anonymous.
DeleteSee? Now we know who to blame!
DeleteThese albums leaned against each other on my shelf for years, occasionally getting dusted off and spun. They're kindasorta similarish, a tad on the hard side, and both from '72. And they both begin with "good" and feature weird-ass paintins on the cover.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/qQZS27yQAFt
God God was a Philadelphia band that grew out of another Philadelphia band called Elizabeth.I have the vinyl.& knew the crowd & their paramours- You hadtabe theah. The best I can do with thee mustadad is Roy Woods title of the same. So now Ill click & see whadiaghot...at least a 50% beyond a doubt ta ta for now signed Tsoungh dett du Chaun....my browser denies googlah
ReplyDeletehow about this little bit....any takers
ReplyDeleteRadio 538 Good God (live vanuit Fendal Soundstudios)
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DeleteGood God were from Philadelphia, as am I. True story - I sold my copy of this album to the brother of someone somewhat famous who was arrested just today for punching said brother. Brothers live in burbs of said city. Small world. Weird world.
ReplyDeleteGood God!
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